Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) loved dancing, pageants and spectacles because of her father, Lorenzo II, who was duke of Urbino. ... Named "Ballet Comique de la Reine- (The Queen's Dramatic Ballet), it was performed in honor of Catherine's sister, Margaret of Lorraine, who was marrying the duke of Joyeuse. It was a form of Ballet de cour, court ballet, which is the ancestor of modern ballet. ... Unlike any other production before this point in history, Ballet Comique de la Reine cost several million francs and was considered a great political and social success. ... Therefor...

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A useful discussion of the various issues involved is to be found in Orphée noir, in Sartre's introduction to Senghor's ANTHOLOGIE DE LA NOUVELLE POÉSIE NÉGRE ET MANGACHE (1948). ...

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We took a taxi to Bedford Hotel which was located on a quiet street in the heart of Paris near the Madeleine, opera and Place De La Concorde. ... After strolling around the Eiffel Tower, we took the metro from the metro station, Charles de Gaulle Etoile, to the station, Bir-Hakeim, as we wanted to see the Arc de Triompe. ... Standing in a direct line between the Louvre and the Grande Arche de la Défense, I could tell that the monument linked the past with the present and offered an amazing view. ...

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In the fall of 1786, Charles Alexander de Calonne, Louis XVI's controller general noticed the immense stress that was placed on the French economy. ... The peasants placed the head of the Governor on a spike and paraded it down as they marched toward the Hotel de Ville. Once they reached the Hotel de Ville they invaded and took control over the French city hall. After they took power in the Hotel de Ville they formed a new city government called the Commune De Paris. ... The next day Robespierre and two of his follower were beheaded in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. ...

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As a rule, Classicism can be characterized as an issue in writing, visual workmanship, music, or construction modeling that draws on the styles of antiquated Greece and Rome, particularly fifth- and fourth-century b.c.e. Athens and late Republican Augustan Rome. The term can be confounding, in light of the fact that it has tackled numerous different implications. It can allude to a general stylish portrayed by clarity, style, and symmetry, or to a style that is by and large considered epitomizing enormity or flawlessness. Case in point, the vast majority would distinguish the Boston Pops as en...

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At the 7th International Conference on Minority Languages in 2000 in Bilbao, Catalan wasn Ÿt included in the list of the minority languages Ÿ and afterwards Lluis Jou (the president of La Generalitat de Catalunya at that time) concluded that "it Ÿs growth had possibly been successful enough for it not to have to be included as minority language, with some 94% of the Catalan population able to speak it-. ...

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