In the Essai sur l'admissoin des femmes au droit de cite (Essay on the admissions of women to the rights of citizenship), published in July of 1790, he argued the need to expand the principals outlined in the Declarations of the Rights of Man to include the rights of women. ... Condorcet stood with only a handful of men on supporting women's rights, but there were numerous amounts of women who were ready and willing to speak up and demand what they deserved, most notably Olympe de Gouges. ... Early in the morning of October 5th 7,000 women rallied outside the Hotel de Ville and set o...

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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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siege of La Rochelle and the details surrounding it: like the imprisonment of Milady in London by Lord de Winter; the death of the Duke of Buckingham by order of the Cardinal, and how Milady carries out the order by having someone kill him; and the promotion of d'Artagnan to a musketeer because of his heroism. ... Another similarity is how in both the book and the movie Porthos was at one time married to Milady, and how he thought that he killed her because he finds a Flour de Lis on her shoulder. ...

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There is a continuous war; every species of the world is at war with one another. The murderous war that man partakes in are dreadful to the human species. The most determined researchers will agree that war does nothing but bring more war to a civilization or religion. Throughout the time of Histor...

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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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Considered an act of using violence against people to inculcate fear or intimidate a government or the civilian population. It is mostly in the pursuit of political, ideological or religious goals. The word terrorism was first used in France to describe a new system of government adopted during th...

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Historians speculate, The Song of Roland or La Chanson de Roland was written at the end of the eleventh century. It's considered the most renown, French, chanson de geste, and the most ancient. ... (novaonline.htm) Chanson de geste, meaning "songs of great deeds" was the principal style of this epic, and was most promptly used during that era. ... In addition, chanson de geste, commemorates, French warriors of noble, inheritance. ...

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Interpretations of the French Revolution: Historiographically, The French Revolution has been interpreted by three main views: The Views of Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism. The Socialistic interpretation has been the most dominant interpretation of the French Revolution because it best expl...

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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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In the 1880's, Grasset met with Georges Auriol, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and fellow Swiss artist Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen Laurtrec's La Goulue au Moulin Rouge broke new ground in 1891for poster design. ...

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The Reign of Terror At the onset of the French Revolution, the revolutionaries who felt that the Monarchy of Louis XVI was tyrannical and could no longer be trusted to protect to people of France exclaimed the tenements of Fraternity, liberty, and equality. It was on these tenets that the Frenc...

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Municipal Police Director Emile Hennequin had already set up 1,372 teams of officials composed of two "gardiens de la paix- or Peace Officers. ... (Sarah's key) The French Jewish council or the UGIF (Union Generale Des Israelites De France) saw itself as a relief organization and in order to keep performing this function it need not to provoke the Gestapo or antagonize the Vichy. Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, coordinator of the Vichy government's anti-Jewish program, proposed that children be taken to homes in Paris which were run by the UGIF. ...

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He could throw men into prison without a trial by means of royal orders or letters de cachet. ( ).He could prevent any criticism of his policies by clasping a rigid censorship on the press or by restricting freedom of speech". ... Six tumbills carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. ...

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In 12th-century Europe secular history writing emerged, shown in the work of Geoffroi de Villehardouin, and the chronicles of Jean, sire de Joinville, Jean Froissart, and Philippe de Comines in successive centuries. 8 Renaissance Historiography The humanism of the Renaissance revolutionized historiography, for it placed emphasis on textual criticism and on a critical attitude toward documents and sources. ... In France, modern academic history began with Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. ...

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Tapestry is one of the oldest forms of woven textiles. The word tapestry is defined as a thick textile fabric, in which colored weft threads are woven (originally by hand) into fixed warp threads to form pictures or designs. To give a brief description on how tapestries are woven, the weft threads do not weave between the warp threads all the way across the fabric, but are woven only as far as the particular color is required to produce the integral design. The detail is determined by the closeness o...

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