... the catholic faith and formed an alliance with Montmorency and the Marechal St. Andre to form the "Catholic Triumvirate." They were joined by Antoine de Bourbon, who flip flopped again on the matter of his religion. His wife, Jeanne d"Albert, the Queen of Navarre, remained strictly Protestant ... 1572) After the peace of St. Germain, Catherine exerted a great deal of diplomatic effort trying to establish harmony between Catholic and Protestant leaders. Admiral de Coligny, was welcomed into the king's council, Elizabeth of England entertained the prospects of marriage to one of King Charl...

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... kind. The story unfolds in the form of letters written between the principal characters, giving it a unique literary texture. By using this style, de Laclos is able to give the reader a shockingly intimate look at these people as they divulge their most intimate secrets and bring to fruition their ... sinister plans. The protagonists, The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, consider it their life's ambition to sadistically control and dominate those around them through sexual intrigue. These two villains are ... honored formula that "good will eventually overcome evil". Ind...

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... kind. The story unfolds in the form of letters written between the principal characters, giving it a unique literary texture. By using this style, de Laclos is able to give the reader a shockingly intimate look at these people as they divulge their most intimate secrets and bring to fruition their ... sinister plans. The protagonists, The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, consider it their life's ambition to sadistically control and dominate those around them through sexual intrigue. These two villains are ... honored formula that "good will eventually overcome evil". Ind...

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... that has magnificent fountains and formal flower beds trimmed to look like one massive bouquet. At the western end of the champs elysees stands the arc de triomphe de letoile, which means, "Arch of triumph of the star". The emperor napoleon the first started to build the huge arch made of stone in ... 's victories. The Arch is the largest triumphal arch in the world, standing 163 feet high and 147 feet wide. The arch rises in the place de letoile, which means, "Square of the star", one of more than 130 public squares in Paris. Broad avenues extend from the etoile in 12 directions ... . A...

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... with the stalled constitutional revolution, and fed up with the shortage of food, all fuelled their discontentment. Early in the morning of October 5th 7,000 women rallied outside the Hotel de Ville and set off on the fourteen kilometer march to Versailles, armed with pikes, clubs, knives, swords, muskets, and a cannon (4). The women were determined to lower the bread prices ... legislature, and radical clubs advocating for republican ideas. The women of France were enacting the vision of liberal citizenship that Condorcet so enthusiastically supported. They joined the Confederation de...

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... European cities. The city with the highly specialised services and financial innovation "a site for post-industrial production" (Sassen 1991) The service sector still employs 2.3 million people within the Ile-de-France region. The large labour force and high female activity rate is responsible in part for the successful growth of the service industry. High female activity rates in Paris lead ... affluent wealthier groups have moved predominantly to the "beaux quartiers" in the west of the city with newer wealthier suburbs developing to the south east. The growth of the Ile-de-France regi...

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... 15pm. 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. The hotel is in the immediate vicinity of the shopping area of Fauchon, Elegant Faubourg St. Honore and Le Printemps and Galeries Lafayette ... 180 miles. 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. Commissioned by Napoléon in 1806 to celebrate his victory at the battle of Austerlitz ... procession in 1840. Th...

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... newspapers, and showed regular disgust and hatred towards the King and Queen. An outstanding individual of the women's movement of the French Revolution who can not go unnoticed was Olympe de Gouges, a Parisian playwright who wrote "The Declaration of the Rights of Woman" in 1791. This document was a response to the new French constitution of September of that same year, "The ... " population according to wealth, social class, and sex. With even certain classes of men having their rights restricted, most were not surprised that all women fell into the "passive" category. De Gouges was a ...

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... although Laplace and Lagrange had a rivalry, they each benefited from a flow of ideas between the two. On May 15, 1788 Laplace, at the age of 39, married Marie-Charlotte de Courty de Romanges, a 19 year old woman. The couple had two children during their marriage. Laplace served on a committee of the Academy of Sciences to standardize weights and measures, work on the ... his political views, Laplace lost his friends and died on the morning of Monday, March 5, 1827. That day the Academy canceled a meeting, a very occurrence, to commemorate his death. Pierre Simon de Laplace was one of t...

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... expressive. Jackson Pollock's turbulent yet elegant abstract paintings, which were created by spattering paint on huge canvases placed on the floor, brought abstract expressionism before a hostile public. Willem de Kooning's first one-man show in 1948 established him as a highly influential artist. His intensely complicated abstract paintings of the 1940s were followed by images of Woman, grotesque versions ... styles. Abstract expressionism presented a broad range of stylish diversity within its large, though not exclusively, nonrepresentational framework. "For example, the expressive...

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... it won awards. If the book was cut down a little bit I think I would have enjoyed it more. This book was also very jumpy. I couldn't keep up with who was talking; quotes just sprung up everywhere. Books are very hard to keep track of when they jump around all the time. This book used descriptions that didn't make sense so it made ... the book difficult to understand. The book also seemed as if it were a screen play for a movie the confusing way quotes were said. "Paul Berlin paid attention to detail. He saw sunlight that lasted until dusk. He saw grain unloaded from small river junks. H...

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... greatest and most fascinating figures in European history. Napoleon's influence is especially evident in France. Even today his legacy can be seen around Paris, one of them being the Arc de Triomphe which he had built to commemorate his victories. In France's government, you can still see his influences because the country's basic law is still the Napoleonic Code, which was ... for the promotion of the arts and sciences. Scholars (especially scientists) were encouraged to study by receiving incomes. . One of Napoleon's legacies is the art and architecture already mentioned (Arc de Trium...

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Notre Dame Cathedral The architect of Notre Dame was Maurice de Sully, the Bishop of Paris. He decided to build it for the growing population of Paris. He dedicated Notre Dame to the Virgin Mary. Even though construction started in 1163, ... as 6,000 worshipers. In 1768, geographers decided that all distances in France would be measured from Notre Dame. 176 years later, when Paris was liberated during World War II, General de Gaulle rushed to the cathedral after his return, to pray in thanksgiving. Excavations under the parvis have revealed a lot of Notre Dames history from the Gallo-Roman t...

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... Britain out of the main lands of France in 1793, "the Siege of Toulon," he was highly favored and promoted to brigadier general. He lost much respect after the "Coup de Thermidor" in 1794, in which Napoleon ended the jacobine republic and the lives of its prominent leaders; he was imprisoned. After his release, he stopped the Parisian Mob with artillery ... . Cowardly, he and some friends shipped back to France, leaving behind hundreds of soldiers, after some unsuccessful campaigns. In 1799, the public turned against the government following the "Coup d"Etat de Brumaire," Napoleon then b...

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Notre Dame Cathedral The architect of Notre Dame was Maurice de Sully, the Bishop of Paris. He decided to build it for the growing population of Paris. He dedicated Notre Dame to the Virgin Mary. Even though construction started in 1163, ... as 6,000 worshipers. In 1768, geographers decided that all distances in France would be measured from Notre Dame. 176 years later, when Paris was liberated during World War II, General de Gaulle rushed to the cathedral after his return, to pray in thanksgiving. Excavations under the parvis have revealed a lot of Notre Dames history from the Gallo-Roman t...

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... technology. "Often constructivism was overtly propagandist in nature: sometimes by the placement of simple geometric forms in the kind of literary context which turns such forms into representations - (Constructivism 161). De Stijl was mostly influenced by painters Piet Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg and architect Gerrit Rietveld. These men believed that art should strive towards complete harmony, order clarity in a constant process ... associated with Fascism. Balla began to plough an independent path, at first toward abstraction and, after 1931, toward figuration." - If Futurism embraced...

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... is the Eiffel Tower. From the top of this magnificent structure it is possible to see all across the lovely city. On the Champs-Elysees you can see the Arc de Triumph which soldiers were buried beneath a war. The most popular museum in France, and perhaps the world, is the Louvre. The Louvre contains historical paintings, sculptures and other forms of ... art such as the Mona Lisa and the Venis de Milo. Pei's Pyramids at the Louvre are beautiful glass pyramids outside of the museum. Notre Dame is a gorgeous cathedral known for its bell tower. Sacre Coeur is another breathtaking cathedra...

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... the Louvre." After being welcomed into the museum by Nike, I noticed that she is not the only dismembered member of the Louvre. The Venus de Milo stands without her arms attached. Perhaps that's the reason that Venus de Milo has a bare chest: Without any arms or hands to cover her body, how is she to conceal herself from the gazing eyes of ... ...

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... the act, she is on Romeo's side and is paying out Paris. After that she rapidly changes and starts preferring Paris instead of Romeo. "Romeo's a disclout to him" The Nurse quotes. She suggests Juliet should marry Paris. Even though, the Nurse never goes out to hurt Juliet. She is only misinformed. The Nurse occasionally teases Juliet, also. For instance, when she ... ...

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... in ways of distribution and accumulation by taxation, has been going on over hundreds of years. Throughout the past, many magnificent thinkers and philosophers have shared their opinions, and their quotes are now read to this day. However, one philosopher which explains how this situation should be handled was Henry George. He once said: "Why is it that in America we ... ...

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... , a long poem about that particular subject just came into her mind from somewhere. Somewhere, which she can't even think of or where her mind can never take her. The writer quotes Katagiri Roshi words, which were said once that it is not will that could possibly make you do anything. It is that hard determination that makes you work hard. Great ... ...

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... the act, she is on Romeo's side and is paying out Paris. After that she rapidly changes and starts preferring Paris instead of Romeo. "Romeo's a disclout to him" The Nurse quotes. She suggests Juliet should marry Paris. Even though, the Nurse never goes out to hurt Juliet. She is only misinformed. The Nurse occasionally teases Juliet, also. For instance, when she ... ...

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... any better! I walked to the edge and could not believe my eyes. The sky was pitch black but the city of Paris was lit up. On one side I saw Arc De Triumph, the giant Ferris wheel and carousal, and the river. Oh it was so pretty! The river had lights lining it and the bridges. The boats floating down the river ... ...

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... people to know their own history and culture but also those of other countries. I will be informing you about the history of some monuments there like The Louvre and Arc de Triomphe (Triumphal Arch), the culture, and the languages spoken there. The Louvre is one of the most famous museums in the world. It was never intended to be a museum as ... ...

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... included art from Walter Crane. Beardsley was the enfant terrible of Art Nouveau with his exotic imagery in black & white work. 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. He was the son of the Count of ... ...

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