... manufacturing. "80.6% of women between 20 and 55 are in employment within the service sector". (Noin, 1997). Working in banks, insurance and property management predominantly. Many of the worlds major cities were once industrial centres, but due to globalisation, and an increase in capital, information, and technological flows of goods, companies have been given the impetus and freedom to relocate ... 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 region ...

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... Today, the Italians (divided principally into northern and southern alliances) are seriously rethinking the formation of a single state. In addition, Religion has been a major force in the shaping of Roman history, politically as much as socially. From the Pantheon to St. Peter's, the majority of sights in Rome are ... 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 ...

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... identified themselves strongly as defenders of 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 and established Protestantism completely in her domains. ... Protestants. The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572) After the peace of St. Germain, Catherine exerted a great deal of diplomatic effort trying to establish harmony between Catholic and Pr...

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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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... 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 ... held in Milan, opening 30 April 1911. Beginning with an exhibition at the gallery of Bernheim Jeune in Paris in February 1912, a group of Futurist works circulated through major European...

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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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... , and reading avidly in London's libraries. Already devoted to the essays of Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, and Samuel Jon, he now read the major nineteenth-century essayists: Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, and Thomas DeQuincey. At this time he also developed a great love ... in the streets of Paris. This places help introduce many characters into the story. One of the main characters, Madame Theresa Defrage, is a major antagonist who seeks revenge. She is a very tense and unforgiving woman who seeks revenge on the Evermonde family. Through out the sto...

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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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... world's leading exporters of farm products. An average French farm is 68 acres. Two thirds of the income comes from meat and dairy animals. France's single leading crop is wheat. Major crops are potatoes, sugar beets, barley, corn, oats, and rapeseed. Other important crops are beans, carrots, cauliflower, cherries, peas, peaches, pears, sunflower seeds, and tomatoes. France is the largest wine ... . The most popular ream sport is soccer. Other French sports are bowling, fishing, ice skating,, rugby, skiing, swimming, and tennis. France is also where the famous bicycle race, the Tour de F...

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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 ... with beautiful reliefs and sculptures. The inside walls of the arch have a long list of names. These are the names of the French generals who took part in the wars. Major events and national celebrations take place here. It is also possible to e...

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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 ... York on a boat. Louis Rhead, from Britain, worked in New York as an illustrator, adopting Grasset's style. He then met a self-taught American, William H. Bradley, which was one of two major American Art Nouveau practitioner...

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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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... . 1921: Hillman collection, New York city. 1924: Le train bleu, in both Cubist and Neoclassical styles. 1925: The grotesque facial and bodily distortion of the "three dancer" (London) foreshadows his major work. 1929: He pioneered wrought iron sculpture with his old friend Julio Gonzalez. 1935: On the fifth October Picassos second child this born, her name is Maria Concepcion every one ... Civic Center. 1961: He married the last of them, Jacqueline Roque. 1966: He created more than 50000 works. 1970: Picasso donated more than 800 of his works to the Berenguer de Aguilar Palace Museum in ...

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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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... 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 ... York on a boat. Louis Rhead, from Britain, worked in New York as an illustrator, adopting Grasset's style. He then met a self-taught American, William H. Bradley, which was one of two major American Art Nouveau practitioner...

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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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... occupied himself with meteorological observation and research and for some years published an annual "Atlas Météorologique."" In 1907 he published his "Recherchés experimentales sur la Résistance de l'air, executées à la Tour Eiffel."" When aeroplanes became practicable, he began to apply these researches for the benefit of the new art of flying. In 1910 he published ... this day. In the early 1890s Eiffel gave up the day-to-day management of his business, and became absorbed in the new science of aerodynamics to which he made a major contribution. ...

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... by his parents and was located in Cadaques. Before he was ten, he had already completed two impressive oil paintings. After his elementary training at the College of "los Hermanos de la Doctrina Cristiana" (in Figueres) he attended the College of "los Hermanos Maristas" for six years, and then attended another institute in the same town for his bachelor degree. He ... Renaissance and Dali's thoughts on the era. In the followings years, he painted with his different styles combined in one. His art was exhibited in a lot of museums. The last major exhibitions in Dali's lifetime were at th...

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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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