... soon realized that they could not break through this line and they also began to dig trenches. After a few months these trenches had spread from the North Sea to the Swiss Frontier. For the next three years neither side advanced more than a few miles along this line that became known as the Western Front. It is estimated that one-third of ... ...
... . 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 Troulouse and at the age ... ...
... 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev. Reporters in Kiev were sending the story to their publishers within three days, it was never printed. A Swiss-German industrialist, after having been invited to watch a mass killing, sent photographs to Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, they were ignored. In February 1942, the Vatican and the Red ... ...
... 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev. Reporters in Kiev were sending the story to their publishers within three days, it was never printed. A Swiss-German industrialist, after having been invited to watch a mass killing, sent photographs to Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, they were ignored. In February 1942, the Vatican and the Red ... ...
... . 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 Troulouse and at the age ... ...
... parlements, who believed reforms for the lower classes were unnecessary. Four days before the Bastille fell, Louis XVI dismissed his entire cabinet and appointed a new council. With rumors that the Swiss and German Guards were to murder the Parisian populace, the French Guard joined the rioting and broke into the Tuileries Palace. July 14th was Bastille day. Only four years after ... ...
... , but internal, undermining of the Republic. On August 10, 1792, a Parisian mob attacked the Tuileries Palace, forcing the king into refuge. During this hunt for Louis XVI, more than 800 Swiss Guard were killed. Less than a month later, 1200 prisoners suspect of counter-revolutionary action were brutally murdered; this now known as the September Massacres. The vicious power the Sans-Culottes ... ...
... . By 1765 he established his own bank. He became involved in public affairs. He made tons of loans to the French government. In 1764 he married Suzanne Curchod, daughter of a Swiss pastor. She was beautiful, charming, and intelligent. In 1776 King Louis XVI named him director general of the treasury. The next year he became director general of finances. He became ... ...
