Louis Braille-Feeling the Future As a child in France in the early 1800s, Louis Braille loved to play in his father's saddle-making (制造马鞍) shop. One day, Louis stabbed (戳) himself in the eye with an awl (钻子). The eye(A) got infected (感染) and soon Louis was blind.He ...
In the early 1800s, Stanislas Baudry built public baths in the center of a town in France. To encourage people to come, Baudry drove a large vehicle around to give people a ride to the baths. He called the vehicle an omnibus,【1】is a Latin word meaning “for everyone”. Then he【...
求翻译:Napoleonic France in the early 1800s, Japan and Germany in the 1930s, Communist Russia, etc: Every magalomaniac dictatorship with the blood of million innocent people of his hands has started his career the same way China does now.是什么意思?待解决 悬赏分:1 - 离问题结束还有 Napoleon...
France did not have territorial acquisition in mind when it started occupying the coast regions of west-central Africa (Congo, Chad, Gabon and adjacent areas today) in the early 1800s. Combating the slave trade was the primary purpose. The French colonies that minted coins remained in place ...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, when 'Greater France' encompassed the world's second largest overseas empire, public authorities and private lobby groups used monuments to great men, memorials to soldiers killed in battle, museums and simple street names to imprint colonialism on the ...
The seat of one of Brittany’s most powerful families in the 15th century, the medieval town center is still dominated by the castle that bears its name, the Chateau Rohan. In the early 1800s, Napoleon expanded the city westward using a cleaner and more regimented design, giving Pontivy ...
Louis XIV's pageantry and opulence helped define the French Baroque style of art and architecture and promoted his image as absolute ruler of France in the early modern period. Louis XIV began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the death of his chief minister Cardinal Mazarin. A ...
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Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution exp...
It is the 8th largest city of France, and is also the fastest growing city in the country over the past 25 years. The city’s medieval origins are visible from the charming narrow streets in the centre, the faculty of medicine, the royal gardens of Le Peyrou and other marvels which ...