France’s march into Asia progressed through the 19th century. By the late 1880s, the French controlled modern-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, collectively calling themIndochine Françaisor French Indochina.
As we saw in last week’s post, in his Simple Statement pamphlet Courier furiously denounced the proposal to buy the Chateau de Chambord for the infant prétendant with a public subscription: was his anger increased by difference in expectations for his own son, born at the same time? 6.5 ...
Given the history of English and Spanish colonial expansion into North America, it’s easy to forget New France, a vast territory where the French had a significant stake in the New World. The Louisiana city of New Orleans still retains much of its French-infused heritage, and many of its...
Aside from the self-assertion of the corporation over the terminal addressee, the address remains unchanged. Also, business names (or at least the last word in the name) are capitalized, similar to the last names of recipients. Now, to complicate things a little bit further—CEDEX addresses a...
Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, wi...
Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century...
It was the time of the year, the so-called lean season, when last year's harvest had been depleted, and before the new 1 See Sect. 2.1 for a discussion of the long-term causes of the French Revolution. The sentence "Let them eat cake" (fr. "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"...
numerous informants in common in both studies and with voucher specimens deposited at PAP herbarium in Tahiti [16], by botanical booklets aiming at linking Latin and Marquesan plant names [5, 6] and by the last author, botanist, who checked plant names and pictures reported by the inter- ...
Male and female names are managed on a cross-linguistic basis because there is no reason why one would not want e.g. a German female name to be recognised within an English text. Names are automatically made available to allRulesAnalyzerimplementations as propertiesself.male_names,self.female_...
The last years of Bernard's life were saddened by the failure of the crusaders, the entire responsibility for which was thrown upon him. Bernard died at the age of 63, after 40 years as a monk. He was the first Cistercian placed on the calendar of saints, and was canonized b...