Creole term used to refer to homosexuals in the French Antilles, which can also be found in the Banlieues (suburbs) of the French provincial capitals. The term literally translates as “beneath the leaves” or “camouflaged”, and evidently refers to men who in their public and private life...
How did Philip IV strengthen the French monarchy? How did absolute monarchs influence the Scientific Revolution? How did the decline of feudalism affect commoners? What are the causes, events, and consequences of the rise of nationalism in Europe? Why did...
How do the Allied forces propose to end WWII with Japan? Which factor influenced the outbreak of World war II the most ? In what ways did nationalism, inspired by the War of 1812 manifest itself? Explain one of the causes of the French and Indian War and its impact on one f...
While this may all seem quite ridiculous, all involved were extremely well aware every little thing they did was setting a precedent that could have major implications not just down the road, but potentially immediately, as with the President’s title, which we’ll get to shortly. But in bri...
Governments, most notably the French monarchy, learned the hard way what happens when people can’t afford to feed themselves. When the peasants had no bread—despite the myth that Marie Antoinette said ‘Let them eat cake’—they chose to revolt, ultimately leading to the downfall of the ric...
They walked through the echoing Hall of Mirrors, never again to be graced by the King’s ponderous footsteps or the Queen’s soft patter. It hadn’t always been this way. For many decades, the magnificence of Versailles had been a source of pride for the French. “A Parisian bourgeois...
“i did nothing wrong”: inside donald trump’s hush money sentencing the president-elect maintained friday that he was treated “very, very unfairly,” denying the charges to the bitter end. while he’ll avoid fines and jail time, trump will still take office as a convicted felon. by ...
The writings of the eighteenth century French political philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu The overbearing behavior of the English monarchy inspired the thirteen colonies to declare independence and influenced the Founders to form a government system that was built on the ideas of liberty and freedom.The...
the world.Min Baopromoted the overthrow of the dynastic system and the building of a republic, whileNew Citizenpreached reform under a constitutional monarchy;Min Baopromoted Sun Yat Sen's Three Principles of the People, based on Abraham Lincoln's concept of government of, by, and for the ...
The main goal of the American and French revolutions was to end the monarchical rule of free white people, not the ability of those free white people toenslave Black people. But the goal of the Haitian Revolution was freedom from European monarchyandslavery, and it led to the establishment of...