Napoleon Sarony Wikimedia Commons Public Domain The later years of the Victorian era saw an increase in publicly visible homosexuality, which had been frowned upon in the previous decades. For a while, there were no explicit legislation against the practice other than public indecency laws, which ...
In 1801, after several years offreedom, Sade was arrested yet again on the orders of Napoleon, who foundJuliettethe “abominable” work of a “depraved imagination,” and soon ended up in Charenton, an insane asylum. Here, in his 60s, Sade gained a new level of notoriety by staging his ...
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1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. 2. Middlemarch by George ...
In 1797, Napoleon decreed the end of the Jewish segregation and the equalization of the Jews to other citizens. This provision became definitive when Venice was annexed to the Italian Kingdom. However, when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, the Pope repealed Napoleon’s decreed and sent all ...
He was born in rural France in 1815, 16 years after the end of the first French Revolution, and one year after the abdication of Napoleon. When Pierre Rivière was 15 years old, the July Revolution overthrew Charles X and installed Louis Philippe. During his short life there were massive ...
By contrast, the victors over Napoleon aimed for a ‘System of Peace’: there was to be only one political bloc of powers in Europe. This led to the creation of a cycle of regular multilateral conferences in various European cities, the so-called Congress System, which functioned at least ...
There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of different kind which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are ...
There seemed to be some hold-up. Pete glanced out of the observation window and stiffened. He said something under his breath and ran to the door. I followed him more slowly into the Insertion hall. The Cage was on the floor, its door was open and Joe was struggling with the trainee ...
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