OK, so you see the first step was taken—from museums that were just private institutions owned by royalty…to the Louvre, a museum open to the public—with some restrictions.But then there was another shift…and that was brought about by a French painter named Alexandre Lenoir.Lenoir was ...
Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Germany? Why was Francisco Franco important? Why did Frederick II side with the Habsburgs? Why was the Peace of Westphalia important? Why did Prussia win the Seven Weeks' War? Why did Germany sign the Treaty of Versailles? Why was the French War ...
Why did the October Revolution happen? Why did the peasants revolt in Russia? Why was the Russian Civil War important? What factors led to the overthrow of the Russian tsar and the eventual triumph of the Bolsheviks? Why was the French Revolution considered a social revolution?
The revolution in music printing came around 1520 with a French printer named Pierre Attaingnant. The first thing Pierre Attaingnant did was to get an assurance from the king that he would be the only one who could set up a music printing shop in all of France. This is understandable since...
the French Concession and the well-known international settlement. There the various powers including Great Britain, the United States and Japan at stationed detachments of troops. Japanese, British, French, on our own United States Marines to assist the police of a Shanghai Municipal Council and...
On one hand, you’ve got a unitary (fetichist) country, with as its core a principle inherited from the French Revolution : “France shall be an indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic” (preamble of the Constitution) ; “The language of the Republic shall be French.” ...
One— derived from the French Revolution— is that“the people” should always be mounting the barricades to thwart the government. Another verity, treasured by the French left, is that“the workers” (imagined as figures in a socialist realist statue) must fight anything proposed by“the ...
How Did The American Revolution Rebelled The American Revolution brought a lot of problems. Like when the Patriots rebelled and used “no taxation without reputation”. There was a lot of things that happened that brought the American Revolution. Have you ever wondered what would the world be ...
The term “Industrial Revolution” was first coined by early French writers but would become popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee in the 19th Century. While Toynbee’s definition covered the period between 1760 and 1840, it is more widely applied to the process of economic...
I put in a film request at the Media Center weeks ago for a copy of the French Revolution. I mean, the actual film reels, you know. I thought I made myself really clear, but they just didn’t get it, what I was saying. So this morning they called me to say that my copy of ...