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Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

normal size, resulting in a body that was normal from the hips up and rested on short little legs that kept his overall height at ...

Revolutions: America and France

2007). These events were The three most important events that led up to, and caused it, were "the Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea...

Ousmane: “God’s Bits of Wood”

earliest in 1881, and again in 1920, 1925, and 1938; the strike that Sembene uses in his novel is the one that took place in 1947 ...

The Cost of Political Revolutions

place, that the loss of life was not worth it. There is more validity in this second premise than in the first. Still, to determin...

The Diary of Madeline, the Comtesse de Lyon

Lyon, Madeline has moved up in society. But now she is looking at a series of events unfolding around her that will change her li...

Why the French Withdrew from Vietnam

under French rule" (Vietnam, 2007). The French named the colony "Cochinchina" (Vietnam, 2007). It took them 16 more years to bring...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

French Politics in 1848

working class. Citing Theodore Zeldin, Sewell states that 1848 is important in French history because it was at this time that t...

Romanticism, the Influence of the French, and the American Art Movement

comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?" (Cohen-Solal PG). After pulling...

Cinematic Gender Representation

choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...

Japan and Christianity's Spread

In twelve pages this paper considers how Christianity was introduced to Japan and its spread over a period of 300 years by British...

Louis the Fourteenth Bureau Mazarin of the 18th Century

1700s ushered in the French stylistic period known as the "Regence" (Faniel 36). During this era, the writing table, or bureau in...

French Literary Relationships Between Males and Females

he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...

18th Century France's Revolution and Revolt

Similarly, in France, there would be drastic change as the people were fed up with the monarchy. They really wanted an enlightened...

French Guiana and France Trade Relationship

the culture (CIA, 2003). There have also been numerous disputes over boarders with Brazil to the south and east and Suriname to t...

The French Lieutenant's Woman, Christianity and Paganism

she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...

Contrasting and Comparing Sixteenth Century French and Dutch Painters

the old ways. During this time, it was determined that mankind was capable of being redeemed, that contrary to what the church sta...

Napoleon Bonaparte's Life and Achievements

power. In 1806, Napoleon acted as a self-appointed leader of Europe, and changed the Batavian Republic into the Kingdom of Hollan...

Heroines in Literature and How They Have Evolved

than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...

Statistical Analysis of the S.S. Titanic

journey to the United States. One problem is that the passenger and crew lists have been inaccurate due to misspellings and inaccu...

Jean Baptiste Colbert and Louis XIV

believed that internal commerce was wholly useless for State wealth and, therefore, did absolutely nothing to promote it. As such...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Charles Montesquieu

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

The French and Their Revolution by Richard Cobb

Cobb argues, "In other words, is not the average revolutionary in reality the professional super-revolutionary, the man who quite ...

Jacques Louis David and French Revolution Art

radical of all times. These changes are particularly interesting in regard to the manner in which they changed the artistic depic...

Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

France, Great Britain, and Postwar Europe's Left Wing Political Parties

good peacetime leader, and the connotations between his leadership and the recently ended war may have helped the downfall of the ...

Historical Aspects of Russia, Austria, and France Between 1815 and 1919

out of Hitlers stated aim to restore greatness to Germany after the humiliation inflicted by the Treaty of Versailles, and the wea...

Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

1756 to 1763 French and Indian War

some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...