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French Literature and Nationalism

emerge when nations do not coincide in terms of ideology (1993). Explanations as to the spread of nationalism in postmodernity als...

French Director Jean Renoir

his daughters fiance, Anatole. They are observed by two young men, Henri and Rodolphe, who propose to seduce the women in the part...

Career of Henri Phillipe Petain

allowed him to keep French troops from fighting alongside the Nazis. The alliance of the French troops was indeed a matter of spe...

Arms Control and the Cold War

British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...

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...

François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal

pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driv...

Novel and Movie Versions of The French Lieutenant's Woman

novel and wholly unique to the film, it is arguably faithful to Fowles intentions in the way that the original novel is structured...

Risorgimento; Italy Between 1815 - 1832

in the period following 1815 it is important to consider these changes as the administrative, judicial, education, and military sy...

Beckett's "Endgame" - Theatrical Passage

as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...

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...

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 ...

Sexuality and Gender in David Henry Hwang’s Madame Butterfly

roles and how to identify themselves accordingly (Warmoth). Through experience, interaction, and acculturation, they develop perc...

Carles: “A Life of Her Own”

her father was scheduled to go and get a bull from the commune, and because the bull was vital to the village, he went on with his...

Twentieth Century History of France (1940-1944) and the Impact of Vichy on the Modern French State

defeat and foreign occupation France suffered between 1940 and 1944 form one of the darkest and most controversial chapters in the...

Essays on Absolute Monarchy, the French Revolution, and the Effects of Mechanization on the Working Class

- such as whenever he needed funding for one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English mona...

Trubek's Haute Cuisine

from the idea of royalty and excess and there was no place that was attached to that concept like Versailles. France has a rich hi...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment

wherein people began to argue that logical and scientific thinking were the answer to lifes questions. It was a form of thought th...

Parodying the Knight in Song of Roland and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...

O Canada/The Canadian National Anthem

the 2010 Olympic Winter Games draws on the lyrics of the two versions of "O Canada" ("Olympic mottoes"). These lines are: "With gl...

Roland Bathes and S/Z

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

The Impact of Female Actresses During the French Revolution

they had the ability to address the debates of the French Revolution and debate gender based issues. The place of a woman at the a...

Informal Versus Formal Power In Organizations

authority (Rayner, Hoel and Cooper, 2001). These people have the authority to make things happen so they have both authority and p...

The French Revolution: Causes and Effects

century and the first part of the eighteenth century (Lossky 7). Officially, he held Frances throne from the young age of five to...

German Unification, Bismarck, the Treaties of Frankfurt and Versailles

grew and many citizens signed up with the Prussian army. Prussia also began the climb from the primarily agrarian lifestyle that ...

The French Influence in Quebec City

First established as a fort in 1535 by the French explorer Jacques Cartier, Quebec City is among the oldest European settlements i...

Warfare Technological Change and Sociological Impacts

There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...

Napoleon's Exile

his military career.2 Presiding over a Grand Army of more than a half-million soldiers, the largest ever assembled to date, Napol...