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sunny afternoon
The pleasures of a day by the Seine were never more smilingly evoked than they are in Auguste Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating party (1881). As any visitor to France knows, the river often flows beneath leaden skies or through … Continue reading
war against english the language: unstitching for naught
Is verbal usage simply a matter of social usage, an aspect of etiquette? … The war against the English language is thus a many pronged offensive, waged amid jungles of jargon, over oceans of Officialese, prairies of pedantry, mountains of … Continue reading
Joan: heroine of the Right
Joan of Arc. Her legacy has had some ups and downs, and some swings from Left to Right… The nineteenth century has been called by a German writer, “the century of the Pucelle.” It was inevitable that the restored monarchy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alphonse Maria Mucha, Anatole france, Charles VII King of France, Francois Villon, French Monarchist Literature, Friedrich Schiller Maid of Orleans, Ingrid Bergman Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc and French Revolution, Joan of Arc Rehabilitation, Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Quicherat, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maude Adams Actress, Napoleon I and Joan of Arc, Perceval de Cagny, Voltaire and Joan of Arc
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joan of liberty and fraternity and convenience
Joan of Arc. From compromising circumstance in the life of Charles VII, to be forgotten as soon as possible to subsequent resurrection and refashioning into useful symbol… The French Revolution was a decisive event in the development of the reputation … Continue reading
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Tagged Anatole france, David Hume, George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, Joan of Arc and French Revolution, Joan of Arc Rehabilitation, Jules Eugene Lenepveu, Jules Quicherat, Luc Besson director, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, Vigils of Charles VII, Voltaire and Joan of Arc
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LOST GENERATION : RECLAIMED FROM THE WASTELAND
The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. At this point in time, America had become a great place to, “go into some … Continue reading
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Tagged Anatole france, Archibald MacLeish, Daniel Aaron, David Sanders, E.E. Cummings, Edward Bernays, Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Bernard Shaw, George Grosz, Gertrude Stein, Gold, Gustave Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Jackie Gross, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jill Tripodi, John Dos Passos, Joyce Ulysses, Marcel Proust, Max Beckmann, Neil Howe, Romaine Rolland, Stephane Mallarme, T.S. Eliot, Thorstein Veblen, William Faulkner, William Strauss
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