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French Revolution
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–1799) was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from liberal political groups and the masses on the streets. Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition succumbed to new Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convoc ...more
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“
Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in ’91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me.” He shook his head. “This is my nation. Here I stay. A man can’t carry his country on the soles of his shoes.
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― A Place of Greater Safety
― A Place of Greater Safety
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It’s a question of legacy. Who else will do this work but us? The men who rarely include them in retrospectives? The visitors who take a quick glance at small placards and move on to those paintings selected to correspond with an odious audio track, which explains to them why they are there, staring at beauty like befuddled children? We live among the intellectually bereft who can’t decipher anything without self-guided tours. Will anyone ever write anything worth a damn
about Mme Gabiou? About
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― The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories
― The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories
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