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  2. On Germany - Wikipedia

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    On Germany (French: De l'Allemagne), also known in English as Germany, is a book about German culture and in particular German Romanticism, written by the French writer Germaine de Staël. It promotes Romantic literature, introducing that term to readers in France and other parts of Europe.

  3. UN Campus, Bonn - Wikipedia

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    The UN Campus is owned by the Institute for Federal Real Estate and used rent-free by the United Nations. The 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23) was held on 6–17 November 2017 there and in World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) , near the UNFCCC secretariat, for the Republic of Fiji .

  4. List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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    A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...

  5. Devant l'Allemagne éternelle - Wikipedia

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    Devant l'Allemagne éternelle (In front of eternal Germany) is a book by the French journalist and politician Charles Maurras, director of L'Action française published in 1937. The work was composed during the author's period of detention in La Santé prison from October 20, 1936, to July 6, 1937, for death threats against Léon Blum .

  6. Weimar Classicism - Wikipedia

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    Abel Seyler's theatre company's arrival in Weimar marked the infancy of Weimar Classicism. The starting point of Weimar Classicism, or the era of German classical literature, was in 1771 when the widowed Anna Amalia invited the Seyler Theatre Company led by Abel Seyler, including several prominent actors and playwrights such as Konrad Ekhof, to her court; the troupe stayed at Anna Amalia's ...

  7. Le Petit Journal (website) - Wikipedia

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  8. Carte de visite - Wikipedia

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    Cartes de visite camera with four lenses. Engraving from D. V. Monckhoven. Traité Général Photographie Comprenant tous les Procédés Connus jusqu'à ce Jour; La Théorie de la Photographie Application aux Sciences d’Observation. 1863 1859 carte de visite of Napoleon III by Disdéri, which popularized the carte-de-visite format One of the first cartes de visite of Queen Victoria taken by ...

  9. Names of Germany - Wikipedia

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    the French exonym is Allemagne, from the name of the Alamanni tribe; In Italian it is Germania, from the Latin Germania, although the German people are called tedeschi; in Polish it is Niemcy, from the Proto-Slavic nemets, referring to strangers, incomprehensible to Slavic speakers [1] the Finnish call the country Saksa, from the name of the ...