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The Irish revolutionary John Mitchel called the French Revolution "the profoundest book, and the most eloquent and fascinating history, that English literature ever produced." [ 15 ] Florence Edward MacCarthy, son of Denis MacCarthy , remarked that "Perhaps more than any other, it stimulated poor John Mitchel & led to his fate in 1848", i.e ...
Tours (/ t ʊər / TOOR; French: ⓘ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire . The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973.
Meaningless in French; the equivalent is un tour de passe-passe. maître d' translates literally as master o'. The French term for head waiter (the manager of the service side of a restaurant) is maître d'hôtel (literally "master of the house" or "master of the establishment"); French never uses "d '" stand-alone. Most often used in American ...
1308 – Estates General of Tours (1308) held. ca.1420 - Jean Fouquet, painter, was born in Tours. [1] 1444 – Treaty of Tours. Tours became capital de facto of France. 1460 – Touraine customary laws codified. [10] 1464 – Louis XI, the "universal spider", created the system of royal postal roads, first roads started from Tours.
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674177282. Hanson, Paul R. (2004). Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Ross, Steven T. (1998). Historical Dictionary of the Wars of the French Revolution. Scott, Samuel F.; Rothaus, Barry, eds. (1985). "Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution"
The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793 is a 1909 history of the French Revolution by Peter Kropotkin, published in both French and English. It was first translated from French to English by William Heinemann in 1909. Kropotkin wrote a series of articles on the French Revolution for Le Révolté and an essay for The Nineteenth Century in 1889.
Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm has described the book in 1990 as being "exceptionally stylish and eloquent" and "extremely well-read." Nevertheless, he considered Citizens to be, above all, in his view a wrongful political denunciation of the revolution and a continuation of a tradition in British literature and popular consciousness (in his view established by the writings of Edmund Burke ...
Georges Auguste Couthon (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ oɡyst kutɔ̃], 22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794) was a French politician and lawyer known for his service as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly during the French Revolution.