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' After me, the flood ') is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in the form "Après nous, le déluge" (pronounced [apʁɛ nu lə delyʒ]; lit. ' After us, the flood ') to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite. [1] [2] It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone.
After the Deluge, also known as The Forty-First Day, [1] is a Symbolist oil painting by English artist George Frederic Watts, first exhibited as The Sun in an incomplete form in 1886, and completed in 1891. It shows a scene from the story of Noah's Flood, in which after 40 days of rain Noah opens the window of his Ark to see that the rain has ...
After the Flood (disambiguation) Après le Déluge; Après moi, le déluge; Before the Deluge; Deluge (disambiguation) Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, a painting by J. M. W. Turner; The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, a painting by Thomas Cole
After the deluge, the lies: Misinformation and hoaxes about Helene cloud the recovery By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The facts emerging from Hurricane Helene's destruction are heartrending: Businesses and homes destroyed, whole communities nearly wiped out, hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of people missing.
Determined to make her place at court secure, Jeanne Antoinette immediately attempted to forge a good relationship with the royal family. After the Queen engaged Pompadour in a conversation by enquiring after a mutual acquaintance, Madame de Saissac, Pompadour responded in delight, swearing her respect and loyalty to Marie Leszczyńska. The ...
After the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened the water taps a quarter-century before, the L.A. River looked like something worse than obsolete — it looked like a killer, of life, of land, of livelihood.
The effect is named after Dr. Sakuhei Fujiwhara who was the chief of the Central Meteorological Bureau in Tokyo, Japan, shortly after the First World War. In 1921, he wrote a paper describing the ...
lit. "son": used after a man's surname to distinguish a son from a father, as Alexandre Dumas, fils. fin de siècle The end of the century, a term which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom turn of the century and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another. flambé