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Lamartine rejects the Red Flag before the Hôtel de Ville, depicting the 1848 Revolution One of his best-known works was a depiction of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] painted in the form of a cyclorama , a type of large panoramic painting on the inside of a cylindrical platform designed to provide a viewer ...
Impressions, souvenirs, pensées et paysages pendant un voyage en Orient, 1832–1833, ou Notes d'un voyageur, shortened to Voyage en Orient, is a travel journal written by Alphonse de Lamartine. This book narrates Lamartine's journey to several Middle Eastern regions now known as Turkey , Lebanon , Israel , and Syria but also South Eastern ...
Le Lac (English: The Lake) is a poem by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine.The poem was published in 1820. [citation needed]The poem consists of sixteen quatrains.It was met with great acclaim and propelled its author to the forefront of famous romantic poets.
Alphonse de Lamartine, the author, by Henri Decaisne. Graziella was written by Alphonse de Lamartine, a French poet and novelist. As a young man, in 1812 Lamartine had visited Italy, travelling from his home near Mâcon to an abbey in Cluny, then onwards to Naples and Rome. During his time in Naples, Lamartine stayed with Darest de la Chavanne ...
In his book Histoire de la Turquie (1854), Alphonse de Lamartine writes: If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only.
Louis Vallon was a graduate of the prestigious École Polytechnique (class of 1921). He joined the Socialist youth movement and the SFIO in 1923, supporting Pierre Renaudel . After running unsuccessfully as an SFIO candidate in the 1932 legislative elections, Vallon left the SFIO in 1933 to join Marcel Déat 's French Socialist Party - Jean ...
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Poetic and Religious Harmonies), S.173, is a cycle of piano pieces written by Franz Liszt at Woronińce (Voronivtsi, the Polish-Ukrainian country estate of Liszt's mistress Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein) in 1847, and published in 1853.
He is also director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, where he led the Raymond Aron Centre of Political Researches between 1992 and 2005. . Rosanvallon was in the 1970s one of the primary theoreticians of workers' self-management in the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) trade un