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Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people, and culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the 19th and the 20th centuries, when conservatism and ethnic nationalism went hand in hand. In linguistics, Germanisation of non-German languages also occurs when they adopt many German words.
Caroline-Stéphanie-Félicité, Madame de Genlis (25 January 1746 – 31 December 1830) was a French writer of the late 18th and early 19th century, known for her novels and theories of children's education.
First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of ...
e. Feminism in France is the history of feminist thought and movements in France. Feminism in France can be roughly divided into three waves: First-wave feminism from the French Revolution through the Third Republic which was concerned chiefly with suffrage and civic rights for women. Significant contributions came from revolutionary movements ...
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (8 December 1767, Ganges, Hérault – 25 March 1825, Paris) [1] was a French author, poet and composer whose Biblical and philosophical hermeneutics influenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi, Gérard Encausse ("Papus") and Édouard Schuré. His best known works are on the research of the Hebrew language and the ...
Louis d'Orléans Showing Off His Mistress is an oil painting on canvas produced in 1825–1826 by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. It shows Louis I, Duke of Orléans , his chamberlain Albert Le Flamenc and Mariette d'Enghien , who was both Le Flamenc's wife and the Duke's mistress. [ 1 ]
LCCN. sf94091994. Le Droit des femmes (Women's Rights) was a French feminist journal that appeared from 1869 to 1891. It was founded and edited by Léon Richer, and in the early days supported financially by Maria Deraismes. The newspaper supported many women's causes, but always avoided directly supporting women's suffrage.
La Comédie humaine (French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac 's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48). La Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels, or ...