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North Carolina's International House of Eclecticism
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"Where ya gonna find a pagoda with a fountain from Versailles?"
asks Ann Toler, thereby succinctly stating both the promise and
peril of Chinqua Penn Plantation.
We stand at the North Carolina mansion's doorstep, gazing at the
Versailles manque splashing in the foreground and the pagoda just
beyond the swimming pool. We do not tell Toler that the world can be
neatly divided into those who enjoy seeing such things together and
those who do not, or that the looming question is whether there are
enough of the former to keep Chinqua Penn a viable tourist
attraction.
The construction of Chinqua ...
 "The Economist (US)")
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Devoured by his own creation; Danton and the French revolution.(Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...XVI's Paris council in 1787, Georges-Jacques Danton possessed a loving wife and a...explained. Three years later Danton had led the overthrow of the French...What drove the ugly and dyslexic Danton, suckled by cows in rural Champagne...
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Danton, (1983)
Magazine article from: Film International
; Danton, (1983) France Director...With Gérard Depardieu (Georges Danton), Wojciech Pszoniak (Maxmillien...Fouqier- Tinville) and Jacques Villeret (Westermann...Jerzy Plazewski. Wajda's Danton, a 42-minute behind...
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The people's revolutionary
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; Biography: Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror, by...294pp, pound(s)20. A STATUE OF Georges-Jacques Danton in dynamic rhetorical pose stands...Paris. It was built on the site where Danton, the revolutionary hero of the people...
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Maker, and victim, of the revolution
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Danton: the gentle giant of terror By David...memoirs. This is particularly true of Georges-Jacques Danton (1759-1794), who committed nothing...pitted against ideological fanaticism. Danton's contemporaries saw a roaring, gutsy...
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1789 and all that
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Did they? Georges Jacques Danton was in the revolution up to his neck...loving, chorus-backed tryst with Danton (both parts for baritone) forms the...von Einem's immediate postwar opera Danton's Death, first heard at the Salzburg...
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The Misanthrope's Corner.(presidential candidates as alpha males)(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...compare him to another George-Georges-Jacques Danton, the French Revolution leader...A son of the soil, the boy Danton was kicked in the face by a cow...Our only conceivable answer to Danton is Steve Forbes, who has a pitted...
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CITY DIARY
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...announced halved profits. "As Danton, the French philosopher once...frenchman forgotten his history? Georges- Jacques Danton, the revolutionary thinker who...residential development by St Georges on land held by Spitalfields Development...
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ON LANGUAGE; Ultra-problematic
Newspaper article from: Forward
; ...revolutionaries, especially the faction grouped around Georges Jacques Danton, took to calling the more radical revolutionaries...The actual coiner of the phrase seems to have been Danton's comrade, Camille Desmoulins. "Ultra" was popularized...
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IUN LECTURE ON 3 FRENCH REVOLUTIONARIES
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...the French Revolution. The lecture, "Robespierre, Marat, and Danton: Myth and Reality," will explore the contributions made by Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre, Jean Paul Marat and Georges Jacques Danton.
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The sorriest possible outcome.(Planning World)
Magazine article from: Town and Country Planning
; ...on airports policy, (1) I was sadly reminded of Georges-Jacques Danton's haunting phrase. Admittedly, the context was...and the tumbrils were already rolling, soon to take Danton himself away. But audacity doesn't come amiss in...
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