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Theatre du Nouveau Monde
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Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac
Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac , 1619-55, French novelist. Satirizing the customs and beliefs of his time, he wrote two fantastic romances about visits to the moon and sun— L' Autre Monde; ou, Les Estats et empires de la lune (1657) and Les Estats et empires du soleil (1662); these usually... Read more |
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Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils)
Alexandre Dumas known as Dumas fils , 1824-95, French dramatist and novelist, illegitimate son of Dumas Père. He was the chief creator of the 19th-century comedy of manners. His first important play, La Dame aux camélias (1852, tr. 1856), known in English as Camille, was a... Read more |
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Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace
Pierre Simon Laplace, marquis de , 1749-1827, French astronomer and mathematician. At 18 he went to Paris, proved his gift for mathematical analysis to Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and was made professor of mathematics in the École militaire of Paris. He had a seat in the senate (1799) and became... Read more |
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Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud , 1892-1974, French composer. Milhaud studied at the Paris Conservatory. In Brazil (1917-19) as an aide to Paul Claudel , poet and French minister to Brazil, he became acquainted with Brazilian folk music. Upon his return to France, he became one of the group known as Les Six .... Read more |
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Ludwig Mond
Ludwig Mond 1839-1909, chemist; father of Alfred Moritz Mond. He was born in Germany and became a naturalized British subject. Mond experimented with alkalies and also developed a producer gas known by his name. He was cofounder and director of Brunner-Mond (1872), which became the world's largest... Read more |
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Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset (Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) , 1810-57, French romantic poet, dramatist, and fiction writer. His first collection of poems, Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie (1829), exhibited a strong Byronic influence. Four years later he went to Italy with George Sand, but his infatuation with... Read more |
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Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis Antoine de Bougainville , 1729-1811, French navigator. He accompanied Montcalm to Canada as aide-de-camp, and he later (c.1764) established a colony on the Falkland Islands but had to surrender the settlement to Spain (1766). Accompanied by naturalists and astronomers, he made a voyage around... Read more |
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Alfred Moritz Mond 1st Baron Melchett
Mond, Alfred, 1st Baron Melchett (1868–1930). Industrialist and politician. Son of a German Jew who came to Britain in 1862 and built up a large chemical firm, Mond began as a lawyer but moved into the family business, which, in 1926, became the nucleus of ICI. An advocate of the advantages... Read more |
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World-System
World-System WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS BIBLIOGRAPHY The great French historian Fernand Braudel coined the term économie-monde (world-economy). The hyphen is important; it signifies that he did not mean that his “economy” covered the whole world, merely that it was effectively... Read more |
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