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GOING GOTH.(Bibliotheqye Thiers on the Right Bank exhibit)
; ...artists that opens at the Bibliotheque Thiers on the Right Bank tonight and runs through...residence of 19th-century French president Adolphe Thiers, is smack in the heart of what was the...around the corner from the Bibliotheque Thiers. There's a real Romantic strain in the...
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Flaming bitumen: romancing the Algerian war.
; ...History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, a bestseller published in ten volumes...chaos. The scene is a sly parody of Thiers's preface, in which the historian...and teach us to understand them. Thiers advises the younger historian not...
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Anniversaries
; ...Deaths: Robert Greene, playwright, 1592; Sir Edward Coke, lawyer, 1634; Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, 1658; Louis-Adolphe Thiers, former President of France, 1877; Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, playwright, 1883; Edvard Benes, president of Czechoslovakia...
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New York: Two Lasting Impressionists
; ...painted when the sitter was in his thirties. It depicts a humble Cezanne flankd by famous contemporaries -- statesman Adolphe Thiers and painter Gustave Courbet -- who appear to be shouting encouragements at the young artist. Two 1877 landscapes depicting...
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The third French Republic 1871-1914: Alan Farmer shows how the Republic survived the threat from the Right before the First World War. (Talking Points).
; ...continued to exist, largely by default. In 1872, Louis Adolphe Thiers, `Chief of the Executive Power', declared himself in...This incensed the monarchists and in 1873 they forced Thiers to resign. By then the monarchists' position was weakening...
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The Paris Commune.
; ...elected National Assembly, which had a royalist majority, was far away in Bordeaux. The government it appointed, led by Adolphe Thiers, intended to assert its authority over Paris. The Montmartre expedition was the outcome. It led to one of the most...
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VISUAL ART: What did English painting ever do for France? Constable to Delacroix, Tate Britain LONDON
; ...man for Napoleon. Little wonder that the journalist, Adolphe Thiers, should have come away from the 1824 Salon with the...which case you're likely to be disappointed because - Thiers and Delecluze notwithstanding - that isn't how history...
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The Relationship of Religious Practice to Linguistic Culture: Language, Religion, and Education in Alsace and the Roussillon, 1860-1890.
; ...democratic. The government of the Third Republic was quasidemocratic, first directed by the old Orleanist politician Adolphe Thiers, then by the monarchist general President Patrice MacMahon, and finally presided over by the revolutionary democrat...
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Two tales of modernity and its discontents.(Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History, Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914)(Book Review)
; ...of the growth of historical awareness, he sometimes refers to formal historical narratives such as those written by Adolphe Thiers, Francois-Auguste Mignet, or Prosper de Barante. Liberal historians strained mightily to impose structure, pattern...
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Lehning, James R. To Be a Citizen: the Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic.(Book Review)
; ...Lehning approaches this issue by comparing four public ceremonies that took place between 1877 and 1885-the funerals of Adolphe Thiers, Leon Gambetta, and Victor Hugo, and the first celebration of the fete nationale (Bastille Day) on July 14, 1880...
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