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Waxing Revolutionary: Reflections on a Raid on a Waxworks at the Outbreak of the French Revolution [PDF]

, 2002
[First paragraph] Parisians from all walks of life were already accustomed to watching heads roll before the Revolution of 1789. This is not a reference to public executions of the time (beheadings were reserved for the nobility and were rare events ...
McCallam, D.
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The Representation of Petrarch in the Eighteenth-century Encyclopédie

Humanist Studies & The Digital Age, 2011
The colossal project of the Encyclopédie (1751-1772), directed by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, aimed to create, as Voltaire contends, “a repository of all sciences and arts,” therefore establishing itself as the point of reference for ...
Ana-Maria M'Enesti
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Regional Signifiers and the Many Locations of the ‘Land Between the Rivers’ [PDF]

, 2018
Rune RattenborgConfiguring Mesopotamia: Regional Signifiers and the Many Locationsof the ‘Land Between the Rivers’SummaryIt seems a travesty to reiterate exactly what we mean by ‘Meso-potamia’.
Rattenborg, Rune
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Considerazioni sui lettori di Montesquieu (XVIII-XX secolo)

Montesquieu.it, 2009
This article in meant to bring a contribution to the study of the penetration of Montesquieu’s ideas and theories starting from Montesquieu e i suoi interpreti (a cura di D. Felice, 2 tt., Pisa, ETS, 2005).
Piero Venturelli
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nagy operette 3 felvonásban - írta Rajna Ferencz - zenéjét szerzette Czobor Károly. [PDF]

, 1904
Városi Színház. Debreczen, kedd, 1904. évi április hó 26-án.
Makó Lajos (1854-1908) (színházigazgató)
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Un’eruzione retorica: studio dell’ipotiposi nella letteratura catastrofica dei Caraibi francofoni [PDF]

, 2016
Hypotyposis is a figure of speech which often appears in written descriptions of natural disasters (e.g. in Voltaire’s Poem on the Lisbon disaster, 1756).
Vignoli, Alessia
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Passioni dell’anima ed espressioni del volto: una storia “cartesiana” della compassione in Francia (Descartes, Charles Le Brun e gli enciclopedisti)

Noctua
The article revisits some of the theories of compassion developed in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries under the influence of Cartesian philosophy and Descartes’ writings. It begins with an examination of Descartes’ philosophy, which
Mariafranca Spallanzani
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Natural Rights, Constituent Power, and the Stain of Constitutionalism

The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 4, Page 864-893, July 2024.
The power to make constitutions (the so‐called constituent power) is predominantly understood today as a legally unlimited power belonging to the people. This understanding sits uncomfortably with constitutionalism: the idea that public powers are legally limited.
Raffael N. Fasel
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Les arts poétiques en France au XVIIIe siècle [PDF]

, 1990
L'auteur définit les positions fondamentales de l'esthétique de Boileau comme «ouverture» et négation du système normatif (néoaristotélicien). L'incompréhension de cette esthétique et sa confusion avec une poétique normative à la La Harpe aboutirait à ...
Becq, Annie
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Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 112-129, March 2024.
Abstract The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might that embrace inform the construction of transgender history?
Onni Gust
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