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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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau gramatólogo [PDF]

, 2009
An analysis about Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s contribution to the theory of writing and the grammatology. This analysis contains a systematic comparison of the rousseaunian ideas about the language and the writing with another theories of the 17th (Arnauld ...
Jesús Camarero
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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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Deux géologues français en Nouvelle-Hollande (Australie) Louis Depuch et Charles Bailly, membres de l’expédition Baudin (1801-1803)

Bulletin de la Sabix, 2022
L'expedition scientifique francaise, sous le commandement du capitaine Baudin, visita l'Australie entre 1801 et 1803. Parmi les savants, il y avait Louis Depuch (1774-1803) et Charles Bailly (1777-1844), les premiers geologues a etudier l geologie le ...
W. Mayer
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Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe [PDF]

, 2006
Why do great powers expand? Offensive realist John Mearsheimer claims that states wage an eternal struggle for power, and that those strong enough to seek regional hegemony nearly always do.
Rendall, Matthew
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Potatoes and the Hispanic enlightenment [PDF]

, 2018
Among the new publications tempting Spanish readers in 1785, alongside a comedy about jealous women, a how-to manual on forensic surgery, and a 600-page translation of the rulings of the Council of Trent, was a modest pamphlet about potatoes.
Earle, Rebecca
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Le fruit de nos entrailles : la maternité dans les écrits des nobles toulousaines du siècle des Lumières [PDF]

, 2010
International audienceA partir des livres de raison et des correspondances privées des toulousaines du siècle des Lumières, cet article retrace les représentations de la grossesse et de l'enfantement et l'encadrement médical à la disposition de ces ...
Hanafi, Nahema
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Baretti voyageur [PDF]

, 2000
En 1760, Giuseppe Baretti part de Londres, sa ville d’adoption, à destination de Gênes. Plein de curiosité, il consigne en outre ses impressions. L’auteur note, parfois au jour le jour, les caractéristiques et les particularismes des pays, régions ...
Talin, Christian
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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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