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- Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...ember 13]], [[1592]]) was an influential [[France|French]] [[Renaissance]] writer, generally consider...
6: ...Bordeaux]]. His mother, Antoniette de Lopez, came from a Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised...
8: ...g at the Bordeaux Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de...
16: ...ce, respected both by the Catholic [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry o...
18: ...one]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, par...
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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...d independent discovery. Such theories have grown from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples...
7: ...d with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period o...
14: ... fields or in productive activity, they were then free to engage in the assemblies of Athens, and spen...
31: ... has been used in different forms by philosophers from Descartes forward.
33: ...rge set of syllogisms. The memorization proceeded from diagrams, or learning a key sentence, with the ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]])
58: *[[1923]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] businessman... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] branch of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that br...
5: ...the time, but who would become King [[Henry II of France]].
7: ...proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to see his grandchildren b...
11: ...r the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|...
13: ...e or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ...]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[1705]]) was a French [[author]], and patron of the arts.
4: ... an early age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten ye...
8: ... her accountant, a nine-year old named [[Voltaire|Fran篩s Marie Arouet]] so he could buy books.
10: ...56 at the behest of [[Anne of Austria]], Queen of France and regent for her son [[Louis XIV]]. Not lon...
14: ...r she would become a close friend with the devout Fran篩se d'Aubigne, better known as [[Madame de Mai... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n origin.
4: ...ar [[Moscow]], and passed her childhood between [[France]] and [[Russia]]. In [[1909]], her family mov...
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Begonia (2934 bytes)
15: ...wo to four branched or twisted [[stigma]]s. The [[fruit]] is a winged capsule containing numerous minu...
17: The genus is named after [[Michel Begon]], a French patron of [[botany]].
21: ...nts should be stored in a dry place secure from [[frost]]; they are increased by late summer and autum... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...he [[shawm]]. The word "oboe" is derived from the French word ''hautbois'', meaning "high wood". It is...
11: The oboe first appeared in French courts around [[1650]]. In the [[17th century...
13: ... The commonly accepted range for the oboe extends from B♭3 to A6, nearly three octaves. In the ...
17: ...anesby]]. The range for the Baroque oboe extends from C4 to E♭6.
19: [[Image:Oboe.png|left|framed|border width=0|Classical Oboe]] - Shawm (725 bytes)
1: ...]] of the [[woodwind]] family, made in [[Europe]] from the late [[13th century]] until the [[17th cent...
5: ...e shawm in the mid-17th century when the [[France|French]] [[musician]]s [[Jean Hotteterre]] and [[Mic... - Tuba (3116 bytes)
15: ...gher (in Bb;) than the BBb; contrabass tuba. The "French tuba" corresponds to the tenor tuba, but is p...
17: Tubas generally can have from three to six valves though some exceptions exis...
23: Tubas have been used in [[jazz]] from the music's beginning. In the earliest years, b... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
23: | [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]], [[Armenian l...
66: ...word "Lebanon" (also "Loubnan" or "Lebnan") comes from the [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] word ''laban''...
73: ...e provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]].
77: ...try gained independence in [[1943]], and [[France|French]] troops withdrew in [[1946]].
78: Lebanon's history from independence has been marked by alternating per... - Republic of the Congo (9324 bytes)
7: ...= Unit鬠Travail, Progres <br> ([[French language|French]]: Unity, Work, Progress) |
10: official_languages = [[French language|French]] |
35: established_dates = From [[France]] <br> [[15 August]], [[1960]] |
36: currency = [[CFA franc]] |
47: ...inea]]. Upon independence in [[1960]], the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
37: Its name is from the [[Lakota#The_Dakota|Dakota people's]] name ...
54: Much of the state was purchased from [[France]] as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], alth...
59: ...e [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] people, a mixed French and Native American culture, were a presence ...
61: Modern [[immigrant]]s have come from all over the world in recent decades, with [[Hm...
63: ...with the early Scandinavian immigrants. Families frequently own or share [[cabin]]s on central and no... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
1: [[Image:ClaudeMonet.jpg|right|frame|Claude Monet]]
2: ... [[1840]] – [[December 5]], [[1926]]) was a French [[impressionism|impressionist]] painter.
4: Monet was born in [[Paris|Paris, France]], but his family moved to [[Le Havre]] in [[...
8: ...e-Auguste Renoir]], [[Frederic Bazille]], and [[Alfred Sisley]]. Together they shared new approaches t...
12: During the [[Franco-Prussian War]] ([[1870]] – [[1871]]), M... - Government (12596 bytes)
9: ...oth meanings, whereas [[French in Canada|Canadian French]] also generally uses it to mean the executiv...
21: ...ning support and legitimacy include providing [[infrastructure]] for [[justice]], [[administration]], ...
56: ...ille]] - [[John Stuart Mill]] - [[Karl Marx]] - [[Friedrich Engels]] - [[Max Weber]] - [[Vladimir Leni...
59: *[[David Friedman]] - [[Noam Chomsky]] - [[John Rawls]] - [[J...
103: ...ting machine]] - [[Voting rights]] - [[Women's suffrage]] - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
11: **[[Francesco Foscari]]
15: **[[Francesco Sforza]]
22: **[[Catherine de Medici]] Queen of France
28: **[[Francis I of France]]
29: **[[Francis, Duke of Guise]] of France - Anthropology (23191 bytes)
1: ...ait that traditionally distinguished anthropology from other humanistic disciplines is an emphasis on ...
18: ...y atomized and dispersed. As [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] observed in the [[1840s]]:
20: ...up indigenous raw material but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products a...
24: ...eums alongside European art while artifacts from Africa or Native North American cultures were display...
26: ...ties passed through a single evolutionary process from the most primitive to most advanced. Non-Europe... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris...
10: | [[President of France]]
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[...
40: ...|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}}...
42: ...ism]], which left a major influence in subsequent French politics.
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