Word: anti-jacobin
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...type. He was too fascinated by the specific to do that. But some of his portraits have become stand-ins for classes of people, especially for the triumphant upper middle class of 19th century France. One example is his unforgettable image of Louis-Francois Bertin (1832), the anti-Jacobin journalist who had survived exile and the disapproval of Napoleon to become, during the reign of Louis-Philippe, a press lord--the owner of an influential newspaper, the Journal des debats. His belly strains against the confines of a wrinkled waistcoat; he leans slightly forward, fixing you with a sharply assessing...
...Concorde. Local governments in western France helped raise funds for a $7 million movie called Vent de Galerne, which opened last month, about the republican army's savage repression of peasant rebels in the Vendee. In Lyons a historical society is tracing the descendants of 3,000 executed in anti-Jacobin uprisings. "The bicentennial is more an occasion for mourning than for celebration," says philosopher Jean-Marie Benoist, a former adviser to Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Asks Sorbonne historian Pierre Chaunu: "Why should we celebrate a failure...
Modern Language Conference. Papers: The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. Mr. C. Cestre.- Notes on Fletcher's "Faithful Shepherdess." Mr. H. A. Eaton. Sever...
Modern Language Conference. Papers: The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. Mr. C. Cestre.- Notes on Fletcher's "Faithful Shepherdess." Mr. H. A. Eaton. Sever...
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