Word: franco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...declining, although twenty or thirty years ago it was still very powerful. So powerful in fact, that when in 1848 Prince Louis Napoleon was nominated for the Presidency of the Republic, the mere magic of his name was sufficient to give him an overwhelming majority. The results of the Franco-German war, however, have greatly dimmed the lustre of the French arms under Napoleon, and many of the present French Republicans are exceedingly bitter towards the First Consul, charging that he took France with the boundaries of the French Revolution, and left it with the boundaries...
...oldest of Boston's art stores, is that of Williams & Everett; here can be seen three pictures owned by a Boston gentleman, who is said to have paid $25.000 for them. The largest one is a characteristic sketch by Detaille, a group of soldiers, a scene in the late Franco-Prussian war. The first feature that one remarks in the picture is the beautiful play of light. Although the coloring does not affect one favorably, yet the fine draughting and grouping of the figures show the masterhand of the man, who, with De Neuville, leads this branch of the French...