Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...France, England and Germany architecture closely followed the Italian model. Step by step in France the stony fortresses gave place to the chateaux. But Frenchmen, refusing to accept Italian ideas in their entirety, adapted them to their own use. The grand houses of the time of the Valois are full of suggestion, and many of them form the models of houses of today. With the age of Louis XIV. grace and caprice in building take the place of gravity and severity...
TUTORING IN FRENCH-Lessons given by a native Frenchmen who has a very good knowledge of English, either at his residence, 1,504 Washington street, Boston, or at the students' rooms. References from Professor F. C. de Sumichrast...
...special charm and power of the effect I am calling attention to, and it is for this that the Celt's sensibility gives him a peculiar aptitude. But Europe tends constantly to become more and more one community, and we tend to become Europeans instead of merely Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, so whatever aptitude or felicity one people imparts into spiritual work, gets imitated by the others, and thus tends to become the common property of all. Therefore anything so beautiful and attractive as the natural magic I am speaking of, is sure, nowadays, if it appears in the productions...
...himself to circumstances and he is always good humored. He has no prejudices but is thoroughly cosmopolitan. For this reason his pictures are always true to life. We have in his work no slips like that Doret made when in a painting he filled the streets of London with Frenchmen. Reinhart seems always to catch the characteristic feature of his subject and he invariably makes it very easy to recognize just what he means...
...University." There are only four articles but these are thorough and excellent treatments of subjects full of interest to a thoughtful reader. The leading article is "Renan," by II. Gardiner. It is a long and systematic treatment of the life and works of this, perhaps the greatest of modern Frenchmen. The article gives a short biographical sketch of Renan tracing step by step the development of his ideas and opinions, giving even the hasty reader a clear notion of who Renan was, what position he held in the hearts of his people, and making plain what a great and wonderful...