Word: jacobins
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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...
...poverty and despair spread, the ranks of those with nothing to lose will probably swell to dangerous proportions. "People are playing parlor games here in Jakarta. No one is really speaking for the people out there," says the Western diplomat. "This is going to be the Jacobin revolution that we haven't seen yet. This is the dangerous part. It's going to be bloody...