Word: renan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensibility of the Romantics, their rebellion and sense of technical experiment, their awareness of living in a tragic age. The generation which reconciled these opposites was that of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Dostoevsky, of Whitman, Melville and Ruskin, of Edmond de Goncourt and Matthew Arnold, to which one might add Renan and Turgenev ... all these artists reach...
Freely entered into by nations that still retain their own sovereignty, the regional leagues may finally fit the description of the great French historian, Ernest Renan, who maintained that a viable nation is a daily plebiscite of its people...