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Professor F. C. de Sumichrast will give the first of four lectures in English on "Versailles," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. His subject tonight will be "The Palace of the Great King." The dates and subjects of the other three lectures are as follows: January 9, "The Household of the King"; January 11, "The State Ceremonials and the Court Festivals"; January 13, "The Passing of the Splendour...
...first lecture Professor de Sumichrast will give a history of the creation of the palace and gardens and the transformations which they have undergone, and in the second lecture will describe the French court, its origin, and the position of the king. The third lecture will deal with the more important receptions and entertainments that have been held at Versailles, and in the last lecture the closing scenes of the monarchy, enacted at Versailles at the beginning of the French Revolution, will be discussed...
Professor F. C. de Sumichrast will deliver the first lecture of the year before the Alliance Francaise of Yale University at 8 o'clock Monday evening in the Lampson Lyceum, New Haven. His subject will be "Les Fetes Republicaines...
Professor de Sumichrast's last lecture on "Paris during the Reign of Terror" was given in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening. The subject was "The Peregrinations of the Guillotine." Professor Sumichrast began by explaining the various ways in which the old monarchical government inflicted the death penalty. The invention of the guillotine, which in some analogous form had already been used in Germany and in Scotland, happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Revolution, and was not a consequence of that movement. But it was certainly singular that the invention should have taken place at that particular time...
...LECTURE. Paris during the Reign of Terror. IV. The Peregrinations of the Guillotine. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor de Sumichrast. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...