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LECTURE. "The Classical Symptoms of Hysteria." XIII. Dr. Pierre Janet. Harvard Medical School, Boston, 8 P. M. Open to teachers and students of medical schools in Boston, to members of the medical profession, and to teachers of psychology...
...needs of the king and his ever-growing court. He pointed out that the palace of Versailles, as it exists at the present day, is the outcome of successive transformations and additions, the first royal residence on the site having been the hunting-lodge erected by Louis XIII. This was added to by his son, who used it for a similar purpose, and who had the architect, Le Vau, add largely to the accommodations and change it into a residence worthy of the sovereign of a rich and powerful nation. Later Mansart set to work in his turn, and increased...
...Pope Leo XIII, in 1891, issued an encyclical on "The Condition of Workingmen," which gave Catholics a basis for social action. Encouraged by this, a few priests and laymen, including M. de Mun, formed a sort of socialist party called the "Democrates chretiens." The bishops and the Holy See feared the outcome of this party's tendencies, and it failed to gain political power because the more radical democrats had a repugnance toward the church...
...principal aim of Leo XIII was to obtain religious peace and convince Europe that there need be no antagonism between the church and modern society. Even in 1843-46, while nuncio in Brussels, he saw that constitutional liberty was not opposed to the rights and interests of the church...
...XIII succeeded, except in France, where tradition bound the clergy to the monarchical party. He tried to break the bonds by engaging Catholics to accept the Republic...