Word: xvi
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...neatly arranged—the skulls are stacked neatly with femurs and they make designs and patterns. It seemed like such an overwhelming project, it was hard to put people into its construction. I originally thought I might write a novel about their construction, but the interplay between Louis XVI and Charles Axel-Guillaumont, their designer, was a relationship with a lot of dramatic potential...
...view has been transformed over the last few years by the desperate quest for ratings and readers, leading to the ever greater prevalence of so-called "soft news." This is the principle of finding out what people want to watch and then giving it to them. To paraphrase Louis XVI: There go my readers, I better hurry up and lead them...
...seat performance house, complete with classic, gilded, Louis XVI-style chandeliers, was funded completely by the Carr Foundation. Created in February of 1999, the foundation concentrates on human rights education and the arts...
...seat performance house, complete with classic, gilded, Louis XVI-style chandeliers, was funded completely by the Carr Foundation. Created in February of 1999, the foundation concentrates on human rights education and the arts...
...Champs-Elysees, Paris's widest Grand Boulevard, capped by the Place de la Concorde (where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were guillotined) at one end and the Arc de Triomphe at the other, no longer looks French. Resembling a giant strip mall, it's not even particularly pretty. I believe it has two McDonald's. (And in the esprit d'egalite two Quicks, France's fast food counterpart.) It has a wildly popular Ben & Jerry's, Citibank, Planet Hollywood and even a Chicago Pizza Pie Factory. It's enough to make anyone cheer for Jose Bove. And I did. After...