Traces de France
Pour l’amour du pays, par les yeux du monde
Étiquette : English
illustration : Palais de Noordeinde à la Haye, Pays-Bas, avec la devise « Je maintiendrai » en français
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Milwaukee Art Museum Receives 500 Works by Jules Chéret, ‘Father of the Modern Poster’ | ARTnews
Jules Chéret, the 19th-century designer and lithographer sometimes cited as the “father of the modern poster.
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The Thinker | Legion of Honor
Rodin’s Thinker is perhaps his best known monumental work, first conceived circa 1880–1881
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Paris, New York, London, Dubai: history of the modern art market | The Conversation
Until World War II, Paris remained the leading centre of innovative art in the Western world.
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Paul Cézanne: founding father of modern art | The Guardian
Who parented modern art? Is there a single artist whose work we can look at and say: « That’s where modernism starts »?
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A delayed tribute to France’s most famous woman artist | BBC news
The court painter to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, was the first internationally celebrated woman artist
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Louis Caravaque (Artist, 1685-1752) | Welcome to St. Petersburg!
One of the most successful foreign artists to work in Russia, Louis Caravaque is a shining examples of the Europeanization that Peter the Great sought to bring to his new city
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Jean-Baptiste Lande (Ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, ?-1748) | Welcome to St. Petersburg!
He would influence the course of Russian ballet forever
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Now and Then: French Cultural Influence in Swedish Theatre and the Path of Theatre in Sweden Until Modern Times
The French culture (specifically French theatre) was extremely popular in Sweden in the eighteenth century and this influence sparked the beginning of the downfall of Swedish-language theatre.
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Eiffel Tower, France
By 2002, over 200 million people had made the pilgrimage to Paris’ iconic monument.
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Statue of Liberty (Unesco)
Exécutée à Paris par le sculpteur Bartholdi avec la collaboration de Gustave Eiffel pour la charpente métallique, la statue colossale de la Liberté éclairant le monde fut offerte par la France pour le centenaire de l’indépendance des États-Unis
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Etienne Maurice Falconet | Welcome to St. Petersburg!
Today, Falconet is probably best known as the creator of the Bronze Horseman, the equestrian statue of Peter the Great that is undoubtedly St. Petersburg’s most famous monument
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French art, classic and contemporary, painting and sculpture (W.C Brownelle 1901)
It is this which has made the France of the past three centuries, and especially the France of today — as we get farther and farther away from the great art epochs — both in amount and general excellence of artistic activity, comparable only with the Italy of the Renaissance and the Greece of antiquity.
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French influence on english culture in the second part of the seventeenth century. Aphra Behn as a cretive translator and a Madiator between the two cultures
It is generally acknowledged that there was a profound influence of the French culture on the English Restoration culture
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Revolutions of 1848 | Causes, Summary, & Significance | Britannica.com
After the revolution of February 24 in France, the movement extended throughout the whole of Europe with the exception of Russia, Spain, and the Scandinavian countries.
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The Revolution of 1830 as a European Media Event (EGO | European History Online)
The revolutionary upheaval in Paris in July 1830 served as a signal for further revolutionary movements in other countries
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Revolutions of 1830 – European history | Britannica.com
Liberals throughout Europe were encouraged to hope for a general social revolution
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The Shade of Napoleon | Open Edition Books
The torch which had been taken up by the Germans and Swiss and then passed to the English was now to be carried by the French.
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The Bernadotte Dynasty | Sveriges Kungahus (The Swedish Royal House)
Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was born in 1763 in the city of Pau in southwest France
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Clot-Bey: Founder of Western Medical Practice in Egypt
Clot-Bey died there on August 28, 1868, a commander of the Legion of Honor, with numerous Egyptian and European decorations, and membership in most of the prestigious medical societies of Europe.
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The Measure of All Things (Ken Alder, 2003)
Astonishing tale of one of history’s greatest scientific adventures
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Metrication in other countries
The chart shows the chronology of the advance of metric usage around the world.
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE FRENCH CODE DE PROCÉDURE CIVILE (1806) IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE (C.H. van Rhee 2006)
The number of European jurisdictions where Napoleon’s Code de procédure civile (1806) left its mark, either directly or indirectly, is vast.
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WORLDWIDE INFLUENCE OF THE FRENCH CIVIL CODE OF 1804, ON THE OCCASION OF ITS BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION (Xavier BLANC-JOUVAN, conférence 2004)
Nobody can dispute the immense role this Code has played in the world. It has represented a great moment in the history of peoples and it remains engraved in their memories.
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Why Napoleon merits the title ‘the Great’ | BBC History Magazine
Instead of making specious comparisons with Hitler, we ought to celebrate the Corsican’s astonishing achievements as a general and a ruler, according to Andrew Roberts…
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON GREECE | Ankara Üniversitesi
All aspects of social life in preindependent Greece were profoundly marked by the French Revolution
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The French Revolution’s Influence on Women’s Rights
It is clear the Revolution played a major role in influencing women’s rights for centuries to come.
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How did the French Revolution affect England? | National Trust
The revolution continued to have a strong influence on British society well into the nineteenth century, fuelling public debate about political reform and the role of government
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The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property (Rafe Blaufarb 2016)
The Great Demarcation shows how the revolutionary transformation of Old Regime property helped inaugurate political modernity
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dans 3.1 LA GRANDE NATIONThe Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, by Colin Jones | The Independant
The French did not begin to call themselves the Great Nation until a couple of years before Colin Jones’s story ends. But he believes they deserve the name for the whole of the period from the death of Louis XIV to the advent of Napoleon.
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dans 3.1 LA GRANDE NATIONThe Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (Colin Jones 2002)
Culturally, France was the storm-center of the movement of intellectual and artistic renewal known as the Enlightenment: for most contemporaries, the lumière of this siècle des Lumieres shone from France. In terms of politics and international relations, France remained the power that other states had to take into account, to worry about, to keep if…
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Magna Carta translated into Anglo-Norman French | The British Library
To make Magna Carta readily intelligible to the barons, it was translated into French, their spoken language.
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Simon de Montfort: The turning point for democracy that gets overlooked | BBC Magazine
The January Parliament, which first met on 20 January 1265, is one of the most significant events in British democratic history.
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This is the fascinating reason there are two French phrases on a British passport | The Sun
Brexiteers be warned …the two phrases will still be there when we’ve left the EU
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Magna Carta, de Montfort and the emergence of Parliament (video) | UK Parliament
Professor David Carpenter explains the connection between Magna Carta, Simon de Montfort and how this laid the foundations of our modern Parliament
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What was the legacy of William the Conqueror? | English Heritage Blog
After 1066, Norman French became the language of the court, government and the upper class – and stayed that way for almost three hundred years
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HISTORY OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND (FREEMAN, 1867)
THE Norman Conquest is the great turning-point in the history of the English nation. Since the first settlement of the English in Britain, the introduction of Christianity is the only event which can compare beginning with it in importance