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...y-five years, she tells me. I’ve had her for fifteen years. Cloux The French call this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think ... ... with colorless, limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He... ...as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French...and all of the arts. When he trims my hair and beard he likes to f... ...oint. Here, in the heart of France, when I am listening to Francesco talk French I am listening to a clever Frenchman. He could speak the language f... .... At lunch, F said: “I lost again at cards last night... I can’t speak French well enough to win. It’s lucky for me that everyone’s leaving here ... ...f some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as ... ...ith a nod or lifted hand. They are masters of military deception, just as politicians are masters of ambiguity. The colonels have their lingo; the m...

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...ing of successful - even brilliant - battles and coalitions with local warlords and politicians which culminated in the liberation of Peru. In 1824,... ...on by one, Dr. James Barlow. The baby was less fortunate. In the meantime, the French obstetrician Baudeloque published a book describing dozen... ... sackecloth and buckram about the skirts with bents covered with fustian, a pair of french bodies of damaske lined with sackcloth, with whales bone... ...ttp://casino.cchs.usyd.edu.au/csd/mig_site/1999_vol15_2/foreign_ac cent_syndrome.htm French Revolution The monarchy was far from absolute prior to th... ... The disaffection cut across class lines. Many noblemen spoke for the commoners. French nobleman Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, for i... ...took less than half a second. More than 40,000 people were guillotined during the French Revolution and in its immediate aftermath (1789-1795). N...

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...ll There's a story about Robespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a ... ...ble goals, no doubt. Yet instability is contagious, a lesson not learn by Serb politicians. Even as the Bosnian uprising was in progress, King ... ... a state within a state (a feat later emulated by the IMRO). Those bureaucrats and politicians not already members of the shady outfit, obeyed its ... ...tion of democratic forces included Croat as well as Serb intellectuals and wannabe politicians. Vladko Macek himself - later, the epitome of Croat ... ...0 "Getting history wrong is an essential part of being a nation." Ernest Renan, French historian "We spent the 1990's worrying about a Greater ... ...ion from tortured slave to vengeful master. 3. Narcissism and Leadership Are all politicians narcissists? The answer, surprisingly, is: not unive... ...faceted activity. Rather, it is a spectrum. At the one end, we find the "actors" - politicians who regard politics as their venue and their conduit... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ...ell There's a story about Robespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a ...

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... Shady Canyon, the most affluent part of Irvine, in a commodious two-story, French-provincial style house with a white-picket fence surrounding the c... ... a country club full of backstabbers, betrayers, traitors otherwise known as politicians and — — anyway, I'm not invited; nor do I want to be. I woul...

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...from you, but the rest, infi nitely the greater number (and especially we French and English), were so far from stooping to so base an example, that ... ...d idiots; by me children grow wiser than their parents, by me beaux become politicians, and schoolboys judges of philosophy; by me sophisters debate a... ...ave to the reader the business of interpreting. On the 1st of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon ball. On the 6th... ...ise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king’s death. On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysen ... ...e hands of his enemies. On the 14th a shameful discovery will be made of a French Jesuit giving poison to a great foreign general; and when he is put ... ... which will make this month memorable to all posterity is the death of the French king, Louis the Four teenth, after a week’s sickness at Marli, whic... ...st of opinion with those who hold religion to have been the in vention of politicians, to keep the lower part of the world in awe by the fear of invi...

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... regard for human rights, in cahoots with venal and sometimes homicidal indigenous politicians. And it drains the developing world of its brains, i... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ...s and its performance. Throughout this time, the envoys of the West - its mediocre politicians, its insatiably ruthless media, its obese tourists, ... ...xpert civil servants but by usurpers, power brokers, interest groups, and criminal-politicians. The Founding Fathers looked to Rome as a model. I... ...e same power for his military expedition in Gaul. To secure popular support, Roman politicians doled out tax cuts, free entertainment, and free foo... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...machinations, Spain and Britain are trying to obstruct the ominous re- emergence of French-German dominance. By catering to popular aversion of Am... ...iled because both it and Russia are biased in favor of the current regime in Iraq. French and Russian firms have signed more than 1700 commercial c... ...eude or to gleefully assume that it has finally succeeded in isolating the insolent French and the somnolent Germans. Public opinion - even where it...

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...philosophy and war, to ask all he encounters, whether workmen in the road or politicians in the street, about their work and trade and the knowledge ... ...ith voice clear and sweet, composing poetry of exquisite beauty and speaking French with practiced tongue. A gifted, smiling soul spreading love and ... ...rate and cricket unequivocal delights. Yet other clubs too she wants to try: French, ballet, tap and IT, singing and chess, and what about pottery? Sh...

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...ire peculiar affective quality it expresses” (Michel Dufrenne). Another Frenchman, the writer Patrick Marcadet states (cf. Anthology) that he was ... ...nse of nonsense as it its programmatic text. Here is the translation from French: NONCONFORMIST MANIFEST For a new literary movement: PARADOXISM... ...l the continents. We can draw the conclusion that, from the range of the French textualism and all the occidental tropism to the dis-ideologization... ...Francois Lyotard). The modern knowledge justifies itself, according to the French aesthetician, through “the plays of language”, that violate any fro... ...mption. Both interventions are a reaction against some greedy and decadent politicians. From politics to personal action, paradoxism has passed with... ...n alert even the duplicity of the anecdotal and epigrammatic spirit of the French language, which gave birth to the poetry of gracious conventions. (...

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...anto, one time body guard to the mob who worked his way up to ce­ lebrities and politicians; and now headed his own so-called secu­ rity company. The... ...hat opened the liquor cabinet and withdrew a bottle of his favorite red wine, a French Merlot. Georgi sat like a stone statue except for his eyes da... ...the pavement. The neighbor­ hood was an enclave of the rich and powerful, mostly politicians and high placed bureaucrats who were wealthy before they... ...ive thousand dollar a year salary was an unbear­ able insult to his private ego. Politicians were stupid and gullible and deserved to be taken advant... ...rters with expert ease. She knew which reporters were friendly or hostile. "Ms. French," Alana said pointing to an elderly, plump, red suited woman ... ...ent asked as they shook hands in that jovial, but artificial way that practiced politicians learn. "Great! Just Great," the Director said pumping Br... ...ou know how it is. Nothing ever changes. Your ass belongs to the President, the Politicians on the Hill, and the Public who wants a piece of it hang... ...s," Taranto said as he moved to the bar and poured himself an aromatic glass of French Merlot '9l. "I have nothing to fear from one whose very exist... ...he big, brass lion's head knocker, a beautiful, raven-haired woman dressed in a French maid's uniform said, "Welcome, Mr. Taranto. Mr. Pierce is exp...

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...formation Technology, Bond University, Australia; Dr. Jean Dezert, ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research), BP 72 F-92322 Chat... ... However, the results by FCM give as if there is no effect by teachers and politicians for the increase in child labor. Actually the increase in scho... ...is, industrialists who practice child labor, are a main source of help to politicians, and their victory/defeat depends on their (financial) support... ...eir victory/defeat depends on their (financial) support so the causes for politicians ignoring child labor is two-fold. Now we seek the opinion of... ...t is in information fusion were he works with Dr. Jean Dezert from ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research in Paris) in creating ...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most importan...

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...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...e King had adopted. But the Marquis could not bring himself to give up the Frenchman’s knee-breeches nor yet the white silk stockings or the buckles a... ...versa- tion, and gave the pair a broadside of her eyes, an art acquired by Frenchwomen since the Peace, when Englishwomen im- ported it into this coun... ...ous commentary in the after-thoughts of either speaker, puts the old-world French chat of men and women, with its pleasant familiarity, its lively eas... ... a fierce ambition stirred up whenever party spirit ran high, these ardent politicians on their promotion were lucid, clear-sighted, and perspicacious... ...ssions to obscure the wider interests of the country; a class of crotchety politicians, up- holding the government one day and opposing it the next, c...

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...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ...e allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting... ...o. I evaded a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I speak French and Italian with incred- ible atrocity, and am an extreme Pacifist. ... ...clination to a dramatic and logical interpretation. The caricatures in the French shops show civilisation (and particularly Marianne) in conflict with... ...” He reflected, and some disagreeable memory darkened his face. “Under the politicians?” he said. I took the train of thought N had set going abroad w...

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...nd, and made my two boys proficient in that art; so much so, that when the French came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his office... ...the common people. I have seen in his very old age and decrepitude the old French King Lewis the Fourteenth, the type and model of kinghood—who never ... ...thanks in the Prayer-Book) who sold his country and who took bribes of the French king. What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exi... ...d then he told her, with respect to the night before, that he un- derstood French, and thanked her for her protection. “Do you?” says she, with a blus... ...the States; and against them, when his Maj- esty made an alliance with the French King. In these cam- paigns Thomas Esmond was more remarked for duell... ... them into revolt and enmity against the natural law of love. I have heard politicians and coffee-house wiseacres talking over the newspaper, and rail...

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...nd in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affecta tion and vice which courts and cit... ...too dearly purchased; and though it hath charms so inexpressible, that the French, perhaps, among other qualities, mean to express this, when they dec... ...in (though the English gentleman of that name is not at all related to the French family, for he is of a much more serious disposition) was always wel... ...to the latter, we often suffer him to fortify and entrench himself, like a French army; so that the learned gentleman finds it very difficult, and som... ...me at the enemy. Nay, sometimes by gaining time the disease applies to the French military politics, and corrupts nature over to his side, and then al... ...d avoid, if possible, treating this matter ludicrously, lest grave men and politicians, whom I know to be offended at a jest, may cry pish at it; but,... ...come one of us weak women, than that wise sex which heaven hath formed for politicians. Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate wi... ... filial affection Logicians sometimes prove too much by an argument, and politicians often overreach themselves in a scheme. Thus The History of Tom... ...with a diversion on that side.’ “This apothecary was one of the greatest politicians of his time. He was more delighted with the most paultry packet...

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...e, was a cameo-like girl with neat black hair done tight and bright in the French mode. She had strangely-drawn eyebrows, and 27 D. H. Lawrence her c... ...w very curious! May we look at it?” Josephine now turned the handle of the French windows, and stepped out. “Beautiful!” they heard her voice exclaim ... ... care isn’t in me. And I’m not going to be forced to it.” The fat, aproned French waiter was hovering near. Josephine let him remove the plates and th... ... She liked him because of his dead-level indifference to his surroundings. French waiters and foreign food—he noticed them in his quick, amiable-looki... ...ying a few days with my wife.” “No, really! I can’t believe it.” Jim had a French wife, who had divorced him, and two children. Now he was paying visi... ...bred gentlemen, and then perhaps, your profiteers and Rothschilds, and ALL politicians, and ending up with the proletariat,” said Argyle. “Then who wo...

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...ll. The town hums to the day’s news, and the bars are crowded with amateur politicians. Some are office-seekers, and earwig king and consul, and compa... ...as of the whites; in practice, they reduce it to a farce. I have heard the French resident in the Marquesas in talk with the French gaoler of Tai-o-ha... ... for a couple of months and be well treated, just as we Germans did to the French chief [Napo- leon III.] some time ago, whom we kept a while and care...

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...ttle slow to observe it, as though she were not yet well accustomed to the French tongue. Mrs Gen- eral, however, observed it for her. ‘Ask him if he ... ...ce. The host needed no translation of the question. He promptly replied in French, ‘No. Not this one.’ ‘Why not?’ the same gentleman asked. ‘Pardon,’ ... ...s house again!’ No one had interfered in the dispute, which was beyond the French colloquial powers of Edward Dorrit, Esquire, and scarcely within the... ...o. I find that I cannot learn. Mrs General is always with us, and we speak French and speak Italian, and she takes pains to form us in many ways. When... ... Italian, and she takes pains to form us in many ways. When I say we speak French and Italian, I mean they do. As for me, I am so slow that I scarcely... ...: ‘I sell anything that commands a price. How do your law- yers live, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange? How do you live? Ho...

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... Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing- room, which opened by French windows on the trim gar- den, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net ... ...- liant causerie dinner clubs of the day, in which successful Bohemianism, politicians, men of affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivated noblemen ge... ...rs to a landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. He seemed to...

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...ith spectacles on nose, conning over the newspapers to a circle of village politicians, explaining mili- tary terms, and aiding the comprehension of h... ...bant, as we said of Jean Drochiels at Mareschal-College; the same whom the French term curtisannes, and we in Scottish—” “The lady will spare you the ...

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... have served both the Portugal and the Spaniard, both the Dutchman and the Frenchman, and have made war on our own account with a crew of jolly fellow... ...at I possessed fully the mighty mystery of a farrier, or mareschal, as the French more honourably term us. These dog-hostlers, who, after all, are the... ...ish nether-stock over the Gascoigne hose, although thou seest how well the French hose set off the leg and knee, being adorned with parti-coloured gar... ...ut- ting her hand to his neck to kittle (i.e., tickle) him, smilingly, the French Ambassador and I standing beside her.”—Melville’s Memoirs, Bannatyne... ...entinel, made up to Leicester, and spoke with him. Varney was one of those politicians whom not the slight- est appearances escape without inquiry . H...