179 résultats pour "1840"

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DISPOSÉ, -ÉE, participe passé et adjectif.

  chose). Être dans de bonnes/mauvaises dispositions (à son égard). M. Julien, qui était fort mal disposé pour vous (JULES FLEURY-HUSSON, DIT CHAMPFLEURY, Les Bourgeois de Molinchart, 1855, page 236 ). Il [Costals] se trouvait disposé pour la chasse (HENRI DE MONTHERLANT, Les Lépreuses, 1939, page 1507) : Ø 5. L'éloignement, la mésintelligence et l'aigreur mutuels allaient toujours croissant; nous étions fort mal disposés les uns et les autres. EMMANUEL DIEUDONNÉ, COMTE DE LAS CASES, Le Mémorial...

• Et cependant, pour celui-ci, Boulogne ne sera pas à terme une si mauvaise affaire.

  vertu dumême principe quecelui surlequel vousavezposé laroyauté d'aujourd'hui. » Tout étaitdit. Cela nepouvait évidemment serviràgrand-chose. LouisNapoléon devaitêtrecondamné; ille fut. Dumoins eut-il lasatisfaction deconstater queprès delamoitié despairs s'était abstenue. Lesautres s'étaient résolusà innover dansledomaine juridique, eninventant pourLouis Napoléon lapeine deladétention perpétuelle en forteresse. Le 7octobre, leregistre d'écroudufort deHam, danslaSomme, nonloindes limites del'Ais...

• roumaine, littérature.

  6 MOUVEMENT JUNIMISTE Le groupe de la Junimea (« jeunesse ») s’inscrivit en réaction contre l’influence prépondérante de la littérature occidentale. Son représentant le plus marquant fut Titu Liviu Maiorescu (1840-1917), théoricien du renouveau littéraire roumain, influencé par les courants esthétiques allemands, qui dirigea la revue Convorbi Literare et publia la poésie de son ami Mihai Eminescu. Personnalité tourmentée, considéré comme le plus grand poète roumain, Eminescu laissa une œuvre...

• Définition: ANGE, substantif masculin.

  l'autre par la caducit? de son corps. ?TIENNE GILSON, L'Esprit de la philosophie m?di?vale, tome 2, 1932, page 11. ? Ange de lumi?re, ange du ciel, ange fid?le, saint ange, bon ange, ange blanc. Ange rest? fid?le ? Dieu. C'est aussi " l'un des noms de Satan?: " Car Satan lui-m?me se d?guise en ange de lumi?re. " (Paul, II Corinthiens 11, 14). " (Dictionnaire du diable et de la d?monologie (JULIEN TONDREAU, ROLAND VILLENEUVE) 1968). ? Ange d?chu, ange rebelle, ange de(s) t?n?bres, ange...

• Définition et usage du mot: BATTE1, substantif féminin.

  312784 c) [Avec l'expression du résultat]— [La visée ou le résultat sont exprimés par un complément circonstanciel]ART MILITAIRE.· Battre (un mur, une enceinte fortifiée, etc.) en brèche. Attaquer avecl'artillerie ou un bélier pour ouvrir une brèche. Au figuré. Ruiner, détruire : Ø 7.... il se demandait si, après tout, Aurore ne se marierait pas quelque matin. Cette conclusion vint battre en brèche tous les projets résultant de lalogique de son amour,... JOSEPH ARTHUR COMTE DE GOBINEAU, Les Pléi...

• Définition et usage du mot: BATTRE1, verbe.

  312797 matin. Cette conclusion vint battre en brèche tous les projets résultant de lalogique de son amour,... JOSEPH ARTHUR COMTE DE GOBINEAU, Les Pléiades, 1874, page 261. Ø 8. En outre, bien qu'il n'en parlât pas, il comptait que la foule des petits pays battrait en brèche les positions des puissances « colonialistes » etassurerait aux États-Unis une vaste clientèle politique et économique. CHARLES DE GAULLE, Mémoires de guerre, 1959, page 199. Vieux. Battre en ruine. Même sens :Ø 9.... je dis...

• Définition du terme: CRITIQUE2, adjectif.

  dans l'oeuvre ne relève pas de l'intelligence critique (FRANÇOIS MAURIAC, Mémoires intérieurs, 1959, page 108 ). B.— [En parlant d'activités d'ordre intellectuel] Qui implique l'examen objectif, raisonné auquel on soumet quelqu'un ou quelque chose en vue de discerner ses mérites et défauts, ses qualités et imperfections. 1. [En parlant des facultés de jugement et de discernement d'une personne dans un domaine intellectuel, littéraire ou scientifique] Attitude, jugement, opinion critique. Dans le...

• Communism

  access to, resources, but the underlying principle is quite similar. Rather than freeing some or even all people in a society to devote themselves to a higher cause, secular communism is designed to allow everyone to pursue personal fulfilment. It may best be characterized by a slogan adopted by Marx that appears to have been first published on the title page of Cabet's Voyage en Icarie (1840): ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' . In other words, each pers...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DROIT3, substantif masculin.

  étudier le droit; faire son droit. B.— [Généralement avec déterminant] 1. Domaines extra-juridique. Ensemble de droits (infra II). a) [Le déterminant désigne le détenteur du droit] Une autorité sans merci, sans entrailles, sans notion aucune du droit humain (AURORE DUPIN, BARONNE DUDEVANT, DITE GEORGE SAND, Histoire de ma vie, tome 2, 1855, page 399 ). Confer aussi affirmer exemple 2 : Ø 4. Comte (...) comprenait que sa religion était d'abord une sociolâtrie et qu'elle supposait le réalisme pol...

• Balzac, Honoré de - écrivain.

  Au tournant de 1830, Balzac a trouvé la nouvelle formule romanesque, celle du roman de mœurs contemporaines, capable de fondre et de transcender les acquis techniques ou stylistiques de ses essais de jeunesse. Sous le titre de « Scènes de la vie privée », il réunit des ensembles de textes, reposant sur des drames secrets dont les causes sont dans l’opposition des caractères et des intérêts et dont les batailles sont des procès, parmi lesquels on retiendra Gobseck et Une double famill e (183...

• BALZAC Honoré de : sa vie et son oeuvre

  d'un homme toujours attentif à la densité et au jaillisse­ ment du réel. De fait, deux formes d'imagination se dis­ tinguent chez Balzac. L'une échafaude théories trompeu­ ses et entreprises plus ou moins chimériques (fondation d'ép hémères revues parisiennes, exploitation d'une mine argentifère en Sicile, culture des ananas à Ville­ d' Avray); l'autre, féconde et active, perce les secrets et donne vie à l'œuvre d'art. De cette lutte avec l'imagina­ ti...

• Charles Dickens.

  The Old Curiosity Shop broke hearts across Britain and North America when it first appeared. Later readers, however, have found it excessively sentimental, especially the pathos surrounding the death of its child-heroine Little Nell. Dickens’s next two works proved less popular with the public. Barnaby Rudge, Dickens’s first historical novel, revolves around anti-Catholic riots that broke out in London in 1780. The events in Martin Chuzzlewit become a vehicle for the novel’s theme: selfishne...

• Native American Art I INTRODUCTION Native American Art, the visual works crafted by indigenous people of North America, starting after their arrival on the continent thousands of years ago and continuing until the present.

  artists in the Ohio area cut delicate flat forms from sheets of mica in the shape of birds, human figures, and large hands. They also carved quite natural-looking birdsand animals on stone platform pipes. These figures sat on the pipe’s flat base, or platform, and on some pipes they were part of the pipe bowl. Prominent people ofthese cultures were buried with a wealth of ornaments, such as jewelry of shells and copper, and headdresses elaborated with animal forms. The period of Mississippian cu...

• Définition et usage: FAUX1, FAUSSE1, adjectif, adverbe et substantif.

  page 200 ).Qui ne perçoit pas les sons exactement. Oreille fausse. L'ouïe est quelquefois originairement fausse, soit que les deux oreilles n'entendent point à l'unisson (...) soitque dans (...) chacune d'elles (...) il se trouve des causes communes de discordance (PIERRE CABANIS. Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme, tome 1,1808, page 435 ).· Par analogie. Voix fausse, rire faux. Désagréable à entendre comme une note fausse. Sa voix fausse, tantôt haute, tantôt basse, procédait par brusq...

• Définition et usage: FAUX1, FAUSSE1, adjectif, adverbe et substantif.

  page 200 ).Qui ne perçoit pas les sons exactement. Oreille fausse. L'ouïe est quelquefois originairement fausse, soit que les deux oreilles n'entendent point à l'unisson (...) soitque dans (...) chacune d'elles (...) il se trouve des causes communes de discordance (PIERRE CABANIS. Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme, tome 1,1808, page 435 ).· Par analogie. Voix fausse, rire faux. Désagréable à entendre comme une note fausse. Sa voix fausse, tantôt haute, tantôt basse, procédait par brusq...

• Philadelphia (city, Pennsylvania) - geography.

  national trend of migration from eastern cities to the warmer climate of the Sun Belt. Whereas in 1950 Philadelphia contained more than 2 million people and ranked as the third largest city in America, the city's population plunged to 1,517,550 by 2000.In 2006, the city's population was estimated at 1,448,394. While the city proper was decreasing in population, the metropolitan area centered on Philadelphia grew. In 2006 the region had 6.2 million inhabitants. Philadelphiaranked as the nation’s...

• London (England) - geography.

  In the northern part of the West End is Bloomsbury, the city’s traditional intellectual center, with its concentration of bookshops and homes of writers and academics. Inthe early 20th century a number of famous writers, critics, and artists who lived here became known as the Bloomsbury Group. Here, too, is the British Museum, one ofLondon’s chief tourist attractions. Nearby is the giant complex of the University of London, whose various colleges and departments have taken over much ofBloomsbury...

• Boston - geography.

  The neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton occupy the northwest corner of the city to the west of Fenway. The Allston-Brighton area is bordered to the east, north, andwest by the Charles River and to the south by the Massachusetts Turnpike and the town of Brookline. It is an industrial and residential neighborhood that is also thelocation of Boston College and Harvard University Business School. Boston has been unsuccessful in annexing Brookline, the birthplace of U.S. president John F.Kennedy an...

• French Canadian Nationalism - Canadian History.

  The revolution ended in independence for the Americans, who named their new country the United States of America. In the aftermath, thousands of people who hadopposed the American Revolution migrated from what was now the United States to British North America. These people, known as the United Empire Loyalists, settledin the Maritimes, where they greatly increased the British majority over the Acadians, and in Québec. Some settled near francophone communities around Montréal andin the Eastern T...

• Ireland - country.

  F Plants and Animals Ireland’s animal life does not differ markedly from that of England or France. Over many centuries of human settlement almost all of Ireland’s natural woodlands werecleared, and indigenous animals such as bear, wolf, wildcat, beaver, wild cattle, and the giant Irish deer (a type of fallow deer) gradually disappeared. However, thehardy and versatile Connemara pony, Ireland’s only native pony breed, has been used by Irish farmers since prehistoric times. The great auk, or gar...

• Montana - geography.

  (191 sq mi), is Montana’s largest lake, and the largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous states west of the Mississippi River. C Climate Climatic regions in Montana coincide roughly with the two major physiographic regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend tobe milder while summers are cooler. Precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year in the west, and it is cloudier and somewhat more humid in all seasons.In addition, the grow...

• Montana - USA History.

  (191 sq mi), is Montana’s largest lake, and the largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous states west of the Mississippi River. C Climate Climatic regions in Montana coincide roughly with the two major physiographic regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend tobe milder while summers are cooler. Precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year in the west, and it is cloudier and somewhat more humid in all seasons.In addition, the grow...

• Abraham Lincoln I INTRODUCTION Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th president of the United States (1861-1865) and one of the great leaders in American history.

  fence in 4 hectares (10 acres) to grow corn. Then he hired out to neighbors, helping them to split rails. That year, Lincoln attended a political rally and was persuaded tospeak on behalf of a local candidate. It was his first political speech. A witness recalled that Lincoln “was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of theday.” In 1831 Lincoln made a second trip to New Orleans. He was hired, along with his stepbrother and a cousin, by Denton Offutt, a Kentucky trader and specul...

• Abraham Lincoln.

  fence in 4 hectares (10 acres) to grow corn. Then he hired out to neighbors, helping them to split rails. That year, Lincoln attended a political rally and was persuaded tospeak on behalf of a local candidate. It was his first political speech. A witness recalled that Lincoln “was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of theday.” In 1831 Lincoln made a second trip to New Orleans. He was hired, along with his stepbrother and a cousin, by Denton Offutt, a Kentucky trader and specul...

• Abraham Lincoln

  fence in 4 hectares (10 acres) to grow corn. Then he hired out to neighbors, helping them to split rails. That year, Lincoln attended a political rally and was persuaded tospeak on behalf of a local candidate. It was his first political speech. A witness recalled that Lincoln “was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of theday.” In 1831 Lincoln made a second trip to New Orleans. He was hired, along with his stepbrother and a cousin, by Denton Offutt, a Kentucky trader and specul...

• Abraham Lincoln - USA History.

  fence in 4 hectares (10 acres) to grow corn. Then he hired out to neighbors, helping them to split rails. That year, Lincoln attended a political rally and was persuaded tospeak on behalf of a local candidate. It was his first political speech. A witness recalled that Lincoln “was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of theday.” In 1831 Lincoln made a second trip to New Orleans. He was hired, along with his stepbrother and a cousin, by Denton Offutt, a Kentucky trader and specul...

• Amerikanische Literatur (Sprache & Litteratur).

  toleranten Aufklärers Kritik sowohl am Christentum wie auch am Atheismus, wobei ersteres heftige Reaktionen von Seiten des amerikanischen Publikums nach sich zog.Äußerst stark rezipiert hingegen wurde die gegen England gerichtete Satire M’Fingal (1775-1782) des Rechtsgelehrten und Dichters John Trumbull. Politisch engagierte Lyrik schrieb auch der vielseitig interessierte Dichter Philip Morin Freneau, dessen allegorisches Gedicht The House of Night (1779) Merkmale der in der Romantik verbrei...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...