90 résultats pour "1775"
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SIEYES, Emmanuel Joseph, comte, dit l'abbé
(3 mai 1748-20 juin 1836)
Homme politique
Entré sans vocation dans les ordres, il est en 1775 chanoine de Tréguier.
l’empereur le fait comte d’Empire. Régicide, il doit s’exiler lorsque la Restauration se met définitivement en place en 1816, d’autant plus que, pendant les Cent-Jours , il est devenu pair. Ce n’est qu’en 1830, à la chute de Charles X , que son exil prend fin.
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SIEYES, Emmanuel Joseph, comte, dit l'abbé
(3 mai 1748-20 juin 1836)
Homme politique
Entré sans vocation dans les ordres, il est en 1775 chanoine de Tréguier.
l’empereur le fait comte d’Empire. Régicide, il doit s’exiler lorsque la Restauration se met définitivement en place en 1816, d’autant plus que, pendant les Cent-Jours , il est devenu pair. Ce n’est qu’en 1830, à la chute de Charles X , que son exil prend fin.
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Benjamin Franklin.
Copley Medal for distinguished contributions to experimental science. Franklin also exerted a great influence on education in Pennsylvania. In 1749 he wrote thepamphlet Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania; its publication led to the establishment in 1751 of the Academy of Philadelphia, later to become the University of Pennsylvania. The curriculum he suggested departed considerably from the study of the Greek and Roman classics then in vogue. Instead itemphasized Engl...
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Benjamin Franklin - USA History.
Copley Medal for distinguished contributions to experimental science. Franklin also exerted a great influence on education in Pennsylvania. In 1749 he wrote thepamphlet Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania; its publication led to the establishment in 1751 of the Academy of Philadelphia, later to become the University of Pennsylvania. The curriculum he suggested departed considerably from the study of the Greek and Roman classics then in vogue. Instead itemphasized Engl...
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American Revolution.
C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...
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American Revolution - U.
C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...
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LA RÉVOLUTION AMÉRICAINE
La révolution américaine tien du négoce colonial. Celui-ci s'opposa au monopole du commerce extérieur en refusant catégoriquement d'importer des produits britan niques et d'exporter ceux des colonies vers les seuls ports britanniques. Les luttes qui déchiraient le pays, allant jusqu'à l'émeute, trouvèrent leur écho à Londres où l'op position, sous la conduite de William Pitt, dit le Premier Pitt, obtint l'abrogation du droit de timbre en 1766. Le droi...
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Indépendance américaine (guerre de l').
Canada et l'Inde. Les Français s'enthousiasmèrent à la lecture de la Déclaration d'indépendance qui proclamait la souveraineté de la nation ; des officiers, tels que le marquis de La Fayette, le duc de Lauzun, le vicomte de Noailles, le comte de Ségur, allèrent s'enrôler dans l'armée des insurgents, à qui Vergennes faisait parvenir du matériel, des vivres, en particulier par l'intermédiaire de Beaumarchais. La capitulation en rase campagne à Saratoga d'une armée anglaise (octobre 1777) détermi...
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New York (city) - geography.
The Bronx is the fourth largest and the northernmost of the five boroughs, and the only one on the American mainland. Even so, it is surrounded by water on threesides: Long Island Sound on the east, the Harlem and East rivers on the south, and Hudson River on the west. Encompassing 109 sq km (42 sq mi), it had 1,332,650inhabitants in 2000. Largely residential, the Bronx includes dozens of vibrant neighborhoods. Fieldston is particularly elegant, with great stone houses set among spacious lawns a...
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Le Barbier
de Séville ou
coMÉDIE La Précaution inutile (1775>
BEAUMARCHAIS (1732-1799)
L'auteur
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais est né à...
Le Barbier de Séville ou coMÉDIE La Précaution inutile (1775> BEAUMARCHAIS (1732-1799) L'auteur Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais est né à Paris en 1732. D'abord horloger comme son père, il se lance ensuite dans une vie aventureuse. Écrivain à ses heures, il fait jouer en 1775 Le Barbier de Séville, et en 1784, Le Mariage de Figaro. Résumé L'action se déroule à Séville, sous les fenêtres de Rosine au premier acte, et ensuite dans la maison du Docteur Bartholo. - Acte 1 : Le Comte Almaviva...
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libertin, courant - littérature.
(1611-1682), François Payot, sieur de Lignières (1628-1704), l’abbé de Choisy (1644-1724) qui, travesti en femme, prend les noms de Madame des Barres ou de Madame de Sancy, Guillaume Amfrye, hédoniste abbé de Chaulieu, ou encore Charles Sorel. Ce dernier, auteur d’une Histoire comique de Francion à la verve gaillarde, se fait plus audacieux et plus visible socialement, annonçant par là le courant libertin du siècle suivant. Même s’ils se retrouvent sur certaines idées, notamment l’affranchiss...
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Captain James Cook.
After leaving Tahiti, the expedition headed north into uncharted territory. After becoming the first Europeans to sight the Hawaiian Islands (which Cook named theSandwich Islands) in 1778, they sailed along the west coast of Canada and Alaska. Twice Cook explored inlets that offered some promise of a Northwest Passage, but tono avail. After sailing through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Sea and briefly scouting the Asian side of the strait, Cook decided to winter in the Hawaiian Islands. Hein...
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Captain James Cook - explorer.
After leaving Tahiti, the expedition headed north into uncharted territory. After becoming the first Europeans to sight the Hawaiian Islands (which Cook named theSandwich Islands) in 1778, they sailed along the west coast of Canada and Alaska. Twice Cook explored inlets that offered some promise of a Northwest Passage, but tono avail. After sailing through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Sea and briefly scouting the Asian side of the strait, Cook decided to winter in the Hawaiian Islands. Hein...
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Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de
years he also came under the influence of Euler, Fontaine, the Bernouillis and, above all, of the distinguished mathematician and academician, Jean Le Rond D'Alembert , who became his patron. He was elected Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences in 1773, and in 1782 became a member of the French Academy. An enthusiastic supporter and theorist of the Revolution, he played an important role in the drafting of the Déclaration des droits in 1789. Suspected later of being a Girondin, he w...
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Québec (city) - Geography.
rotates between the mayors of small, medium, and core municipalities. The QUC is responsible for zoning, regional development, property valuation, waste disposal, andtourism promotion. City planning and public transit are handled in collaboration with the municipalities. Other municipal functions such as public works, libraries, water,parks, fire and police services, street repair, and traffic control are left to the municipalities. VII CONTEMPORARY ISSUES In recent years the St. Lawrence Rive...
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New York (ville)
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PRÉSENTATION
New York (ville), en anglais New York City, ville du sud-est de l'État de New York, située dans le nord-est des États-Unis, à l'embouchure de l'Hudson, sur l'océan
Atlantique.
Les différents districts de New York sont reliés entre eux par de nombreux ponts et tunnels : Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel entre Manhattanet Brooklyn ; Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, l’un des plus longs ponts suspendus du monde, entre Brooklyn et Staten Island ; Queensboro Bridge entre Manhattan et leQueens ; Triborough Bridge entre Manhattan, le Queens et le Bronx ; enfin, le George Washington Bridge, les tunnels Holland et Lincoln, et la voie Port Authority Trans-Hudso...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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INTRODUCTION
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an 18th-century Austrian classical composer and one of the most famous musicians of all time,
came from a family of musicians that included his father and sister.
The opera, Mitridati, rè di Ponto (Mithridates, King of Pontus), was produced in 1770 in Milan under Mozart’s direction with success. Also that year the pope made Mozart a knight of the Order of the Golden Spur. A Salzburg and Germany From 1775 to 1780 Mozart was based mainly in Salzburg working for the archbishop Hieronymous von Colloredo. Although dissatisfied with the low pay and limitedopportunities his employment offered, Mozart composed many works during this period, including his first...
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Abolitionist Movement.
The American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799), widely seen as revolutions by citizens against oppressive rulers, transformed thisEnlightenment assertion into a call for universal liberty and freedom. The successful slave revolt that began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 was part of this revolutionary age. Led by François Dominique ToussaintLouverture, black rebels overthrew the colonial government, ended slavery in the colony, and in 1804 established th...
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Abolitionist Movement - U.
The American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799), widely seen as revolutions by citizens against oppressive rulers, transformed thisEnlightenment assertion into a call for universal liberty and freedom. The successful slave revolt that began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 was part of this revolutionary age. Led by François Dominique ToussaintLouverture, black rebels overthrew the colonial government, ended slavery in the colony, and in 1804 established th...
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Immigration.
1655, only to lose all of their North American colonies to the British in 1664. These early colonies were often quite cosmopolitan, drawing settlers from many nations.When the English seized New Amsterdam, the city was home to perhaps 1500 residents, including Walloons, Huguenots, Swedes, Dutchmen, and African Americans. C The French and Spanish The French and Spanish also established colonies in North America. The Spanish established the oldest permanent European settlement in Saint Augustine,...
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Immigration - U.
1655, only to lose all of their North American colonies to the British in 1664. These early colonies were often quite cosmopolitan, drawing settlers from many nations.When the English seized New Amsterdam, the city was home to perhaps 1500 residents, including Walloons, Huguenots, Swedes, Dutchmen, and African Americans. C The French and Spanish The French and Spanish also established colonies in North America. The Spanish established the oldest permanent European settlement in Saint Augustine,...
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Barbier acte 2 scène 11 - Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville (1775)
Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville (1775) Rosine aime un jeune comte mais son tuteur Bartholo, qui la tient enfermée, a décidé de l’épouser et surveille la jeune femme. Il a vu que Rosine a laissé tomber un papier par la fenêtre et il la soupçonne d’avoir écrit une nouvelle lettre au Comte, lettre effectivement remise au barbier Figaro. BARTHOLO. — Je voudrais bien savoir ce que ce barbier avait de si pressé à vous dire ? ROSINE. — Faut-il parler sérieusement ? Il m’a rendu compte de l’ét...
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Le théltre italien aux XVII• siècle
et XVIII• siècle
Ferdinando GALIAN 1 (1728-1787).
- 1775 - Socrate lmmaginario.
Lorenzo...
9 Le théltre italien aux XVII• siècle et XVIII• siècle Ferdinando GALIAN 1 (1728-1787). - 1775 - Socrate lmmaginario. Lorenzo DA PONTE (1749-1838) . Livrets d 'opéra pour Mozart. 1787 - Don Giovanni (Don Juan). Le Nozze di Figaro, etc. I - Le XV/Je siècle. a) La tragédie. Federico DELLA VALLE (1560-1628). - 1627 - Judith. - 1627 - Esther. Scozia (La Reine d'lcosse). 1790- Cosi fan tutte. b). La comédie. 1628 - Reina di Guidubaldo BONARELLI (1563-1608), d·Urbin. - 1607 - Fi/li di Seira. Pr...
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Barbier de Séville (le) ou la Précaution inutile de Beaumarchais
BEAUMARCHAIS: LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE OU LA PRECAUTION INUTILE 1732-1799 Pierre-Augustin Caron est né à Paris en 1732 dans une famille d'horlogers modestes mais cultivés. Ayant quitté l'école à treize ans pour s'initier au métier paternel, il va mettre au point unnouveau mécanisme d'horlogerie dont le succès et la renommée qu'il en tire lui ouvrent les portes de la Cour. Astucieux, fin parleur, il va, grâce à sa débrouillardise et à ses multiples talents, connaître une ascension socialerapi...
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MALESHERBES Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de : sa vie et son oeuvre
phique que littéraire, s'organise autour de cinq thèmes, qui correspondent aux dif fé re n tes étapes de sa vie. Directeur de la Librairie, Male sh erbes, confronté aux problèmes posés par la censure, rédige cinq Mémoires sur la librairie (1758). Constatant à la fois l'inefficacité des condamnations du parlement et la complex ité inouïe de la législation, il prône la plus grande tolérance pour la publication des écrits (à l'exception des libelles diffa m...
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BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, dit
(24 janvier 1732-18 mai 1799)
Ecrivain
Monsieur de Beaumarchais n'est ni ce qu'on a cru qu'il fut ni seulement
ce dont on se souvient qu'il a été.
ministre des Affaires étrangères du roi qu’est Vergennes . Fasciné par le désir d’indépendance qui est celui des “ insurgents ” aux Etats-Unis, il fonde en 1778 une compagnie qui leur envoie des secours. Il n’hésite pas à armer une flotte, dont plusieurs navires sont coulés par les Anglais, pour mener à bien son entreprise. Son activité ne cesse pas. Il publie à Kehl, de 1783 à 1790, une édition des œ uvres de Voltaire . En 1775, Le Barbier de Séville a été donné à la Comédie-Française .Le Ma...
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La guerre d'indépendance américaine
• Connu sous le nom de " premier Congrès conti nental », le rassemblement composé de 51 représentants de douze J >,ltJ ......._._ ........_.,.....1_ ' 1 tl } colonies, -toutes sauf la Géorgiese tient à C11rpenters H11ll, à Philadelphie le 5 septembre 1774 . Les congressistes rédigent une Declaration of Rights and Grievances -"Déclaration des droits et des doléances" -qui refuse au Parlement de Londres le droit de taxer les colonies ou de légiférer...
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - écrivain.
des odes. 4 PÉRIODE DE WEIMAR 4. 1 Entre l’expérience et la littérature L’année 1775 marque un tournant dans la vie de Goethe, et donc dans l’histoire de la littérature allemande : cette année-là, Charles-Auguste, héritier du duché de Saxe-Weimar, invite le jeune poète à venir s’établir à Weimar, centre intellectuel et littéraire de l’Allemagne. Goethe accepte et accède ainsi au rang de conseiller de légation du prince. En 1776, Goethe s’installe à Weimar. Il ne quittera plus cette ville jusqu...
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - littérature.
des odes. 4 PÉRIODE DE WEIMAR 4. 1 Entre l’expérience et la littérature L’année 1775 marque un tournant dans la vie de Goethe, et donc dans l’histoire de la littérature allemande : cette année-là, Charles-Auguste, héritier du duché de Saxe-Weimar, invite le jeune poète à venir s’établir à Weimar, centre intellectuel et littéraire de l’Allemagne. Goethe accepte et accède ainsi au rang de conseiller de légation du prince. En 1776, Goethe s’installe à Weimar. Il ne quittera plus cette ville jusqu...
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RÉTIF ou RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE : sa vie et son oeuvre
apparaître comme la lente maturation du futur écrivain, puis l'épanouissement de son destin. Le désir d'écriture est toujours déjà là chez le jeune pâtre, aussi loin que remonte son souvenir, mais, inversement, la formation de l'enfant et de l'adolescent est effacée au profit du surgissement, impérieux et relativement tardif, de sa vocation. Dans la France du xvme siècle finissant, où les droits d'auteur n'existent pas encore mais où les encyclopédis t...
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New York (city) - geography.
Concourse are particularly prized, because the apartment buildings are well kept and the public parks are easily accessible. City Island retains the charm of a small fishingvillage. Parts of the Bronx, however, fell victim to decay and abandonment, especially between 1970 and 1980, when the population of the borough fell by 20 percent. The low pointoccurred in 1976, when future U.S. president Jimmy Carter compared the South Bronx to the bombed-out German city of Dresden after World War II (1939-...
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Ethnic Groups in Canada - Canadian History.
Ontario and the Atlantic provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island). Most of the Irish live in rural areas of NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, and Québec. The Welsh are by far the smallest group among the British Canadians, and they have also settled inthe Atlantic provinces and Ontario. B Culture The language spoken by British Canadians is mostly English, but some Welsh speak their own Celtic language and some Scots, Gae...
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John Adams.
the British authorities. The royal governor, aware of Adams's ability and growing influence, offered him the post of advocate general in the admiralty court. Adams declined the appointment,recognizing it as a bribe to bring him over to the side of the British government. A3 Adams and the Boston Massacre Adams generally supported the popular resistance to the British government, but he did not condone violence or mob action. Adams was greatly disturbed by theBoston Massacre of 1770, an incident...
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John Adams
the British authorities. The royal governor, aware of Adams's ability and growing influence, offered him the post of advocate general in the admiralty court. Adams declined the appointment,recognizing it as a bribe to bring him over to the side of the British government. A3 Adams and the Boston Massacre Adams generally supported the popular resistance to the British government, but he did not condone violence or mob action. Adams was greatly disturbed by theBoston Massacre of 1770, an incident...
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John Adams - U.
the British authorities. The royal governor, aware of Adams's ability and growing influence, offered him the post of advocate general in the admiralty court. Adams declined the appointment,recognizing it as a bribe to bring him over to the side of the British government. A3 Adams and the Boston Massacre Adams generally supported the popular resistance to the British government, but he did not condone violence or mob action. Adams was greatly disturbed by theBoston Massacre of 1770, an incident...
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Industrial Revolution
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INTRODUCTION
Industrial Revolution, widespread replacement of manual labor by machines that began in Britain in the 18th century and is still continuing in some parts of the world.
The most important advance in iron production occurred in 1784 when Englishman Henry Cort invented new techniques for rolling raw iron, a finishing process thatshapes iron into the desired size and form. These advances in metalworking were an important part of industrialization. They enabled iron, which was relativelyinexpensive and abundant, to be used in many new ways, such as building heavy machinery. Iron was well suited for heavy machinery because of its strength anddurability. Because of t...
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Industrial Revolution .
The most important advance in iron production occurred in 1784 when Englishman Henry Cort invented new techniques for rolling raw iron, a finishing process thatshapes iron into the desired size and form. These advances in metalworking were an important part of industrialization. They enabled iron, which was relativelyinexpensive and abundant, to be used in many new ways, such as building heavy machinery. Iron was well suited for heavy machinery because of its strength anddurability. Because of t...
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Latin American Independence.
be inferior and were not permitted a university education. In the lowest caste were the African slaves. As the Spanish monarchy tried to increase its authority, it was hampered by the power of the Catholic Church. The church, including various religious orders, hadacquired great wealth, including large holdings of land, in the colonies. The Jesuit order especially had gained extraordinary wealth and political influence, and it alsocontrolled much of the university and high school education in th...
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American Literature: Poetry
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INTRODUCTION
Phyllis McGinley
American poet and author Phyllis McGinley composed light, witty verse, much of which deals with family life.
Taylor, a poet of great technical skill, wrote powerful meditative poems in which he tested himself morally and sought to identify and root out sinful tendencies. In“God's Determinations Touching His Elect” (written 1680?), one of Taylor’s most important works, he celebrates God's power in the triumph of good over evil in thehuman soul. All of Taylor’s poetry and much of Bradstreet’s served generally personal ends, and their audience often consisted of themselves and their family andclosest frie...