161 résultats pour "1872"
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Vocabulaire:CONNAISSANT, -ANTE, participe présent et adjectif.
Forme d?riv?e du verbe "conna?tre" conna?tre CONNA?TRE, verbe transitif. I.? Vieilli ou litt?raire. Conna?tre quelqu'un ou quelque chose. Reconna?tre. A.? Reconna?tre, discerner. 1. Reconna?tre la marque de quelqu'un ou de quelque chose. Ils [les hommes] m'ont connue aux bleus stigmates Apparus sur ma pauvre peau (PAUL VAL?RY, Charmes, 1922, page 133 ). ? Au figur?, expression proverbiale. L'arbre se conna?t ? ses fruits. " Une doctrine se juge par ses cons?quences " (Dictionn...
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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...
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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...
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yiddish, littérature.
1927), Joseph Rolnick (1879-1955), Mani-Leib (1883-1953) délaissent les problèmes sociaux alors au centre de nombreuses œuvres yiddish et s’attachent à promouvoir une esthétique de l’art pour l’art et un lyrisme personnel. Issus de ce mouvement, Leivick Halpern, dit H. Leivick (1888-1962), qui tente à travers son œuvre dramatique (le Golem — Der Goïlem, 1921) et poétique d’insuffler aux jeunes générations le refus du désespoir et de la violence, et Joseph Opatoshu (1886- 1954) qui s’illustre...
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Le cordonnier Simon
Pas si méchant que ça!
Edouard Herriot Une incarnation du radicalisme 1872-1957 Au terme d'une carrière de plus de cin quante ans, Edouard Herriot est sans doute l'homme politique le plus repré sentatif de toute une période de l'histoire française. Agrégé des lettres dès 1893, il enseigne à Nantes puis, en 1904, à Lyon. La même année, il soutient une thèse de doctorat sur Madame Réca mier et ses amis. Militant du parti radi cal, il est élu maire de Lyon en...
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Dallas (Texas) - geography.
VI RECREATION Dallas contains more than 400 parks that cover a total of about 20,000 hectares (about 50,000 acres). Notable parks include Marsalis Park, which contains the DallasZoo, and the parks surrounding White Rock Lake, Bachman Lake, and Lake Cliff. City-owned greenbelts parallel White Rock Creek, Turtle Creek, and the Trinity River.Fair Park contains a number of museums, the city aquarium, and the Cotton Bowl stadium (the site of the annual Cotton Bowl college football game), as well as...
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Kolkata - geography.
area, and trains have north-south lines with a few east-west connections. There are two major train terminals: Sealdah in the east central part of Kolkata and Hāoraacross the river from the Central Business District. Electric trams operate in Kolkata proper. The aging buses, trains, and tram cars suffer from overloading, creatinguncomfortable rides. Subway construction started in 1972 and became operational with 7 km (4.3 mi) of line in 1984. By 1995 all of the subway’s 16.4-km (10.2-mi)route fr...
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Impressionism (art)
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INTRODUCTION
Vegetable Garden at the Hermitage, Pontoise
Vegetable Garden at the Hermitage, Pontoise (1879) was painted by the French artist Camille Pissarro.
the Grass; 1863, Musée d’Orsay, Paris), which depicts a nude woman at a woodland picnic. To emphasize the woman’snakedness, Manet not only shows that she has recently disrobed (by painting her clothes in a heap nearby) but alsodepicts her male companions fully clothed. In addition, the woman stares directly and unabashedly at the viewer, makingus feel almost like voyeurs as we gaze back. Manet’s painting style–the flat figures, which look almost like cutouts, andloose brushwork–also bewildered a...
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Tokyo - geography.
The port of Tokyo has expanded tremendously in recent years and is now the second largest in Japan (after Yokohama) in value of trade. In 1993 it accounted forapproximately 14 percent of all trade by Japan’s ports. Reasons for the port’s growth include the deepening of sea lanes in Tokyo Bay, large reclamation projects tocreate room for new facilities and container terminals, and improvements to storage and distribution facilities. The largest categories of exports from the port of Tokyoare mach...
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Wyoming (state) - geography.
The basins, which lie in the rain shadow of mountains, are very dry, with an average annual precipitation of about 250 mm (about 10 in) or less; the Great Plains regionhas an annual average of about 380 mm (about 15 in), and the Black Hills region receives slightly more. Thunderstorms and hailstorms are relatively frequent insummer. The annual snowfall ranges from about 500 mm (about 20 in) in the Bighorn Basin to well over 5,100 mm (over 200 in) in the higher mountains, where annualprecipitatio...
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Wyoming (state) - USA History.
The basins, which lie in the rain shadow of mountains, are very dry, with an average annual precipitation of about 250 mm (about 10 in) or less; the Great Plains regionhas an annual average of about 380 mm (about 15 in), and the Black Hills region receives slightly more. Thunderstorms and hailstorms are relatively frequent insummer. The annual snowfall ranges from about 500 mm (about 20 in) in the Bighorn Basin to well over 5,100 mm (over 200 in) in the higher mountains, where annualprecipitatio...