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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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Paris (city, France) - geography.
Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Théâtre de la Ville. Just north of the Hôtel de Ville is the Pompidou Center, also known as Beaubourg, an arts complex devoted to modern and contemporary art and design. The structure,in steel and glass and featuring brightly colored, exposed pipes and ducts, is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers. Itscontroversial pop-art design contrasts sharply with the overall gray hue of the city, and was criticized by many followin...
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Dictionnaire en ligne:
ENGAGER, verbe transitif.
retrouvé, 1922, page 811 ). · [Avec un attribut désignant la qualité nouvelle du contractant ou un complément circonstanciel désignant son affectation] Mon frère qui s'engagea mousse (OCTAVE MIRBEAU, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, 1900, page 100 ). François (...) s'engagea dans la légion étrangère (LOUIS ARAGON, Les Beaux quartiers, 1936, page 20 ). B.— [Le procès vise une obligation morale] 1. [Le sujet désigne une personne; l'objet désigne une personne ou les attributs d'une personne] Lier...
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Richard Bennett.
that had existed since 1920. He used able people from various government departments to write legislation, to negotiate trade agreements, and to act as economicadvisers. He also built up the political and secret work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A Tariff Policy Bennett's tariff policy combined protection for Canadian farmers and manufacturers and special treatment for nations that were members of the British Commonwealth.In 1932, at a Commonwealth economic conference, a series of agree...
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Richard Bennett - Canadian History.
that had existed since 1920. He used able people from various government departments to write legislation, to negotiate trade agreements, and to act as economicadvisers. He also built up the political and secret work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A Tariff Policy Bennett's tariff policy combined protection for Canadian farmers and manufacturers and special treatment for nations that were members of the British Commonwealth.In 1932, at a Commonwealth economic conference, a series of agree...
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La peinture française sous Louis XV (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)
LE SENTIMENT MIS EN SCÈNE LA PASSION DU PORTRAIT • Réservé jusque-là aux seuls grands du royaume, le portrait devient accessible à d'autre s catégories sociales . Nouveaux riches et grands bourgeois continuent à poser comme ils avaient commencé à le faire devant Nicolas de Largillière (1656 -1746). Bientôt , tous ceux qui en ont les moyens veulent accéder à cette forme de consécration. • Au début du siècle , le portrait est encore une peinture de Cour...
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Calgary - Geography.
and other services to new suburbs is the greatest difficulty. VII HISTORY When European explorers first entered southern Alberta in the 1700s, it was chiefly the domain of the indigenous Blackfoot confederacy. The Blackfoot lived by huntingbison (often called buffalo) and other large animals, as their ancestors had done for perhaps 10,000 years. The evidence of this plains region way of life survives atnumerous archaeological sites, such as the nearby Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, now a World...
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United Kingdom - country.
B Natural Regions and Topography The island of Great Britain can be divided into two major natural regions—the highland zone and the lowland zone. The highland zone is an area of high hills andmountains in the north and west. The lowland zone in the south and east consists mostly of rolling plains. The zones are divided by an imaginary line running throughEngland from the River Exe on the southwest coast to the mouth of the River Tees on the northeast coast. The lowland zone has a milder climat...
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Si le « Canada utile » n'occupe qu'un dixième de la superficie,
au sud, sur les rives des Grands Lacs et du Saint-Laurent, là où
vivent les neuf dixièmes de la population, les espaces agricoles,
les villes, les industries qui s'y rassemblent font du pays une
grande puissance.
arc de cercle, se déploie un chapelet de grands lacs, depuis celui de l'Ours jusqu'au lac Ontario. Le bloc des hautes terres offre de grandioses paysages de montagnes avec des pics acérés, des cirques, des auges : les sommets des Rocheuses s'élèvent autour de 3 500 m (mais 3 954 m au mont Robson) ; les chaînes pacifiques ont aussi des glaciers et, sur la côte, des fjords. Sur 2 000 km, les Prairies sont des plaines à très faible pente (1 000 m à Calgary, 300 m à Winnipeg). En Gaspésie et dans le...
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Vocabulaire:
COMPTE, substantif masculin.
marquant son d?but. Compte ? rebours avant le lancement d'une fus?e. 2. Au pluriel. Calculs d'argent. Les bons comptes font les bons amis*. Apr?s avoir fait mes comptes, je trouvai qu'avec ces mille francs, je paierais mes petites dettes et que je serais habill?e ? neuf (JULES FLEURY-HUSSON, DIT CHAMPFLEURY, Les Aventures de Mademoiselle Mariette, 1853, page 173 ). B.? Proverbes. 1. ? tout bon compte revenir. " On doit toujours ?tre re?u ? recommencer le calcul fait avec le plus de soin, e...
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From Hamlet - anthology.
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shapeThat I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet,King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me!Let me not burst in ignorance, but tellWhy thy canonized bones, hearséd in death,Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchreWherein we saw thee quietly interredHath oped his ponderous and marble jawsTo cast thee up again. What may this meanThat thou, dead corse, again in complete...
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Définition du terme:
DAME1, DAM2, substantif féminin et interjection.
française, tome 2, 1817, page 228 ). Dame de compagnie. Le bon neveu René chambellan du prince Louis, sa femme dame de compagnie de la princesse, etc. (AURORE DUPIN, BARONNE DUDEVANT, DITE GEORGE SAND, Histoire de ma vie, tome 2, 1855, page 81 ). Dame d'honneur. Première dame de la suite de la souveraine et des princesses royales. Il [l'empereur] nous a nommé quelques- unes des personnes qu'on lui avait proposées pour dames d'honneur : la princesse de Vaudémont; une Mme. de la Rochefoucauld (EMM...
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Définition du terme:
DAME1, DAM2, substantif féminin et interjection.
française, tome 2, 1817, page 228 ). Dame de compagnie. Le bon neveu René chambellan du prince Louis, sa femme dame de compagnie de la princesse, etc. (AURORE DUPIN, BARONNE DUDEVANT, DITE GEORGE SAND, Histoire de ma vie, tome 2, 1855, page 81 ). Dame d'honneur. Première dame de la suite de la souveraine et des princesses royales. Il [l'empereur] nous a nommé quelques- unes des personnes qu'on lui avait proposées pour dames d'honneur : la princesse de Vaudémont; une Mme. de la Rochefoucauld (EMM...
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À l'extrémité occidentale de l'Eurasie, la France occupe une
position charnière entre l'Europe du Nord et l'Europe du Sud.
Géographie Les conditions naturelles Ni le relief, ni les sols, ni les conditions climatiques n'ont été des obstacles au peuplement et au développement économique. La France n'a certes pas de climat qui permette plusieurs récoltes par an, ni de delta particulièrement fertile, mais elle ne connaît aucun facteur physique trop contraignant, n'est pas affectée d'une grande probabilité de risques naturels majeurs, et bénéficie par ailleurs d'une grande diversité de terroirs. L'évolution géolog...
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Intro du droit
A la différence du pharaon en Egypte, le roi n’est pas exceptionnellement divinisé. Il n’est pas un dieu mais juste un représentant . Le choix du roi est cependant inspiré par les dieux. Il reçoit des dieux le trône, le sceptre, la couronne. A partir de là, la législation est réputée avoir une origine divine . La Mésopotamie a fourni un nombre considérable de documents ; en effet, 400 mille documents juridiques sont conservés à l’heure actuelle dans les musées, et ce sur une périod...
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HISTOIRE ET LITTÉRATURE
merveilleux pour réconcilier la cohérence du témoignage avec celle de l'ordre admis. L'objectivité s'en trouve paradoxalement renforcée, puisque la fonction du récit est alors d'intégrer l'extraordinaire au champ du normal, et la subjectivité y trouve accréditation, en ce qu'elle atteste l'exceptionnel. Mais ce type de synthèse entre les cadres de la représenta tion du monde fondés sur le dogme et les surprises de 1' expérience ne conserve guère crédit au-de...
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historia teatro
death, judgement, heaven, and hell - perilously familiar. The cycles stress the goodness and the grace of God, but they also point to his awesome power and the justice of his purposes. They trace the history of the divine will from the fall of Lucifer, through the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, to Christ's acts of redemption. They end with a calculated bang as God's 'for-thoght' is fulfilled in the ending of 'all erthely thyng'. English theatre had its formal beginnings in the L...
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France - country.
In both the Paris and Aquitaine basins, fertile soils derived from limestone and wind-deposited dust, called loess, have supported prosperous agriculture since ancienttimes. Other lowlands in France are scattered and relatively small. They include the Alsace Plain in the east, bordering Germany, the valley of the Rhône River in thesoutheast, and the Languedoc Plain along the Mediterranean coast. A2 Uplands France contains several regions of uplands, the worn down remains of ancient mountain sys...
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Couverture de l'Atlantique(seconde guerre mondiale).
Couverture de l'Atlantique Il Achèvement Au début de la guerre, les difficultés éprouvées par la Royal Navy pour établir une couverture aérienne continue dans l'Atlantique furent de trois ordres. En 1918, la marine avait perdu son aviation au profit de la Royal Air Force et, bien qu'en 1937 la Royal Navy pût disposer souverainement d'un certain nombre d'appareils, les mauvaises habitudes de l'entre-deux-guerres prolongèrent leurs effets bi...
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Spain - country.
B Natural Resources Spain has a number of mineral resources. The largest known deposits are of iron ore, zinc, and lead. Spain also produces significant quantities of copper and mercury.These deposits are mined mainly in Huelva province in southwestern Spain, around Cartagena on the Mediterranean, and at various points along the Bay of Biscay inthe north. Additionally, uranium is mined in the region of Extremadura, near the Portuguese frontier, where pyrites, fluorspar, gypsum, tungsten, and po...
- Le siècle de Louis XIV
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Royaume-Uni.
les principales ressources énergétiques de l’Union européenne, avec d’énormes gisements de houille, exploités depuis trois cents ans, le pétrole et le gaz naturel du secteurbritannique de la mer du Nord, au large de l’Écosse et de l’Angleterre. Les gisements de charbon du centre-nord de l’Angleterre, du pays de Galles et de l’Écosse, et les gisements de minerai de fer de la zone des Pennines ont joué un rôleimportant dans le développement industriel du pays. Le charbon et le fer ont déterminé la...
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VIGNY Alfred Victor, comte de : sa vie et son oeuvre
cela me rendait sombre et pensif ». Les résultats scolaires traduisent les désarrois et les incertitudes du jeune gar çon. Excellent élève, il néglige rapidement son travail, puis quitte la pension à treize ans pour passer sous la direction très libre d'un précepteur, J'abbé Gaillard, qui, tout en respectant ses goûts, l'encourage à lire énormé ment, lui fait traduire Homère en anglais et lui communi que sa passion pour les mathématiques. De cette ép...
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Le roi, source de toute justice ?
en place d'une Révolution française souhaitant abolir la présence envahissante d'une monarchie absolue.
- Religion Et Pouvoir En France De 1559 À 1610 (François Ier)
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Louise de La Vallière, première maîtresse en titre de Louis XIV
Billets doux et escapades En juillet 1661, la romance a mûri, tel un fruit savoureux de l'été, au fil de promenades bu coliques lors des séjours de la Cour à Fontainebleau, Saint Germain-en -Laye et Vincen nes, et des échanges de billets doux . Les amoureux s'écrivent en vers, mais, comme chacun d 'eux craint de décevoir l'autre par la pauvreté de ses rimes , ils recourent également aux services d'un poète patenté...
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Middle Ages .
Saints were very important in Late Antiquity. They were considered both models of virtue and powerful miracle workers. One of the most well-known saints of the periodwas Saint Anthony. Anthony gave away all his possessions and left his hometown in Egypt to live alone in the desert and pray. Anthony was one of the first Christianmonks. The word monk comes from a term meaning 'alone.' Gradually Anthony attracted followers, and he eventually became the center of a whole community of monks who wis...
- Contexte tous les matins du monde
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Metropolitan Museum of Art.
B Ancient Near Eastern Art The objects in this department range from a vast geographical area in southwest Asia and northeast Africa from around 5000 BC to around AD 600. Notable works include Assyrian reliefs from the palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at Calah (now Nimrud, Iraq), Sumerian sculpture, Anatolian ivories, Iranian bronzes, and Achaemenidand Sassanian works in silver and gold. C Arms and Armor This department is renowned for its collection of European armor from the Middle Ages (5t...
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New Jersey - geography.
C Soils Broadly defined, all of New Jersey’s soils are podzolic soils; that is, they are acidic and contain fairly high amounts of iron oxides. The soils in northern New Jersey areirregular in quality and contain rock fragments and small stones deposited by the continental glaciers of the last Ice Age. The soils of the inner coastal plain, unaffectedby glaciation, are the richest in the state, while those of the outer coastal plain are generally infertile. The newer soil classification system d...
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New Jersey - USA History.
C Soils Broadly defined, all of New Jersey’s soils are podzolic soils; that is, they are acidic and contain fairly high amounts of iron oxides. The soils in northern New Jersey areirregular in quality and contain rock fragments and small stones deposited by the continental glaciers of the last Ice Age. The soils of the inner coastal plain, unaffectedby glaciation, are the richest in the state, while those of the outer coastal plain are generally infertile. The newer soil classification system d...
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Denmark - country.
forests, which cover just 11.6 percent of the country, include conifers (mainly fir, spruce, larch, and pine), beech, oak, birch, and ash. Several varieties of ferns andmosses common to the northern European mainland are also found. Wild animals are scarce. Natural animal life is limited to deer and small animals such as foxes,squirrels, hares, wild ducks, pheasants, and partridges. Numerous species of freshwater fish live in Denmark’s streams and lakes. F Environmental Issues Considered highly...
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Massachusetts - geography.
mi). Other large artificial lakes include Wachusett Reservoir, East Brimfield Reservoir, and Cobble Mountain Reservoir. Assawompsett Pond, covering about 10 sq km(about 4 sq mi), is the largest natural lake. North Watuppa Pond and Long Pond are other large natural lakes. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, near Webster, is usuallycalled Webster Lake, because the Algonquian name is difficult to pronounce and spell. The full version of the Native American name is said to be the longest place-namein North Amer...
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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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La Provence et le Comtat Venaissin: Entre des comtes attirés par l'Italie et l'empreinte papale, deux provinces aux mutiples capitales
LA PRÉSENCE CATALANG-ARAGONAISE • En 1113, Douce de Provence et Gévaudan fait donation de toutes ses terres à son mari Raimond Béranger Ill, comte de Barcelone. • Le Xli' siècle est troublé pendant vingt ans (1142-1 162) par les guerres incessantes menées par Raimond, comte de Baux, puis par son fils Hughes, qui cherchent à concurrencer les Catalans. • À partir de 1209, les seigneurs provençaux s'affranchissent de la discipline du roi Alfonse. La...
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Portraiture
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Portraiture, visual representation of individual people, distinguished by references to the subject's character, social position, wealth, or profession.
CaracallaCaracalla is a Roman portrait bust in marble of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, probably done circa ad 215. Theson of Septimius Severus, Caracalla (as he was known) was a brutal man whose qualities come through in this piece withits dramatic realism. The bust, which is now in the Louvre, Paris, evidently served as the inspiration for Michelangelo’sbust of Brutus more than one thousand years later.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York The first representations of identifiable ind...
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Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland - geographie.
Wild lebende Großsäugetiere sind Rothirsche und Rehe sowie die eingebürgerten Damhirsche, Sikahirsche, Wasserrehe und Muntjaks (die beiden letzteren in Südengland).Die früher heimischen Wölfe und Wildschweine wurden ausgerottet. In Exmoor, auf den Shetland-Inseln und im New Forest gibt es halbwilde Ponys. Insgesamt entsprichtdie Säugetierfauna Großbritanniens weitgehend derjenigen Mitteleuropas. Das Eichhörnchen wird durch das ausgesetzte nordamerikanische Grauhörnchen verdrängt. InSüdengland le...
- Suger, Vie de Louis VII (extrait)
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Maya Civilization.
destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...
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Maya Civilization - History.
destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...
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Buddhism.
Although never actually denying the existence of the gods, Buddhism denies them any special role. Their lives in heaven are long and pleasurable, but they are in thesame predicament as other creatures, being subject eventually to death and further rebirth in lower states of existence. They are not creators of the universe or incontrol of human destiny, and Buddhism denies the value of prayer and sacrifice to them. Of the possible modes of rebirth, human existence is preferable, because thedeitie...
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Canada.
Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...
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Canada - country.
Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...
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Canada - Canadian History.
Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...
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American Westward Movement - U.
British expansion. However, Native Americans of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley lashed out against the English in an attempt to preserve their independence, theirland, and their way of life. With the Ottawa chief Pontiac as their most visible leader, the tribes waged a bloody and costly war. As a result, the British governmentdecided to keep the white settlers apart from the Native Americans. It issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, banning all white settlement beyond the Appalachians andstatin...
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Canadian Literature
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Canadian Literature, literature of the peoples of Canada.
William Henry DrummondPoet William Henry Drummond described the lives of French Canadian farmers, loggers, and rural workers in verse thatreflected their mix of French and English speech. He gained recognition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Library of Congress In the early 19th century, most Canadian poetry imitated earlier British poetry. Poets Oliver Goldsmith (grandnephew of the Anglo-Irish writer of the same name),Charles Sangster, Charles Mair, and Levi Adams exemplified literary...
- La royauté homérique