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Danton, Georges Jacques (1759–1794)
Georges Jacques Danton was a lawyer, a gifted orator, and an influential revolutionary leader during ...
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Debord, Guy (1931–1994) and the spectacle
Guy Ernest Debord was a self-described filmmaker, agitator, activist, author, artist, and the most famous ...
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Despard, Colonel Edward Marcus (1751–1803) and the Despard Conspiracy
Edward Marcus Despard was hanged in 1803 for plotting to assassinate George III of England. He was an ...
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Denis Diderot, a central figure of the great ideological revolution known as the Enlightenment , was ...
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer who, in the 1890s, was the victim of anti-Semitism ...
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The Edict of Nantes, dated April 30, 1598, was the legislative act that marked the end of the Wars of ...
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte was a coup d'état that overthrew the five-man governing ...
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Enlightenment, France, 18th century
Ideas associated with the eighteenth-century Enlightenment – secularism and anti-clericalism, turning ...
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The Estates General was a French parliamentary body created in 1302 that served primarily to approve ...
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Protest and revolution are ubiquitous themes in French cinema, particularly in view of the legacy of ...
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