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The goal of the Annales was to undo the work of the Sorbonnistes, to turn French historians away from the narrowly political and diplomatic toward the new vistas in social and economic history.
After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.
* 2007 – René Rémond, French historian and political economist ( b. 1918 )
Also as Salieri aged he moved slowly away from his more liberal political stances as he saw the enlightened reform of Joseph II's reign, and the hoped for reforms of the French revolution, replaced with more radical revolutionary ideas.
As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.
" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.
Earlier French demands for the country to hold a National Conference resulted in the gathering of 750 delegates representing political parties ( which were legalized in 1992 ), the government, trade unions and the army to discuss the creation of a pluralist democratic regime.
Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).
French political cartoon from the late 1890s.
With Mahoré continuing to gravitate politically and economically toward France, and Comoros increasingly dependent on the French for help with its own considerable social, political, and economic problems, the issue of Mahoré diminished somewhat in urgency.
In Belgium, where there are separate Dutch speaking and French speaking parties for each political grouping, coalition cabinets of up to six parties are quite common.
Later on, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this French revolutionary principle – though not of course its specific way to identify the “ general will ” – percolated into first Socialist and then Fascist political thinking.
The first established use of the term in a political context was by François-René de Chateaubriand in 1819, following the French Revolution.
The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).
Modern Nationalism, as developed especially since the French Revolution, has made the distinction between " language " and " dialect " an issue of great political importance.
The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was already weak when the French Revolution and the ensuing Napoleonic Wars altered the political map of Central Europe.
As can be seen in the texts, the French declaration is heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment, and by Enlightenment principles of human rights, some of which it shares with the U. S. Declaration of Independence which preceded it ( 4 July 1776 ).
A French translation of Chambers ' work inspired the Encyclopédie, perhaps the most famous early encyclopedia, notable for its scope, the quality of some contributions, and its political and cultural impact in the years leading up to the French revolution.
In a similar way to the moderate parties, the French far right in general is naturally opposed to the EU, as they criticize France's loss of political and economic sovereignty to a supra-national entity.
Internal political upheaval eventually led to 23 years of nearly continuous conflict in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Social, political, and economic upheaval in the wake of the conflict led to the Second World War, in which the Allies were defeated in the Battle of France and the French government surrendered and was replaced with an authoritarian regime.
* 1799 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor ( b. 1733 )

French and cartoon
Other cartoon hippos have included Hanna-Barbera's Peter Potamus, the book and TV series George and Martha, Flavio and Marita on the Animaniacs, Pat of the French duo Pat et Stanley, The Backyardigan's Tasha, and Gloria and Moto-Moto from the Madagascar franchise.
In 1898 the French tire manufacturer Michelin introduced the Michelin Man, a cartoon figure presented in many different contexts, such as eating, drinking and playing sports.
In the mid-1990s there was a humorous French cartoon called Robinson Sucroe.
In 1983 a French cartoon version was made, called Le Secret des sélénites.
Takahata was originally intrigued by animation after having seen the French animated cartoon feature Le Roi et l ' oiseau ( The King and the Mockingbird ) based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
The only theatrical short subject cartoon series produced by Hanna Barbera after they left MGM and formed their own studio, Loopy de Loop is cast as a tuque-topped, kind-hearted wolf who speaks with a bad French Canadian accent, and whose kind-hearted attempts to assist almost always ended up by being rejected by those he sought to help-or something slightly worse.
The cartoon image of stolid, stocky, conservative and well-meaning John Bull, dressed like an English country squire, sometimes explicitly contrasted with the conventionalised scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank.
Image: GillrayBritannia. jpg | In this 1793 British cartoon by James Gillray, who was deeply hostile to the French Revolution, a Phrygian cap substitutes for Scylla on the dangerous rocky shore, as Britannia's boat navigates between Scylla and Charybdis.
Charles-Émile Reynaud ( 8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918 ) was a French science teacher, responsible for the first projected animated cartoon films.
The cartoon image is a parody of: Image: Fryne przed areopagiem. jpg | Phryne before the Areopagus, an 1861 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
DuckTales was also known as La Bande à Picsou in the French NES version, after the popular TV program of the same name ( the French version of the DuckTales cartoon ).
Perhaps even more illustrative of glocalization: For promotions in France, the restaurant chain recently chose to replace its familiar Ronald McDonald mascot with Asterix the Gaul, a popular French cartoon character.
Pat Harrington, Jr., provided the voice ( and voiceover narration ) for the Inspector and, with the exception of one cartoon, his assistant, a Spanish gendarme named Deux-Deux ( common nickname in French for Eduard or Eduardo ).
* The Magic Roundabout A dub parody of a French children's cartoon that gained a cult following ( 1964-1971 ).
*-one ,-ona, found also in several English loanwords from Italian: minestrone (< minestra ' soup '); provolone cheese (< provola ' ewe '); cartone (< carta ' paper ') appears in English carton and cartoon ; ballone (< possibly from balla ' ball ', but perhaps a French formation being the proper Italian word " palla ");
* The Tex Avery cartoon The Flea Circus ( MGM, 1954 ) featured a French flea circus that broke up when they saw a dog and attacked it, and one flea, Francois ( voiced by Bill Thompson ), who played a sad clown, hitches with the star flea, Fifi, and has enough fleas together to bring the flea circus back to life.
In the cartoon, Cheburashka and Gena have their adventures made more difficult by a character named " Старуха Шапокляк " ( Old Lady Shapoklyak, from French chapeau claque, a kind of top hat ).
French postcard from the First World War era showing a caricature of Kaiser William II, German Emperor | Wilhelm II attempting to devour the world ; this French version was based on an Italian cartoon
* 2003 – Voice of animated characters for " Devil Costume " cartoon by French Boxing Productions
Zeroman was a Canadian animated television series that aired on the Canadian cartoon network Teletoon ( in English ) and on Télétoon ( in French ).

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