The classical model: literature and knowledge in seventeenth-century France.

Peasant revolt was clearly not a new phenomenon in late eighteenth-century France: the fourteenth-century saw the Jacquerie in the Oise Valley, the sixteenth-century saw the and the seventeenth-century Croquants rebellions.

The Art of Japanning developed in seventeenth-century Britain, France, Italy, and the Low Countries.

If one looked at the culture of seventeenth-century France, one saw a reflection of an organized ballet that was choreographed beautifully, costumed appropriately, and performed with perfect precision.

André Félibien and Roger de Piles, author of Dialogue sur les coloris ( Paris, 1673 ) " were and are the best-known writers on fine arts in seventeenth-century France ".

The tureen as a piece of tableware called a pot à oille — a Catalan-Provençal soup — came into use in the later seventeenth-century France.

He wanted to dispel the seventeenth-century notion of metamorphosis — the idea that different life stages of an insect ( e. g. caterpillar and butterfly ) represent different individuals or a sudden change from one type of animal to another.

It derived from " feodal " which was used in seventeenth-century French legal treatises ( 1614 ) and translated into English legal treatises as " feodal government ".

In the seventeenth century it was in England that Machiavelli's ideas were most substantially developed and adapted, and that republicanism came once more to life ; and out of seventeenth-century English republicanism there were to emerge in the next century not only a theme of English political and historical reflection-of the writings of the Bolingbroke circle and of Gibbon and of early parliamentary radicals-but a stimulus to the Enlightenment in Scotland, on the Continent, and in America.

Historian Knud Haakonssen has noted that in the eighteenth century, Cumberland was commonly placed alongside Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf " in the triumvirate of seventeenth-century founders of the ' modern ' school of natural law.

" Alchemy was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and Gottfried Leibniz.

His farm, called the " Bouwerij " – the seventeenth-century Dutch word for farm – was the source for the name of the Manhattan street The Bowery, and the chapel facing Bouwerie's long approach road ( now Stuyvesant Street ) became St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.

Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684 ) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo.

The area was settled by Indian tribes ( specifically the Potawatomi ) hundreds of years before the French reached the area for the first time in the late seventeenth-century.

The chief agent of that transformation was surely Macaulay, aided, of course, by the receding relevance of seventeenth-century conflicts to contemporary politics, as the power of the crown waned further, and the civil disabilities of Catholics and Dissenters were removed by legislation.

To accommodate the king, the grand seventeenth-century Town Hall of Amsterdam, prime example of the republican values that were prevalent for so long in the Netherlands, was converted into a Royal Palace.

The site was first illustrated by the seventeenth-century antiquarian John Aubrey, whose notes, in the form of his Monumenta Britannica, were published by Dorset Publishing Co. between 1680 and 1682.

According to a better-known source, a seventeenth-century account by Dutchman Jeremias Van Vliet, a ' renowned legend ' stated that Ramatibodi was an ethnic Chinese, having sailed down from China.

In the early twentieth century, a High Church group among the Fellows were instrumental in the rebuilding and enlargement of the chapel, which was provided with a richly carved interior in late seventeenth-century style, designed by T. H.

Pascal's Wager ( also known as Pascal's Gambit ) is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, Blaise Pascal.

In 1945, Sturla Gudlaugsson, a specialist in Dutch seventeenth-century painting and iconography and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Mauritshuis in The Hague, wrote The Comedians in the work of Jan Steen and his Contemporaries, which revealed that a major influence on Jan Steen's work was the guild of the Rhetoricians or Rederijkers and their theatrical endeavors.

He is regarded as an ideological successor of Olof Rudbeckius, a seventeenth-century professor of medicine who claimed that Sweden was the true location of the sunken Atlantis.

Sidney's influence on political thought in eighteenth-century Britain and Colonial America was probably second only to that of John Locke among seventeenth-century political theorists.

Richard Jobson was a seventeenth-century English explorer.

Furthermore, Burrow argues that the ' metaphysical poets ' conceit was an attempt by twentieth-century writers to impose a ' high Anglican and royalist literary history ' on seventeenth-century English poetry.

First, a brick extension hid the house's seventeenth-century facade, while ornate stonework and balustrading was added.

He was attracted to this last town because it was at one time the home of Richard Baxter, a seventeenth-century Calvinist minister whom Gronniosaw much admired.

He is said to have been inexact in dealing with the ancients and that he had only a superficial knowledge of the Middle Ages, but he was excellent in his analysis of seventeenth-century writers.

He claimed that his memory was ' not tenacious ' by seventeenth-century standards, but from the early 1640s he kept thorough ( if haphazard ) notes of observations in natural philosophy, his friends ' ideas, and antiquities.

Of particular note is the Flemish infection at Fontainebleau that combined the eroticism of the French style with a precursor of the vanitas tradition that would dominate seventeenth-century Netherlandish and Flemish painting.

In Belgium, a strong French architectural influence is evident in the seventeenth-century Château des Comtes de Marchin and the eighteenth-century Château de Seneffe.

Under Louis XIII's minister Richelieu, the independent Académie française came under state supervision and became an official organ of control over the French language and seventeenth-century literature.

It is a biography of Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé, a worldly seventeenth-century French aristocrat who withdrew from society to become the founder of the Trappist order of monks.

Anticipating the seventeenth-century French writer Jean de Santeul's well-known phrase " castigat ridendo mores ", Gil Vicente became famous for his satirical plays such as the " Triologia das Barcas " (" Auto da Barca do Inferno " ( 1517 ), " Auto da Barca do Purgatório " ( 1518 ); " Auto da Barca da Glória " ( 1518 )).

The French preachers of the classical seventeenth-century period were, according to Voltaire, probably the greatest in pulpit oratory of all time.

Meissonier became known as the French Metsu, a reference to the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Gabriel Metsu, who specialised in miniature scenes of bourgeois domestic life ; " grandiose history paintings did not sell as readily as smaller canvases such as landscapes or portraits, which fitted more easily onto the walls of Paris apartments ".

The genus, originally spelled Plumeria, is named in honor of the seventeenth-century French botanist Charles Plumier, who traveled to the New World documenting many plant and animal species.

Bénichou first achieved prominence in 1948 with Morales du grand siècle, his work on the social context of the French seventeenth-century classics.

Most seventeenth-century French silver tureens were melted down to finance the wars of Louis ' late years and may be glimpsed only in paintings.

In the early seventeenth-century, when the first French explorers and missionaries visited the western edge of Lake Ontario, they found the region populated by native people, who were referred to as the Neutral Nation because of their neutrality in the disputes between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Huron.

* Urbain Grandier, seventeenth-century French priest, who was tried and burned at the stake for witchcraft.