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Parisians and though
His fame in the eyes of Parisians would not last long though.

Parisians and was
He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians.
Around 2000, the artist's squats movement was exposed in the medias, and quite popular ( as they chose to occupy empty public-owned buildings mainly, at a time when middle-class Parisians could not afford skyrocketing prices for renting a decent flat ).
Known as Modì, which translates as ' cursed ' ( maudit ), by many Parisians, but as Dedo to his family and friends, Modigliani was a handsome man, and attracted much female attention.
Louis XVIII was greeted with great rejoicing from the Parisians and proceeded to occupy the Tuileries Palace.
A few minutes after midnight in the early hour of 31 July, warned by General Gresseau that Parisians were scheming to attack the residence, Charles X decided to leave Saint-Cloud and seek refuge in Versailles with his family, and the Court, with the exception of the duc d ’ Angoulême who stayed behind with the troops, and the duchesse d ’ Angoulême, who was taking the waters at Vichy.
He was one of the notable Parisians who enjoyed American-style cocktails, France being a nation of wine purists.
Liberté tower took its name either from a protest in 1380, when Parisians shouted the phrase outside the castle, or because it was used to house prisoners who had more freedom to walk around the castle than the typical prisoner.
Although he was allied with the Parisians, Charles was no lover of the peasantry and felt Marcel had made a fatal mistake.
Delanoë was virtually unknown before the election of 2001, but soon gained fame for organising new and unusual events in Paris, such as the " Paris Beach " ( Paris-Plages ) on the banks of the Seine every summer in order to give Parisians who could not take a regular vacation a chance to relax, sunbathe and build sandcastles in the center of Paris.
However, the importance of the College was shadowed by rivalry between the orthodox views of the " Parisians " group headed by Diogo de Gouveia and the more secular views of the " Bordeaux " school headed by his nephew André de Gouveia, within the advent of the Counter-Reformation and the Society of Jesus.
But Paris was a violently anti-Huguenot city, and Parisians, who tended to be extreme Catholics, found their presence unacceptable.
Probably Delacroix's best known painting, it is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty, equality, and fraternity ; Delacroix was inspired by contemporary events to invoke the romantic image of the spirit of liberty.
Pétion received a still further proof of the affection of the Parisians for himself on 16 November 1791, when he was elected second mayor of Paris in succession to Bailly.
His proposal was carried, but never put into force-the Parisians subsequently singled him out as a target of their hatred.
The store was a famous destination for fashionable Parisians and earned the family an excellent income.
The detachment was still gathering the munitions when the Parisians awoke, and soon the soldiers were surrounded.
The duel was watched by the royal court, several royal dukes and thousands of ordinary Parisians and was recorded in several notable chronicles including Froissart's Chronicles and Grandes Chroniques de France.
This palace, which was exempt from government censorship, allowed Jacobins to meet in Paris not only to discuss and debate revolutionary principles but also to print and distribute pamphlets to other Parisians.
" Viennese society had, since the days of Austria's eclipse at Sadowa, sought to conceal the injured patriotic emotions born of that disaster by affecting a hysterical sort of gaiety which was somewhat foreign to the real character of the people ... like all forced characteristics, the new-found frivility of the Viennese degenerated quickly into a positive mania for wickedness, without, at the same time, taking on any of the picturesque artistry which conceals-and often condones-the refined viciousness of Parisians ... who, also, after 1870, went through for many years a phase of social madness similar to that which affected Austria ... Viennese society was probably the most dissipated in Europe, and so became a happy mart for ladies of that type that serves the foibles of a prince.
The village, not yet being part of Paris, was considered by Parisians to be an agreeable suburb, pleasant for country walks or its cabarets and puppet shows.

Parisians and until
While winemaking continued to have a long history in the region, the Côte-Rôtie did not receive much recognition until the 18th century when Parisians began discovering the wines of Beaujolais and Rhône.

Parisians and while
Ten days after its first production the piece was prohibited by the Commune, but the public demanded its representation ; the mayor of Paris was compelled to appeal to the National Convention, and the piece was played while some 30, 000 Parisians guarded the hall.
On the following morning, an enormous crowd of joyous Parisians welcomed the arrival of the 2nd French Armored Division, which swept the western part of Paris, including the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées, while the Americans cleared the eastern part.
Delacroix's Liberty leads a group of Parisians who have taken up arms, while the subject of The Cross of France stands alone.

Parisians and novel
Many of the characters in the novel are satirical portraits of influential and powerful Parisians of Crébillon ’ s time ; the author takes the opportunity to ridicule hypocrisy in its different forms ( worldly respectability, virtue, religious devotion ).

Parisians and phrase
Parisians coined the phrase: " As stupid as the peace " (" Bête comme la paix ").

Parisians and established
Another important factor was the popular uprising in Paris, which allowed the Parisians to liberate themselves from the Germans and gave the newly established Free French government and its president Charles de Gaulle enough prestige and authority to establish the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Parisians and .
Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.
However, the term " the Unwashed " with the same meaning, appears in The Parisians: " He says that Paris has grown so dirty since the 4 September, that it is only fit for the feet of the Unwashed.
The " Committee of Thirty ," a body of liberal Parisians, began to agitate against voting by estate.
Many Parisians presumed Louis's actions to be aimed against the Assembly and began open rebellion when they heard the news the next day.
Radical Parisians, members of the National Guard, and fédérés were angry with the poor progress in the war against Austria and Prussia and the forced enlistment of 30, 000 volunteers.
Pei estimated that 90 percent of Parisians opposed his design.
Paris ' inhabitants are known in English as " Parisians " and in French as Parisiens () and Parisiennes.
In The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment ( 1994 ), Goodman argues that many women in fact played an essential part in the French Enlightenment, due to the role they played as salonnières in Parisians salons.
The Parisians could follow her Adventures in the Galeries Lafayette by Jean-Paul Goude.
In France, the coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail, and 24, 000 Parisians die.
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Pius VI witnessed the suppression of the old Gallican Church, the confiscation of pontifical and ecclesiastical possessions in France, and an effigy of himself burnt by the Parisians at the Palais Royal.
The anger of the populace boiled over on 10 August when a group of Parisians – with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the " insurrectionary " Paris Commune – besieged the Tuileries Palace.
Historian Shelley Rice, in her book Parisian Views writes that " most Parisians during first half of the nineteenth century perceived streets as dirty, crowded, and unhealthy.
His dour attitude and his alchemical experiments alienated him from the Parisians, who believe him a sorcerer.
A 2002 report by the French government stated the worst-case Seine flood scenario would cost 10 billion euros and cut telephone service for a million Parisians, leaving 200, 000 without electricity and 100, 000 without gas.
In January 1910, the Seine flooded above normal, drowning streets throughout the city of Paris and sending thousands of Parisians fleeing to emergency shelters.
During the 19th-century Franco-Prussian War, besieged Parisians used carrier pigeons to transmit messages outside the city.
A renewed fear of anti-revolutionary action prompted further violence, and in the first week of September 1792, mobs of Parisians broke into the city ’ s prisons, killing over half of the prisoners.

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