Sentences with phrase «french aristocracy»

Following a recurring theme in his work Shonibare has removed the figure's heads, calling to mind the guillotined fate that awaited the excessive and corrupt French aristocracy in the 18th Century.

First shown at the Paris Salon of 1791, it's a fascinating record of how the liberal French aristocracy portrayed itself under the National Assembly of 1789 — 1792.

It became favored by French aristocracy and eventually became the national dog of France.

Compare that to Trinidad and Tobago where carnival can be traced back to the French aristocracy and their celebrations in the eighteenth century.

At a time when leading historians of the family were concentrating on the English and French aristocracy, Lasch focused on marriage and family life among ordinary Americans.

Hobbes and Locke are reeling from the so - called «wars of religion,» and Rousseau had his fill of the French Catholic Church's rather too cozy relationship with the French aristocracy (the ancien regime).

Not exact matches

And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

February brings Crabmeat Lundi Gras [Green Asparagus, Jumbo Lump Crabmeat, Cherry Tomato, Radish, French Dressing] and a revival of the «Ojen» Frappé, made with «the absinthe preference of the Spanish aristocracy,» according to Brennan's original menu.

As it was said of Napoleon after he murdered a well - connected French duke and united European aristocracy against him, «it was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.»

What he fails to draw out is that the British aristocracy was porous, and despite the challenges of the War of the Roses, life under the Tudors and the French revolutionary era they had allies and accomplices, drawn from the gentry and the middle classes, and a sizeable portion of the working class.

The extreme French skincare regimen that's got the aristocracy buzzing.

The protagonist is Aveline de Granpre, a French - African orphan who finds herself cast into the Louisiana aristocracy via her caring (and maddeningly underdeveloped) adoptive parents.

However, there is a sense that the production itself is more on a par with the British aristocracy of the 17th century than the renowned wanton French court of the same era.

Foreman's descriptions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling, all - night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives of the British aristocracy in the era of the madness of King George III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of Napoleon.

First popular in France with the aristocracy, they quickly became the hound of choice after the French Revolution when the French wanted a game hound they could follow on foot and not on horseback.

It was the French who subsequently added the pompons and ribbons wich are seen in the show rings today, after adopting them as the national dog of France amongst the aristocracy - the term «French Poodle», is still heard today.

Shonibare's figures characteristically lack heads - a playful reference to the plight of the aristocracy during the French Revolution.

Palladian architecture was able to flourish in England though, as it was suited to the great country houses being built or re-modelled; because unlike the French, the British aristocracy placed primary importance on their country estates.

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