Sentences with phrase «in ancien»

Marie Antoinette — the very name has come to signify all that was immoral in the ancien régime.

Most accounts of the history of schooling take us from fee - based schools in ancien Athens, to the first tax - funded public schools in our land in Boston in 1635, to the compulsory education of Horace Mann's «common school» in the mid - 19th century.

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Across the Atlantic, mounting a frontal assault on the church of the ancien régime, the French Revolution had to present itself as an alternative religion, a regeneration of humanity under secular auspices» an impulse powerfully continued in many of the intellectual projects of the following century, reaching its apogee in the fraternité of international socialism.

For the revolutionaries, a complete breakthrough to the modern was impossible without a secularism robust and unremitting enough to displace and reoccupy the social and intellectual space of a church, ancestrally embedded in the political order of the ancien régime.

This political system is what writers in the nineteenth century called the ancien régime, because Catholics had no living memory of any other order.

This necessarily involves a look at the tensions, debates and passions marking the era from Vatican I to Vatican II: a Church struggling with dramatic changes in European politics as the last vestiges of the ancien regime toppled.

After conjuring a vision of the Queen of France in her youthful glory, Burke waxes indignant at her rude treatment by Revolutionary democrats, and he laments the passing of the ancien régime:

The «conflict thesis» of science and religion was born in the salons of ancien régime France, where philosophes like Voltaire and d'Alembert used it as a weapon against the Catholic Church.

Virginia, which gained a waiver last month despite its lack of aggressiveness on the reform front, reaffirmed its reputation for being more - concerned with not disrupting the state's educational ancien regime by approving AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017.

But the tour is deeply rooted in the local love for les vehicules anciens, with eyeful after eyeful of cars we'd rarely seen, if ever, like Ford and Renault torpedoes, one from 1912, the other from 1913, and a Rosengart SuperTraction Cabriolet.

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

Landscape painting in the eighteenth century continued to develop in response to the general social and political climate engered by the ancien regimes in England, France and the rest of Europe.

(The ancien cuisine dinner of beef tournedos, however, was held in a rented recording studio down the street.)