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    Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French painter, born in Aix, France. Cézanne was born to a middle-class family, being his father the co-founder of a banking firm. Cézanne attended to good schools due to his family’s background. Paul was registered to the Bourbon College where he enhanced his skills. After meeting Émile Zola in the Bourbon College, Cézanne was encouraged to go deeper in his artistic career. Both of them had the idea of success in the industrial Paris. His father derailed his plans

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    The Church Of New France

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    One of the many things the settlers of New France bought with them from France into North America was religion. Historians have argued that the church played huge part in the lives of the people in New France. Despite being far away from the leaders of the church and thus not directly under their control, the church still played a role in the lives of the people of New France. By the 1600s Jesuit missionaries had entered New France and started their attempts to convert the First Nations people. As

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    Pride is a trait everyone poses, but is having pride and being boastful a double edge sword? Pride and boasting are something that appears in many different characters with different manifestations through literature. In "Beowulf" and "Lanval", the pride and boastfulness are demonstrated as both a strength and weakness. Having the pride to boast caused many issues for Beowulf, Lanval and the Queen Guinevere. Beowulf starts boasting as soon as he is introduced to the King Hrothgar. Beowulf tells

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    Montesquieu was officially known as Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu. He was a French lawyer as well as political philosopher. Most famous for his opinion on the theory of separation of powers, he wrote Lettres Persanes, a book which criticizes the absurdities of the current French society. The Spirit of the Laws was published anonymously in 1748 and it profoundly influenced political thought in Europe and America. The Catholic Church banned it along with many other

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    improve France as a whole. One specific example would be Montesquieu. Montesquieu wrote books on many topics such as law, climate, forms of government, and religion. Also, he traveled and explored Europe to expand his knowledge and studied in an extensive learning program. His philosophy and writing had a great effect on France and the people living there at the time of the Enlightenment. In the 16th century of France, Montesquieu was born to his military-based father, named Jacques de Secondat

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    Emilie du Chatelet was born on December 17, 1706 in Paris France. She was the only girl among six children, were only three of the brothAs well as her. Emilie died on September 10, 1749 in Luneville France at the age of 42 from Pulmonary Embolism after giving birth to a child she had during an affair. She was named Stanislas Adelaide, who passed 20 weeks later. A historic event that happened during Emilie’s life time is on October 11, when George the second had his Coronation. Handel's Coronation

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    XVI made it clear that he did not approve of the National Assembly. Starting with the fall of the Bastille began the revolution that led to the fall of the Monarchy, that include the execution of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. the Broadly speaking, the French Revolution was the people of France resisting the monarchy. Although the revolution seemed to be influenced by the thinkers of the enlightenment, certain aspects of the revolution were inconsistent with the ideals held by enlightenment as well

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    The fast paced spread of knowledge in France due to the Enlightenment, help set stage for the French revolution. Enlightenment thinkers were able to spread their ideas through books, and other publishing. When these theories and ideas reached the mass majority of the French people, the common desire for equality, amongst the people in France grew. The main goals of the enlightenment thinkers were to “transform human thought and use reason to transform the world” (traditions, 516). By transforming

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    world forever. In May of 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed himself the Emperor of France. He remained emperor from 1804 to 1814 and briefly again in 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte was regarded as a prominent man in Western civilization. Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica, a French island in the Mediterranean Sea. Napoleon Bonaparte had two wives. He first married Josephine de Beauharnais, a widower, who already had two children. Josephine was unable to give

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    1799, the French Revolution was a "cataclysmic political and 1 social upheaval." French society was going though a hard period in France that

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