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1 day ago · Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] ( French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of ...
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris,...
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- Jeanne Hugo
Léopoldine Clémence Adèle Lucie Jeanne Hugo (29 September...
- Charles Hugo
1871 Engraving of Charles Hugo. Charles-Victor Hugo (4...
- Chateaubriand
(in English) Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe at Poetry in...
- Les Contemplations
Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) is a song and...
- Absolutism
King Louis XIV of France, often considered by historians as...
- The Story of Adele H
The Story of Adèle H. (French: L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) is a...
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1 day ago · The Burning of Smyrna as seen from an Italian ship, 14 September 1922. The vanguards of Turkish cavalry entered the outskirts of Smyrna on 9 September. On the same day, the Greek headquarters had evacuated the town. The Turkish cavalry rode into the town around eleven o'clock on the Saturday morning of 9 September.
- 15 May 1919 – 11 October 1922, (3 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
- Western Anatolia
1 day ago · 1952 in various calendars. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1952. 1952 ( MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.
1 day ago · Booker T. Washington. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite . Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed ...
1 day ago · Russian Civil War. The Russian Civil War [a] was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. It resulted in the formation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet ...
1 day ago · A 19th-century traveler observed: "I have seen a little fellow of six years old, with a troop of fat toddlers of only three and four, teaching [them] to throw stones at a Jew, and one little urchin would, with the greatest coolness, waddle up to the man and literally spit upon his Jewish gaberdine. To all this the Jew is obliged to submit; it ...
1 day ago · Historians led by Eli Heckscher have identified Mercantilism as the central economic policy for the empire before the shift to free trade in the 1840s. Mercantilism is an economic theory practice, commonly used in Britain, France and other major European nations from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state ...
