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Jules Solime Milscent (c. 1778 – 7 May 1842) was a Haitian fabulist, poet, and politician. He was a mulatto, born in Grande-Rivière du Nord to an ethnically French father and a free mother of African descent. Educated in France, Milscent co-founded the periodical L'Abeille Haytienne and served in several government positions, including a ...
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that grew out of the Realist movement and paved the way for the development of impressionism. Émile Zola described Bastien-Lepage's work as "impressionism corrected, sweetened and adapted to ...
Corine Pelluchon received her agrégation in philosophy in 1997, [1] then defended a thesis entitled La critique des Lumières modernes chez Leo Strauss at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2003, [2] and obtained a habilitation in philosophy entitled Bioéthique, écologie et philosophie politique : propositions pour un enrichissement de la philosophie du sujet in 2010.
L’Harmas de Fabre. The Musée de l'Homme ( French, "Museum of Mankind" or "Museum of Humanity") is an anthropology museum in Paris, France. It was established in 1937 by Paul Rivet for the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. It is the descendant of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, founded in 1878.
Amazon's annual Prime Day event is well underway — with day 2 deals ending later today, July 17th, in fact — but if you're skeptical about whether or not the deals are actually worth your time ...
Maya Erskine earned her third Emmy nomination this year, her first in the drama race, for her leading role as Jane Smith in Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.”. The first ...
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It is an adventure novel, involving how Joam Garral, a ranch owner living near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel downstream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém, at the river's mouth.