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addition, the French were involved in different places at that time as helping the US in Revolution. This made France to spend a lot of money and lead to an economic crisis. Ministers had to deal with this but failed doing it. They failed to convince aristocracy and the church to pay. Since the ones who had money refused to pay, it was the others, the citizens that had to pay. Less than 20% of the entire national budget was available for the productive functions of the state, such as transportation and

or Necessity or Destiny, to whom even Zeus is subject. Fate exercised a great influence on all Greek thought, and perhaps was one of the sources from which science derived the belief in natural law. The Homeric gods were the gods of a conquering aristocracy, not the useful fertility gods of those who actually tilled the soil. The gods of most nations claim to have created the world. The Olympians make no such claim. The most they ever did was to conquer it. And when they have conquered their kingdoms

value of the sterling and this for a very long time. The USA had helped but after the war, they increasingly demanded that British give up the sterling zone. Capital is big money. Britain is a very old aristocratic country and is still based on aristocracy. This idea is opposed to the industrial activity. The globalization had a very severe impact on national economies. The states could no longer maintain their pressures and their actions just like they used to do. III – The New configuration

(Whisky) Spain (Ham = Pata Negra) Italy (Fashion, Cars) Great Britain (men’s fashion cars) France: Feminine Paris-based = The chic rich Parisiennes are the class of reference. Great Britain: Masculine (fishing rods, shooting guns). Aristocracy, Gentleman Farmer in the country side and not in London. Discreet: Often the label / Logo is not visible. Italy: Unisex = Italians are very big consumers of accessible luxury brands. => Preference for national brands. Conspicuous consumption

Domesday Book in 1086, a survey of the entire population and their lands and property for tax purposes. William and his nobles spoke and conducted court in Norman French, in England as well as in Normandy. The use of the Anglo-Norman language by the aristocracy endured for centuries and left an indelible mark in the development of modern English. His son, Henry I, also known as "Henry Beauclerc" worked hard to reform and stabilise the country and smooth the differences between the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman

deductions spring from conflicting images of Goriot himself and the contrasts of characters, (Victorine/Goriot’s daughters, Goriot/Vautrin. As Goriot moves from his bourgeois past to pauper present, visiting the ruling commercial class and the aristocracy, rubbing shoulders with the underworld and criminality, all areas of Parisian society are spread out for the elucidation of the novel’s themes. Nature, Balzac says, provides a beneficent balance “Les..fautes, les crimes..y trouvent toujours leur

William of Normandy, the descendant of Vikings settled in northern France (Norman = “homme du nord”), crosses the channel in 1066 and defeats the Anglo-Saxon king Harold at the Battle of Hastings. An ethnic division is created between an Anglo-Norman aristocracy and a mainly Anglo-Saxon populace but William succeeds in uniting the country for the first time under one king thereby laying down the basis for the creation of a new national identity. The conditions are now established for the beginning of a

the sea, but also because of a tradition: “wars by sea are merchants’ affairs, and of no concern to the prestige of Kings”. But despite this, the arrival of Portuguese did not interrupt the supply of goods and commodities demanded by the Asian aristocracy and the regional flows of trade continued almost the same way. Maybe that’s why their presence in this zone was accepted like that. In the fourth chapter, “The Dutch and English East India Companies and the bureaucratic form of trade in Asia”

the author of large number of film scenarios. On retrouve dans tous ses romans ces motifs du mariage qui n’aurait pa du avoir, de l’inceste, des liaisons illégitimes. The general theme are decay espacially the one of the Southern based on aristocracy and slavery. The destruction of tradition => nostalgia for the past. The story are set in an imaginary county which is in fact a transposition of the place where he spent his childhood, called Yoknapatawpha (nom qui renvoie aux grands silencieux

a 'buffoon.'5 These buffoons were there to provide laughter for their host, who would in return give them food. They would flatter the host and make jokes and imitations, as well as comparisons. These buffoons were mostly of lower classes - the aristocracy would have been invited to the dinners as guests rather than needing to invite themselves and earn their food through laughter. A notable exception was a group called 'the sixty', who were evidently part of the upper class (and one of whom, Bremmer