Aristocracy

conflict with the church, Louis XIV continued to support the playwright; it is possible that without the King's support, Molière might have been excommunicated. Although public performances of the play were banned, private performances for the French aristocracy were permitted.[3] In 1669, after Molière's detractors lost much of their influence, he was finally allowed to perform the final version of his play. However, due to all the controversy surrounding Tartuffe, Molière mostly refrained from writing

e. Our government, who should be demonstrating a leadership position in the promotion and use of solar energy, is the primary offender of energy conservation and has no interest in the promotion of a sustainable culture that might threaten the aristocracy. f. The price of oil is maintained at an artificially low price by government subsidies and special interest groups. g. Most people are too busy dealing with the problems of day-to-day survival to be concerned with the headache of a long-range

in the middle age? Innovations New products (e.g. potatoes, foreign breeds of sheep) New methods (e.g. the use of soil-generating crops) Servile economies Serfdom: No wages => the seignior had no recourse Chasm between the kings and their aristocracy No competitive market mechanism Economics of innovation Sept_Dec. 2010 Ludovic Dibiaggio 6 What changed with capitalism? Oligopolistic competition Innovation has replaced price as a prime competitive weapon Routinization of innovative

Division among the Irish. * “Penal Laws”: Irish are forbidden to own a land. 1609: 90% of lands belonged to Irish. 1704: only 14% The Industrial Revolution: subordination and complementary. Capital came mostly from the English land owner aristocracy. The economic stakes of the Union. The Union was establishing a free-trade zone between Britain and Ireland. Idea of a liberalism, but Ireland couldn’t export with the rest of the world, centralized through Britain. Exclusivity. Ireland was producing

democratic gvt. MC: is a latin expression (the great Charta). Was granted by King John who recognised the rights and privileges of 3 categories of people: 1. the barons (noble men who served the king who later would become the members of the aristocracy) 2. the church (played important role at that time) 3. the free men (those craftsmen -artisans- and merchants and shopkeepers who lived in the towns and the ports of the kingdom) Rights and privileges? Right to be consulted by the king

Charte), charter granted by King John who recognizes the rights and privileges of 3 categories of people, those who played an important role in the community at that time: the barons (noble men who served the king and who would become members of the aristocracy), the Church, the Free men (crafts men –artisans -and merchants and shop keepers who lived in the towns and the ports of the Kingdom). These rights and privileges: right to be consulted by the kings to examine taxation. The Kind had to consult the

vapore , metallurgia ) e al commercio con le colonie della Francia nel Nuovo Mondo e l'India. The new class (called The Third Estate) began to challenge the cultural and social monopoly of the aristocracy; French cities began to have their own theaters, coffee houses and salons, independent of the aristocracy. La nuova classe (denominata Il Terzo), ha cominciato a sfidare il monopolio culturale e sociale della nobiltà; città francesi cominciarono ad avere i loro propri teatri, caffè e nei salotti,

unity of their mutual needs. Here I stop; you will have no trouble in finishing the job; all you have to do is to look our aristocratic virtues straight in the face, for the first and last time. They are cracking up; how could they survive the aristocracy of underlings who brought them into being? A few years ago, a bourgeois colonialist commentator found only this to say in defence of the West: ‘We aren’t angels. But we, at least, feel some remorse.’ What a confession! Formerly our continent was

returned, his brother, lB royalists regained power, and eventually Charles’s son, Charles II, returned from exile and au Cromwell seized power and began a monarchic and Puritan rule. Soon after his death, the dr army, and between the aristocracy and the proto-communist Levellers). In this chaos, Oliver y -U ni ve rs i té Parliament raised an army against him. The Civil War lasted from 1642 to 1648: the king was Ly on II In 1641 events began to move quickly. The

understand why the product is rare and its ready to wait. Rarity can be managed just like the relationship with the clientele.     1. Dominate the client:   Luxury is a consequence of meritocracy. Once the exclusive privilege of aristocracy, luxury today is what stratifies our so called classless societies but on the basis of merit, no longer simply by birth. Luxury brands are at the same time a reward and a token of gradual elevation. To preserve it status brands must always dominate