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of Cardinal Charles de Lorraine (at the time a close ally of the royal court), who is the most important new name in Le Roy & Ballard’s anthologies of secular music of the 1550s. In the next decade other composers closely linked with the French aristocracy, such as Guillaume Costeley and Nicolas de la Grotte, also figure prominently in the offerings of that firm. But the official printer also turned to composers who had no direct ties to the court, such as Goudimel and especially Lassus. Even though

useful, therefore, to speak not of ‘Literature’ at all, but of ‘Literatures’. A literature of priests and magicians, which was followed by a literature of the hero and gradually turned into a literature of the military and later the intellectual aristocracy. An oral literature which turned into written literature which, when art left the court and the noble house, became a recognized economic activity, developed into a bourgeois literature and, in due course, the literature of popular culture. A literature

over the working class and tried by all means to keep some kind of control over them. Sport was one of the ways to “civilize” the lower classes and try to constitute a “national” culture, along with the development of public parks and museums. The aristocracy and the governments were afraid of a popular revolution and all the activities developed by them were intended to prevent events similar to the French Revolution from happening in England. The rise of the new middle class also played an important

been the greatest enemies of freedom.” Sigmund Freud 1859 Schönche Jeannette Rothschild dies. Lord Harrington 1860 In the American South, since American independence, a close business relationship had developed between the cotton growing aristocracy and the cotton manufacturers in England. The cotton was even delivered from America to France and Britain on Rothschild owned ships. The Rothschilds’ decided that this was America’s achilles heel that they could exploit to reestablish themselves

materialism are phenomena present throughout all centuries. However, they do not have the same meaning from one period to another. In 19th century society, they crystallize the relations between the different social classes (such as the bourgeoisie, the aristocracy, and the peasantry), and reveal their status, their conflicts, their ambitions, and their values. They are also literary subjects in several realistic novels, such as Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. In my thesis, I examine luxury and materialism

made her way through the stately corridors, the handsome staircases, the vast drawing-rooms--full of flowers, though it was in the depth of winter, and decorated with the taste peculiar to women born to opulence or to the elegant habits of the aristocracy, Augustine felt a terrible clutch at her heart; she coveted the secrets of an elegance of which she had never had an idea; she breathed in an air of grandeur which explained the attraction of the house for her husband. When she reached the private

a more historical and less practical sense than had been usual in France. His name thus stands for legal pedantry. _Coutumes_ means legal usages, unwritten law. 5: Ni talons rouges, ni bonnets rouges. To wear red heels was a privilege of aristocracy under the _ancien regime_, and the _bonnet rouge_ was the liberty cap adopted as a head-dress by the Revolutionists. 6: L'autre Saint Office, the Inquisition. 7: Romancero general, a collection of Spanish ballads, first published under

In Goldman’s opinion, “Woolf’s position regarding class remains elusive and unsettled in the minds of critics, and continues to raise controversy, as suggested by the bumpy reception of, Sonya Rudikoff’s Ancestral Houses: Virginia Woolf and the Aristocracy (1999)”[486]. The geographical contexts of Woolf’s life and works are, as Goldman[487] notes, of current critical interest, too. For example, Katherine C. Hill-Miller combines literary criticism with the most detailed guide so far to the physical

Le XVIIIe siècle (et jusqu'en 1832) J. CANNON, Parliamentary Reform, 1640-1832, Cambridge, 2e éd. 1982 F. CROUZET , De la supériorité de l'Angleterre sur la France. L'économique et l'imaginaire, XVII e -XXe siècle, Perrin, Paris, 1985 N. GASH , Aristocracy and People, Britain 1815-1865, Arnold, Londres, 1979 E. HALÉVY , L'Angleterre en 1815, Hachette, Paris, 1913 M. J OUVE , L'Âge d'or de la caricature anglaise, Presses de la F.N.S.P., Paris, 1983 R. M ARX , La Révolution industrielle en Grande-Bretagne

cell phone and die later that evening. Why’s dead, Ruby lives on. The gravestone: In another, related fantasy, I am throwing away lettuce. Such roughage isn’t befitting of my new vinegar. No, I will have come to a point where the fame and the aristocracy will have corrupted me to my core. My new lettuce will be cash. Cold, hard cash, Mrs. Price. Soon, I will be expending hundreds for a block of myzithra cheese. What’s in his trachea? Oh, look, a Nokia! Just my luck. Finally get to have a