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1 day ago · In February 1795, Monroe used his influence to secure the release of all American citizens imprisoned since the French Revolution and Adrienne de La Fayette, the wife of the Marquis de Lafayette. He had already secured the release of Thomas Paine in July 1794 and took him in, but when Paine worked on a diatribe against Washington despite Monroe's objections, they parted ways in the spring of 1796.
3 days ago · Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, né le 6 septembre 1757 au château de Chavaniac près de Saint-Georges-d'Aurac (Auvergne, actuel département de la Haute-Loire), et mort le 20 mai 1834 à Paris (ancien 1 er arrondissement), est un officier et homme politique français, célèbre en raison de son engagement dans les rangs de l'armée des insurgés américains (1777-1783), puis dans l ...
3 days ago · The statue was exhibited at The Champs Elysées Salon of 1892 and again at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The New York Times was not impressed with Bartholdi’s work (or Chicago for that ...
5 days ago · Michael Antoine Garoutte. Michel Antoine Garoutte anglicized as: Michael Antoine Garoutte (12th of April, 1750 – 29th of April, 1829 ) was a member of the first nobility of Provence in the Kingdom of France. He was a Pirate and Privateer in the early war for American Independence and ascended to the rank of Lieutenant in the first American ...
2 days ago · France - Baroque, Enlightenment, Revolution: If historians are not yet agreed on the political motives of Louis XIV, they all accept, however, the cultural and artistic significance of the epoch over which he and his two 17th-century predecessors reigned. In their different ways—Henry IV’s interest lay in town planning, Louis XIII’s in the visual arts, and Louis XIV’s in the theatre ...
1 day ago · The Storming of the Bastille ( French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille. After four hours of fighting and 94 deaths the insurgents were able to ...
4 days ago · Marina Magloire is an Atlanta-based scholar and the author of We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism (2023).
