Europe was passing through the Dark Age from which it started emerging only through Renaissance and Enlightenment. Syed Muhammed Zafar in his book Democracy and Islam in History has mentioned that ...
OPINION Matt Garvin I, like many others have been doing some reflection following last week’s election result. I am more and ...
Some French philosophers, notably Jean le Rond d’Alembert and, surprisingly, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, spurned Catherine’s blandishments ... The author is clearly as sure-footed an expert on the French ...
Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the superprime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is ...
In mainstream thought, the Enlightenment is commonly perceived as a heroic campaign for secularisation and emancipation led by great thinkers known as philosophes ... the contributions of Voltaire and ...
The Henner painting was the top lot at the September 13th Fine Estates Auction, one that featured an assortment of unique antiques.
In September 1788, the Parlement of Paris ruled that the Estates-General should convene in the same form as in 1614, meaning that the three estates (the clergy, nobility, and Third Estate or "commons" ...
The following is a list of notable people born in or associated with the French city of Grenoble, Isère. The city was the birthplace of the following people.