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This Beautiful French City in Provence Is Known as the City of a Thousand Fountains — and It Has Over 300 Days of Sunshine a Year
The university city of Aix-en-Provence ... inside a resplendent 18th-century residence in the Mazarin district, shows off ...
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The Train Wreck Duchess Of Berry
Louise Élisabeth, Duchess of Berry was the 18th-century French princess whose scandalous—albeit short—life had the city of ...
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The French Revolution
Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...
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Nantes confronts its past with memorial to the Atlantic Slave Trade
Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port. Today the city is acknowledging this with one of Europe’s most ...
The Art Newspaper19d
This new volume reveals the under-explored art of 18th-century cut and paste
David Pullins, a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de ...
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Museum Scoops Three Masterpieces by Overlooked 18th Century Portrait Painter
In a bid to expand its holding of historical art by women, Luxembourg’s National Museum of History and Art has acquired three works by the 18th century French ... painting the city’s high ...