218 résultats pour "lorde"

• L'Immortel lord Palmerston,--on le cote très haut à l'Institut et au quai d'Orsay.

  ABEL DE FREYDET. Tu penses qu'au milieu de ces aventures, j'ai oublié les graines, paillassons, arbustes, toutes mes emplettes; ce sera pour bientôt, je resterai ici quelque temps. Astier-Réhu m'a bien recommandé de ne rien dire, mais de fréquenter les milieux académiques. Me montrer, qu'on me voie, c'est plus important que tout. IV «Méfie-toi, mon Freydet.... Je connais ce coup-là, c'est le coup du racolage.... Au fond, ces gens se sentent finis, en train de moisir sous leur coupole.... L'Acadé...

• FAUNTLEROY (le Petit Lord). Personnage Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett

• L'expédition des Dardanelles À la conquête des Détroits : de la mise en œuvre à l'échec final

  LES nREURS D'ÉLITE OPUAnONS TEIIESTIES • Finalement , le choix du généralissime résultat et, selon les mots d'un soldat bloquée près d'Anafarta par des DErARM~EOTTOMANE anglais, sir lan Hamilton , se porte français «sous un ciel de feu, sur un sol contre-attaques turques de plus LA CONSTITUTION sur un troisième parti, le plus simple : desséché , empuanti par les cadavres». en plus violentes dirigées par le jeune • Embusqués dans un trou de tirailleurs...

• George Gordon Noel, lord Byron, de Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Fiche de lecture Lord of the flies, sa majesté des mouches

• Lord Jean-Claude, né en 1943 à Montréal (Canada), cinéaste canadien.

• « Le souvenir du bonheur n'est plus du bonheur. Le souvenir de la douleur est de la douleur encore ». (Lord BYRON)

• HISTOIRE D’ANGLETERRE DEPUIS L’AVÈNEMENT DE JACQUES II de Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

• Melbourne ( William Lamb, lord), 1779-1848, né à Londres, homme politique anglais.

• fiche de lecture litterature anglaise "the picture of dorian gray"

  the topics dealt with in the book: The novel deals with the theme of beauty, the ephemeral beauty, egocentricity, the youth,narcissism. Dorian Gray is a priceless beauty. Indeed, at the beginning of the novel, Oscar Wilde presents this character as a metaphor for the youth: beautiful, innocent and manipulated. Lord Henry can be compared to the devil Lucifer because it will awaken the dark side of the hero. We can make a comparison between Dorian Gray and the mythological character,...

• Rank ( lord Joseph Arthur ), 1888-1972, né à Hull (Humberside), producteur de cinéma britannique.

• COPLEY John Singleton : La Mort de lord Chatham

  COPLEY John Singleton La Mort de lord Chatham Né à Boston, 1738 Mort à Londres , 1815 Peintre américain très en faveur auprès de l'aris­ tocratie de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, Copley séjour­ nait en Italie lorsque les prémices de la guerre d'Indépendance éclatèrent. Peu soucieux d'être mêlé aux événements, il vint s'établir en Grande­ Bretagne , où il demeura jusqu'à sa mort. Il acquit très vite une grande réputation avec Watson et le requin...

• BIOGRAPHY OSCAR WILDE

  5.    After graduating from Oxford, when he met and courted Florence Balcombe. However, when she rejected his proposal to marriage, Oscar left Ireland permanently in 1878. He met Constance Lloyd and fell in love with her. So on may 29 1884, Oscar married Constance Lloyd.   6.   Cyril Holland, born in 1885, was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland, who was born the following year, and died on the 10 October 1967.   7.  Lord Douglas, of his fir...

• SÉANCE 3 › Alphonse de Lamartine, « Le Vallon » (1820) Lord Byron, Le Captif de Chillon (1816)

• Maya Civilization.

  destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...

• Maya Civilization - History.

  destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...

• Thomas Jefferson I INTRODUCTION Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third president of the United States (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence.

  Jefferson was a poor speaker, but his literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when resolutions and other public papers were drafted. Heemerged as the recognized author of the patriot cause in Virginia and indeed in the whole of the colonies. Jefferson's first public paper, however, was considered toostiff and formal, and it was rewritten. The paper was a response to the greeting of the new governor, Lord Botetourt, to the General Assembly. Jefferson, who nevertook criticis...

• Thomas Jefferson.

  Jefferson was a poor speaker, but his literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when resolutions and other public papers were drafted. Heemerged as the recognized author of the patriot cause in Virginia and indeed in the whole of the colonies. Jefferson's first public paper, however, was considered toostiff and formal, and it was rewritten. The paper was a response to the greeting of the new governor, Lord Botetourt, to the General Assembly. Jefferson, who nevertook criticis...

• Thomas Jefferson

  Jefferson was a poor speaker, but his literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when resolutions and other public papers were drafted. Heemerged as the recognized author of the patriot cause in Virginia and indeed in the whole of the colonies. Jefferson's first public paper, however, was considered toostiff and formal, and it was rewritten. The paper was a response to the greeting of the new governor, Lord Botetourt, to the General Assembly. Jefferson, who nevertook criticis...

• Thomas Jefferson - USA History.

  Jefferson was a poor speaker, but his literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when resolutions and other public papers were drafted. Heemerged as the recognized author of the patriot cause in Virginia and indeed in the whole of the colonies. Jefferson's first public paper, however, was considered toostiff and formal, and it was rewritten. The paper was a response to the greeting of the new governor, Lord Botetourt, to the General Assembly. Jefferson, who nevertook criticis...

• Cecil of Chelwood Edgar Algernon Robert , 1864-1958, né à Londres, homme politique britannique, fils de lord Salisbury.

• Herbert George, 1593-1633, né à Montgomery Castle (pays de Galles), frère de lord Herbert de Cherbury, prêtre anglican et poète anglais.

• Grey (lord Charles), 1764-1845, né à Fallodon (Northumberland), homme politique anglais, Premier ministre de Grande-Bretagne de 1830 à 1834.

• Melville, nom de trois sites importants du nord de l'Amérique et du Groenland, ainsi nommés par référence à lord Melville (1742-1811), homme politique britannique.

• Portrait de lord Wellington Nommé commandant en chef des forces britanniques en Espagne, Arthur Wellesley, premier duc de Wellington, s'illustrera à de nombreuses reprises dans des batailles victorieuses contre l'armée napoléonienne, notamment à Salamanque et à Vitoria en 1813.

• Arthur James, comte de Balfour 1848-1930 Philosophe distingué, en un temps où la philosophie britannique n'était guère considérée, et neveu de Lord Salisbury Balfour abordait les affaires politiques d'une manière aussi froide et distante qu'un métaphysicien aristocratique.

• Poudres (conspiration des), complot de certains milieux catholiques anglais visant à faire sauter la Chambre des lords, lors de la séance d'ouverture du Parlement, en présence du roi Jacques Ier , le 5 novembre 1605.

• CORINNE ou l'Italie de Mme de Staël (analyse détaillée)

  de mariage d'Oswald. Mais la confession d'Oswald (Xli), qui fut le jouet d'une Française libertine, Mme d'Arbigny, appelle la sienne (XIV) : fille d'une Romaine et d'un lord anglais, élevée jusqu'à quinze ans en Italie, elle est la demi-sœur de Lucile Edgermond, qu'Oswald devrait épou­ ser. De son expérience anglaise, elle garde l'hor­ reur du sort réservé là-bas aux femmes, confi­ nées dans l'ordre domestique, et a choisi la liberté créatri...

• 7 décembre 1915: Lloyd George devient Premier

  En 1905, les unionistes abandonnèrent le pouvoir. Campbell-Bannerman forma un gouvernement libéral, qui triomphaaux élections générales ; Lloyd George reçut le poste important de président du Board of Trade et entra dans lecabinet. En 1908, il fit un nouveau pas en avant : Asquith remplaça Campbell-Bannerman comme Premier ministre etLloyd George devint chancelier de l'Échiquier, c'est-à-dire le numéro deux du gouvernement et l'héritier présomptifdu Premier. L'association entre Asquith et Lloyd G...

• ÈVE FUTURE (L’) Villiers de L’Isle-Adam. Roman (Résumé de l’ouvrage)

  Villiers de l'Isle-Adam crée un monde fabuleux où les inventions les plus récentes paraissent déjà habituelles. Pour la plus banale , le phonographe , elle avait, depuis sa conception par Charles Cros en 1877 et sa réalisation par Thom as Edison la même année, moins de dix ans d'exist ence lorsque L'Èvefu ture fut publié en 1886. Cependant, à l'encontre de Jules Verne, son contemporain, Villiers n'affic he pas une grande fascination pour ces découver...

• Excerpt from Richard II - anthology.

  He may surrender. So we shall proceedWithout suspicion. YORK. I will be his conduct.Exit BOLINGBROKE. Lords, you that here are under our arrest,Procure your sureties for your days of answer.Little are we beholding to your love,And little looked for at your helping hands. Enter Richard and York RICHARD. Alack, why am I sent for to a kingBefore I have shook off the regal thoughtsWherewith I reigned? I hardly yet have learnedTo insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee.Give sorrow leave awhile to t...

• Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing - anthology.

  BEATRICE. Alas, he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one; so that if he havewit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonablecreature. Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother. MESSENGER. Is't possible? BEATRICE. Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as the fashio...

• Définition: ESPÉRER, verbe transitif.

  pardon (GABRIEL SÉNAC DE MEILHAN, L'Émigré, 1797, page 1736 ). Le lord de la trésorerie : — Jamais entrevue ne fut plus désirée. Richard : — Vous y comptiez? Le lord de la trésorerie : — Nous l'espérions (ALEXANDRE DUMAS PÈRE, Richard Darlington, 1832, II, 2, page 96 ). L'expression d'attente anxieuse du dieu Tlaloc, espérant la pluie comme un pauvre homme dont le soleil a calciné le champ (ÉLIE FAURE, L'Esprit des formes, 1927, page 118 ). — Entrevoir la possibilité de quelque chose; escompter,...

• Excerpt from Martin Chuzzlewit - anthology.

  But there is one other piece of evidence, bearing immediate reference to their close connextion with this memorable event in English History, which must carryconviction, even to a mind (if such a mind there be) remaining unconvinced by these presumptive proofs. There was, within a few years, in the possession of a highly respectable and in every way credible and unimpeachable member of the Chuzzlewit Family (for hisbitterest enemy never dared to hint at his being otherwise than a wealthy man...

• Oscar-Preisträger.

  Beste RegieJAHR NAME ORIGINALTITEL DEUTSCHER TITEL 1929 Lewis MilestoneFrank Borzage Two Arabian KnightsSeventh Heaven SchlachtenbummlerIm siebenten Himmel 1930 Frank Lloyd The Divine Lady Die ungekrönte Königin 1930 Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues 1931 Norman Taurog Skippy - 1932 Frank Borzage Bad Girl - 1934 Frank Lloyd Cavalcade Cavalcade 1935 Frank Capra It Happened One Night Es geschah in einer Nacht 1936 John Ford The Informer Der Verräter 1937 Frank C...

• Byron (George Gordon.

  derniers poèmes à un jeune Grec dont il s'était passionnément épris. Son orgueil blessé, sa mélancolie hautaine et sa volonté impétueuse d'affirmer sa liberté absolue eurent une influence considérable sur le romantisme français (Delacroix, Lamartine). Mais les Anglais, bien que sensibles à la langue ferme et sonore de ses vers teintés d'un lyrisme poignant, ont toujours mis au-dessus de lui les fulgurances de Shelley, Keats, Blake ou Coleridge. Le génie poétique de Byron réside peut-êt...

• Excerpt from Love's Labour's Lost - anthology.

  BEROWNE. I could put thee in comfort—not by two that I know.Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,The shape of Love's Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity. LONGAVILLE. I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move.(Reading ) “O sweet Maria, empress of my love!”— These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.He tears the paper BEROWNE. O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose;Disfigure not his shop. LONGAVILLE. ( taking another paper ) This same shall go: (Reading ) “Did not the he...

• HOMME QUI RIT (l') de Hugo

  Gwynplaine est le personnage principal du roman. Fils légitime de Lord Linnaeus Clancharlie, il est enlevé et défiguré par des Comprachicos. Abandonné sur une plage, il trouve refuge chez Ursus avec lequel il va vivre quinze annéesheureuses avant de se faire emprisonner. En prison, il découvre le secret de son identité et retrouve ses droits deLord. Mais déçu par la noblesse anglaise, il renonce à ses droits et retourne vivre auprès d'Ursus et de Déa, lafemme qu'il aime. Quand cette dernièr...

• Star Wars :

  twins and dies on board Bail Organa's ship. The twins are a boy, Luke, and a girl, Leia. Later, Luke learn by Darth Vader that he is his father. At the end, the dark lord attempted to kill Luke with Force lightning, a sight that moves Vader to turn and kill his master, suffering mortal wounds in the process. Redeemed, Anakin Skywalker dies in his son's arms.  

• History of Colonial America - U.

  Despite the lack of settlement, New France prospered as a vast fur-trading enterprise. French explorers traveled deep into the North American continent seeking newsupplies of deerskins and beaver pelts. In 1673 French missionary Jacques Marquette reached the Mississippi River in present-day Wisconsin. In 1681 explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, traveled down the majestic Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. He honored the reign of King Louis XIV (1643-1715) by creating the newcolony...

• Bible.

  collection of many different books. The Old Testament is by no means a unified book in terms of authorship, date of composition, or literary type; it is instead a veritablelibrary. Generally speaking, the books of the Old Testament and their component parts may be identified as narratives, poetic works, prophetic works, law, or apocalypses.Most of these are broad categories that include various distinct types or genres of literature and oral tradition. None of these categories is limited to the...

• Christianity.

  history of architecture. See Basilica; Church; Early Christian Art and Architecture;Prayer. C Christian Life The instruction and exhortation of Christian preaching and teaching concern all the themes of doctrine and morals: the love of God and the love of neighbor, the twochief commandments in the ethical message of Jesus (see Matthew 22: 34-40). Application of these commandments to the concrete situations of human life, bothpersonal and social, does not produce a uniformity of moral or polit...

• Le petit déjeuner de Liotard

  1754 Peintre suisse Analyse • Assise dans un fauteuil doré et orné d'un motif floral qui rappelle le style Régence , une jeune femme attend son petit déjeuner qu'une jeune domestique lui sert. Ce tableau, qui a peut-être été coupé à gauche , est assez étonnant, à la fois par la proximité des objets et des personnages représentés, et par le choix du moment figuré. Observée d'un point de vue légèrement suré­ levé, la jeune...

• From The Canterbury Tales - anthology.

  In Gernade at the sege eek hadde he beOf Algezir, and riden in Belmarye;At Lyes was he and at Satalye,Whan they were wonne; and in the Grete SeeAt many a noble arivee hadde he be. At mortal batailes hadde he been fifteene,And foughten for oure feith at TramisseneIn listes thries, and ay slayn his fo. This ilke worthy knyght hadde been alsoSometime with the lord of PalatyeAgain another hethen in Turkye;And everemore he hadde a soverein pris.And though that he were worthy, he was wis,And of his po...

• Winston Churchill I INTRODUCTION Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945, 1951-1955), widely regarded as the greatest British leader of the 20th century.

  sufficient tools to break the stalemate on the western front and he worked on developing armored fighting vehicles (tanks) to break the deadlock and end theslaughter. As the lines hardened on the western front, Churchill focused on a campaign to force open the Dardanelles Strait, controlled by the Ottoman Empire, to give the Allies adirect route to Russia through the Black Sea. Such a move would bring much-needed supplies to the Russian armies and eliminate the Ottomans from the war. Whenthe nav...

• Winston Churchill.

  sufficient tools to break the stalemate on the western front and he worked on developing armored fighting vehicles (tanks) to break the deadlock and end theslaughter. As the lines hardened on the western front, Churchill focused on a campaign to force open the Dardanelles Strait, controlled by the Ottoman Empire, to give the Allies adirect route to Russia through the Black Sea. Such a move would bring much-needed supplies to the Russian armies and eliminate the Ottomans from the war. Whenthe nav...

• Winston Churchill .

  sufficient tools to break the stalemate on the western front and he worked on developing armored fighting vehicles (tanks) to break the deadlock and end theslaughter. As the lines hardened on the western front, Churchill focused on a campaign to force open the Dardanelles Strait, controlled by the Ottoman Empire, to give the Allies adirect route to Russia through the Black Sea. Such a move would bring much-needed supplies to the Russian armies and eliminate the Ottomans from the war. Whenthe nav...

• Crusades.

  modern Lebanon; the Principality of Antioch, in modern Syria; and the County of Edessa, in modern northern Syria and southern Turkey. IV CRUSADES OF THE 12TH CENTURY The Crusades of the 12th century, through the end of the Third Crusade in 1192, illustrate the tensions and problems that plagued the enterprise as a whole. For thelords of Outremer a compromise with the residents and Muslim powers made sense; they could not live in constant warfare. And yet as European transplants theydepended on...

• Crusades .

  modern Lebanon; the Principality of Antioch, in modern Syria; and the County of Edessa, in modern northern Syria and southern Turkey. IV CRUSADES OF THE 12TH CENTURY The Crusades of the 12th century, through the end of the Third Crusade in 1192, illustrate the tensions and problems that plagued the enterprise as a whole. For thelords of Outremer a compromise with the residents and Muslim powers made sense; they could not live in constant warfare. And yet as European transplants theydepended on...

• William Shakespeare I INTRODUCTION William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists.

  Shakespeare’s reputation today is, however, based primarily on the 38 plays that he wrote, modified, or collaborated on. Records of Shakespeare’s plays begin toappear in 1594, when the theaters reopened with the passing of the plague that had closed them for 21 months. In December of 1594 his play The Comedy of Errors was performed in London during the Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn, one of the London law schools. In March of the following year he received payment for two playsthat had been per...