AIX-LA-CHAPELLE

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books on: Aix La Chapelle  - 1809 results

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Chronicles of Pennsylvania from the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle, 1688-1748 - Vol. 2
Book by Charles P. Keith; Patterson and White, 1917
Subjects: Pennsylvania--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
CHRONICLES OF PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION TO THE PEACE OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE 1688-1748 BY CHARLES P. KEITH AUTHOR OF "THE PROVINCIAL COUNCILLORS OF PENNSYLVANIA 1733-1776" AND "THE ANCESTRY OF BENJAMIN...
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Chronicles of Pennsylvania from the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle, 1688-1748: By Charles P. Keith - Vol. 1
Book by Charles P. Keith; Patterson and White Co., 1917
Subjects: Pennsylvania--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
...PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION TO THE PEACE OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE 1688-1748 BY CHARLES P. KEITH AUTHOR OF "THE PROVINCIAL...illam a meridie usque ad partam illant estuarii de De La Ware ab Aquilone que subjacet quadrigesimo gradui latitudinis...
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Napoleon and History Painting: Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille D'Eylau
Book by Christopher Prendergast; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Apotheosis In Art, Battles In Art, Gros, Antoine-Jean--Baron--1771-1835--Criticism And Interpretation, History In Art, Napoleon--I--Emperor Of The French--1769-1821--Portraits
...coronation Napoleon paid a much-advertised visit to Aix-la-Chapelle, to pay homage at the burial place of the Holy Roman...which Napoleon read and annotated on his visit to Aix-la-Chapelle . Mably suggested that religious consecration and divine...
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Adrienne: The Life of the Marquise de la Fayette
Book by André Maurois; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Lafayette, Marie Adrienne De Noailles--Marquise De--1759-1807
...Adrienne THE LIFE OF THE MARQUISE DE LA FAYETTE ANDRE MAUROIS TRANSLATED...220 III La Femme Lafayette 235...of Olmutz to open in 1797, General de La Fayette knew freedom again after five years...
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French XVIII Century Painters: Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, La Tour, Greuze Fragonard
Book by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt; Phaidon, 1948
Subjects: Painters--France
...PAINTERS WATTEAU BOUCHER CHARDIN LA TOUR GREUZE FRAGONARD LONDON MCMXLVIII...CHARDIN 107 LA TOUR 157...Jules de Goncourt after Fragonard La Tour, etc., is concerned exclusively with...
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journal articles on: Aix La Chapelle  - 20 results

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Architectural Symbolism and the Decoration of the Ste.-Chapelle
Journal article by Daniel H. Weisse; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic--Analysis, Chapels--Analysis, Church architecture--Analysis
...reliquaries - Charlemagnes at Aix-la-Chapelle being the most influential early...Stein, Le Palais de justice et la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris: Notice historique...Perrot. 4. I. Hacker-Stick, "La Sainte-Chapelle de Paris et les chapelles palatines...
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The Politics of Courtly Love: 'La Prise d'Orange' and the Conversion of the Saracen Queen
Journal article by Sharon Kinoshita; The Romanic Review, Vol. 86, 1995
Subjects: Epic poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French poetry--To 1500, Love in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...takes her back to his capital at Aix-la-Chapelle, that she might be instructed...Bramimonde is brought from Spain to Aix-la-Chapelle in order that she may embrace...Gloriete than "in sweet France or at Aix-la-chapelle" (ll. 1418-20). (34.) One has...
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Le Conservatisme De la Langue, Gage Du Caractere Litteraire Du Texte et Temoin D'une Nouvelle Conception De L'acte D'ecriture: Le Cas d'Ysaye le Triste
Journal article by Daniela Pantcheva Capin; Medium Aevum, Vol. 73, 2004
Subjects: French literature--Criticism and interpretation
...Nanteuil, Aye dAvignon, Gui de Nanteuil, Parise la duchesse et Tristan de Nanteuil. (51) Cf. Parise la duchesse, ed. May Plouzeau, 2 vols (Aix-en-Provence, 1986). (52) Cf. Michael Heintze, Les techniques de la formation de cycles dans les chansons...
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Photography by Other Means? the Engravings of Ferdinand Gaillard
Journal article by Stephen Bann; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 88, 2006
Subjects: Engravers--Appreciation, Engravers--Works, Gaillard, Ferdinand--Appreciation, Gaillard, Ferdinand--Works
...been exhibited as part of the Suermondt collection in Aix-la-Chapelle, it had obviously gripped the attention of contemporaries...Burger, "Nouvelles etudes sur la Galerie Suermondt a Aix-la-Chapelle," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1 (January 1, 1869): 7. Galichons...
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Alexander I, the Holy Alliance and Clemens Metternich: A Reappraisal
Journal article by Henry A. Delfiner; East European Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Alexander I, Emperor of Russia--Portrayals
...mentioned, taking place at the time of the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818 when the Tsar had asked his ambassador to Paris...when he went down the Rhine to attend the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle and was welcomed frantically by a populace which had...
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magazine articles on: Aix La Chapelle  - 5 results

 
 
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The Foundation of Belgium: Philip Mansel Recalls the Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium in 1831, in a Successful Act of Co-operation between London, Paris and Brussels
Magazine article by Philip Mansel; History Today, Vol. 56, May 2006
Subjects: Belgian foreign relations, Belgium--History, Belgium--Political aspects, Belgium--Social aspects
...invoking the Quadruple Alliance of 1814 and the Congress of Aix la Chapelle of 1818, which had guaranteed the Netherlands frontiers...a successor of the Congresses of Vienna, (1814-15), Aix la Chapelle (1818) and Verona (1822). It enjoyed its own ideology...
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The Conquest of Algiers: Nigel Falls Describes How France Became Caught Up in an Unexpectedly Complicated Imperial Adventure in 1830
Magazine article by Nigel Falls; History Today, Vol. 55, October 2005
Subjects: Algerian history, French colonialism--History, French history, 1815-1870
...international conferences in Vienna and Aix-la-Chapelle in 1815-16. The bombardment of Algiers...opposed the 1815-16 agreements at Aix-la-Chapelle to tackle piracy through international...Macmillan, 1966); D.Bouche, Histoire de la colonization francaise (Paris, 1970...
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Charlemagne's Church at Aachen
Magazine article by Janet L. Nelson; History Today, Vol. 48, January 1998
Subjects: Aachen, Germany--History, Charlemagne--Homes and haunts, Churches--Germany
...origin to Karl der GroBe. As the Aix-la-Chapelle of French vernacular song and story...who declared, `Je suis Charlemagne, Aix, now part of his empire, was a numinous...was brought back only in 1815 when Aix became Aachen again. Nineteenth-century...
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Napoleon the Kingmaker
Magazine article by Philip Mansel; History Today, Vol. 48, March 1998
Subjects: Europe--History, Monarchy--France, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Evaluation
...expansion, first evident at the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, was maintained throughout...1813, Alexander I told the Comte de La Ferronays, a representative of Louis...themselves, as Joseph Bonaparte wrote to La Fayette in 1830, more legitimate than...
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The Treaty of Westphalia
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 48, October 1998
Subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--History, Treaties--History, Treaty of Westphalia--1648
...aviator, dies October 18th, 1748 The Treaty of Aix la Chapelle is signed, ending the War of the Austrian Succession...


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newspaper articles on: Aix La Chapelle  - 3 results

 
 
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Victory Pitches; Answers to Correspondents
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 27, 1996
...FURTHER to the answer detailing the oldest European university as Bologna, Charlemagne founded the University of Aix La Chapelle in 800 AD, long before Bologna was founded in 1088. Mrs P. Smouha, London, W14. QUESTIONS Q: Why is the Parliamentary...
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Where Would Mankind Be without the Simple Pleasure of Walking
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 28, 1996
...Then through the underpass and into Green Park, my London favourite. Here, in 1748, they celebrated the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle by having a huge firework display, for which Handel wrote his Music For The Royal Fireworks and which ended by burning...
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Why Can't Railways Cut Fares to Fill Seats? ASK FRANK, REVIEW
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 25, 2005
Subjects: First Great Western, Railroads
...cities. Travel from Belgium to Germany on the motorway and you see Aachen variously shown as Aken (in Flemish) and Aix-la-Chapelle (in French). Even more strangely, the Italian name for Munich is Monaco. Q A


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encyclopedia articles on: Aix La Chapelle  - 21 results

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Aix-La-Chapelle, Treaty Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, TREATY OF eks-la-shapel . 1 Compact of May 2, 1668, that ended the French invasion of the Spanish Netherlands (see Devolution, War of ). France kept most of its conquests in Flanders; Cambrai, Aire, Saint-Omer, and the province...
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Aix-La-Chapelle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
AIX-LA-CHAPELLE see Aachen , Germany. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Aachen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
AACHEN a kh n, Aix-la-Chapelle eks-la-shapel , or Bad Aachen...1748) were signed there (see Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of ). It was occupied...Prussia in 1815. At the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818) Czar Alexander I of Russia...
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Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton, FÜrst Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...an ton furst f n kou nits, 1711 94, Austrian statesman. He distinguished himself as a negotiator of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) and was (1750 53) ambassador to Paris. From 1753 until his retirement in 1792 he served the Hapsburg rulers...
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Wall, Richard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Spanish military service as a young man and later held important diplomatic posts. He helped negotiate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) ending the War of the Austrian Succession, and he cemented friendly Anglo-Spanish relations as ambassador in...
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