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Built between 1397 and 1407, this is the oldest house in Paris, or at least the oldest it is possible to date. EnVols takes a closer look at this architectural treasure in the heart of the French ...

This liturgy of liberal democracy ran smoothly and consensually, with all participants gathering around recollections, symbols, and values that forged ... it represented a victory of Enlightenment ...

He was educated at Jesuit school and was an "avid" reader at home, "consuming" the latest books by French Enlightenment philosophers ... and the adoption of symbols, including their insignia ...

While the declaration was a symbolic one, one must not underestimate the political power of symbols. On the bicentennial of the French royal ... inherited from the Enlightenment – one that ...

Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier-de-Breteuil, known as the Marquise du Châtelet after her marriage at age 18, was a brilliant philosopher in the French Enlightenment, whose reputation has too long ...