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Coleridge: France: an Ode, Notes

Kubla KhanDejection: an OdeFrance: an Ode When Coleridge republished this poem in the Post in 1802 he prefixed to it the following Argument First Stanza. An invocation to those objects…

Brewer's: First Grenadier of France

A title given by Napoleon to Latour d'Auvergne (1743-1800). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894First Stroke is Half the BattleFirst Gentleman of Europe A B C…

Brewer's: Yellow Book of France

A report drawn up by government every year since 1861, designed to furnish historians with reliable information of the state, external and internal, of the French nation. It is called…

Tour de France—2010

(July 3–25, 2010) Cyclist, country Team Behind 1. Alberto Contador, Spain Astana (1) 2. Andy…

Tour de France—2007

(July 7–29, 2007) Cyclist, country Team Behind 1. Alberto Contador, Spain Discovery Channel…

France Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note France Index: People History Political Conditions Foreign Relations U.S.-French Relations PEOPLESince prehistoric times, France has been a crossroads of…

Smith, George Pearson

(Encyclopedia) Smith, George Pearson, 1941–, American biologist, b. Norwalk, Ct., Ph.D. Harvard, 1970. Smith has been a professor at the Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, since 1975 (emeritus since 2015…

Gillette, William

(Encyclopedia) Gillette, WilliamGillette, Williamjəlĕtˈ [key], 1853–1937, American actor and dramatist, b. Hartford, Conn. His New York debut in Mark Twain's Gilded Age (1877) was shortly followed by…