Chaucer went to the war in France.
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The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) [Chaucer Biography] - 42 views
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In the grant of his pension Chaucer is called "dilectus vallectus noster," our beloved yeoman; before the end of 1368 he had risen to be one of the king's esquires.
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est né de la volonté de quatre maisons d'édition (Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte et Erès) ayant en charge la publication et la diffusion de revues de sciences humaines et sociales, d’unir leurs efforts pour améliorer leur présence sur l’Internet, et de proposer à d’autres acteurs souhaitant développer une version électronique de leurs publications, les outils techniques et commerciaux développés à cet effet.
2.2 The Third Estate as the voice of the nation - French Revolution - OpenLearn - The O... - 24 views
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He argued that sovereignty, or ultimate political power in a state, derives not from the monarch but from the ‘people’ or ‘nation’, that it must be exercised in their interest and for their benefit, that it should be controlled and circumscribed by laws, and that the ruler's tenure of office is in the nature of a trust exercised for the people's benefit and with their consent, underpinned by an implicit agreement or ‘social contract’
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additional boost, first from the success of the American Revolution and the summoning of a constitutional convention by the United States in 1787, and now in France by the summoning of the Estates-General.
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1 Enlightenment, liberty and revolution - French Revolution - OpenLearn - The Open Univ... - 8 views
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Catherine the Great of Russia, once the darling of two of those leading figures, Voltaire and Diderot, was by 1794 voicing the suspicion 'that the aim of the philosophes was to overturn all thrones, and that the Encyclopédie was written with no other end in view than to destroy all kings and all religions'
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Time, Wired and The New Yorker
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This campaign turned famous authors into headphones.
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School portraits are turned on their heads to remind the viewer that every child gets education
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When the World Knocks on Our Classroom Door - 21 views
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