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Hace 4 días · It is election time in France, and the country is overwhelmed with propaganda. The connection between art and power has always been complex, as in the cases of the portrait of Clemenceau painted by Manet and Honoré Daumier’s portrait of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
Hace 5 días · The Clemenceau government had rewarded labour for its war effort by legislating the eight-hour workday in 1919; but when the unions pushed for more reforms, a deadlock ensued.
Hace 1 día · In March 1918, when the Germans launched a last major offensive in the West, Clemenceau replaced the cautious and pessimistic Pétain with a more attack-minded general, Ferdinand Foch, and persuaded the British as well to accept him as supreme commander.
Hace 2 días · Ce discours a été prononcé par Georges Clemenceau le 31 juillet 1885 à la chambre des députés. Il s’exprime sur la politique d’expansion coloniale de la France en réponse au discours colonialiste de Jules Ferry du 28 juillet 1885.
Hace 1 día · In October 2013, Monet's paintings L'Eglise de Vétheuil and Le Bassin aux Nympheas became subjects of a legal case in New York against New York-based Vilma Bautista, one-time aide to Imelda Marcos, wife of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, after she sold Le Bassin aux Nympheas for $32 million to a Swiss buyer.
Hace 2 días · Just prior to the main meeting, Prime Minister Clemenceau claimed he heard Pétain say "les Allemands battront les Anglais en rase campagne, après quoi ils nous battront aussi" ("the Germans will beat the English (sic) in open country, then they'll beat us as well").
Hace 1 día · A 24 días de la desaparición de Loan Danilo Peña, la Justicia Federal trabaja con diversas hipótesis y no hay rastros firmes sobre el chico de 5 años que fue visto por última vez el 13 de junio. Este domingo, en exclusiva, GPS accedió al testimonio de María Victoria Caillava, y su declaración suma evidencias sobre la desaparición del ...
