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Hace 5 días · Camille Huysmans (born May 26, 1871, Bilzen, Belg.—died Feb. 25, 1968, Antwerp) was a socialist writer and statesman, a leader of the moderate wing of the Flemish nationalist movement during the first decades of the 20th century, and prime minister of Belgium from 1946 to 1947.
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Hace 3 días · IN THE home of Des Esseintes, the hero of Joris Karl Huysmans’s classic decadent novel À Rebours (Against Nature, 1884), there is an item of furniture that has always filled me with wonder. Actually, there are many such furnishings, including a bejewelled tortoise that wanders from room to room.
Hace 22 horas · 1855-1861. Eugène Delacroix paints the murals of the Chapel of the Holy Angels. 1901. Saint-Sulpice is classified as a French National Historic Landmark. 1991. Major restoration campaign begins, continuing to the present day. Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris is one of the city’s largest churches, being only slightly smaller than Notre Dame ...
Hace 4 días · The Hunchback of Notre Dame, historical novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in French in 1831 as Notre-Dame de Paris (‘Our Lady of Paris’). Set in Paris during the 15th century, the novel centers on Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, and his unrequited love.
Hace 4 días · The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, the entity charged with preserving the landmark cathedral and operating its museum, called the discovery after nearly 700 years of the terracotta bust...
Hace 4 días · A previously unknown terracotta bust of the famed early Renaissance architect who designed the Florence Cathedral dome has been unveiled in the Tuscan capital, where it will be displayed permanently following restoration.
Hace 1 día · Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) was published in 1831 and quickly translated into other languages across Europe. One of the effects of the novel was to shame the City of Paris into restoring the much neglected Cathedral of Notre Dame, which was attracting thousands of tourists who had read the popular ...
