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    Antoine de Rivarol (26 June 1753 – 11 April 1801) was a Royalist French writer and translator who lived during the Revolutionary era. He was briefly married...
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  • Rivarol may refer to: Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801), French writer Rivarol, French magazine published since 1951 This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol born Louisa Flint (1749 – 1821) was a French translator of Scottish descent. Rivarol was born in 1749 in Remiremont. Her father...
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  • Language (French: Discours sur l'universalité de la langue française) is a 1784 essay by Antoine de Rivarol. He began his discourse by tracing a brief history...
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    His paradoxical character was described in an epigram attributed to Antoine de Rivarol, "abbé libertin, militaire philosophe, diplomate chansonnier, émigré...
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    Palissot de Montenoy (3 January 1730 – 15 June 1814) was an 18th-century French playwright, admirer and disciple of Voltaire and Antoine de Rivarol. Paradoxically...
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    Divine Comedy (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Enlightenment, with some notable exceptions such as Vittorio Alfieri; Antoine de Rivarol, who translated the Inferno into French; and Giambattista Vico, who...
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    critically lambasted until the 19th century. The malicious wit of Antoine de Rivarol's mot on the critical failure of the poem, "Cest le plus beau naufrage...
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  • an amnesty in 1953, he became editor of the extreme nationalist journal Rivarol, as well as contributing to Henry Coston's Lectures Françaises, Jeune Nation...
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    opposite of the political spectrum (see French Revolution) the maxims of Antoine de Rivarol are among those that easily compare in acidity and brilliance. Praise...
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    witty and ill-natured group also containing Nicolas Chamfort, Antoine de Rivarol, Louis René de Champcenetz, etc. On the other hand he has the credit of caring...
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  • thereafter. Edited by Antoine de Rivarol, its contributors included Louis de Champcenetz, Gérard de Lally-Tollendal, the Comte de Montlosier, Jean-Gabriel...
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    prominent figures of the Revolution, such as General Santerre, Lafayette, Antoine Rivarol, and Talleyrand. There were rumors that only selected documents were...
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  • de l’Europe, Paris, 1788, in-8° ; (Pamphlet against Rivarol, composed by Grouvelle with Cerutti's help and inserted in the Œuvres of the latter.) De l’autorité...
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  • (born 1743) March 25 – Novalis, German poet (born 1772) April 11 – Antoine de Rivarol, French scholar and epigrammatist (born 1753) September 1 – Robert...
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  • 8 – Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (died 1784) June 26 – Antoine de Rivarol, French Royalist writer (died 1801) July 8 – Ann Yearsley, née Cromartie...
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    Romanian authors such as Alexander von Humboldt, Thomas Aquinas, Antoine de Rivarol, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther, Eugenio...
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  • and wrote for monarchist publications such as Aspects de la France, La Nation Française and Rivarol. Although he was associated with Action Française intellectuals...
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    Chou et le Navet), anonymous there but known to have been written by Antoine de Rivarol. There the humble products of the vegetable garden protest their displacement...
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  • Enlightenment? William Mitford – The History of Greece Antoine de Rivarol – Sur l'Universalité de la langue française Ebenezer Sibly – A New and Complete...
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  • Fontaine, but came the closest to the master. The polemical writer Antoine de Rivarol was sarcastic in stating that Boisard's fables "have outmoded those...
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  • Zinzolin (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    century, with a 1769 pamphlet, still known and criticised by Diderot. Antoine de Rivarol used the word for satirical purposes.Max Jacob was able to use zinzolin...
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  • Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2004-09-23). "Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford...
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    Feuillants. They called themselves the Amis de la Constitution. The group was led by Antoine Barnave, Alexandre de Lameth and Adrien Duport. As the Constitution...
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    1970 : L'Église de Judas? 1970 : Beaumarchais ou les Fredaines de Figaro 1974 : Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou le Rêve de la vie 1978 : Rivarol et la Révolution...
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    to Hamburg, where he met Antoine de Rivarol, of whose brilliant conversation he has left an account. He also visited Madame de Staël in her retreat at...
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    pilgrimage to Mecca". Gobineau loved Oriental tales by the French translator Antoine Galland, often saying he wanted to become an Orientalist. He read Arab...
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    Antoine di Tillois Malcolm McGregor as Robert Le Rivarol Marceline Day as Louise de Tillois Carmel Myers as Countess de Sano Roy D'Arcy as Count de Sano...
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    of those prizes was the first, awarded in 1784, won ex-aequo with Antoine de Rivarol, in an essay investigating why French had become a universal international...
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    Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (French: [alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin]; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869) was a French author, poet,...
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