Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Moliere, a Parisian, early acquired the habit of observation, and being possessed of the faculty of condensing into a single scene the striking traits of a whole class, made his works reflect the whole panorama of society. Jealousy is a trait to which he devoted much attention. Laying his finger on the spot most open to ridicule, he pilloried social characteristics that are as prominent now as then. He was a true precursor of the Revolution, in that he attacked the nobles, not as individuals, but as a class...
...Parisian Model," selections...
Cosmopolitan--"Parisian Pedlars and Their Musical Cries," by B. Gilman '80; "Great Industries of the United States," by F. S. Hall...
During the monarchy there had been only two Parisian prisons, but the new regime turned almost every sort of establishment into prisons, and they were all crowded to the doors. The most famous of the prisons was the Conciergerie, the antechamber of death, which still stands, though it has been greatly altered internally. This, and the Temple, the former headquarters of the Knights Templar, are the most interesting of the many places of confinement used by the Terrorists. The Temple was the prison of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame Royal, and the Dauphine, and it was thence that...
...Mabilleau in part described the co-operative society founded by Jean Le Clerc, of which he is now president, and told of the great help that it had been to poor Parisian painters of the past 60 years...