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قراءة كتاب A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3)
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A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3)
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME TWO
FULL PAGES IN COLOR
- The First Steam Railway. Painted by Edward L. Henry Frontispiece
- Balaklava. Painted by Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler)
- Solferino. Painted by E. Meissonier
- Last Moments of Maximilian. Painted by J. Paul Laurens
FULL PAGES IN BLACK AND WHITE
- American Inventors. Painted by C. Schussele
- The King of Rome. Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence
- Lord Byron. Painted by Maurin
- Beethoven and His Admirers. Painted by A. Grafle
- Queen Victoria Taking the Oath. Painted by Sir George Hayter
- Lord Tennyson. Painted by Frederic Sandys
- Washington Irving and His Friends. Painted by Daniel Huntington
- The Battle of Inkermann. Painted by Gustave Doré
- Wagner and Liszt. Painted by W. Beckmann
- Opening of the Opera. Painted by Edouard Detaille
- Execution of Sepoy Rebels. Painted by Verestchagin
- The Emperor of China Receiving the Diplomatic Corps.
1816
AN ERA of peace and reconstruction had begun. After a generation of war and turmoil France was started on her new career of parliamentary government. The brief period of retaliation ended with the so-called amnesty act of January, which condemned Napoleon and all his relatives to perpetual exile. Parliamentary rule in France The Chambers now entered into a prolonged discussion of the propositions for a new election law. The Ministry was headed by the Duc de Richelieu, who had taken the place of Talleyrand and Fouché. The latter was compelled to leave France forever. Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr, who succeeded Davoust, reorganized the army on a permanent footing of military equality which satisfied even Napoleon's veterans. In the Chambers, the Comte d'Artois represented the ultra-royalist right wing, while the left was brilliantly led by Lafayette, Manuel, and Benjamin Constant. Guizot, during the same year, for the first time ascended the tribune as spokesman of the moderate party—the so-called Doctrinaires.Revival of French letters Chateaubriand so offended the king by his book "La Monarchie selon la Charte" that his name was crossed from the list of the Council of State. Yet he remained the foremost man of letters in France.
Béranger was the foremost lyric poet. A typical song by him is that rendered by Thackeray:
| With pensive eyes the little room I view, Béranger Where, in my youth, I weathered it so long; With a wild mistress, a stanch friend or two, And a light heart still breaking into song: Making a mock of life, and all its cares, Rich in the glory of my rising sun, Lightly I vaulted up four pair of stairs, In the brave days when I was twenty-one. Yes; 'tis a garret—let him know't who will— There was my bed—full hard it was and small; My table there—and I decipher still Half a lame couplet charcoaled on the wall. Ye joys, that Time hath swept with him away, Come to mine eyes, ye dreams of love and fun; For you I pawned my watch how many a day, In the brave days when I was twenty-one. And see my little Lizette, first of all; She comes with pouting lips and sparkling eyes; Behold, how roguishly she pins her shawl Across the narrow easement, curtain-wise; Now by the bed her petticoat glides down, And when did woman look the worse in none? I have heard since who paid for many a gown, |