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Gironde

, department, France

Gironde (zhērôNdˈ), department, SW France, on the Bay of Biscay. Bordeaux is the capital.

Gironde

, estuary, France

Gironde, estuary, c.45 mi (70 km) long and from 2 to 7 mi (3.2–11.3 km) wide, formed by the Garonne and Dordogne rivers, which join c.14 mi (23 km) N of Bordeaux. Sand banks and a high tidal range hamper navigation; oceangoing vessels ascend to Bordeaux and Libourne. The Bordeaux industrial region extends along the Gironde's southern coast. Located between the Médoc and the Cotes vineyards, the Gironde is the great artery of the Bordeaux wine region.

Gironde

1. a department of SW France, in Aquitaine region. Capital: Bordeaux. Pop.: 1 330 683 (2003 est.). Area: 10 726 sq. km (4183 sq. miles)

2. an estuary in SW France, formed by the confluence of the Rivers Garonne and Dordogne. Length: 72 km (45 miles)

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Marie Roland (executed in 1793 at the end of the play) is the respected leader of a group of Girondists (the political groupings and principal protagonists are all explained in Kord's very detailed and helpful notes).

Letzte Chancen: Vier Einakter von Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

See also Alphonse de Lamartine, who calls Corday the "Angel of Assassination" in History of the Girondists; or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution (Histoire des Girondins), trans.

Edmund Eyre's The Maid of Normandy; or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish docudrama

Hawthorne, that is, anticipates the dynamics of the leftward imperative of modem politics, the drive toward ever more radical solutions to social ills and the consequent contempt felt by the more extreme for the less extreme: the Jacobins for the Girondists, the socialist for the liberal, the Marxist for the socialist, the Stalinist for the Trotskyite, the anarchist for them all.

Hawthorne and the universal reformers

(30.) Compare Carlyle, The French Revolution, 536-37; and Alphonse de Lamartine, History of the Girondists; or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, vol.

Heroes, Villains, and Wicked Priests: Authority and Story in the Histories of Simon Schama

The use of the terms 'left' and 'right', which owe their origin to the seeting arrangements of the various factions (Girondists, Plain, Mountain) of the National Convention established by the fathers of the French Revolution in 1792, is not entirely appropriate in the case of the Protestant Reformation since such a duality simplifies too much the religious situation of the sixteenth century.

Tradition and modernity in Protestant Christianity

His association with the moderate Girondists and his argument for sparing the life of Louis XVI made his position.

THOMAS PAINE

Near the end of the 18th century, Madame Roland held a salon that converted the Girondists from talking into doing.

Face-to-face culture

With this formality, the struggle among the various republican factions -- Girondists, Jacobins, Cordeliers, adherents of Robespierre -- began.

Assembly

In contrast to the revolution of 1848, Marx recalls the "French Revolution" of 1789 to demonstrate, if not co-operation between parties, at least their rise and fall, each time replaced by a "bolder ally" (e.g., Girondists by Jacobins) which showed that "the revolution thus moves along an ascending line" (EB 42).