We learn from our Chicago correspondent that the great buildings are liberally adorned with "figures of nude men of heroic size, not a detail of which has escaped the loving care of the fin de siecle sculptors.
Le XVI^e siecle et les Successeurs de l'Ecole Florentine [The 16th Century and the Successors of the Florentine School].
Premiere moitie du XV^e siecle [First half of the 15th century].
But it was not Michel Letellier, as stated in some editions of the "Siecle de Louis XIV.
Hooker wrote this about 1560, and he wrote before the Siecle des Revolutions had begun, even among ourselves!
Siecle de Louis XIV', and giving facts which he had collected whilst himself imprisoned in the same place as the unknown prisoner twenty years later.
Six years after the Man in the Mask had been thus delivered over to the curiosity of the public, the 'Siecle de Louis XIV' (2 vols.
This tale made some impression, for it was remembered that in the Supplement to the 'Siecle de Louis XIV' it was stated that Chamillart had said that "the Iron Mask was a man who knew all the secrets of M.
The details published in the 'Siecle de Louis XIV' as to the personal appearance of the masked prisoner might have been taken as a description of Monmouth, who possessed great physical beauty.
I was induced to this by his 'Siecle de Louis XIV', which I have yet read but four times.
His Annales politiques are a useful correction to the Siecle de Louis Quatorze.
Most extreme is the "Bible" of Guiot de Provens: it satirizes the entire age, "siecle puant et orrible.
Fenelon's antipathy for import and export duties in Telemaque, a part of his general opposition to the siecle de Louis XIV.
Footnote 210-3: In this way Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.
A phantom arbiter between phantom plenipotentiaries," says Voltaire, in the Siecle de Louis XIV.
People were dying of want to the sound of the Te Deum," says Voltaire in the Siecle de Louis XIV.
But after a few essays in poetry, partly burlesque and partly serious, notably a Siecle de Louis XIV.
He died in his hundredth year, and almost at the end of it, his long life extending from the very earliest glories of the Siecle de Louis XIV.
These various drawbacks had perhaps less influence on the Siecle de Louis Quatorze than on any other of his historical works, and it is accordingly the best.
He, like Fenelon, belongs to the second, if not the third, generation of the Siecle de Louis Quatorze, being nearly forty years younger than Bossuet.
Hatzfeld and Darmesteter, Le Seizieme Siecleen France (Paris, 1878), one of the best histories extant in a small compass of a brief but important period of literature.
It was an age of faith in the secular sense described by Guizot: "C'etait un siecle ardent et sincere, un siecle plein de foi et d'enthousiasme.
Male's "Art Religieux du XIIIe Siecle en France," and use it for a guide-book.
Au cinquieme siecle on l'avoit surtout attachee a l'orthodoxie, au septieme on l'avoit reduite a la bienfaisance envers les couvens.
Better balanced is the monumental work of a group of French scholars, Histoire generale du IVe siecle a nos jours, edited by Ernest Lavisse and Alfred Rambaud, 12 vols.
The possibility of caricature seemed to him to account admirably for his reluctance to paint "A Fin de Siecle Tribute,"--it was a matter of conscience.
The Siecle also gave an account of Jasmin's interview with the Emperor and Empress at Saint-Cloud, and the whole proceeding redounded to the honour of the Gascon poet.
The news of his arrest in Paris arrived at Luneville at the very moment when he was delighting the Lorrain Court with reading out his just completed chapter of Le Siecle de Louis XIV.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "siecle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
