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... French aggrandizement 19 : 831b passim to 832d Louis XIV style , term describing the visual arts produced in France under Louis XIV ( 1638-1715 ) . The man most influential in French painting of the period was Nicolas Poussin . Although ...
... French aggrandizement 19 : 831b passim to 832d Louis XIV style , term describing the visual arts produced in France under Louis XIV ( 1638-1715 ) . The man most influential in French painting of the period was Nicolas Poussin . Although ...
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... French settlers from Placentia , Newfoundland , it became an im- Lighthouse on the coast of Cape Breton Island at Louisbourg , Nova Scotia Information Canada Phototheque photograph , George Hunter portant fishing and shipbuilding centre ...
... French settlers from Placentia , Newfoundland , it became an im- Lighthouse on the coast of Cape Breton Island at Louisbourg , Nova Scotia Information Canada Phototheque photograph , George Hunter portant fishing and shipbuilding centre ...
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... French sources , abstract and rhetorically elaborate in style , Malory used a plain , crisp , cadenced prose , which reduced the diffuseness of the French , was often vivid where the latter's was colourless , and which in narrative ...
... French sources , abstract and rhetorically elaborate in style , Malory used a plain , crisp , cadenced prose , which reduced the diffuseness of the French , was often vivid where the latter's was colourless , and which in narrative ...
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