This section presents la France, its Majestic Culture that has touched the hearts and minds of the world, since centuries ago.
If United States is seen as the Freedom Defenders in the world, la France is the country and culture that created the visions and Philosophy of Freedom and Liberty.
Vive la France et vive la Liberté
Emperor Bonaparte not only influenced the Literature of his era the Romanticism but equally the foundation of Civil Law and the Political structure of European Continent, of his time and beyond.
Still …. yet ……..his indelible name in the pages …..of Literature, Music ….and Art …..from Lord Byron……and the Beethoven’s symphony of Eroica echoes the Napoleonic Era immersed with the European Romanticism.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David 1812 Paris©Wikipedia
Code Napoléon (Napoleonic Code)
General Marquis de Lafayette, known as the U.S National Hero
General Lafayette (right) and General Washington at Valley Forge 1777-1778 ©Wikipedia
General Lafayette forever in the American Hearts and History ©U.S Embassy Paris
In honour of General Lafayette ©U.S Embassy Paris
From New York to Washington DC and across the U.S from East coast to the West there are innumerable Monuments in Honour of General Lafayette, the Charismatic…… French Commander that left America, for centuries, deeply in love with him.
General Marquis de Lafayette The French General and the U.S National Hero
http://www.friendsoflafayette.org/about-lafayette.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/marquis-lafayette-sails-again-180954590/?page=1
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/educ/hist/lafayette.html
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/lafayette.html
Charles Alexis Henri Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville, a great Politician, historian of la France, the Author of: Democracy in America
Learn more on France:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 was awarded to Sully Prudhomme of France
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 was awarded to Romain Rolland
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921 was awarded to Anatole France
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960 was awarded to Saint-John Perse
Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1985 was awarded to Claude Simon
Médecins Sans Frontières recepeint of The Nobel Peace Prize 1999
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
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