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Michelet
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Mi·che·let  (msh--l, msh-l), Jules 1798-1874.
French historian noted for his lively 17-volume Histoire de France (1833-1867).
Michelet (French) [miʃəle]
n
(Biographies / Michelet, Jules (1798-1874) M, French, HISTORY: historian) Jules (ʒyl). 1798-1874, French historian, noted esp for his Histoire de France (17 vols, 1833-67)
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She introduces us to the dark ages of personal hygiene, termed by French historian Jules Michelet "a thousand years without a bath" (Ashenburg reassures us this was, in reality, a mere four hundred years without a bath), and takes us through medieval bathhouses, which suffered such ill repute and fear of disease.
Out, damned spot! Concern with personal hygiene is a movable obsession by Horsfield, Margaret / Literary Review of Canada
As noted by the French historian Jules Michelet, the salon offered 'segregated' conversations: "Tutti vedono ogni sera come un salotto si divida in due salotti, uno degli uomini e uno delle donne," quoted in Simonetta Soldani's preface "Emilia Toscanelli Peruzzi, o la passione della politica," Edmondo De Amicis, Un salotto fiorentino del secolo scorso 12.
A room with a view: interpreting the Ottocento through the literary ... by Romani, Gabriella / Italica
Renzo Ragghianti supplies a wealth of bibliographic detail in surveying the image of the Renaissance in French writers from Victor Cousin to Jules Michelet and Ernest Renan.
Rinascimento: mito e concetto by Kohl, Benjamin G. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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