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His Father Was Guillotined: Because of his influence as a poet and moralist, Guittone is considered a forerunner of Dante, although Dante was critical of Guittone's writing style, which he considered pedestrian. Guittone died, probably in Florence, in 1294.
GUIZOT, ge-zcV, Frangois (1787-1874), French political leader and historian. Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot was born in Nimes, France, on Oct. 4, 1787. The son of bourgeois Protestant parents, he was forced to emigrate to Geneva with his mother after his father was guillotined in 1794. He was educated there and in Par where the family moved in 1805.
In ily 1794 Robespierre himself was accused id guillotined, and the Terror gradually ed away. In 1795 a new two-chamber sembly was elected, and order returned adually to France.
RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father, and their father's father. |
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