Le Café de Surate’ published in 1790 is an important glimpse into the history of the mercantile and port city as a ...

50 x 40 cm. (19.7 x 15.7 in.) ...

Mysuru: Ravi Joshi, retired Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, will speak on the topic “Understanding the Political Right ...

Revolution to Restoration ... Influenced by the rationalist ideas and moral seriousness of such Enlightenment thinkers as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and inspired by important archaeological ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques ...

The new word was used to describe a new phenomenon – what the French writer Nicolas Chamfort defined ... Samuel Johnson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and later Byron, Chateaubriand and Liszt, wrestled ...

Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the superprime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is ...

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew call them ‘a cross between a museum of priceless artefacts and a warehouse of birth certificates for plants’ – welcome to the fascinating world of herbariums. Over 150 items ...