Marquis de Custine information

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine (18 March 1790 – 25 September 1857) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing...

People named Custine include: Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740-1793), French general Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine (1790-1857), French...

revolution she focused on the education of her son, Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine, taking him to Italy and Switzerland. A freethinker, she was a prominent...

history. He is accompanied by "the European", who represents the Marquis de Custine, a 19th-century French traveler. An international co-production between...

French author Marquis de Custine. Highly critical of Russia, it was banned there during the era of the Russian Empire. Due to this work, Custine was later...

Tsar Nicholas to be condemned by a succession of Roman Pontiffs, the Marquis de Custine, Charles Dickens, and many Western governments. (See also Cantonists...

Barras(1755-1827) Marquis de Custine (1790-1857) Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834-1901) Jacques Godart, 6th Marquis de Belbeuf (1850-1906) Robert de Montesquiou...

celebrities among her close friends: Stendhal, Benjamin Constant, the Marquis de Custine, even the Queen of Greece. The Princess's cook for a time was Marie-Antoine...

homosexuality. El Salvador decriminalizes homosexuality. 28 October – The Marquis de Custine is beaten and left for dead after propositioning a male soldier in...

Tsar ordered that the rebuilding be completed within a year. The Marquis de Custine described the "unheard of efforts" that were necessary to facilitate...

Constant Tristan Corbière Pierre Corneille, classicist playwright Marquis de Custine, travel writer Jean-Marie Dallet Joseph Dallois Myriam David, psychoanalyst...

detail Church of Notre Dame: Altar detail Astolphe Louis Léonor, Marquis de Custine (1790-1857), writer, is buried in the Chapel of Saint-Aubin-sur-Auquainville...

policy of that time. The idea of calling Russia a prison is based on Marquis de Custine's book La Russie en 1839. Engels had used the phrase. It is also associated...

Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (1836) Gleanings in Europe: England (1837) Marquis de Custine (1790–1857) Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (1838)...

Jacques Arago, French traveller and writer (died 1855) March 18 – Marquis de Custine, French aristocrat and travel writer (died 1857) June 9 – Abel-François...

life, and compared her again to Charles Baudelaire and also to the Marquis de Custine for the quality of her writing and for her veiled approach to exploring...

first applied to pre-revolutionary Tsarist Russia in the 1840s by Marquis de Custine's critical book La Russie en 1839. It was later taken up by Alexander...

balls at the palace, the equal to those of the Imperial family. The Marquis de Custine recalled that "Grand Duchess Elena for each of the festivities she...

Most likely, this error is admitted for the first time in work of Marquis de Custine "La Russie en 1839", in which it confuses the cholera revolt of 1831...

Present Marquis de Custine – La Russie en 1839 (Russia in 1839) Benjamin Hall Kennedy – Elementary Latin Primer Søren Kierkegaard (as Johannes de Silentio)...

traveler c. 1829: Alexander von Humboldt German naturalist 1839: Marquis de Custine very hostile 1847: August von Haxthausen publicized the peasant commune...

courteously, which was already a charm". In her Yaroslavl parlor, Marquis de Custine, by his own admission, felt like "in London or rather in Petersburg"...