Sentence examples for under the second empire from inspiring English sources

Denigrated during the first half of the 19th century, Danton was rehabilitated under the Second Empire and enshrined as a hero under the Third Republic.

With Rougon-Macquart, he aimed to capture every aspect of life under the Second Empire, a period of unparalleled economic expansion and unashamed materialism.

The Opéra Comique stands fast just off the boulevard des Italiens; the Grévin wax museum survives on the boulevard Montmartre; and, a few doors away, the Théâtre des Variétés, founded under the Second Empire by the composer Jacques Offenbach, still operates.

Under the Second Empire, many of Sainte-Beuve's earlier acquaintances, now dead or in retirement, were replaced by other writers: Gustave Flaubert, Ernest Renan, the Goncourt brothers, Prosper Mérimée, Ivan Turgenev, Matthew Arnold, and a large number of scholars, historians, and academicians.

31, 1830, Paris, France died June 30 , 1913 Aix-les-Bains), gifted polemical journalist under the Second Empire and the Third Republic who distinguished himself, at first, as a supporter of the extreme left and later as a champion of the extreme right.

Later countships, under the First Empire and the subsequent monarchies and empire, had no territorial significance but were made hereditary in order of primogeniture.

These can be seen as romantic metaphors for the isolated artist, but they were partly inspired by the news of the day: the performances by which they lived were largely outlawed under the Third Empire.

Then the Second Empire fell.

The second empire promised France stability and prosperity.

THE FIFTH EMPIRE Opens today in Manhattan.

"The first empire is not in any way about sport.