Lanterne is a French word designating a lantern or lamp post. The word, or the slogan "À la lanterne!" (in English: To the Lamp Post!) gained special meaning...
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48°48′14.6″N 2°5′32″E / 48.804056°N 2.09222°E / 48.804056; 2.09222 La Lanterne is a hunting lodge in Versailles, France. Along with the Fort de Brégançon...
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La Lanterne may refer to: La Lanterne (Versailles) a residence of the president of France in Versailles La Lanterne magique (magazine) À la lanterne, French...
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Ça Ira (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
aristocrates à la lanterne! Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates on les pendra! Et quand on les aura tous pendus On leur fichera la paille au cul...
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Joseph Foullon de Doué (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
distinction of being the first recorded person to have been lynched à la lanterne. Born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, Foullon served as Intendant-General...
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the French Revolution, prior to the guillotine's adoption, the slogan À la lanterne (in English: To the lamp post!) symbolized popular justice in revolutionary...
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Camille Desmoulins (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
profiteering. A famous Revolutionary song, Ça ira ("It shall be"), also immortalizes this lantern, in the lines, "Les aristocrates à la lanterne... Les aristocrates...
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The Lantern Tower (French: tour de la Lanterne) is one of the three medieval historic towers in La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes, France, which guarded the...
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La Lanterne magique is the title of a former French 19th-century weekly, published on Saturdays. The subtitle read: Reproductions of masterpieces of painting...
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden (section Building a garden)
cold-blooded animal – a lizard, dry, rustling, shooting a long tongue – and would have strung me up à la lanterne as soon as not". Sissinghurst has been particularly...
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