mother's maternal grandfather) was the Comte de La Rivière, until his death in 1770 commander of the Mousquetaires du Roi, or "Black Musketeers", King Louis...

The term takes its name from The Social Contract (French: Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique), a 1762 book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that...

Gabriel Ward (2013). Emil du Bois-Reymond : neuroscience, self, and society in nineteenth-century Germany. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-1-4619-5032-5...

legislative power as having "... the right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed" (2nd Tr., § 143), while executive power entailed the...

on in the form corpus reipublicae (mysticum), "(mystical) body of the commonwealth". Parallel terms exist in other European languages, such as Italian corpo...

French-allied Italy in 1797, following the abolition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Third Partition in 1795. Re-entered the war as an ally of France...

Negri and Michael Hardt. Commonwealth. Harvard University Press. 2009. Pg.15 Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Commonwealth. Harvard University Press...

Hamilton Aaron Burr Marquis de Lafayette Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau John Paul Jones Joshua Barney Rufus Putnam Gustave Rosenthal...

Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partition the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. February – In Manchester, Vermont, the wife of a captain falls ill,...

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Pulaski was one of the leading military commanders for the Bar Confederation and fought against the Commonwealth's foreign domination...