French architect, Henri Labrouste (1801–1875), studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. Labrouste’s work was esteemed by Auguste Perret, Viollet-le-Duc beheld his work as a ‘revolution’ and Giedion wrote that, “Henri Labrouste is without a doubt the mid-nineteenth-century architect whose work was the most important for the future” in his book Space, Time and Architecture (Giedion, 1944). Henri Labrouste was one of the first architects to integrate his rationalist view into architecture by incorporating
Alfred Binet, born in Nice, France, on the eleventh of July, whose mother was an artist and whose father was a physician, became one of the most prominent psychologists in French history. Having received his formal education in both Nice and later, in Paris, at the renowned Lycee Louis -le-Grand, Binet went on to become a lawyer. This profession, however, was not suited to him, and he found himself immersed in the works of J.S. Mill, Bain and Sully at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He identified
he had accompanied the king to exile in a foreign country, but he used the opportunity to make friends. He equally knew that it would be impossible to learn about the history of art in England without becoming friends with the local painters. In France, he had already built a brand after putting his works in various exhibition centers besides the Salon. One of the most beautiful portraits he did before going to England was that of Duc d'Orléans, and it caught King Louis’ attention. Even after Duc’s
and received the title of Pasha there (Larousse). At the beginning he was a member of the Egyptian State Council, then he became the head body of 14000 men with the title of General in Chief of the Egyptian Army. In 1855 he was a commissioner to France and the Pope of Rome (The New York Times 1895). On his way back to Egypt, he became a member of the State Council, and was given charge of the government while Said Pasha was visiting Asia and Europe in 1861 (Larousse). After the death of Said Pasha
Is The Second Sex Beauvoir's Application of Sartrean Existentialism? ABSTRACT: Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 feminist masterpiece, The Second Sex, has traditionally been read as an application of Sartrean existentialism to the problem of women. Critics have claimed a Sartrean origin for Beauvoir's central theses: that under patriarchy woman is the Other, and that 'one is not born a woman, but becomes one.' An analysis of Beauvoir's recently discovered 1927 diary, written while she was a philosophy