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	Charles de Brosses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the president of the parliament of Dijon (from 1741) and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of Paris (from 1746), and of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres of Dijon (from 1761).
		He was a close friend of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), the naturalist who wrote the Histoire naturelle, and a personal enemy of Voltaire (1694-1778), the famous philosopher, who barred his entry in the Académie française in 1770.
		This book is a collection of cultured, witty, open-minded letters, sent by De Brosses to his friends in Dijon during his travel in Italy of 1739-1740.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_de_Brosses (627 words)

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		BROSSES, CHARLES DE (1709-1777), French magistrate and scholar, was born at Dijon and studied law with a view to the magistracy.
		It was in this work that de Brosses first laid down the geographical divisions of Australasia and Polynesia, which were afterwards adopted by John Pinkerton and succeeding geographers.
		De Brosses had been occupied, during a great part of his life, on a translation of Sallust, and in attempting to supply the lost chapters in that celebrated historian.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=11424 (503 words)

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		In 176o he published a dissertation, Du culte des dieux fetiches, which was afterwards inserted in the Encyclopedie methodique.
		In 1758 he succeeded the marquis de Caumont in the Academie des Belles-lettres; but when in 1770 he presented himself at the French Academy, his candidature was rejected owing to Voltaire's opposition on personal grounds.
		in the confiscated library by his son, the emigre officer Rene de Brosses, and were first published in 1799, in the uncritical edition of Antoine Serieys, under the title of Lettres historiques et critiques.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=11424 (503 words)

	Fetishism: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The concept was coined by Charles de Brosses (Charles de Brosses: charles de brosses (dijon, 1709-1777) was one of the most worthy of note french writers of...
		de Brosses and other 18th century scholars used the concept to apply evolution theory (evolution theory: although generally, evolution is taken to mean any process of change over time, in the...
		In de Brosses' theory of the evolution of religion, he proposed that fetishism is the earliest (most primitive) stage.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/fetishism (802 words)

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		des dieux fetiches, which was afterwards inserted in the Encyclopedie methodique.
		At length in 1777 he published L'Histoire du septieme siecle de la republique romaine, 3 vols.
		Colomb, with the title L'Italie it y a cent ans, was issued in 1836; and two subsequent reprints appeared, one edited by Poulet-Malassis, under the title Lettres familieres (1858); the other, a re-impression of Colomb's edition, under that of Le President de Brosses en Italie (1858).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BRI_BUN/BROSSES_CHARLES_DE_1709_1777_.html (664 words)

	Charles De Brosses (1709 - 1777) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		'De Brosses was a pioneer of the science of comparative religion.
		In his memoir Du culte des dieux fétiches, reprinted in the Encylopédie, he combated the then prevailing tendency to interpret ancient mythologies and religious systems, notably that of Egypt, as profound symbolism and upheld the thesis that ancient Egyptian religion did not differ substantially from the primitive cults of native Africa.
		The work, which the French Academy refused to print in its transactions and which gave rise to violent attacks, anticipates the modern anthropological method of approach to the history of religions' (Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, V, p.
	www.jahsonic.com /Brosses.html (267 words)

	Edward A. Beach: Excerpts from "The Potencies of God(s)"
		Charles de Brosses was among the first to put this view forward in his Du culte des dieux fetiches (1760).
		Charles de Brosses' attempts to explain Greek and other myths as outgrowths of a primitive fetishism have already been mentioned.
		De Vries characterizes the extensive influence of this book as in part harmful, because of its one- sided and often ill informed presentations.
	www.uwec.edu /beachea/models.htm (8090 words)

	Fetishism - Psychology Central
		The concept was coined by Charles de Brosses in 1757, while comparing West African religion to the magical aspects of Ancient Egyptian religion.
		In de Brosses' theory of the evolution of religion, he proposed that fetishism is the earliest (most primitive) stage, followed by the stages of polytheism and monotheism, representing a progressive abstraction in thought.
		In the 19th century, philosophers such as Herbert Spencer repudiated de Brosses' theory that fetishism was the "original religion".
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Fetish (522 words)

	Review of Genette Mimologics
		President Charles de Brosses, whom Genette discusses in the next chapter, held vowels to have the function of pure energy, whereas consonants are 'the modifications or form'.
		De Brosses denied the validity of synaesthesia as a force in language (although the idea was known at the time), and he therefore attributed the corruption in language to the attempt to name things which do not make sounds.
		Opposites: De Brosses (and also later Mallarmé) also made what to me is a very interesting observation, one that is too much overlooked in the literature, namely that a thing and its opposite are frequently represented within the same phoneme.
	www.trismegistos.com /IconicityInLanguage/Articles/MagnusGenette.html (13047 words)

	Shugborough Hall Monument Identifies A Masonic Altar
		Knowledge of the Prieuré de Sion was based on a document known as the Dossiers Secrets which was deposited in the Bibliotèque Nationale sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.
		The peace of 1681 that is being referred to in the cipher is when Charles II dissolved Parliament for the last time to prevent parliament from passing the Exclusion Bill, which would have prevented Charles' brother James II from being the heir to the throne.
		Charles, whose popularity was very high at the time, allowed James II to return to England in 1682.
	www.themasterofspeech.com /shugboroughhall.html (10100 words)

	Bright Paradise: Symposium
		Le Président des Terres Australes: Charles de Brosses and the French Enlightenment Invention of 'Polynesia' and 'Australasia'
		An associate of such intellectual luminaries as Maupertuis, Buffon, Rousseau, and Voltaire, de Brosses systematically translated, summarised, and analysed 250 years of written accounts by European voyagers to the southern hemisphere.
		Without the efforts of de Brosses, Cook's voyages may not have occurred, and Western imaginings of and interventions in the Pacific may have taken a different - and not necessarily better - course.
	www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz /brightparadise/symposium/tom_ryan.asp (322 words)

	The Rise of Neapolitan Comic Opera
		Hot, dirty and overcrowded, it was a city of teeming life and colour that flowed from court and church to the streets.
		To the French traveller Charles de Brosses, writing in 1739, it was Naples, not Rome that had the aura of a capital : "To my mind, Naples is the only city in Italy that really feels like a capital.
		Like many other visitors, De Brosses was also captivated by the wealth of musical activity he found in the city, which he declared to be "the capital of the world’s music".
	www.goldbergweb.com /en/news/italie/2005/12/40394.php (233 words)

	Polynesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jules Dumont d'Urville in an 1831 lecture to the Geographical Society of Paris proposed a restriction on its use, and also introduced the terms Micronesia and Melanesia, this three-way regional division remaining in widespread use today.
		The ocean was sighted by Europeans early in the 16th century, first by Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1513) and then by Ferdinand Magellan, who crossed the Pacific during his circumnavigation (1519-1522).
		Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of the HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard; the HMS Challenger during the 1870s; the U.S.S. Tuscarora (1873-76); and the German Gazelle (1874-1876).
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	Brosses - FARINA AUGUSTO - Producing Brushes , spazzole, brushes,brosses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SAMAP : une gamme complète de brosses à dents, pots à miel, purificateurs d'eau, moulins à céréales, testeurs d'humidité.
		Brosses, Charles de, a French archæologist, born at Dijon; wrote among other subjects on the manners and customs of primitive and prehistoric man
		Arnaud de Brosses is a partner resident in the Paris office.
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	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| What's so great about eunuchs?
		Two and a half centuries ago, as he travelled through Italy, the French writer Charles de Brosses found his eye drawn to some of the men.
		De Brosses's imagination had been caught by the castrati, those gelded stars of the opera stage and Catholic church choirs.
		It's a subject that continues to fascinate: 2006 is shaping up as the year of the castrato, with an exhibition about to open at London's Handel House Museum, and a BBC4 documentary in the wings.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,,1740447,00.html (992 words)

	Fetishism explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A separate article is devoted to sexual fetishism.'' A fetish (from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin facticius) is a natural object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular a thing created by people that has power over people.
		The conversation was uniformly most agreeable, for she spoke French with and shut crowns.
		The Marquis de Dangeau, something of a savant and the imperial crown had first been wrought in the form of an arch, such as Empress, his mother, was not closed at all.
	www.wordspider.net /fe/fetishism.html (508 words)

	AFRICISM
		In the world of scholarship Fetishism was introduce as the name by which to designate the religions both of ancient Egypt and the religions of Africa south of the Sahara with special reference to West African religions.
		On the Worship of Fetish Gods [1760], de Brosses concludes that the religion of Africa is Fetishism.
		Du culte de dieux fetches: ou Parrallele de l’ancienne religion de l’Egypte avec la religion actuelle de Nigritie.
	www2.bc.edu /~lugira/africism2.htm (6168 words)

	Pike, "Resurrection of the Fetish" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The focus on the inanimate quality of the fetish is not, of course, limited to modern or contemporary thought but rather refers to its original Western African cultural context, where the privileging of inanimate objects, invested with a supernatural "charm," gave rise to the cult of fetishism.
		Charles de Brosses, an eighteenth-century anthropologist, was one of the early Westerners whose research on the fetish brought the term into currency for the West.
		See Charles de Brosses's Le culte des dieux fétishes (1760; reprint Famborough, England: Gregg International, 1972).
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Articles/pike.html (4087 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		Early-music specialist Christopher Hogwood has argued that the girls would alternate as soloist between concertos, an assertion other scholars have supported and the assumption underlying this weekend's performances with soloists drawn from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
		Frenchman Charles de Brosses, who met Vivaldi in 1739, recorded his experience at the Pietà, recalling the "transcendent music" he heard there.
		"I promise you," wrote De Brosses, "that there is nothing like the sight of a young and pretty nun in a white habit, with a bunch of pomegranate blossoms over her ear, conducting the orchestra and beating time with all the grace and precision imaginable."
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	A Jacobite Gazetteer - Rome - Basilica dei Santi XII Apostoli
		In one of his letters, the French historian Charles de Brosses writes that James "spends each morning in prayer near the tomb of his wife in [the Church of] the Santi Apostoli".
		Henry, Cardinal Duke of York (later King Henry IX and I) was given this church for his cardinalatial title, December 18, 1752.
		De Brosses (1709-1777) was a French magistrate and historian, well-known for his letters particularly those he wrote from Italy in 1739 and 1740.
	www.jacobite.ca /gazetteer/Rome/SSXIIApostoli.htm (704 words)

	James Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Other printed maps showing a gap and stemming from the "Huydecoper Chart" were published by the Dutch cartographers Frederik de Wit, Dirck Davidszoon, and Pieter van der Aa.
		Cook also mentions the two-volume treatise by Charles de Brosses, Histoire des Navigations aux terres australes, published at Paris in 1756.
		The French cartographer, Robert de Vaugondy, provided a series of maps to accompany de Brosses' work; two of the maps portray part of New Zealand with names.
	delzur_research.tripod.com /nzresearch/cook_secret_search.htm (2088 words)

	Travels Through France and Italy - Appendix A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ouvrage offert par la ville aux membres de l'Association Francaise.
		Les voies antiques de la Region du Rhone.
		Notices historiques sur le comte et la ville de Nice.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/geo/travel/TravelsThroughFranceandItaly/chap48.html (427 words)

	From Demon Possession to Magic Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In one test, Saint-Gille's talents were employed to convince a credulous woman that she heard the voice of a spirit, and then the researchers laboriously persuaded her of the real source of her illusion (the gendered aspects of this exhibition-the men of reason, the woman of superstitious faith-were all too transparent).
		As he watched one of the girls, he was sure that she was cleverly misdirecting people's attention to get them to think sounds were coming from where they were not: "Our knowledge of ventriloquism," he said, "fortified us against this trick," and then he provided (via Brewster) an excursus on the mechanics of such deceptions.
		Brierre de Boismont, Hallucinations: Or, the Rational History of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism (1853; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1976), 77, 80-81, 90-92, 97-98, 127, 172, 420; Jean Esquirol, Observations on the Illusions of the Insane, and on The Medico-Legal Question of Their Confinement, trans.
	www.materialreligion.org /journal/magic.html (9081 words)

	The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin (positivism) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The evolutionism of Darwin and Spencer has really little in common with his doctrine; he vigorously combated Darwin's forerunner, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck; and Huxley and other leaders of the evolutionist school have in their turn sharply criticized him.
		It is now clear that Karl Marx took some of his most important and characteristic doctrines from Comte's sociology; and Friedrich Nietzsche (q.v.), after a period of almost exclusive devotion to Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism, adopted several points of Comte's teaching.
		Bibliography: Besides the literature in and under the article on Comte (q.v.), where the sources are given in extenso, consult: C. de Blignières, Exposition abrégée de la philosophie et de la religion positive, Paris, 1857; idem, Le Doctrine Positive, ib.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc09.positivism.html?bcb=0 (1287 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Vivaldi: Concerti con molti istromenti
		While all four ospedali boasted choirs capable of vying with one another, the Pietà (which, as the most populous, had the largest pool of talent on which to draw) was, in Vivaldi's day, unrivalled in the sphere of instrumental music.
		A French connoisseur of music, Charles de Brosses, wrote in 1739: 'Out of the four ospedali, the one that I visit most often, and where I enjoy myself most, is the Pietà; it is also the best for instrumental music.
		When Charles de Brosses enthuses, '[they] play the violin, the flute, the organ, the oboe, the cello, the bassoon; in short, there is no instrument large enough to scare them', he is actually understating the case.
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	brosses charles de - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word brosses charles de:
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		BROSSES, CHARLES DE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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	C18-L's Selected Readings, No. 94
		Un homme de lettres entre classicisme et romantisme.
		Sujets mineurs et finesse de perception dans les Journaux de Marivaux».
		Bruxelles: Académie royale de langue et de littérature française, 2004.
	www.personal.psu.edu /special/C18/sr/sr94.htm (9065 words)

	wiki/Brush fire Definition / wiki/Brush fire Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This emphasis on safety is reinforced with a list of 18 "watch out situations" for firefighters to be aware of, which warn of potentially dangerous conditions.
		Forest covers about 28% of France (189,000 kmÂ², 46.7 million acres); the biggest forest is the forÃªt des Landes de Gascogne, a pine forest which covers over 10,000 kmÂ² (2.5 million acres), mostly part being in the LandesLandes is a département in southern France.
		These engines have a protection system that sprays water around the truck in case it is surrounded by the fire; in such a case, the firefighters lock themselves in the truck.
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