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This pamphlet edition contains Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech, originally delivered to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Sewing Society. In the address, Douglass highlights the contrast between the celebration of American independence and the reality of chattel slavery. It serves as a primary his...
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is an essay written by Karl Marx in 1852. It examines the French Revolution of 1848 and the subsequent 1851 coup d'état by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. Marx applies his theory of historical materialism to analyze how class struggles in France allowed a Bonapar...
Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione is a renowned French circus operating from its permanent venue in Paris, established in 1852. The Bouglione family has maintained this historic tradition for generations, making it one of the world's oldest continuously operated purpose-built circuses. It provides unique liv...
Le Misanthrope et l'Auvergnat is a one-act French vaudeville comedy by Eugène Labiche, written with Paul Siraudin and Lubize and first performed in Paris in 1852. The plot places a distrustful, ill-tempered Parisian in contact with a candid man from Auvergne, using their opposed dispositions to gene...
