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Corvée. Statute labour. Abolished 1792 Fr, 1891 Egypt.
Cosmological Argument. God exists as first cause.
Cossacks. Russian peasant soldiers.
Costa Rica. 1502 Columbus discovers. 1564 Spain settles. 1821 Independent. 1822 Mexican Empire. 1823 CAF. 1838 Republic.
Coster, Laurens. 1370-c1440. Dutch inv of moveable type, perhaps before Gutenberg.
Cotte, Robert de. 1656-1735. Architect. Chancel of Notre-Dame, Esplanade, Versailles.
Cotton Famine. 1861-5. English depression due to supply cut-off during American Civil War.
Coty, René. 1882-1962. President of France, 1954-59. Algerian Crisis 1958, led to return of deGaulle.
Coubertin, Pierre. 1863-1937. French educator, Olympics organizer.
Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.
Coulomb, Charles de. 1736-1806. French naval engineer, defined unit of electricity. Electrical attraction 1785.
Council of Ten. c1310-1797. Powerful Venetian tribunal. Investigated aristocratic plots vs government.
Council of the Republic. 1917. Russian provisional government.
Count. Continental title, equivalent to Earl.
Counter-Reformation. 1517-1622. Catholic reform that followed the Reformation. Trent.
Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion. 1746-. Methodist Calvinistic sect.
Country Party. 1913-. Australian pro-agriculture party. Small but influential in coalition governments.
Count’s War. 1533-36. Danish war of succession. Confirmed Protestant Reformation and hereditary succession.
Coup d’État. Overthrow of existing government by force.
Couperin. 17-18C French family of Baroque composers.
Couperin, François. 1668-1733. French Baroque keyboard composer. Concerts Royeaux, Leçons de Ténebres 1714.
Cour Carrée. Central court of Louvre designed by Percier and Fontaine.
Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.
Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.