Commune. 1789-94. Paris council. Overode the National Assembly by controlling administration.

Conciliarism. 12C-. General Council has greater power than pope. Popular during Great Schism.

Constance, Council. 1414-18. Ended Great Schism. Church council victory over papal power. Martin V elected pope.

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.

Courtois, Bernard. 1777-1838. French. Iodine 1811.

Cousin, Jean the Elder. 1490-1560. French painter. Eva Prima Pandora, early French nude.

Cousteau, Jacques. 1910-97. French underwater explorer.

Couthon, Georges. 1755-94. French aide to Robespierre. Guillotined.

Crane, Stephen. 1871-1900. US writer. Red Badge of Courage 1895. Short stories.

Cyril, St. c444. Patriarch of Alexandria. Deported Nestor. Lynched Hypatia. Launched pogroms against Jews. Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon.

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