Daladier, Édouard. 1884-1970. French Prime Minister, 1933~40. Munich Agreement.

Dalou, Jules. 1838-1902. French Baroque sculptor of public monuments.

Damiens, Robert-François. 1715-1757. Stabbed Louis XV. Quartered.

Damon and Pythias. Syracuse true friends. Damon pledged his life for Pythias’, awaiting execution.

Danton, Georges. 1759-94. French Cordelier, Jacobin. Girondin leader 1792-3. Defeated foreign interveners. Executed by Robespierre.

Dark Ages. c500-1000. Period of decline, frequent war. Little documentation survives.

Darlan, François. 1881-1942. French admiral. Built navy 1933-40. Collaborated with Germany, 1941-2, then Americans. Assassinated.

Daudet, Alphonse. 1840-97. French humorist. Lettres de Mon Moulin 1869, about life in Corsica.

Daudet, Leon. 1867-1942. Cofounder of Action Française, 1908.

Daumier, Honore. 1808-79. French Realist painter and engraver. Political caricaturist.

Dauphin. 1350-1830. Title of French heir to throne.

David, Louis. 1748-1825. French republican. Neoclassical painter. Oath of the Horatii 1784. Marat 1793. Coronation of Napoleon 1808.

David d’Angers, Pierre-Jean. 1788-1856. French sculptor.

De La Tour, George. 1593-1652. French Caravaggist painter. Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds.

De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.

Deakin, Alfred. 1856-1919. Australian Prime Minister 1903~10. First Attorney General 1901. Led federation movement.

Deburau, J.B.G. 1796-1846. French mime.

Debussy, Claude. 1862-1918. French Impressionist composer. System of harmonic images. Nocturnes. La Mer 1905.

Declaration of Independence. July 4, 1776. American colonies declare independence from British rule during War of Independence.

Declaration of Rights. 1689. Rights, Bill of.

Deductive Reasoning. Aristotelian. Derivation of universal truths from prior certainties. Syllogisms.

Degas, Edgar. 1834-1917. French Impressionist painter of dancers and cafe life. Rehearsal. Tub.

DeGaulle, Charles. 1890-1970. Led Free French during WWII. Provisional President 1944-6. President 58-69. Fifth Republic.

DeHavilland, Geoffrey. 1882-1965. British aviation pioneer, Moth series.

Deism. Theory that God’s existence can be proven by reason, not just known by revelation (Theism). Rousseau. Voltaire. Jefferson.

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