Jules Ferry
Jules François Camille Ferry (5 April 1832 – 17 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican. He was a promoter of laicism and colonial expansion.
Read more about Jules Ferry: Early Life, Major Works, Ferry's 1st Ministry, 23 September 1880 – 14 November 1881, Ferry's 2nd Ministry, 21 February 1883 – 6 April 1885
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“They’re semiotic phantoms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off and taken on a life of their own, like those Jules Verne airships that those old Kansas farmers were always seeing.... Semiotic ghosts. Fragments of the Mass Dream, whirling past in the wind of my passage.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)