Public opinion
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Public opinion, or popular opinion, is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to society. It is the people's views on matters affecting them.
Coffeehouse in 17th century London
A Club of Gentlemen by Joseph Highmore, c. 1730
French Renaissance
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The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European Renaissance, a word first used by the
Public opinion
…was derived from the French opinion publique, which was first used in 1588 by Michel de Montaigne, one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, in the second edition of his famous Essays (ch. XXII). The French term also appears in the 1761 work Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau…
Francis I of France, by Jean and François Clouet (c. 1535, oil on panel) (Louvre).
Eve, First Pandora by Jean Cousin the Elder (c. 1550).
Ligier Richier, Lamentation of Christ, Church of St. Étienne, Saint-Mihiel
Diane the Huntress, School of Fontainebleau (1550–60) (Louvre).