Sparks Commentary

“A Declaration introducing into international relations certain uniform rules with reference to future occupations on the coast of the Afric...

This is a follow-up to a blog post from 2014 . (For this earlier post, click here .) I wrote a post some years ago about my experience with ...

“Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general...

“The French people solemnly proclaim their attachment to the Rights of Man and the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Dec...

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. H...

“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, 'This is mine,' and found people simple eno...

"The political liberty of the [citizen] is a tranquillity of mind, arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order t...

It is well-known among my friends that I am a foreign language buff. Some of my friends also know that I am a  philosophy  buff as well. ...

"♪ Allons enfants de la Patrie / Le jour de gloire est arrivé! ♪" (" ♪  Oh come, ye children of the Fatherland  /  the day ...

“English and French are the official languages of Canada and have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in a...

Specifically, Spanish and French subtitles

I was actually interested in foreign languages from a very early age. I thought: "How cool would it be to speak another language?...

"It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation ...