any time i'm in miami, i love going to versailles.he community come to life. there's a lot of energy there, and i thought it would be a fun place for ana and i to sit down and just share a meal. that focus group today for me, it was like in a vacuum, it was your personality. you went in expecting the worst. the lady made some comments, you're like, "pfft, what does she know?" then, the minute you heard positive reinforcement, you're like, "i like that lady." ana: yeah, but i was surprised by the positive. it's so funny. lemonis: why were you surprised? ana: i don't know. lemonis: but everybody has told you the product is good, so what are you surprised about? ana: i know. i don't know. lemonis: do you not have self-confidence? ana: i do, but it's just that comes from my upbringing. my whole life. my mom would compare me to all her friends' daughters. she doesn't like people that are overweight. like, she thinks it's a... lemonis: like a lack of self-respect. ana: ...lack of character, yeah. and, so, when i went to law school, during t

there were negotiations in versailles with the versailles treaty. they wanted recognition and some benefits from that. they did not want to be known for slaughtering allied soldiers at that time. it is also interesting. there were about 10 men taken prison in the course of this winter. one of them disappeared forever. he was from company b. herbert schroeder. he wound up being taken. the only allied soldier whoever made it to the city in the great plan. another died in the hospital. otherwise, they were well treated. a handful were taken to moscow and given free reign of the streets. they lived better than the local residents at the time who were starting -- starving. they could get library books. one soldier did not come back. he made it back to michigan in 1920. he did not report being mistreated. it was just an ordeal he had to go through. they started coming back to up here. and gathered british madee plans to send more troops in to cover the retreat. they raised several regiments of veterans from france who were unemployed or could not adjust t

they are sitting in the salons in paris and also participating in these conversations at versailles. these people are very well read. hasr historians, ira conducted the study and work here at the library of the society of the cincinnati -- to show what were the reading lists, the common readings that officers engaged in for pleasure, but also to inform themselves in preparation for fighting these battles all over the planet. leaguere's definitely a segment of the population -- an elite segment of the population that is reading were so -- ro usseau and using the vocabulary of moral philosophy. was interesting in the archive -- what is interesting in the archive especially is where you see some middling officers who are maybe less powerful, who did not have as much money, and were likely sitting -- not sitting in those fancy parisian salons. they had a lot of the same discourse in what they were writing. see if this is going to be my slide. maybe this one. so, this was a shocking and interesting discovery, to imagine a sort of trickle-down effect. these gentlemen maybe had a less expen

there's going to be another talk here by me about the naval battle of versailles. that is completely opaque in this presentation. perhaps we will find out more about f.d.r. then. the short answer is i know he is important. in terms of these operations, i did not see his name come up much as being the agent of orders. >> it feels like part of the answer was watch our youtube channel later on. you can see that lecture. if it can be answered in 260 characters or less, gentlemen in the green jacket, go for it. >> real quick. the americans are trying to final food aid in. the british are trying to run a blockade on germany, austria, and hungry. who is the food aid going to? prof. kuehn: this is a very political situation. some of the other talks will get at it. the key guy is hoover. there are times when all of , andrews, bristol's, simss, are working directly for herbert hoover. he is the food guy. he understands the scope of the problem better than anyone else. he is a workaholic. nobody ever did more to save people from starting. hoover should have gotten a nobel pea

these dialogues and debates not bound by the chambers in versailles, nor were they confined to the army, the navy, -- and their administrations. they engaged a far greater public. like full tear, the public intellectuals of the day, the elites, theorists, poets, historians, doctors, mathematicians, engineers, and more. they were vital for members of aristocratic nobility of the sword, whose justification of socioeconomic folk of france was tied to war. they were also common for the folk of france who sons marched off to war and shouldered the heavy tax burden that financed the many wars of the 17th and 18th centuries. war and military were, in the most pervasive and profound sense, arenas of national concern. the military enlightenment was thus part of a broader phenomena of enlightenment, engaging in the same narrative and embracing philosophy in order to make war and military endeavors reflective of an enlightened aged. philosophically and politically, participants wrought a wide range of perspectives. some are atheists. some were deists. some brought christian moralities while others

think about the treaty of versailles that ended world war 1783the piece of paris of which ended the american revolution. we tend to think of treaties us texts that are the result of negotiations, and europeans who treated with native americans had generally specific objectives -- had, generally, specific objectives to talk about issues that have come up that need to be resolved. matters of war and peace, we need to convince native allies to go to war with us, we need to convince some enemies to make peace with us, or they might have issues about the fur trade, we need to initiate contact with these people so we can expand our for trade into that region. -- fur trade into that region. by the mid-18th century, a big part of these treaty negotiations involved the repatriation of captives, europeans trying to get native have beenwho they warring with to return captives they have taken. these are things europeans often brought to the negotiating process. ideally, a treaty would produce a written document that put all this down in writing in the end the europeans could archive it and refer to it t

man in respect to the conference that there will be another top here about the naval battle of versaillesthat's been in this presentation and perhaps will find out a little bit more about fdr than. the short answer is i know it's important, in terms of these operations i don't see much as the agent of words. >> feels like part of that answer was watch our youtube channel later and if you can see that lecture and it could be answered and 260 characters are less and gentleman in the green jacket go for it. >> real quick. the americans are trying to have food aid in, the british are trying to run a blockade on germany and austria and hungary. who is the food aid going to? >> well, the food aid put -- this is a very political situation and maybe some of the other talks will get at it. remember, the key guy there is hoover. there are times where all of these guys with andrews, bristol, sims are actually working for hoover. he's probably the guy that understands the scope of the problem better than anything else. he's a workaholic, he writes the never anyone work to save so many people from sta

here you can imagine something like louis the 14th of versailles. people scheming against each other. republics would operate on a different set of values. a taste of concrete evidence or proof, and personal sincerity. trying to imagine a future, imagine the year hundred 40, imagine in some perfect world, the whole world have become a book of morals, where everyone and everything would become legible. those who lied would be committing crimes. this is an enlightenment fantasy of the future. the promise of early republic or democracy is truth ends and democracy would be instrument of one another. in other words, established truths would serve as the starting point for deliberations. but also, participation in a democratic process, from debating to voting, would aid in the cause of truth's discovery and expression. this is an idea that took off as appealing, not just the devote ease of enlightened ideas but also in early capitalist markets as well. and in in republics it was thought this would ultimately make the dream of the kind of coincidence of vi