Focus on Gianduia, Part 11: Gianduia, the Revolutionary

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Mar 212011
 

From March through October of 1847, King Carlo Alberto issued a series of edicts expanding freedom of the press, including the right of publications to comment on matters of public administration (1).  Within months, Turin was flooded with new newspapers with decidedly liberal and revolutionary editorial stances.

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Focus on Gianduia, Part 9: Did Michele Prochet Invent Gianduia in 1852?

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Mar 072011
 

Having introduced the Waldensian dramatis personæ, we move on to the next oft-cited date for the origin of gianduia: 1852.

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Focus on Gianduia, Part 6: Why Napoleon Mattered (Religious Freedom)

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Feb 142011
 

Unlike the development of a beet sugar industry, Napoleon’s second contribution to gianduia’s invention was not an outgrowth of the Continental System.  In fact, the policy predated the Berlin Decree by more than a decade.  In the closing years of the eighteenth century, Napoleon extended unprecedented civil rights to the Waldenses in Piedmont.

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