Reading Vocab-o-log

• Assez de chinoiseries: enough of the European taste for Chinese or Chinese-inspired cultural products in French (?)
  
• Aux armes: to arms in French
• La Peregrina: The Pilgrim in Spanish (?)
  
• Maguey: 1. any of various fleshy-leaved agaves 2. any of several hard fibers derived from magueys; especially: cantala
• Vaterland: fatherland in German, used since the 12th century with the meaning "native country"
• Alfred Louis Charles de Musset: a French dramatist, poet, and novelist (December 11, 1810 - May 2, 1857)
• Dragoon: 1. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed mounted troops 2. cavalryman
• Ferdinand Lassalle: a German jurist and socialist political activist. (April 11, 1825 - August 31, 1864)
• Indefatigable: incapable of being fatigued : untiring
• Nationalism: a term that refers to a doctrine or political movement that holds that a nation—usually defined in terms of ethnicity or culture—has the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community based on a shared history and common destiny
• Socialism: a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community
• Feudalism: a general set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility of Europe during the Middle Ages, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs
• Otto von Bismarck: a Prussian and German statesman of the 19th century (April 1, 1815 - July 30, 1898)
• Pantheon: 1. a temple dedicated to all the gods 2. a building serving as the burial place of or containing memorials to the famous dead of a nation 3. the gods of a people; especially: the officially recognized gods 4. a group of illustrious or notable persons or things