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This tropical island off the southernmost tip of China, nearly four times the size of Corsica, provides China with coffee, coconuts, sugar, and rubber.
The Côte d’Azur and Corsica both have a distinctly Italian flavor, and the people on the northern slopes of the Pyrénées are not so very different from their Spanish cousins to the south.
All the French papers led not on Kosovo but on a domestic political crisis resulting from the jailing for the first time in French history of a prefect (provincial governor) in Corsica.
Thomas Curley (Bridgewater State College) uses his Account of Corsica as an example of a travel book in the same genre as Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and Smollett's Travels through France and Italy . It is also a tract on political liberty, and Curley quotes the epigraph from the Corsican rejoinder to a Pope in 1320: “Non enim propter gloriam, divitias aut honores pugnamus, sed propter libertatem solummodo quam nemo bonus nisi simul vita amittit.”
In its heyday from the 11th to the 13th centuries, Pisa created a powerful maritime empire down the Tyrrhenian coast and in Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.