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Infinitely more costly in human terms was the Taiping Rebellion, which began in 1850 as a peasant revolt.
While Le Figaro in a front-page editorial said that the tide is now turning in NATO's favor and marveled at the "astonishing unity" of the alliance so far, Milan's Corriere della Sera berated Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema for condoning open revolt against the war within his coalition government.
This section contains papers about Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero (Leonard R.N. Ashley); Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (Lynn Hamilton); Anna Seghers' Revolt of the Fishers (Russell E. Brown), Molière's Le Malade imaginaire (Betty J. Davis), Baltasar Gracián's El Criticón (Catherine G. Rovira); Trollope's The Warden (Vivian Zinkin); and Names Prime Evil: Fictional Heroes of Horror and Fear in the work of Sir Walter Scott and Barbey d'Aurevilly (Maxine M. Bernard).
He raised a revolt in Sfakiá, but the support never arrived.
Finally, in 1936, a large section of the army under General Francisco Franco rose in revolt, claiming the support of the monarchists, conservatives, the Church, and the right-wing Falange party, the fascist movement which had been founded in 1933 and which Franco subsequently declared to be the only legal party in Spain.