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London Pact (Italian Patto di Londra) was a secret pact between Italy and Triple Entente, signed in London on April 26, 1915 by Italy, Great Britain, France and Russia. A pact is a formal agreement, usually between two or more nations. ... The Triple Entente was the alliance formed in 1907 between the United Kingdom, France and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente. ... St. ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...


According to the pact, Italy was to declare war against Germany and Austria-Hungary, as it happened less than a month later, on May 23 of the same year. In exchange, Italy was to obtain some territorial gains at the end of the war: A Declaration of War is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation, and one or more others. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ...

  1. Trieste
  2. Trento
  3. Gorizia
  4. Istria
  5. Protectorate over Albania
  6. Vlorë
  7. Dodecanese
  8. Zadar
  9. part of Dalmatia
  10. Isonzo valley
  11. part of the German Asian and African colonial empire

The pact was nullified with the Treaty of Versailles, because Woodrow Wilson, supporting Slavic claims, rejected Italian requests on Dalmatian territories. Location within Italy Trieste (Latin Tergeste, Slovenian and Croatian Trst, German and Friulian Triest) is a city in northeastern Italy, capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and Trieste province, population 211,184 (2001). ... A view of Trento from Castello del Buonconsiglio. ... Gorizia (Slovenian Gorica, German Görz, (Friulian Gurize) is a small town (pop. ... Rovinj, on the western coast of Croatian Istria. ... Vlora (Photo by Marc Morell) Vlorë (Albanian: Vlorë or Vlora; Greek: Αυλών/Aulōn (ancient), Αυλώνα/Avlóna (modern); Italian: Valona) is the second largest port city of Albania, after Durrës, with a population of about 85,000 (2003 estimate). ... The Dodecanese (Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa, meaning twelve islands) are a group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey. ... Zadar (Italian Zara) is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea, with a population of 72,718 (2001). ... Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia, Serbian Далмација) is a region of Croatia on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, spreading between the island of Pag in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. ... The river Soča (Italian Isonzo) is a river in West Slovenia and North Italy. ... Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the peace treaty created as a result of six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which put an official end to World War I between the Allies and Central Powers. ... Order: 28th President Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall Term of office: March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1921 Preceded by: William Howard Taft Succeeded by: Warren G. Harding Date of birth: December 28, 1856 Place of birth: Staunton, Virginia Date of death: February 3, 1924 Place of death: Washington, D.C...


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The "pact" that Roubaud’s narrator outlines in the opening description of himself as a writer writing is less a proposed agreement with the reader than a set of rules for his own conduct as a writer.
Above all, the pact of London presupposes that the author has no clearer idea of where his text is going than we do, so that the impression of aimlessness, unformedness, or, to put it bluntly, of a structural mess, is part and parcel of what Roubaud is asking his readers to accept.
The pact of London is not separate from the writer’s life; it is the condition of his ability to say something not false about it.
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