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Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book M  moire contre Madame de Saint Vincent

Download or read book M moire contre Madame de Saint Vincent written by Louis François Armand du Plessis duc de Richelieu and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Clocks in the J  Paul Getty Museum

Download or read book European Clocks in the J Paul Getty Museum written by Gillian Wilson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the finest examples of European craftsmanship are the clocks produced for the luxury trade in the eighteenth century. The J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to have in its decorative arts collection twenty clocks dating from around 1680 to 1798: eighteen produced in France and two in Germany. They demonstrate the extraordinary workmanship that went into both the design and execution of the cases and the intricate movements by which the clocks operated. In this handsome volume, each clock is pictured and discussed in detail, and each movement diagrammed and described. In addition, biographies of the clockmakers and enamelers are included, as are indexes of the names of the makers, previous owners, and locations.

Book Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire

Download or read book Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bestiaires de Voltaire

Download or read book Bestiaires de Voltaire written by Christiane Mervaud and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christiane Mervaud, 'Bestiaires de Voltaire' Pourquoi s'int resser la pr sence des b tes dans l'uvre de Voltaire? Le nombre d'occurrences relatives au r gne animal ne peut laisser indiff rent. Sans n gliger l'apport de la biographie, la recherche s'est efforc e d'abord de d terminer comment la philosophie de Voltaire r agit l' preuve de l'animalit , ce qui a conduit souligner son rejet de la th orie cart sienne de l'animal-machine, son int r t pour les singularit s de la nature. Mais si Voltaire se tient au courant des d veloppements des sciences naturelles, il s'int resse surtout, en historien, au statut de l'animal dans les soci t s et son r le dans les mythologies. Les b tes servent d'observatoire privil gi pour juger de la marche de l'esprit humain. La typologie zoologique d pend d'une typologie textuelle. Alors que la m nagerie du pol miste exploite sans vergogne pr jug s et clich s, dans les bestiaires fabuleux et religieux se d ploie une activit ludique et d sacralisante. Le bestiaire amoureux se permet des variations sur le th me de la bestialit , dans une atmosph re irr elle ou surr elle. L'animal est, bien des titres, un r v lateur de la pens e de Voltaire, une pierre de touche de sa philosophie, un condens de recherches historico-religieuses, un d clic pour la cr ation litt raire, un champ ouvert sa r flexion et sa fantaisie. Fr d ric Deloffre, 'Gen se de Candide tude de la cr ation des personnages et de l' laboration du roman' La pr sente tude ne consid re pas Candide comme une uvre philosophique, mais comme un roman. Voltaire a toujours profess que l'magination ne cr e pas, mais ne fait qu'arranger ce que lui fournit la m moire; nous avons donc recherch quels v nements personnels lui avaient fourni le sch ma de son histoire, quels personnages rencontr s lui avaient inspir ses h ros. Nous n'avons retenu comme significatives que les donn es qui se rattachent des ensembles, parmi lesquels nous avons privil gi celui qui s'organise autour du lieu fondateur, Thunder-ten-Tronckh, transposition satirique du ch teau de B ckeburg. C'est l que Voltaire a rencontr Henri Le Ma tre, chapelain du lieu, dont il fera Pangloss, et Mme Bentinck, la 'franche westphalienne' qui pr tera des traits Cun gonde; c'est l aussi que fut voqu Fr d ric II, qui passera dans le second chapitre du roman sous le nom du 'roi de Bulgares'. Ce 'fonds m moriel' de B ckeburg/Thunder-ten-tronckh fournit la mati re des quatre premiers chapitres, consacr s respectivement aux conversations de B ckeburg, Pangloss, Cun gonde, et aux relations entre 'Candide et le roi des Bulgares'. Le chapitre 5 tudie le processus par lequel le jeu de r les entre Voltaire et Mme Bentinck finit par rejoindre la fois le roman et la r alit . C'est un nouvel aspect du romancier qui se profile ainsi derri re le philosophe.

Book Memoire pour M  le marechal  duc de Richelieu  pair de France  contre Madame la pr  sidente de Saint Vincent

Download or read book Memoire pour M le marechal duc de Richelieu pair de France contre Madame la pr sidente de Saint Vincent written by Louis François Armand du Plessis duc de Richelieu and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Memoirs of Fran  ois Ren

Download or read book The Memoirs of Fran ois Ren written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pr  cis pour M  le mar  chal duc de Richelieu  pair de France sur la plainte en subornation hasard  e par Madame de Saint Vincent

Download or read book Pr cis pour M le mar chal duc de Richelieu pair de France sur la plainte en subornation hasard e par Madame de Saint Vincent written by Louis François Armand du Plessis duc de Richelieu and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France

Download or read book Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France written by A. Forrestal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political and religious world of early Bourbon France, focusing on the search for stable accord that characterised its political and religious life. Chapters examine developments that shaped the Bourbon realm through the century: assertions of royal authority, rules of political negotiation, and the evolution of Dévot piety.

Book France  Mexico and Informal Empire in Latin America  1820 1867

Download or read book France Mexico and Informal Empire in Latin America 1820 1867 written by Edward Shawcross and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores French imperialism in Latin America in the nineteenth century, taking Mexico as a case study. The standard narrative of nineteenth-century imperialism in Latin America is one of US expansion and British informal influence. However, it was France, not Britain, which made the most concerted effort to counter US power through Louis-Napoléon’s military intervention in Mexico, begun in 1862, which created an empire on the North American continent under the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. Despite its significance to French and Latin American history, this French imperial project is invariably described as an “illusion”, an “adventure” or a “mirage”. This book challenges these conclusions and places the French intervention in Mexico within the context of informal empire. It analyses French and Mexican ideas about monarchy in Latin America; responses to US expansion and the development of anti-Americanism and pan-Latinism; the consolidation of Mexican conservatism; and, finally, the collaboration of some Mexican elites with French imperialism. An important dimension of the relationship between Mexico and France, explored in the book, is the transatlantic and transnational context in which it developed, where competing conceptions of Mexico and France as nations, the role of Europe and the United States in the Americas and the idea of Latin America itself were challenged and debated.

Book The Martyrs

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  • Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
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  • Release : 1859
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  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book The Martyrs written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Of Buonaparte  And The Bourbons  And Of The Necessity Of Rallying Round Our Legitimate Princes

Download or read book Of Buonaparte And The Bourbons And Of The Necessity Of Rallying Round Our Legitimate Princes written by François René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Napoleonic Friendship

Download or read book Napoleonic Friendship written by Brian Joseph Martin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of the origin of queer soldiers in modern France

Book Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J  Paul Getty Museum

Download or read book Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J Paul Getty Museum written by Gillian Wilson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.

Book Recherche Litt  raire   Literary Research

Download or read book Recherche Litt raire Literary Research written by Marc Maufort and published by P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the annual peer-reviewed publication of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research is an Open Access journal published by Peter Lang. Its mission is to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of recent contributions to the field. To that end, it publishes scholarly essays, review essays discussing recent research developments in particular sub-fields of the discipline, as well as reviews of books on comparative topics. Scholarly essays are submitted to a double-blind peer review. Submissions by early-career comparative literature scholars are strongly encouraged. En tant que publication annuelle de l'Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research est une revue expertisée par des pair·e·s et publiée par Peter Lang en libre accès voie dorée. Elle vise à faire connaître aux comparatistes du monde entier les développements récents de la discipline. Dans ce but, la revue publie des articles de recherche scientifique, des essais critiques dressant l'état des lieux d'un domaine particulier de la littérature comparée, ainsi que des comptes rendus de livres sur des sujets comparatistes. Les articles de recherche sont soumis à une évaluation par des pair·e·s en double anonyme. Des soumissions par de jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs en littérature comparée sont fortement encouragées.

Book The Memoirs of Fran  ois Ren    Vicomte de Chateaubriand  Sometime Ambassador to England

Download or read book The Memoirs of Fran ois Ren Vicomte de Chateaubriand Sometime Ambassador to England written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: