Download or read book Napoleon and de Gaulle written by Patrice Gueniffey and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year One of France’s most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history. Historians have taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But in democratizing history, we have lost track of the outsized role that individual will and charisma can play in shaping the world, especially in moments of extreme tumult. Patrice Gueniffey provides a compelling reminder in this powerful dual biography of two transformative leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle. Both became national figures at times of crisis and war. They were hailed as saviors and were eager to embrace the label. They were also animated by quests for personal and national greatness, by the desire to raise France above itself and lead it on a mission to enlighten the world. Both united an embattled nation, returned it to dignity, and left a permanent political legacy—in Napoleon’s case, a form of administration and a body of civil law; in de Gaulle’s case, new political institutions. Gueniffey compares Napoleon’s and de Gaulle’s journeys to power; their methods; their ideas and writings, notably about war; and their postmortem reputations. He also contrasts their weaknesses: Napoleon’s limitless ambitions and appetite for war and de Gaulle’s capacity for cruelty, manifested most clearly in Algeria. They were men of genuine talent and achievement, with flaws almost as pronounced as their strengths. As many nations, not least France, struggle to find their soul in a rapidly changing world, Gueniffey shows us what a difference an extraordinary leader can make.
Download or read book The Life of Napoleon I Complete written by J. Holland Rose and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)" by J. Holland Rose. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Life of Napoleon I written by John Holland Rose and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Life of Napoleon I by John Holland Rose
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Download or read book Portraits by Ingres written by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om portrætter af den franske maler Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Download or read book Holding On and Holding Out written by Anne Freadman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the diary as a particular form of expression, Holding On and Holding Out provides unique insight into the experiences of Jews in France during the Second World War. Unlike memoirs and autobiographies that reconstruct particular life stories or events, diaries record daily events without the benefit of retrospect, describing events as they unfold. Holding On and Holding Out assesses how individuals used diaries to record their daily life under persecution, each waiting for some end with a mix of hope and despair. Some used the diary to bear witness not only to the terror of their own lives, but also to the lives and suffering of others. Others used their writing as a memorial to people who were killed. All used their writing to assert: "I live, I will have lived." Holding On and Holding Out follows the diaries of two specific individuals, Raymond-Raoul Lambert and Benjamin Schatzman, from their first entry to the last one they wrote before they disappeared into the Nazi extermination camps. The author concludes the book by considering how reflections on their experience are informed by the times in which they lived, before the advent of persecution.
Download or read book The Arts of France from Fran ois Ier to Napol on Ier written by Guy Wildenstein and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napoleon written by Philip Dwyer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At just thirty years of age, Napoleon Bonaparte ruled the most powerful country in Europe. But the journey that led him there was neither inevitable nor smooth. This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and debunks many of the myths that are often repeated about himsensational myths often propagated by Napoleon himself. Here, Philip Dwyer sheds new light on Napoleons inner lifeespecially his darker side and his passionsto reveal a ruthless, manipulative, driven man whose character has been disguised by the public image he carefully fashioned to suit the purposes of his ambition. Dwyer focuses acutely on Napoleons formative years, from his Corsican origins to his French education, from his melancholy youth to his flirtation with radicals of the French Revolution, from his first military campaigns in Italy and Egypt to the political-military coup that brought him to power in 1799. One of the first truly modern politicians, Napoleon was a master of spin, using the media to project an idealized image of himself. Dwyers biography of the young Napoleon provides a fascinating new perspective on one of the great figures of modern history.
Download or read book L Invitation Au Voyage written by John Renwick and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Voltaire Foundation is proud to publish a volume of studies to honour Professor Peter France on his retirement from the University of Edinburgh. Leading scholars in the field of the Enlightenment have chosen to write on travel, an important current area of eighteenth-century research and one which has engaged Peter France himself in recent years.
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Download or read book Seductive Resistance The Poetry of Th ophile Gautier written by Constance Gosselin Schick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gautier's poetry merits an attentive reading which respects his own essential criterion of poeticity, namely, textuality. This is a poetry which puts on display its literariness, that is, its existence as cultural artifact. In so doing, however, it also puts on display the absence of and its resistance to whatever personal or real signified it would evoke or name. Its beauty and self-indulgent pleasure reveal their hollowness and inadequacy. Its chiseled, polished surface renders its borders or limits and its play unsatisfyingly and teasingly perceptible. Its very superficiality allows, invites and seduces the reader to go entre les lignes and perceive the mystery, not of what has been symbolically buried/unburied, concealed/revealed, but of the truly absent, the abîmes superficiels. Chapter 1, focusing on texts from the Poésies of 1830, studies the intextual repetition of Gautier's poetry, the citations, imitations and transpositions which make evident the poetry's displacement of the significant and the personal into aesthetic simulacra. Chapter 2 deals with the poems of Gautier's second collection, Albertus, and analyzes the use of allegory and of humor as further markers of textual substitution. The inherent lifelessness and illusoriness of the textual artifact is revealed in the poems of La Comédie de la Mort, the collection examined in chapter 3. Chapter 4 analyzes the so-called descriptive, referential poetry of España, and finds that the monde extérieur of Gautier's poetry functions to express an absence of self and is itself always shown to be other than the Other. The dimunition of the poetic effected in Emaux et Camées is the subject of chapter 5, and chapter 6 deals with the contextuality, the fetishism, and the eroticism revealed in a miscellany of poems - in particular the libertine poems - which do not figure in Gautier's five major collections. By short-circuiting significations and transforming them into seductive appearances, Gautier reveals himself to be the acknowledged maître of both Baudelaire and Mallarmé.
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Download or read book The Mask of the Prophet written by Andrew Martin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such novels as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Around the World in Eighty Days" have made Jules Verne the most widely translated of all French authors. He has been categorized as a science fiction and children's fantasy writer and this work attempts to relocate his reputation.
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Download or read book 2000 ans de rire written by Mongi Madini and published by Presses Univ. Franche-Comté. This book was released on 2002 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Le colloque international 2000 ans de Rire. Permanence et modernité qui s'est tenu en juin juillet 2000 à l'initiative commune de Corhum et du Grelis-Laseldi et qui a réuni à l'Université de Franche-Comté à Besançon une cinquantaine de chercheurs de différentes nationalités, relève le défi d'un bilan en "humorologie". Visant à "dresser un état des recherches en fin de millénaire" il ne réalise évidemment pas un parcours exhaustif, mais propose des repères sur le mode de la rétrospective, de la prospective, du défilement panoramique ou de l'" arrêt sur image". Dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire, le champ des lettres reçoit souvent l'éclairage des sciences du langage et des sciences sociales. Les trente-neuf contributions réunies dans ce volume d'actes abordent les phénomènes du rire, du comique, de l'humour à partir de corpus très variés (traditions populaires, dessins, histoires drôles, théâtre, nouvelles, romans, cinéma, chansons, sketches...). Elles sont regroupées en quatre sous-ensembles (Culture et société/Littérature/Langue et discours/Actualités du rire) correspondant à des dominantes disciplinaires et/ou à des objets de recherche. Le volume s'attache à la fois à la singularité du rire selon les communautés, les époques, les genres, et à ce qui fonde l'universalité de ce phénomène complexe à la charnière du naturel et du culturel. Il convie à une réflexion de portée sémiotique sur les processus de compréhension et d'interprétation, en privilégiant les données culturelles et les rapports sociaux observés à travers la médiation des formes et des interactions."
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