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La France Galante
by Alain Viala
Published by PUF
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From De La Fontaine, who wrote according to the "gallant taste of his century", to Rameau and his opera of Indes galantes, from the Fêtes Galantes organised at Versailles to the Fêtes Galantes by Watteau, a large and deep aesthetic current runs through the France of the Ancien Régime. It constructs the ideal gallant man, at the same time man of honor, and pleasant companion. This dynamic, linked to the blossoming of new elites, dominates France and Europe. Evident in all the arts, and in the morals of the time, evident equally in romantic morals and the question of the equality of the sexes as in polite behaviour, it establishes the aesthetic of the temperate sensibility and the ethic of respect. more |
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| "I am the daughter of Robert Linhart, founder of the Pro-Chinese movement in France, and author of L´Établi. My father is one of the most significant figures of 1968. Unfortunately, he is also one of that year´s most scarred figures."more |
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Le jour où mon père s´est tu
by Virginie Linhart
Published by Le Seuil
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Souvenir d´un tsunami humanitaire
by Christophe Charbon
Published by L'Harmattan
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December 26th 2004, a tsunami devastated the coastal areas of 4 countries in Asia affecting a total of 14 different countries and claiming 226,000 lives. The entire world rallied to help. The response to that event resulted in the most chaotic humanitarian operation ever.more |
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| Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch has just published a new book, in which she relates the fate of the black minority during Hitler´s time in Germany. She introduces us in this essay to victims who have often been forgotten.
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Des Victimes oubliées du nazisme
by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Published by Cherche Midi
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La Décennie
by François Cusset
Published by La Découverte
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1983, 1989, 2001, respectively, France, Europe, the world changed. North-South instead of East-West polarity, the end of European divisions, the “right left” and coalition governments become the norm, heteronomy once again the “rule of art”… a comparable existential experience could only be found in Chateaubriand or Stendhal: Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave) versus Vie de Henri Brulard (Life of Henri Brulard). more |
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