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Mes Combats
By Col. René Fonck, Maréchal Ferdinand Foch. 2017
« Le simple récit de ses combats, véritables exploits épiques accomplis dans les airs, donne un exemple des activités, des…
énergies, des vertus, mises en jeux dans les luttes nationales de nos jours. Par là cet ouvrage indique aux générations à venir la hauteur morale où elles doivent monter leur préparation à la guerre, ce qui est, dans la paix, leur devoir. » Préface du Maréchal Foch.Correspondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume III: 1761-1774 / Lettres 465-720
By David Smith, Alan Dainard, Claude Helv tius, Jean Orsoni, Marie. 1991
The first two volumes of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius inspired international acclaim. Now the third volume offers us further insight…
into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France.Claude-Adrian Helvétius (1715-71) was a wealthy and high-ranking member of French society. He was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time and, through family, with the court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher, encyclopedist, and author of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his wife, Anne Catherine de Ligneville, corresponded with the great and influential throughout Europe.The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvétius enjoyed the fruits of his fame, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced two books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which were published after his death.Fecondite d'Emile Zola
By David Baguley. 1973
This historical and critical study of Zola's Fécondité contributes much to an understanding of how the novel came to be…
written and of its achievements. Like Travail and Verité, the later books in the series Les Quatre Evangiles, Fécondité has not previously received significant critical attention. This study reveals and interprets the less obvious aspects of the work, its biblical and mythical themes, its sources and genesis. It also adds to our knowledge of Zola's later works through the examination of various ideological currents--particularly the impact of Malthusianism, its proponents and adversaries, and who among them Zola read in preparing this book. Fécondité deals with the particular problem of France's declining birth-rate at the end of the nineteenth century and, more generally, with the problem of decadence and cultural renewal. By the time that he wrote Fécondité, Zola had abandoned his naturalist aesthetic of scientific objectivity, if not also his working methods as a novelist. This study shoes how his didactic concerns continually asserted themselves in the structure and the use of rhetorical techniques in Fécondité. Specialists in Zola, and others more generally interested in the French culture of the late nineteenth century, as well as the particular demographic problems that Zola treats in the work, and the relationship of literature to primitive mythology, should find this study of particular interest.Correspondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume V: Appendices et Index
By David Smith, Alan Dainard, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Jean Orsoni, Peter Allan, Marie-Thérèse Inguenaud, Jonas Steffen. 2004
This fifth and final volume completes the critical edition of the letters of French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771), author…
of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758), and of his wife, née Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), who ran her own salon in Auteuil after her husband's death. The essential component in this last volume is the detailed index – an indispensable instrument for researchers who wish to make full use of the correspondence. The volume also includes four new letters discovered since the appearance of the first four volumes, errata, additions and modifications to the critical apparatus, the text of letters excluded from the edition proper, genealogies of the families of Helvétius and his wife, and a chronological list of all letters mentioned in the edition. The previous volumes of this edition have enjoyed international acclaim. "All students of the French Enlightenment will be deeply indebted to D.W. Smith and his team for this superbly conceived and organized collaborative achievement. When complete the Toronto Helvétius will rank among the truly outstanding examples of twentieth-century editorial and bibliographical scholarship." (David Williams, French Studies)La Chronique de Robert de Clari: Etude de la langue et du style
By Peter Dembowski. 1963
Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a…
chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he took part. This is an important work in the study of the development of the French language, because it is one of the first original prose texts in French, neither translated from Latin nor resulting from "prosification" of verse-compositions. Professor Dembrowski's study is a close analysis of language and style, revealing Robert de Clari's ability in the narration of short anecdotes and in the reproduction of dialogue. University of Toronto Romance Series, Number 6.The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
By Simon R. Doubleday. 2015
"If I had been present at the Creation,” the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, "Many…
faults in the universe would have been avoided. ” Known as El Sabio, "the Wise,” Alfonso was renowned by friends and enemies alike for his sparkling intellect and extraordinary cultural achievements. In The Wise King, celebrated historian Simon R. Doubleday traces the story of the king’s life and times, leading us deep into his emotional world and showing how his intense admiration for Spain’s rich Islamic culture paved the way for the European Renaissance. In 1252, when Alfonso replaced his more militaristic father on the throne of Castile and León, the battle to reconquer Muslim territory on the Iberian Peninsula was raging fiercely. But even as he led his Christian soldiers onto the battlefield, Alfonso was seduced by the glories of Muslim Spain. His engagement with the Arabic-speaking culture of the South shaped his pursuit of astronomy, for which he was famed for centuries, and his profoundly humane vision of the world, which Dante, Petrarch, and later Italian humanists would inherit. A composer of lyric verses, and patron of works on board games, hunting, and the properties of stones, Alfonso is best known today for his Cantigas de Santa María (Songs of Holy Mary), which offer a remarkable window onto his world. His ongoing struggles as a king and as a man were distilled--in art, music, literature, and architecture--into something sublime that speaks to us powerfully across the centuries. An intimate biography of the Spanish ruler in whom two cultures converged, The Wise King introduces readers to a Renaissance man before his time, whose creative energy in the face of personal turmoil and existential threats to his kingdom would transform the course of Western history.The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
By Mary Elise Sarotte. 2014
The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city’s two halves: the democratic west and…
the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan’s famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” But as award-winning historian Mary Sarotte shows in [Title TK] , the opening of the Wall on November 9, 1989 was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government’s deliberate concession to outside influence. It was an accident. A carelessly worded memo written by mid-level bureaucrats, a bumbling press conference given by an inept member of the East German Politburo, the negligence of government leaders, the bravery of ordinary people in East and West Berlin--these combined to bring about the end of nearly forty years of oppression, fear, and enmity in divided Berlin. When the news broke, Washington and Moscow could only stand by and watch as Tom Brokaw and other journalists narrated the televised broadcast of this critical moment in the thawing of the cold war. Sarotte opens her story in the months leading up to that fateful day. Following East German dissidents, she shows how their efforts coalesced around opposition to the regime’s restrictions on foreign travel. The city of Leipzig, close to the border with Czechoslovakia, became a hothouse of activism, and protests there quickly grew into massive demonstrations. The East German Politburo hoped to limit its citizens’ knowledge of these marches, but two daring dissidents, East Berliners Aram Radomski and Siegbert Schefke, managed to evade the Stasi and film the largest of them from a church tower. They then smuggled their tape to West Germany; broadcast in both nations, the footage galvanized activists across East Germany, and precipitated the stunning developments on November 9. Facing mounting pressure from its own citizens, the East German Politburo planned to put off enacting any meaningful change to its travel policy by issuing a deceptive ruling that would appear to offer more freedom, but which in fact would allow the state to maintain strict control over its citizen’s movements. But the bureaucrats tasked with preparing the "new” regulations misunderstood their task, and instead drafted a declaration that said East Germans could freely leave the country. This declaration ended up in the hands of regime spokesman Günter Schabowski, who announced the rules at a press conference without understanding their import. Stunned reporters were soon broadcasting the news around the world. Crowds of East Germans began streaming to the Wall, prompting a showdown with border guards, who received no support or direction from East German leadership as the throngs multiplied. By 11:30, Harald Jäger, a second-tier passport control officer, had had enough and finally opened the wall to the mob gathering outside his gate. Even though East German forces successfully regained control by the morning, it was too late--for the wall, for the regime, and for Communism in Eastern Europe. Drawing on evidence from archives in multiple countries and languages, along with dozens of interviews with key actors, including Harald Jäger, [Title TK] is the definitive account of the event that brought down the East German Politburo and came to represent the final collapse of the Cold War order.Correspondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume III: 1761-1774 / Lettres 465-720
By Alan Dainard, Claude Adrien Helv tius, David Smith, Jean Orsoni, Marie-Th r se Inguenaud, Peter Allan. 1991
The first two volumes of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius inspired international acclaim. Now the third volume offers us further insight…
into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France.Claude-Adrian Helvétius (1715-71) was a wealthy and high-ranking member of French society. He was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time and, through family, with the court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher, encyclopedist, and author of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his wife, Anne Catherine de Ligneville, corresponded with the great and influential throughout Europe.The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvétius enjoyed the fruits of his fame, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced two books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which were published after his death.Correspondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume IV: 1774-1800 / Lettres 721-855
By Claude Adrien Helv tius, David Smith, J A Dainard, Jean Orsoni, Marie-Th r se Inguenaud, Peter Allan. 1998
This is the fourth of five volumes of the letters of the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771), author of…
the controversial De l'Esprit (1758). Featuring the correspondence of Mme Helvétius, née Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), in the years following her husband's death, this volume also includes letters by and to Helvétius discovered since the publication of the first three volumes. Mme Helvétius enjoyed an active widowhood, welcoming to her salon in Auteuil a group of intellectuals who came to be known as the Idéologues. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, she was involved in political events before and during the French Revolution, as well as in Napoleon's coup d'état. In the last letter of the series her grandson describes her burial in her garden, which took place without religious or revolutionary ceremony in the presence of all her favourite pets. Most of the newly discovered letters are addressed to Helvétius by figures as important as d'Alembert, Boulanger, Chastellux, Saint-Lambert, Servan, Thieriot, and Trublet. Some of these complete an existing exchange, others provide dates for letters already published. The fifth and final volume will be devoted primarily to a comprehensive index. It will also include a chronological list of all the letters, corrections and modifications, and other useful material.L'édification de la nouvelle Europe
By Francescomaria Tuccillo. 2019
Amazonen der Feder, Bürgerinnen in der Republik des Geistes, weibliche Intellektuelle: die Literatur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts war der…
Ort, an dem Schriftstellerinnen ihre Befähigung zur kulturellen Teilhabe beredt unter Beweis stellten und mal in Auseinandersetzung mit, mal mit Unterstützung von männlichen Kollegen einforderten. Sie entwickelten spezifische Strategien der Autorisierung einer weiblichen Perspektive – Strategien, die über intellektuelle Netzwerke im Europa der Aufklärung zirkulierten. Dabei spielte nicht nur die geistige Emanzipation der Frau aus der patriarchal geforderten Unmündigkeit eine Rolle, sondern auch die sexuelle Selbstbestimmtheit. Dieser Sammelband stellt die weiblichen Beiträge vor allem zur englischen und französischen Literatur des Zeitraums in die sozio-politischen und ideengeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge der Geschlechtergeschichte, und stellt so selbst ein wichtiges Stück feministischer Literaturgeschichtsschreibung dar. Er versammelt erstmals die feministischen Forschungen von Ina Schabert zur Literatur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts und macht damit die Schriften einer der einflussreichsten Gender-Forscherinnen in Deutschland in einer neu edierten, kritischen Ausgabe verfügbar.Die Reihe Die Feministische Aufklärung in Europa versammelt Monographien, Sammelbände und Editionen zu der Frage, in welchem Maße und auf welche Weise die unterschiedlichen Strömungen der europäischen Aufklärung zwischen 1650 und 1800 feministische Problemlagen erörterten und Ansprüche einforderten. Wie aufgeklärt war die europäische Aufklärung im Hinblick auf rechtliche, politische, gesellschaftliche, religiöse und kulturelle Egalitätspostulate der Geschlechter, deren Verwirklichung ein ‚Zeitalter der Aufklärung‘ allererst in ein ‚aufgeklärtes Zeitalter‘ transformieren könnten? Die Reihe präsentiert philologische, historische und philosophische Studien sowie mehrsprachige Editionen, die die Vielfalt feministischer Argumente und Positionierungen, aber auch die Bemühungen ihrer Gegner, seit dem späten 17. Jahrhundert dokumentieren.Gesundheit und Krankheit vor und nach Paracelsus
By Christoph Strosetzki. 2022
Bedeutend ist Theophrast von Hohenheim (ca. 1493/4–1541), genannt Paracelsus, vor allem durch sein Aufbegehren gegen die klassischen antiken und arabisch-mittelalterlichen…
Autoritäten in der Medizin. Grundlage sollen nicht mehr die überlieferten Schriften, sondern experientia, experimenta und ratio sein. Von dieser Basis soll künftig ausgegangen werden, was Paracelsus auch dadurch unterstreicht, dass er seine Schriften in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht. Indem er sich gegen die dogmatische Auslegung antiker Texte wandte, wollte er die Ära Galens beenden. Die Chirurgie wollte er auf universitären Rang erheben. Nach Paracelsus ist es die Natur, die heilt, wobei der Arzt nur Helfer ist. Wenn er Gesundheit als harmonische Ordnung im organischen Ablauf definiert, dann ist er bestrebt, Makrokosmos und Mikrokosmos, Diesseits und Jenseits, in Einklang zu bringen. Die Welt ist für ihn kein Nebeneinander isolierter Elemente, sondern eine Einheit. Auch beim Menschen erscheint ihm Sinnliches und Seelisches aufeinander bezogen. Archeus nennt er ein immaterielles Prinzip, in dem er den Träger der belebenden Kraft in der Natur und im Menschen, also im Makrokosmos wie im Mikrokosmos, festmacht. Im Sinne der Renaissance sieht er den Menschen als Mittelpunkt des Kosmos und seine Aufgabe im Erkennen der Welt.Correspondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume II: 1757-1760 / Lettres 250-464
By Allan Dainard, Claude Adrien Helv tius, David Smith, Jean Orsoni, Peter Allan. 1984
This second volume of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius covers the period of the publication and reception of Helvétius' controversial first…
work, De l'Esprit (1758). It begins with a letter of January 1757, in which Helvétius recounts the attempt by Damiens on the life of Louis XV, and ends in December 1760 when the author, having been attacked on the stage of the Théatre-Francais but eulogized in foreign journals, is contemplating voluntary exile. In the meantime De l'Esprit provoked an uprecedented outcry from the court and from the religious and civil authorities. Denigrated as the epitome of all dangerous philosophic trends of the age, condemned as atheistic, materialistic, sacriligious, immoral, and subversive, it enjoyed an immense succes de scandale. Rather than examining the puzzles and paradoxes which surround the affaire de l'Esprit, this volume presents the documents upon which solutions may be based. Helvétius' own letters, often written hastily, under stress, and in fear they might be opened by the Cabinet noir, are less revealing than the letters between other protagonists in the affaire: the Cardinal de Bernis and the Duke de Choiseul, Jean-Omer Joly de Fleury, Malesherbes, Saint-Florentin, Tercier, and Louis xv himself. It is these letters, together with the appendixes containing edicts, retractions, an condemnations that shed new light not only on the development of the affaire but also on the complex workings of the ancien regimeCorrespondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume IV: 1774-1800 / Lettres 721-855
By David Smith, Claude Helv tius, Jean Orsoni, Marie, J A Dainard. 1998
This is the fourth of five volumes of the letters of the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771), author of…
the controversial De l'Esprit (1758). Featuring the correspondence of Mme Helvétius, née Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), in the years following her husband's death, this volume also includes letters by and to Helvétius discovered since the publication of the first three volumes. Mme Helvétius enjoyed an active widowhood, welcoming to her salon in Auteuil a group of intellectuals who came to be known as the Idéologues. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, she was involved in political events before and during the French Revolution, as well as in Napoleon's coup d'état. In the last letter of the series her grandson describes her burial in her garden, which took place without religious or revolutionary ceremony in the presence of all her favourite pets. Most of the newly discovered letters are addressed to Helvétius by figures as important as d'Alembert, Boulanger, Chastellux, Saint-Lambert, Servan, Thieriot, and Trublet. Some of these complete an existing exchange, others provide dates for letters already published. The fifth and final volume will be devoted primarily to a comprehensive index. It will also include a chronological list of all the letters, corrections and modifications, and other useful material.Correspondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume I: 1737-1756 / Lettres 1-249
By Alan Dainard, Claude Adrien Helv tius, David Smith, Jean Orsoni, Peter Allan. 1981
This volume is the first of three in a complete critical edition of the letters of Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-71) and…
his wife, née Anne Catherine de Liginville (1722-1800). Though rank and wealth, Helvétius was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time, and, through family, with court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher and author of the explosive De l'esprit, Helvétius corresponded with the great and the influential throughout Europe. His letters, and those of Mme Helvétius, provide insights into, and new information about, their lives and the political, social, and intellectual history of the eighteenth century. Volume I contains almost 250 letters written by or to Helvétius or his wife. Of these, the largest collections are those from Helvétius to Mme Helvétius, made available by his descendants, and letters from the future Mmem Helvétius to her aunt, Mme de Graffigny, which are at Yale University. Letters to or from third parties are also included. Much of this correspondence has never before been published. Correspondance générale d'Helvétius is fascinating to read; it is indispensable for future study of Helvétius' life and work and of Mme Helvétius' influence on her husband his his circle. This volume has a preface by Comte Charles-Antoine d'Andlau, a descendant of Helvétius, and an introduction by the editors setting out their editorial and critical principles and system of annotation. (University of Toronto Romance Series 41)Mémoires du Capitaine Bertrand
By Cne. Vincent Bertrand. 2017
« La campagne de 1805, Iéna, Eylau, Tilsit, Wagram, la Russie, 1813 et 1815 (en Alsace) sont évoqués dans ces…
vivants mémoires. » p. 17 Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L’Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971Journal Du Général Fantin Des Odoards, Étapes D’un Officier De La Grande Armée, 1800-1830
By Général de Brigade Louis-Florimond Fantin des Odoards. 2015
« Relation solide et précise des Campagnes d'Autriche en 1805, de Pologne en 1807, d'Espagne en 1808, de Russie en…
1812, d'Allemagne en 1813, de France en 1814, de Belgique en 1815. » p 60 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Sur Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971Campagnes et Souvenirs de Maréchal de Logis Jean-Auguste Oyon
By Maréchal de Logis Jean-Auguste Oyon. 2015
« Ulm et Austerlitz, le Portugal en 1807 et en 1808, Laon en 1814. Les amours de l'auteur occupent une…
place aussi importantes dans ses souvenirs que ses exploits militaires. » p 129 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Sur Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971Mémoires Du Capitaine Duthilt
By Général de Division Camille Baruch Lévi, Capitaine Pierre-Charles Duthilt. 2015
« Ces souvenirs, bien que rédigés tardivement et souhaitant être avant tout l'histoire du régiment, contiennent d'intéressants détails sur l'armée…
de Naples et la campagne des Calabres (ch. X-XI). Après avoir surtout combattu en Italie, Duthilt a participé à la bataille de Waterloo dont il donne un vivant récit (ch. XVIII). Il a un sens aigu de la description (cf. ses excursions à Naples, pp. 220-224, ou à Vérone, pp. 257-259) et indique avec précision ses étapes. Il reproduit des chansons et des hymnes maçonniques (p. 266) » p 56-57 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Sur Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971Mémoires Militaires De Joseph Grabowski: Officier À L’État-Major Impérial De Napoléon Ier 1812-1813-1814
By Jo zef Ignacy Tadeusz Grabowski. 2015
« Souvenirs d'un Polonais gagné par les idées françaises et qui s'engagea dans le 5° corps commandé par Poniatowski. Ce…
n'est qu'à la fin de la campagne de 1812 qu'il fut appelé comme officier d'ordonnance auprès de Napoléon. Il a participé à la bataille de Leipzig (récit de la disparition de Poniatowski) et à la campagne de France. Il éclaire le rôle des bulletins (p. 45) et relève les erreurs de Thiers (p. 97). Ses mémoires s'achèvent en 1814. Chuquet les juge très utiles (Episodes et souvenirs, 2° série, pp. 168-199). » p 76 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Sur Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971