19th & 20th centuries

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  Philippe KAENEL

  Le Métier d'illustrateur (1830-1880) :

  Rodolphe Töpffer, J. J. Grandville, Gustave Doré

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  From 1830, the number of illustrators grew in line with the revolution in the world of print and engraving. Most nineteenth-century artists worked for the book trade at some time. This ‘journalism of the pencil’ (Théophile Gautier) could be either a...

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  BOMBELLES

  Journal

  T. VI, 1801-1807

  Librairie Droz | Journal du Marquis de Bombelles

  The period from 1801 to 1807 are the crucial years in the life of the marquis de Bombelles; widowed, he chooses to take orders, but without power to fulfill the functions of curate in the Austrian states. Preoccupied with his sons' future, he sends...

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  Joris-Karl HUYSMANS

  En ménage

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  En Ménage can be read as a minor deviation from the credo of naturalism. If Zola sees "the eternal suffering and the eternal folly of life" within this pseudo roman d'adultère that appeared in 1881, Huysmans offers with it a sweeping investigation of...

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  Charles NODIER

  Notions élémentaires de linguistique, ou Histoire abrégée de la parole et de l'écriture : Pour servir d'introduction à l'alphabet, à la grammaire et au dictionnaire

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  Charles Nodier grouped his articles on the origin of languages, the alphabet, ethymology, neology, dialects and onomastics in a book that expresses an original perception of poetry, and literature in general. Written with as much brilliance as bite...

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  Roth HANSJÖRG

  La Fusion des communes de l'agglomération urbaine genevoise en 1930

  Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève (SHAG) | Cahiers de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève

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  Catherine RANNOUX

  Les Fictions du journal littéraire : Paul Léautaud, Jean Malaquais, Renaud Camus

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  A writer’s diary speaks of the world, often doing so through the words of others, calling attention to the presence within him of what has already been said, but which he makes his own. It is a paradoxical situation in which the writing process...

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  Charles BALLY

  La Crise du français : Notre langue maternelle à l'école

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  In 1930, Charles Bally, linguistics professor at Geneva university, gave five lectures on the French language and its teaching in French-speaking Switzerland. In these he elaborates on society’s experience, real or perceived, of a language in...

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  Rodolphe TÖPFFER

  Correspondance complète

  Volume II, 11 juillet 1820 - début août 1832

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance complète de R. Töpffer n° 2

  The second volume of Rodolphe Töpffer’s correspondence contains letters written between his return to Geneva in July 1820, after an extended stay in Paris, and his appointment on 17 October 1832 as professor of rhetoric at the Geneva Academy. He...

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  Evanghélia STEAD

  Le Monstre, le singe et le fœtus : tératogonie et décadence dans l'Europe fin-de-siècle

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  "Monsters are no more" declared Huysmans in 1889 reiterating the Goncourt brothers. Decadence revisits with a vengeance an old debate in literature, art and aesthetics to renew the collective imagination of monstrosity and, in so doing, to define...

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  Dagmar WIESER

  Nerval : une poétique du deuil à l'âge romantique

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Unrequited love, the denial of the poet’s sacred status, or the refusal of modern society – Nerval’s writing is driven by a sense of loss. His poetry seeks to compensate for the constraints of verse forms, whereas in his prose stories, on the subject...