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  Thibaud GIDDEY

  Histoire de la régulation des banques en Suisse (1914-1972)

  Publications d'histoire économique et sociale internationale n° 41

  This book examines the regulatory environment that accompanied the growth of the Swiss banking sector in the 20th century...

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  Laurence DANGUY

  Le Nebelspalter zurichois (1875-1921)

  Au coeur de l'Europe des revues et des arts

  Presse et caricature n° 1

  Published without interruption since 1875, the Nebelspalter is the oldest continually published satirical magazine in the world. This book analyzes the constant dialogue between other periodicals and the Nebelspalter between 1875 and 1921...

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  Timothée LÉCHOT

  « Ayons aussi une poésie nationale »

  Affirmation d'une périphérie littéraire en Suisse (1730-1830)

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières n° 89

  From the 1730s, the French-speaking Swiss questioned whether they could develop their own poetic activity, and thus defend their place among civilized nations that cultivated belles-lettres?...

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  David CLAIVAZ

  « Ovide veut parler »

  Les négociations de Clément Marot traducteur

  Librairie Droz | Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 134

  This is the first French verse version of Ovid’s Metamorphosis, translated by the sixteenth century poet Clément Marot. Marot’s translation marks not only a literary achievement, but also cleaves to deontological standards worthy of modern translators...

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  Peter FREI

  François Rabelais et le scandale de la modernité

  Pour une herméneutique de l'obscène renaissant

  Librairie Droz | Etudes rabelaisiennes n° 548

  François Rabelais and the Scandal of Modernity presents a comprehensive study of obscenity in the work of Rabelais. Based on a critical analysis of the hermeneutical implications of the deviating representations at work in the Rabelaisian text...

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  Slaven WAELTI

  Klossowski, l'incommunicable

  Lectures complices de Gide, Bataille et Nietzsche

  Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 486

  Can we communicate the incommunicable? Language is general, but the “depths of the soul” are unique, and only the experience lived in silence is authentic...

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  Jean WIRTH

  Villard de Honnecourt, architecte du XIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant n° 58

  The only document we have by a 13th-century architect, the Album of Villard de Honnecourt has been the subject of writings by art and architectural historians since the 19th century and has been considered the work of an amateur since the 1970s...

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  Maud DUBOIS

  L'Oeuvre sans fin. Réception des romans de Monique Saint-Hélier par la critique française (1932-1955)

  Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 475

  Monique Saint-Hélier became quite successful during the 1930s in particular because of the violent controversy that surrounded her second novel, Bois-Mort. How is it that Saint-Hélier’s work provoked such passionate criticism, but encountered nothing but disinterest after the war...

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  Max ENGAMMARE

  Soixante-trois

  La peur de la grande année climactérique à la Renaissance

  Droz | Titre courant n° 53

  People have interpreted the numeration of the years of their life since Antiquity (when, for example, the Emperor Augustus did so). Ancient medical theories thus maintained that matter is renewed every seven or nine years...