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Richard Cole revient sur cette période quelque peu négligée de la vie musicale du Grand Théâtre à Genève, qui paradoxalement a affiché à l'époque de grands noms tels que Jules Massenet, Gustave Doret et Edouard Lalo...
This work examines the reception and art history of naturalism in sculpture during the nineteenth century, focusing on the vision of the body and the interaction between animation and petrification...
These collected essays examine literary quarrels during the Early Modern period as a literary genre in and of themselves. The studies approach these rows through the genres that feed them and that they shape: how did the editorial context...
LES MUSÉES DU PROTESTANTISMEMarianne CARBONNIER-BURKARD et Patrick CABANEL, « Introduction » ...
Le 15 mars 1841, la Revue des deux mondes publie, sous la rubrique « Poètes et romanciers modernes de la France » un long article intitulé « M. Rodolphe Töpffer » sous la signature prestigieuse du grand critique Sainte-Beuve...
In the autumn of 1856, the Revue de Paris printed in six consecutive issues a previously unpublished novel, Madame Bovary. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Revue, had demanded cuts from his author which the latter had refused...
Victor Hugo's 1856 Les Contemplations was an immense success, selling out its first edition within days. The present work is a facsimile edition of the copy offered by Hugo to his lost daughter’s brother-in-law, Auguste Vacquerie...
Quatorze ans séparaient Albert de Mun et Hubert Lyautey : c'est peu et c’est beaucoup, puisque l’un avait trente ans en 1870 tandis que l’autre en avait quinze, et que la guerre de 1870 et la Commune ont creusé un véritable fossé...
Following the volume 1816. Genesis of the Public Trust, which chronicled the birth and affirmation of a new politico-financial system between 1816-1848, we turn here to the tumultuous second half of the 19th century...
This critical edition of « Arch. de Saussure 372 » presents a collection of manuscripts, fragmentary notes on general linguistics and the Science of Language left by the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure...
Ferdinand de Saussure is the most frequently cited linguist of the twentieth century, but his work remains poorly understood. The contributions to this project demonstrate the profound coherence of Saussure's general linguistic theory...
Alexandre Dumas maintained the place of wonder in the modern novel through themes from contemporary myths, such as unlimited scientific progress, all-powerful money or distance lands...
This study shows the important literary influence of the Latin Vulgate version of the Song of Songs through the Roman Catholic liturgy. Analyses range from patristic (Origen), mediaeval (S. Bernard, Guillaume de Saint-Thierry), baroque (Bossuet) ...
This study crosses numerous sources, including company archives and interviews, to shed new light on the Suez Canal and its managing firm. This controversial subject has provoked much debate in political, ideological and historical circles, ...
This thematic study resulting from a colloquium in 2003 complements the history of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry that appeared in that year. The first part deals with the institution and its place as an intermediary at the national level...
The preface to Maxime du Camp’s 1855 Les Chants modernes demanded a new status for poetry and the arts, in collaboration with the modern themes of science and industry. The success of Paris’ 1855 Exposition Universelle, and especially the public’s...
The novel as a genre, since its origins, has been limited by its necessary devotion to human imperfection. The novel aims at the dimension of ordinary existence, often through romantic adventures written in a style between the sublime and the common...
During the whole social history of French romanticism, comradeship has been considered a shameful strategy to forge false literary glories. Anthony Glinoer reconstitutes the controversy of the literary comradeship by an analysis of its principal...