Author: Denis Boyles
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Boyles, who has lived and worked in France for several years, examines the internal crises--a falling birthrate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige--that have changed the personality of what was once "La Belle France."
Vile France
Author: Denis Boyles
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Boyles, who has lived and worked in France for several years, examines the internal crises--a falling birthrate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige--that have changed the personality of what was once "La Belle France."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Boyles, who has lived and worked in France for several years, examines the internal crises--a falling birthrate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige--that have changed the personality of what was once "La Belle France."
The Americanization of France
Author: Barnett Singer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442221658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clichés about modern France: first, that the country has never been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror; and second, that the French have always been and remain overwhelmingly anti-American. The end of the war led to an important sea change, clearing the way for France to embrace American culture, especially rock 'n' roll, and more generally, an American-style emphasis on personal happiness. The author argues that today's France, wounded by the loss of traditions and stability, is increasingly pro-American, clinging to trends from across the Atlantic as to a lifeline.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442221658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clichés about modern France: first, that the country has never been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror; and second, that the French have always been and remain overwhelmingly anti-American. The end of the war led to an important sea change, clearing the way for France to embrace American culture, especially rock 'n' roll, and more generally, an American-style emphasis on personal happiness. The author argues that today's France, wounded by the loss of traditions and stability, is increasingly pro-American, clinging to trends from across the Atlantic as to a lifeline.
Villainy in France (1463-1610)
Author: Jonathan Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198840012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice—villainy—in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous offences were countered, if never fully contained, by intersecting legal and literary responses. Combining the methods of legal anthropology with literary and historical analysis, this study examines villainy across juridical documents, criminal records, and literary texts. Whilst few people obtained justice through the law, many pursued out-of-court settlements of one kind or another. Literary texts commemorated villainies both fictitious and historical; literature sometimes instantiated the process of redress, and enabled the transmission of conflicts from one context to another. Villainy in France follows this overflowing current of pre-modern French culture, examining its impact within France and across the English Channel. Scholars and cultural critics of the Anglophone world have long been fascinated by villainy and villains. This book reveals the subject's significant 'Frenchness' and establishes a transcultural approach to it in law and literature. In this study, villainy's particular significance emerges through its representation in authors remembered for their less-than respectable, even criminal, activities: François Villon, Clément Marot, François Rabelais, Pierre de L'Estoile, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman. Villainy in France affords legal-literary comparison of these authors alongside many of their lesser-known contemporaries; in so doing, it reinterprets French conflicts within a wider European context, from the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198840012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice—villainy—in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous offences were countered, if never fully contained, by intersecting legal and literary responses. Combining the methods of legal anthropology with literary and historical analysis, this study examines villainy across juridical documents, criminal records, and literary texts. Whilst few people obtained justice through the law, many pursued out-of-court settlements of one kind or another. Literary texts commemorated villainies both fictitious and historical; literature sometimes instantiated the process of redress, and enabled the transmission of conflicts from one context to another. Villainy in France follows this overflowing current of pre-modern French culture, examining its impact within France and across the English Channel. Scholars and cultural critics of the Anglophone world have long been fascinated by villainy and villains. This book reveals the subject's significant 'Frenchness' and establishes a transcultural approach to it in law and literature. In this study, villainy's particular significance emerges through its representation in authors remembered for their less-than respectable, even criminal, activities: François Villon, Clément Marot, François Rabelais, Pierre de L'Estoile, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman. Villainy in France affords legal-literary comparison of these authors alongside many of their lesser-known contemporaries; in so doing, it reinterprets French conflicts within a wider European context, from the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century.
The Short French Dictionary ... The Fourth Edition, with Some Improvements
Author: Guy Miege
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Short French Dictionary, in Two Parts
Author: Guy Miège
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Short French Dictionary, in Two Parts. The 1. English and French, 2. French and English; According to the Present Use, and Moden Orthography. By Guy Miege, Gent
Author: Guy Miege
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and French
Author: Abel Boyer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
The New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English languages ... Ninth edition, ... with the addition of many words, ... and a view of the pronunciation and syntax of the French language. By J. Ouiseau
Author: Thomas NUGENT (LL.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A New and Complete French and English and English and French Dictionary, on the Basis of the Royal Dictionary ... by Professor Fleming [and] Professor Tibbins
Author: Charles Fleming
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping
Author:
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Category : Marine insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1854
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1854
Book Description