Les filles du pasteur : Daughters of the Vicar
Extraits
Lectures graduées
The Turn of the Screw
Plongez en VO dans ce livre incroyable. Pour vous aider, des traductions en marge vous permettront de bien comprendre le texte original. Ces textes en VO font partie des lectures imposées pour les classes de Première dans le cadre du nouveau bac de 2022.
05/2023
Livres 3 ans et +
Vive les saisons ! Ohé les filles !
Eté, automne, hiver, printemps, ces filles affrontent tous les temps !
05/2019
Policiers
The poet assassin
Some mysterious graffiti on the walls of the Castillet, a crowned reptile in Saint Jean Cathedral, the Campo Santo defiled : these are some of the bizarre clues in Lieutenant Dominique d'Astié's latest investigation. Is there a link between their symbolism, the enigmatic poems strewn all over the streets of Perpignan and the bloody assassination of "King Arthur Pendragon" ? The young Parisian police officer, newest member of La Police Judiciaire de Perpignan, will need to brush up on the old Arthurian legends if she is to solve this very non-Catalan murder !
05/2012
Contes et nouvelles
Oh, les filles !
Philippe Lacoche raconte à travers ses nouvelles percutantes des rencontres, des histoires belles et moins belles, avec toujours en fil directeur sa relation aux femmes, dans toute leur diversité. Philippe Lacoche est journaliste et écrivain. Il a publié de nombreux ouvrages, dont Je suis picard mais je me soigne, aux éditions Héliopoles.
10/2023
Sciences et inventions
Louis Pasteur
La collection "Petit & GRAND" propose de découvrir des hommes qui n'étaient pas destinés à entrer dans l'Histoire mais qui ont accompli des choses extraordinaires en écoutant leur coeur et en suivant leur rêve d'enfant. Qu'ils aient été artistes, scientifiques ou bien aventuriers, tous étaient des petits garçons rêveurs avant de devenir les grands hommes courageux et inspirants que l'on connaît.
06/2023
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Louis Pasteur
Cette biographie de Pasteur n'est pas celle d'un philanthrope désincarné ou d'un sauveur de l'humanité. C'est l'histoire de la vie et des combats d'un savant confronté aux réalités matérielles. On découvre un chercheur taciturne, individualiste, autoritaire, impitoyable avec les siens, carriériste s'il le faut. Mais Pasteur n'est pas seulement un homme de laboratoire, tout entier consacré à la recherche fondamentale : il est aussi un homme de terrain qui parcourt la France et l'Europe pour, face aux viticulteurs, aux éleveurs ou aux industriels, imposer ses vues et diffuser ses méthodes. Pasteur a été l'un des premiers savants à penser rigoureusement les rapports de la science avec le pouvoir et l'argent. Grâce à des correspondances inédites qui font pénétrer dans la vie familiale de Pasteur, grâce surtout à ses cahiers d'expériences, Patrice Debré suit pas à pas la démarche du savant ; il saisit le moment même de la découverte, l'instant crucial où une intuition prodigieuse met en relation des données jusqu'alors isolées. Plongée fascinante dans la logique du progrès scientifique, cette biographie de Pasteur nous dévoile en outre les concepts unificateurs qui ont ouvert la voie à la recherche moderne : la biologie et l'immunologie.
05/2010
Littérature française
La fille du pasteur et le condamné. De la haine au pardon
La fille du pasteur et le condamné, de la haine au pardon, est l'histoire d'un impensable pardon de Grace, jeune afro-américaine de 20 ans et étudiante en médecine, envers Trévor, le meurtrier blanc toxicomane de son père le Révérend John Connor Brown et condamné à mort à 21 ans dans le contexte judiciaire intolérant du Texas. C'est aussi celle du combat de Grace pour le sortir du couloir de la mort, en dépit du rejet de sa propre famille et des scandales interraciaux, qui polluent les relations humaines dans le sud de l'Amérique profonde. C'est sa rencontre inattendue avec l'amour. C'est une histoire de conviction, de cause personnelle, de pardon, d'amour, de lutte contre les barrières raciales, contre la peine de mort et les conditions de vie des prisonniers ainsi que la remise en question des codes ou préjugés qui nous enferment encore de nos jours.
04/2021
Hindouisme
Les Secrets de la Shakti. The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga
Comment s'ouvrir à l'éveil spirituel et connaître l'abondance et la liberté intérieure ? Sally Kempton vous propose de contacter votre énergie et puissance féminine. Elle vous invite à vous connecter au panthéon des divinités hindoues pour monter en vibration en irradier. Entrez en contact avec Kali, qui apporte la force, l'amour féroce et la liberté indomptée ; Lakshmi, qui confère prospérité et beauté? ; Saraswati, pour la clarté de la communication et l'intuition? ; Radha, qui porte l'énergie divine du désir spirituel ; Bhuvaneshvari, qui crée l'espace pour la transformation sacrée? ; et Parvati, pour éveiller la créativité et la capacité d'aimer.? Grâce aux nombreuses méditations, visualisations, mantras et enseignements, ce livre est un trésor qui vous permet d'honorer votre part sacrée et divine dans tous les aspects de votre vie.
01/2023
Informatique
Flash .Net. Dynamic content for designers with Flash remoting MX and ASP.NET
Flash.NET is the book which is your ticket to the future of application design. Two cutting-edge technologies, joined in union to provide the perfect marriage.
Macromedia Flash MX really excels when it comes to presenting graphical, interactive content. It's a superb tool for building user interfaces and for presenting content that changes over time.
Microsoft's NET Framework is a suite of tools for building powerful applications, both on and off the Web.
Put them together, and a whole raft of new possibilities opens up for both: powerful logic and functionality with a rich, flexible interface on the front. Put them together, and you get Flash.NET.
In this book, a team of expert designers and developers show you how to add dynamic NET content and turbocharged server-side functionality to your Flash MX projects.
In short, you need this book if you're a Flash designer who wants a cutting-edge advantage and doesn't want to get left behind when ail the cool people have started utilizing the power of NET with their applications.
To run the examples in this book for yourself, you'll need:
• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
• Macromedia Flash MX
• Microsoft NET Framework SDK (free download from Microsoft)
The book also covers Macromedia Flash Remoting MX
11/2002
Ethnologie et anthropologie
The Wolves Rise Again. New elites born out of chaos
The successive shocks that strike our time have acted as an indicator of men : the bland elites of yesteryear, suddenly rejected by the masses, went back silently into the void where they had first come from. This opportunist plutarchy, that maintained itself so far, thanks to the industry of lying, the targeted elimination of creative people, will soon be engulfed. Around these illusionists with no audience, the hidden alphas will begin to rise. Within a few months, alphas, forged in a new metal, invaded public space. How can it be explained ? In troubled times, the hierarchies of peacetime had left, suddenly, a place to the atomisation of individuals. Chaos then allows the individual alphas to rise to power. Like a pack of wolves, these alphas quickly take the lead of small human groups organising themselves into rival packs. The French Revolution is a striking example of this evolution : the masters of yesterday were relegated because of their unsuitability.
06/2022
Non classé
Living in Two Worlds
This is a study of Singapore pastors' worldview & understanding of the epidemiology, symptomatology and management of possession behaviour. The pastors' accounts are compared with those from the scientific disciplines, and convergences and divergences noted. Factors shaping both the pastors' and the scientific discourses are examined. The pastors are shown to respond to competing scientific paradigms by reinforcing their two-worlds worldview. They either live mainly in the other world, or in each world at a time, or between the two worlds. Based on theological reflection focusing on epistemology, theodicy & cosmology, the author shows that the paradigm of living in both worlds simultaneously is the most appropriate pastoral response. The theological vision of the coexisting worlds and the pastoral task of unmasking and resisting evil in all its varieties and depths are then discussed.
05/1994
Protestantisme
Le pasteur des champions
Joël Thibault est aumônier protestant des Français aux Jeux Paralympiques et Olympiques et coach spirituel de nombreux sportifs de haut niveau dont Olivier Giroud. Le Pasteur des champions retrace son parcours de foi et révèle l'envers du décor du sport de haut niveau. Ancien footballeur amateur et entraîneur diplômé de la FFF, Joël Thibault a travaillé comme aumônier auprès de la jeunesse à travers l'insertion par le sport avant de s'orienter vers l'accompagnement spirituel des sportifs de haut niveau. Il devient aumônier du sport accrédité en compétition internationale en 2014 aux Championnats d'Europe d'athlétisme Handisport à Swansea. Il est ensuite aumônier officiel dans de grands évènements sportifs tels que les Jeux Paralympiques à RIO en 2016, les Mondiaux Universitaire de rugby en 2016 ou même les Mondiaux athlétiques et para-Athlétiques à Londres en 2017. Il est enfin retenu pour les Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo 2020. Mais Joël Thibaut est aussi l'accompagnateur spirituel de sportifs, aussi bien des champions de monde comme Olivier Giroud ou Grâce Zaadi que d'athlètes moins connus mais non moins attachants. Depuis 2017, il développe l'aumônerie du sport en France auprès des clubs et fédérations sportives en formant de futurs aumôniers du sport. Il anime régulièrement des études bibliques pour des footballeurs, basketteurs et handballeurs professionnels. Avec cet ouvrage il nous fait partager son expérience. Nous entrons dans les coulisses des grands événements, des exigences du sport de haut niveau, pour découvrir sa face obscure comme sa face lumineuse.
03/2023
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Préhistoire de Pasteur
Vie d'un héros solitaire : c'est ainsi que l'on présente souvent la carrière de Pasteur en faisant l'impasse sur son entourage, sa vie de tous les jours, sa préhistoire enfin, c'est-à-dire sur la cohorte de ses ancêtres dont il est impossible que la manière d'être et de penser ait été sans conséquence sur lui : " Nous portons notre passé en nous ", a dit Jung. Et Pasteur écrivit lui-même à propos du chimiste d'origine jurassienne Auguste Lamy : " De telles vertus ont des racines profondes dans l'hérédité ". Auparavant, en 1876, il avait invoqué les " artisans de nos montagnes, les pâtres de nos vallées ", en retraçant la vie du sculpteur jurassien Jean-Joseph Perraud. Pasteur ne fut pas un mutant dans le monde de la Science. " Notre province l'avait préparé durant des siècles, a écrit Victor Bérard en 1923. Pour donner à ses ancêtres toutes les qualités diverses et parfois contraire qu'elle inculque aux enfants de ses divers finages, elle les avait conduits, étape par étape, sur cette route coutumière qui, des forêts et des granges de là-haut, amena toujours nos rudes " montagnons " vers la douceur et vers les villes du bon pays ". On trouvera ici leur histoire en contrepoint de celle de leur descendant le plus illustre. " Involontairement l'homme s'empreint des couleurs du pays qu'il habite. Les figures humaines sont mélancoliques dans un pays triste, graves dans un pays sévère, malheureuses et souffrantes dans un pays désolé, animées et gaies dans un pays riant, insignifiantes dans un pays insignifiant ", disait le philosophe Théodore Jouffroy. Pasteur fut à l'image de sa Franche-Comté qu'il aimait avec passion. Retrouvons-le au milieu de ses ancêtres.
01/2002
Critique littéraire
Etudes anglaises N° 75/4, Octobre-décembre 2002 : Numéro spécial "Agrégation"
ARTICLES Claire GHEERAERT-GRAFFEUILLE et Aude DE MEZERACZANETTI : Emergence et transformation du puritanisme (1559- 1660) : quelques jalons historiographiques Claire BAZIN : Lockwood, le mal aimé (ou le mal aimant ? ) William BLAZEK : "My God, you're fun to kiss" : Love, Lust, and Liminality in Tender Is the Night VARIA Shelly CHARLES : Le roman comique du Dr Primrose ou l'art du travestissement dans The Vicar of Wakefield Bénédicte COSTE : La croyance dans le fumoir : "The Portrait of Mr. WH", l'éthique de la croyance de William Kingdon Clifford et l'assentiment selon John Henry Newman Comptes rendus Notes on Contributors Remerciements aux experts évaluateurs et auteurs de recensions Guidelines for Authors Table des matières - 2022.
02/2023
Non classé
The Image of the Woman in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann
In this study an analysis of the women characters, who play a dominant part in Bachmann's prose writings, was presented. The results suggested a complex but coherent image. It was found that although the characteristics of this image deserved the appellation "sex-specific" and "traditional" they were infused with new values : the values of individualism, of a specifically female identity and of particular intense personal freedom. It was also found that the theme of personal freedom underlies all motivations, conflicts and situations of tragedy of Bachmann's heroines. Finally, it was found that the image of the woman is not only part of a distinct female-male antithesis, which often assumes violent dimensions, but has a redeeming function for a de-humanized world.
09/1993
Histoire internationale
Dealing with the Devil
When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Moscow officials expected the British Navy to appear on the shore of Leningrad, fulfilling the Bolshevik nightmare of a concerted Capitalist plot. Instead, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reached out to promise support to the Kremlin and collaborate with Britain's former archenemy. Fighting the Nazi menace together became the new priority, leading to unprecedented levels of cooperation between the two governments. In order to defeat the Nazis, Britain and the USSR shared intelligence and revealed operative secrets to each other, including those of the secretive security services. They helped with the dispatch of agents and even ran agents together, attempting to foil German counter-intelligence strategies. For much of the Cold War, crucial facts of this collaboration remained top secret. Based on recently declassified files, Dealing with the Devil explores this little known chapter of the Second World War. This study underscores the willingness of the USSR and Britain to join forces and disclose many of their closely guarded secrets. The book uses personnel files and other historical sources to reveal for the first time the activities of officers and agents on this "invisible front", recounting the actions of many brave men and women who risked their lives to defeat the Nazis.
03/2010
Livres 0-3 ans
YAOUNDÉ BABA SCARED?....ME?....NO WAY!
YAOUNDE BABA SCARED ? ... ME ? ... NO WAY ! YAOUNDE goes off in search of his little goat, BEEE, who, in spite of the young boy's watchful eye, has gone missing. On the way he meets ZOULÏA, a friendly mouse, and ARWANE, a little ant, who help him to find the little goat. Their search will lead them to an isolated hill where a very strange creature lives - a creature capable of transforming itself into unimaginably frightening shapes and forms to scare away anybody who dares to set foot on its steep hill. In order to find BEEE, YAOUNDE and his two friends will have little choice. They will have to cross its territory and confront this incredible and terrifying creature. 6 to 10 Years.
10/2017
Littérature anglo-saxonne
Le crime du pasteur
Après La Femme de Martin Guerre, une autrice à suivre au sein de la collection. " Un roman parfait dans son genre. " The New York Times 1625, Jutland, Danemark. Un procès secoue la péninsule et sa communauté. Le pasteur Sören Qvist, connu de tous pour sa compassion, est accusé du meurtre de Neils Bruus. Alors que personne ne le croit capable d'un tel crime et que ses proches tentent, en vain, de l'innocenter, les preuves s'accumulent contre lui. Vingt ans plus tard, un homme réapparaît, se présentant comme Neils... Par sa plume précise, juste et délicate, Janet Lewis parvient, à travers ce récit inspiré d'un fait réel, à faire revivre et briller le passé.
06/2023
Littérature française
Le pasteur du peuple
Le pasteur du peuple / par Mme Clémence Robert Date de l'édition originale : 1861 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.
03/2023
Théâtre
Arrival of Mira, Love story between Bhojan and Mira
Arrival of Mira Foreword Arrival of Mira tells the story of a beautiful young woman who held true to her faith despite many severe hardships. Mira was still only a child when she decided that Ginidhara Gopal (Lord Krishna) was her 'husband' and that she wanted to devote her life to serving and worshipping him. Later, the now orphaned Mira was married to Bhojan, the prince of Mewar and son of Rana, the king of Chittoor. Bhojan fell in love at first sight but found it hard to understand Mira's utter devotion to Ginidhara. Mira suffered at the hands of her in-laws who could not understand the depth of her love for Ginidhara and wanted her to follow their worship of Kali (in the form of Durga). Mira suffered imprisonment in a haunted palace and then exile for her beliefs. Even her friends were persecuted because of her uncompromising love for Lord Krishna. Eventually Bhojan came to understand his wife's piety. The story is told in the form of a musical play where the love story is interwoven with delightful songs and dances. The character of Mira is one to win the hearts of all who read of her. Her gentle devotion and steadfast belief are an inspiration to everyone. Thank you, Dr Shuddhananda Bharati for having made this beautiful story available to us. Daye Craddock Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
03/2013
Archéologie
Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
02/2021
Anglais apprentissage
THE CANTERBURY TALES. Avec cassette audio
'In April when the sweet showers fall... then people want to go on pilgrimages.'
A group of pilgrims travelling from London to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. The Knight tells a tale of high romance. The Pardoner tells a story of death. And the Wife of Bath tells the story of her five husbands and her fight to control the men in her life. But The Tales end with the story of the perfect marriage and how, if we are generous to one another, we can find the perfect society.
A selection of stories from Chaucer's masterpiece depicting life in fourteenth century England is presented here in modern English. There is a wide range of activities and special informative sections on Chaucer and his times. The accompanying cassette contains the complete story and the extra listening activities.
06/1999
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
Espagne
Secret Seville
Far from the crowds and the well-worn clichés, Seville still has many hidden gems it only reveals to locals and visitors who head off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Seville well or are seeking to discover another side of the city. Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall of Seville Town Hall and how can you track down the railway from the Ibero-American Expo of 1929 ? Where might you find the legacy of Christopher Columbus' son, a medieval Jewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops, forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats, Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestiges of the Andalusian pavilions from the '29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example of the Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese and Japanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pillars of a medieval synagogue ?
04/2022
Lectures graduées
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is a salesman who believes in the American Dream. He has spent his whole career on the road, going all over New England to sell products. At sixty, he is far from retiring : he needs to keep on working to earn money in order to pay his mortgage and loans. But he does not sell as much as he used to and struggles to make ends meet. His relationship with his elder son, Biff, is chaotic : he does not understand why his son does not live up to his expectations. Thus, they fight all the time. But at the heart of the tension between them lies a secret that only the two of them know... Death of a Salesman explores the depth and complexity of human relationships and shows what happens when a man gets lost in his own dreams.
08/2021
Littérature étrangère
Ville des anges. Ou The Overcoat of Dr Freud
En automne 1992, trois ans après la chute du mur, puis deux ans après la réunification des deux
Allemagnes en octobre 1990, Christa Wolf, 63 ans, foule le sol américain pour la première fois de sa
vie et séjournera neuf mois dans la lumière californienne. La narratrice de ce roman, une écrivaine de
l’ex-RDA -Christa Wolf elle-même ?- s’éloigne d’une Allemagne qu’elle ne supporte plus. Grâce à une
bourse d’auteur en résidence, elle se rend à L A pour éclaircir un mystère : son amie Emma lui avait
remis avant de mourir un paquet de lettres signées L. Qui est cette L? Une amie exilée aux Etats-Unis
pour fuir le nazisme? Pourquoi Emma lui a-t-elle caché son existence ? Au rythme d’une prose d’une
grande virtuosité, Christa Wolf entremêle narration et réflexion, le récit du séjour californien
(reportages sur les quartiers pauvres de Los Angeles, sur les visites à Pacific Palisades des villas de
Thomas Mann et de Bertolt Brecht, écrivains qui hantent l’ouvrage) et les évocations des moments
clefs de sa vie : son enfance sous le Troisième Reich, l’exode du printemps 45, les premières années
enthousiastes dans une Allemagne de l’Est portant l’espoir d’un monde meilleur. Puis le temps des
désillusions, des graves conflits, enfin le bouleversement de l’automne 89, et le rôle important qu’elle y
joua. Mais une blessure habite aussi le coeur de ce récit : les accusations de collaboration avec la Stasi
de 1959 à 1962 portées contre Christa Wolf, en son absence, par les médias ouest-allemands.
L’auteure s’oblige alors à exhumer ses souvenirs personnels, à s’y confronter : un douloureux travail
sur soi que l’éloignement permet enfin.
09/2012
Critique littéraire
Ancient Greek by Its Translators
When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.
02/2022
Mouvements artistiques
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937). The Tragedy of Roger Fry's Wife
This fascinating book presents the ? rst biography of Helen Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also for her intellect, personality and wit. It reveals her family background and education, her place in the Arts and Crafts Movement and her outstanding artistic output. Helen Coombe was married to Roger Fry, an artist who was to achieve most fame as an art critic, historian and protagonist of the Bloomsbury Group. Soon after their marriage in 1896, she displayed symptoms of schizophrenia. After the ? rst episode, she temporarily resumed her career and had two children with Fry, but for the last thirty years of her life she was sectioned under the Lunacy Act and committed to an institution. This thoroughly researched book makes full use of archival material, including correspondence, diaries and medical records. It illuminates late Victorian and Edwardian society and culture. It throws new light, by no means all of it favourable, on Roger Fry. It is a 'must' for all interested in the Bloomsbury Group, art history, and the handling of mental illness at a time before ef ? cacious antipsychotic drugs were available.
11/2023
Beaux arts
New worlds
"New Worlds" presents a selection of five outstanding nautical atlases known as portolan charts, or "portalans".These historic documents are the work of eminent scholars from Majorca, Lisbon, Le Havre, and Amsterdam. Cartographers by trade, and sometimes also skilled illuminators, they mapped what was the most probable imago mundi for their time, each exemplar crafting a fascinating visual chronicle. Jean-Yves Sarazin, head of Charts and Maps at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, scrutinizes thèse charts or atlases, and situates them in the great history of European discoveries and voyages from the early 14th to the late 17th century, from the Portuguese reconnaissance of the coasts of Africa, through the adventures of Columbus,Vespucci, and Magellan, to the Dutch voyages in the Pacific and Australia.The book's many colour reproductions are alive with picturesque details: camel caravans in the heart ofAsia, Portuguese andArab ships sailing in the Indian Ocean, wild beasts or chimaera, countless exotic plants, naval battles, and not least the frequent strangeness of the indigenous people.
10/2012
Monographies
Gustave Moreau. The Fables
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
08/2021
