Les filles du pasteur : Daughters of the Vicar
Extraits
Anglais apprentissage
Les filles du pasteur : Daughters of the Vicar
"Comment situer Les filles du pasteur dans l'oeuvre de Lawrence ? Ce n'est qu'une nouvelle, mais Lawrence est un maître reconnu de ce genre. Dans la célèbre étude de 1953, Lawrence romancier, le critique F. R. Leavis lui consacre un chapitre entier. Par sa construction, c'est presque un roman et on y trouve en raccourci les thèmes et les intuitions des oeuvres de la première période, avec cette profondeur d'observation qui nous force à reconnaître la vérité des personnages, alors même qu'ils se comportent à l'inverse des stéréotypes dont nous avons l'habitude". Bernard Jean.
02/2001
Anglais apprentissage
LA VIERGE ET LE GITAN : THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
When the vicar's wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife. Why did she go ? Why did she burst away with such an éclat of revulsion, like a touch of madness ? Nobody gave any answer. Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silent. They knew. The two little girls never knew. Wounded, they decided that it was because their mother found them negligible. The ill wind that blows nobody any good swept away the vicarage family on its blast. Then lo and behold ! the vicar, who was somewhat distinguished as an essayist and a controversialist, and whose case had aroused sympathy among the bookish men, received the living of Papplewick. The Lord had tempered the wind of misfortune with a rectorate in the north country. [...] "Lorsque la femme du pasteur s'enfuit avec un jeune homme sans le sou, le scandale ne connut pas de bornes. Ses deux fillettes n'avaient que sept et neuf ans respectivement. Et le pasteur était un si bon mari. Certes, il avait les cheveux gris, mais sa moustache était restée noire, il était bel homme et brûlait encore d'une passion furtive pour sa belle épouse immodeste. Pourquoi était-elle partie ? Pourquoi s'était-elle arrachée à lui, dans un tel éclat de dégoût, comme un grain de folie ? Personne n'apporta de réponse. Seules, les dévotes dirent que c'était une mauvaise femme. Cependant que certaines femmes de bien gardaient le silence. Elles comprenaient, elles. Les deux fillettes ne comprirent jamais. Blessées, elles jugèrent que c'était parce que leur mère les tenait pour quantité négligeable. Le vent du malheur qui est censé être bon à quelque chose balaya de son souffle les habitants de la cure. Puis, miracle, le pasteur, qui avait une certaine éminence comme essayiste et polémiste, et dont la situation avait su émouvoir certains intellectuels, fut nommé à la paroisse de Papplewick. Le Seigneur avait adouci l'ouragan du malheur par un bénéfice de recteur dans le nord du pays. " [...]
02/1993
Poches Littérature internation
Les filles du pasteur
La traduction de la première nouvelle a été révisée par Bernard Jean.
05/2015
Littérature française (poches)
La fille du pasteur
L'histoire se déroule dans un chalet perdu à l'orée d'une forêt où quelques jeunes gens, venant d'horizons divers, débarquent à l'improviste et s'installent pour passer l'été. Blaise, l'hôte, un photographe célèbre et riche, va et vient, et laisse ce petit monde se débrouiller et se brouiller à sa guise. La narratrice, Nadine Favez, fille du pasteur, cousine du propriétaire des lieux, une fille libre, impudente et cynique, plante au milieu d'eux soit ennui, sa révolte contre les conventions et son humeur délétère : " Je ne savais plus ce que je venais faire ici, ce que je faisais là, avec cette valise... " et joue les révélateurs diaboliques. Ennui, violence, larmes, insultes, coups, frôlement des corps, intrigues, forment la trame de ce huis clos intense et trouble où la quête de l'amour passe par les amours défendues.
03/2006
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Religion
Tracing the Evidence
Tracing the Evidence : Dinah in Post-Hebrew Bible Literature examines the post-biblical literary developments of Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob. According to Genesis 34, Dinah was sexually violated by Shechem ; however, there are gaps in the biblical narrative and little written about what happened to her after the fateful time. Tracing the Evidence considers how post-Hebrew Bible traditions have filled in some of those gaps. Some traditions give more information about her day-to-day life, how old she was when Shechem met her, and various details about her subsequent marriage(s) and children.
04/2008
Anglais apprentissage
Acacia thorn in my heart
I started writing "Acacia thorn in my heart" after reading the book of a white South African woman about her childhood in the same region as mine but relating a completely different experience. She had maids, her father drove her to school and she played with real toys. I lived in the heart of the country, away from everything and had to walk five miles to go to school. I was born in Natal. My father rented a plot of land from a white owner to do market gardening. Although Indian families tended not to educate daughters, our parents decided that education was a priority for us. Despite financial difficulties, they were able to send us to school. We had to get up at five o'clock in order to catch the school train. In winter, as we were scantily clad, we shivered all the way to the station.
09/2001
Poches Littérature internation
Une fille de pasteur
Fille unique, Dorothy vit une existence morne avec son père, le pasteur acariâtre d'une petite paroisse du Suffolk. Frappée par une soudaine amnésie, elle se retrouve à la rue et va partager l'existence des déshérités, des clochards de Londres aux cueilleurs saisonniers de houblon. Mais, à mesure que la mémoire lui revient, Dorothy trouvera-t-elle en elle-même la force d'aspirer à une autre vie ? Publié en 1935 et inédit en français jusqu'en 2007, Une fille de pasteur est l'un des premiers romans de George Orwell. Avec une lucidité et une acuité implacables, Orwell dépeint l'hypocrisie, la pauvreté et la misère spirituelle qui vont accompagner Dorothy dans son odyssée à travers l'Angleterre des années 1930.
09/2008
Littérature française
Les inventeurs. Essai
What do Christopher Columbus, Reneke, Zénobe Gramme and Louis Pasteur have in common ? They were all inventors. Well fine, but who invented the crab's claw, the suction cups and the flight of squids or the proboscis of blood sucking insects ? Is invention intellectual fantasy, an industrial tool or a fundamental biological reaction ? How is this riddle to be solved ? Should we go through the list of inventions or inventors ? Is it a question of circumstances or motivations ? Who is in charge ? The Material or the Spirit ? In order to try to find a way of answering these questions, first a few very different inventors and their inventions will be presented. A few paradoxes emerge from this first part. Then we will devote an entire chapter to an exceptional inventor whose extraordinary work revolutionized how we now approach this topic. Finally, what can be said about all the inventions like the wings of birds or butterflies, the eyes of fish or insects, the leaves of trees or the social organization of beehives ? In these cases, man is not the inventor. There are countless marvels like these in the world around us. Can we explain them ? This will be the subject of the third part of this essay.
02/2017
Littérature érotique et sentim
Le duc et la fille du pasteur
Le duc de Kingswood est habitué aux frasques de son jeune cousin et héritier, mais cette fois Richard a dépassé les bornes. Non content de s'être amouraché d'une intrigante, il a en plus tiré sur un homme par jalousie ! C'en est trop. De gré ou de force, le duc doit remettre son cousin dans le droit chemin. Tout d'abord, il faut le marier. Plus facile à dire qu'à faire. Où trouver une jeune fille vertueuse, bien élevée et docile, qui saura faire honneur aux Kingswood ? Et, quand on a la chance de tomber sur une telle perle rare, n'a-t-on pas plutôt envie de la garder pour soi ?
05/2016
Romans policiers
Vidar
Moqueries, harcèlement, négligence, violence et abandon ; tous les ingrédients sont réunis dans cette longue descente aux enfers qui a donné naissance à Vidar. Lorsque l'on parle d'un serial killer, on s'intéresse davantage à la façon dont il a endeuillé des familles qu'aux raisons qui l'ont poussé sur la voie du crime à répétition. D'ailleurs, dans le prétoire, personne ne veut connaître l'histoire de ce voisin poli qui porte les sacs de sa voisine à chaque fois qu'il la croise, ni celle de ce collègue cultivé et consciencieux. A quel moment de sa vie Pierre Baumel s'est-il perdu dans les limbes de la déraison?? A partir de quand a-t-il laissé Vidar prendre le contrôle de sa personne pour se venger de celles qui l'ont tant tourmenté ?
05/2022
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Littérature française
Willa Cather my Antonia. Unabridged Text with Introduction, Biography and Analysis
Willa Cather My Ántonia : Unabridged Text with Introduction, Biography and Analysis My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers ! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. Both the pioneers who first break the prairie sod for farming, as well as of the harsh but fertile land itself, feature in this American novel. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. This novel is considered Cather's first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting. This edition includes the full original version of the Willa Cather's book and provides other valuable features under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, including a commented introduction, helpful bibliography, author's biography, notes, references, and much more.
05/2017
Philosophie
«Phädon», or «On the Immortality of the Soul»
This is the first modern translation of Moses Mendelssohn's classic work of 1767, the Phädon. It includes Mendelssohn's own introduction and appendix, as well as footnotes and explanatory introduction by David Shavin. (Charles Cullen's translation of 1789 is the only other extant translation.) The "modern Socrates" of the German classical period, Mendelssohn has created a beautiful translation and elaboration of Plato's Phädo led to a revolution in thought, and a subsequent renaissance in Germany. The debt of the German classical period to ancient Greece is embodied in Mendelssohn's Phädon, as is the promise of the American Revolution. The translation and accompanying notes recapture Mendelssohn's unique marriage of depth of thought and breadth of appeal.
12/2006
Littérature érotique et sentim
La Légende de Grace Darling. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
" Une lecture exceptionnelle ! A ne pas manquer ! " Kate Quinn " Hazel Gaynor a déjà prouvé qu'elle pouvait dépasser ses pairs et ce roman enchanteur très bien documenté la place largement au-dessus de tous les autres auteurs. " Sunday Independent L'histoire vraie d'une héroïne de l'ère victorienne. 1838, Nord de l'Angleterre. Fille de gardien de phare, Grace Darling est heureuse et ne veut pour rien au monde quitter le phare de Longstone. Lorsque son père et elle sauvent des victimes d'un naufrage, Grace devient malgré elle une véritable héroïne à travers toute l'Angleterre. Un jour, un peintre est mandaté pour faire son portrait et tombe sous son charme... Un siècle plus tard, la jeune Matilda Emmerson tombe enceinte. Elle est alors envoyée auprès de Harriet, une gardienne de phare, jusqu'à ce que son bébé naisse. Lorsque la jeune femme tombe par hasard sur un portrait inachevé, elle comprend que sa famille lui cache un lourd secret... Alors qu'elles vivent à cent ans d'écart, ces deux femmes, partageant le même courage que leur inspire l'amour, se retrouveront liées pour toujours. " Ils disent que je suis une héroïne, mais je ne mérite pas un tel honneur. Je suis juste une jeune femme ordinaire qui accomplit son devoir. " " Hazel Gaynor est une véritable conteuse qui sait illuminer chaque page que vous lisez. " Susan Meissner " C'est un chef-d'oeuvre de la fiction historique. " Fiona Davis " Le roman de Hazel Gaynor alterne les périodes et l'histoire de ces deux femmes avec maestria, mettant en scène leurs attentes, leurs souffrances et leurs humbles triomphes... Basé sur l'histoire vraie de Grace Darling, le récit de Hazel Gaynor nous captive et nous coupe le souffle. " Historical Novel Society
06/2019
Histoire internationale
Each Child Is My Only One
In Each Child Is My Only One : Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi's Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi's family with nine children, focusing on the special personality of her mother, Lotte Carlebach, née Preuss (1900–1942). The book starts with the history of the Preuss family, goes on to describe the marriage of Lotte to Joseph Carlebach, and portrays in detail their dynamic family life – until their deportation with their four youngest children to a Latvian concentration camp in 1942. The book is composed of two main parts. In the first section the reader learns about the events up to 1938, both inside and outside the Carlebach home ; the second section covers the years 1938–1941, in which there was a lively correspondence mainly between the mother and those of her children who succeeded in emigrating from Nazi Germany. This part concludes with several testimonies portraying the special personalities of Rabbi Carlebach and his wife and their devotion to the unfortunate who benefited from their unbounded assistance and altruism during the Holocaust. Many photographs are included in the book, several of them taken by Lotte Carlebach herself. The book is a unique and personal testimony about Jewish life in Germany during the years of persecution that relentlessly led to the conflagration of the Holocaust.
05/2014
Sciences politiques
The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.
11/1987
Histoire internationale
On the Border - The Otherness of God and the Multiplicity of the Religions
The Christian theology of religions at present faces a crisis. What precisely is the task of the theology of religions ? Does it merely consist in interpreting the non-Christian religions as steps, phases or contributions in the light of Christianity ? Has one from the theological side conceded the maximum to the non-Christian religions by acknowledging them as anonymous Christianity (Karl Rahner)? This study is an exploration on how one shall liberate the religion of the other from anonymity : how one shall leave the other with his/her own name. The model of thought employed in this study is gained through an analysis of the intercultural process of understanding, explained with instances from Africa and South America.
01/1994
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations.
Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.
01/2000
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Thinking about Physics
Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood.
"Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory.
Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field.
Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.
01/2000
Photographie
Tokyo and my daughter
Le célèbre hommage de Takashi Homma met en perspective une séquence gracieuse et intime d'images représentant la jeune fille - qui n'est en réalité pas sa propre fille mais celle d'un ami - et la ville de Tokyo. La jeune fille, capturée à différents moments de son développement dans des lieux de tous les jours, regarde sereinement au-delà de l'objectif, sans se soucier de rien et semblant généralement plus intéressée par la personne qui tient l'appareil que par l'appareil lui-même : sur une photo, elle regarde curieusement depuis la banquette arrière d'une voiture ; sur une autre, elle pointe son propre petit appareil rose vers le photographe. L'énergie particulière généralement attribuée aux photographies de Takashi Homma, qui émane d'un certain détachement vis-à-vis des objets et des personnes qui se trouvent devant son appareil, ne contredit pas ici une approche très personnelle, Takashi Homma dressant le portrait d'une jeune fille impassible et résistant à toute séduction avec la même tendresse, chaleur et sincérité que celle avec laquelle il documente le paysage urbain de Tokyo. Nouvelle édition augmentée de l'ouvrage paru en 2006 (ISBN 978-3-905714-10-4).
06/2021
Musique classique
Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano
12/2023
Chimie
Pasteur
Le virus responsable de la Covid-19 n'est pas un professeur adepte de nouvelles méthodes pédagogiques. C'est un maître dur à l'ancienne qui répète inlassablement la même leçon. Et de reprendre encore une fois la démonstration de sa puissance : " Vous me prenez pour un intrus dans votre monde, mais c'est vous qui êtes des intrus dans le mien. " Chaque mutation de ce virus imprime dans notre cerveau rétif à quel point nous faisons société avec les microbes. Un monde de microbes ? Cette leçon a été donnée aux sociétés humaines pour la première fois au XIXe siècle. Il était donc inévitable de revenir à l'histoire de la microbiologie en essayant de comprendre pourquoi nous ne sortirons pas de ces intrigues où s'emmêlent si étroitement la science, le droit, la politique et la structure des sociétés de ce temps. Si je me suis tellement intéressé à Louis Pasteur, c'est parce qu'il offrait un cas unique au milieu de cette histoire de liens entre sociétés et microbes. Unanimement admiré pour ses découvertes, il est aussi le savant qui s'était mêlé, comme on va le voir, de toutes les questions de son temps. Pour la nouvelle histoire et sociologie des sciences, c'était le test idéal : une science à l'importance indiscutable qui avait transformé la société de façon radicale. Voilà qui allait permettre de nous sortir de ces visions figées qui continuent à vouloir séparer la science et la politique, les découvertes savantes et les collectifs humains alors qu'ils sont, à l'évidence, si étroitement mêlés.
11/2022
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Pasteur
C'est à travers quelques schémas réducteurs que Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) a fait son entrée dans la mémoire collective. Pour la plupart il est le vainqueur de la rage, et cette idée, associée au cliché de la vaccination du petit Joseph Meister, a fini par faire oublier le caractère universel de son oeuvre. En étudiant la structure interne de l'acide paratartrique, Pasteur fonde la stéréochimie. En mettant en évidence la dissémination des germes dans l'air, il jette les bases de la microbiologie. En s'attaquant avec succès aux maladies du vin et du ver à soie, en jugulant le charbon et le rouget du porc qui décimaient les troupeaux, il sauve de la misère des millions d'agriculteurs et d'éleveurs. En mettant au point de nouveaux procédés de fabrication du vinaigre et de la bière, il fait la fortune des industriels. En découvrant les propriétés prophylactiques d'une culture microbienne vieillie, il invente la vaccination expérimentale qui consacrera l'effondrement de la mortalité infectieuse. Au-delà de l'oeuvre scientifique de Pasteur, ce livre retrace les aspects les moins connus de la personnalité du savant : l'administrateur et le politicien maladroits, le gestionnaire intransigeant, le polémiste passionné, le patriote exacerbé, l'humaniste et le père de famille attendris révèlent la force de caractère mais aussi les faiblesses et la fragilité d'un homme trop souvent peint aux couleurs du pompiérisme.
02/1995
Généralités médicales
Pasteur
On ne présente plus Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) tant sa renommée est universelle, sa mise au point de la vaccination contre la rage connue de tous, comme ses traits de vieux savant à barbe blanche. On en oublierait presque qu'il fut un expérimentateur génial, un physicien, un chimiste, un biologiste avant la lettre ; et qu'il s'est penché sur les grands désordres de son temps pour leur trouver des solutions pratiques. Cristallographie, étude des fermentations, traque des microbes, pasteurisation, éradication des maladies infectieuses de la poule, du porc, du mouton ou du ver à soie, hygiène, asepsie... rien n'a résisté à son intuition, à sa curiosité toujours en éveil, à son opiniâtreté, à sa volonté de comprendre, tout au long d'une vie exclusivement et passionnément consacrée à la science.
05/2008
Histoire des sciences
Pasteur
Il fut la personnalité française la plus célèbre dans le monde, fêté comme un bienfaiteur de l'humanité, symbole de la lutte victorieuse contre les épidémies. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) est devenu un mythe déjà de son vivant, mais son itinéraire personnel et des pans entiers de son oeuvre restent dans l'ombre. Qui était vraiment cette figure longtemps vénérée avant que des critiques mettent en doute la probité de l'homme et la valeur de son oeuvre jusqu'à les rendre évanescentes ? Pour le retrouver, cette biographie propose de ne jamais séparer la science de Pasteur de sa vie personnelle, de ses relations, de ses idées philosophiques et convictions religieuses. Chez lui, le bonheur familial et l'aventure de la recherche furent intimement liés. Il ne pouvait envisager son savoir hors des sollicitudes de l'époque. D'où ses études sur le déclin de la culture des vers à soie, mais aussi sur les maladies du vin, la préparation du vinaigre ou de la bière et la pasteurisation des produits alimentaires à laquelle son nom reste attaché. Puis, à l'automne de sa vie, les découvertes fondamentales sur les maladies infectieuses et enfin la vaccination qui couronnent un demi-siècle de recherches. C'est en embrassant l'ensemble d'une existence singulière que ce livre renouvelle l'interprétation de plusieurs facettes d'une oeuvre qu'il invite à redécouvrir. Sans rien dissimuler des faiblesses de l'homme, ses ambitions effrénées, son oubli des apports de ses prédécesseurs et de ses collaborateurs, sa hargne polémique... Un immense savant sous les traits d'un homme ordinaire jusque dans ses défauts.
10/2022
Tourisme étranger
Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel
The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...
08/2022
Non classé
The Concept of Man in Igbo Myths
In the vast silence of their isolation, the traditional Igbos have learnt the ways of living in harmony with nature. From their origin in distant time, they have kept a sacred perspective on the natural world. In our age, there is the need for traditional wisdoms to retain their validity and be intrinsic to our philosophic and scientific perceptions of the cosmos. We cannot do without their knowledge, their spiritual perspective, and their deep faith in the harmony of all nature. Ignoring these qualities has profound environmental implications. Global warming, environmental pollution, and the exhaustion of nature's resources are but a few of the symptoms of the nature's experiences as we continue to mistreat it in order to satisfy our own ends. This work helps us to realise that wherever we are, we are a part of nature. All the things around us are as presences, representing forces and powers of life that are not ours and yet are all part of us. Then we find them reflecting in ourselves, because we are nature, though not identical with it.
11/1999
Livres 0-3 ans
The discovery of magic
Queen Vispa and King Dungammei are the beloved rulers of their respective kingdoms. The two territories live in harmony, sharing a temple that crosses their mutual border, but they pray to different gods and have little in common outside of geography. The monarchs seem an unlikely pair, but when each violates the rules of the temple - one by entering the temple as a woman, and the other by praying to the other kingdom's god - both find themselves abandoned by their people, deciding soon after to declare the approval and presence of both gods in their hearts, as well as their love for each other. The King and Queen's subjects also abandon the shared temple, leaving it to the disobedient pair and building separate temples in their own territories. The monarchs' happy life together is, however, short-lived, as Queen Vispa dies upon giving birth to their child Delarai. The King is urged to repent and return to his kingdom. He complies, leaving princess Delarai with Magi, a nurse from a remote village, to raise her. Delarai rows up in near isolation, far from other people, spending most of her time among flowers and animals of the beautiful temple garden. Meanwhile, battles rage between the two kingdoms following the King's return. Delaware, a son begotten to the King and his next wife, gets badly wounded some years later in an attempt to stop the fighting. On his deathbed, the Prince insists on being taken to the forbidden temple to be buried there. The King, though ill himself, agrees to fulfill his son's dying wish. It is there where Delarai, having become quite an expert at herbal remedies, comes to their aid, preparing a special potion while praying to the temple's two gods in her nurse Magi's native language. As Delarai completes the life-saving act of curing the Prince, she tries to call for Magi, but the word that leaves her lips is "magic". Those who witness the event soon spread the word, and Delarai becomes recognized across both kingdoms as the creator of magic. The King, however, succumbs to old age, imparting his last kernel of wisdom unto his daughter : the two temple gods are one and the same. With this knowledge and their newfound inner strength, Delarai and Delaware unify the two kingdoms, and live happily ever after.
09/2021
