The Reform of Port Royal
Extraits
Religion
The Reform of Port Royal
The monastery of Port-Royal has been a favorite subject of scholarly research mainly because of its involvement with the founder of Jansenism in France, St-Cyran, and its family connections with Antoine Arnauld who was the theologian of the movement. Less studied, but also significant, was the role played by the reform of port-Royal by Mère Angélique Arnauld, and its continuance by her niece, Soeur Angélique de St-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, in the Cistercian reforms of the Seventeenth Century. F. Ellen Weaver, who completed her doctorate at Princeton University and is now teaching Church History at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has traced the evolution of this important reform from its Cistercian beginnings to its emergence as a model of Jansenist ideal and practice, pointing toward its final enduring influence in French Catholicism as a mythic symbol of heroic resistance of a community to oppressive authority in the name of freedom of conscience. She has done a careful textual analysis of the development of the Constitutions de Port-Royal during the period in which the controversies were raging (1948-1684) to illustrate this evolution fromCistercian to Jansenist character of the reform, and to point out continuities which have semetimes been overlooked in the polemic against the Jansenists. This work represents a significant contribution to studies in the religious history of modern France in general, and to monastic and counter-reformation studies in particular. Une étude neuve, unique en son genre, sur la place tenue par Mère Angélique Arnauld à Port-Royal et sur le rôle joué par sa nièce dans les réformes cisterciennes du dix-septième siècle. L'examen approfondi des Constitutions de Port-Royal révèle l'idéal janséniste et fournit une contribution non négligeable aux recherches sue l'histoire religieuse de la France moderne.
01/1978
Histoire de France
Port-Royal
Religion et politique s'entremêlent sans cesse au Grand Siècle. Parfois de façon dramatique : Louis XIV ordonne en i7io de raser l'abbaye de Port-Royal-des-Champs et de vider le cimetière de ses morts. A l'origine de cette histoire, une figure mythique : Angélique Arnauld. En 1602, elle n'a que dix ans lorsqu'elle est nommée abbesse, contre son gré, de ce monastère moyenâgeux perdu dans la vallée de Chevreuse. A dix-sept ans, prise d'un soudain désir de servir Dieu, elle décide de faire de l'abbaye le flambeau de la Contre-Réforme. Cette mission, elle va la mener à bien, corps et âme littéralement, pendant un demi-siècle. Sous l'influence d'éminents ecclésiastiques qui s'emparent de sa conscience tourmentée, Port-Royal devient le foyer du jansénisme. En ce siècle des héros et des saints, de nombreux Français sont favorables à un mouvement qui exalte les valeurs du christianisme primitif telles que saint Augustin était supposé les avoir définies. Parmi eux, La Rochefoucauld, madame de Sévigné, Pascal ou encore Racine. Les jansénistes sont-ils des moralistes intransigeants, des intégristes rétrogrades, les pionniers d'une pensée libre ? Le pouvoir ne se pose pas toutes ces questions en cette époque où se fabriquent l'honnête homme mais aussi l'absolutisme et le despotisme bureaucratique. Les jansénistes s'écartent de la ligne officielle, et cela suffit pour en faire une cible à abattre. Plusieurs papes soufflent sur le feu, car leurs intérêts rejoignent ceux du roi de France, et décrètent que le jansénisme est une hérésie. Port-Royal est certes détruit mais le jansénisme fera le lit des Lumières et de l'esprit de liberté.
10/2018
Histoire de France
Port-Royal
Port-Royal est un biais privilégié pour comprendre l'histoire politique, religieuse et intellectuelle du Grand Siècle. Comment un petit couvent sans éclat, perdu dans la vallée de Chevreuse, a-t-il pu s'imposer, en quelques années, comme le centre spirituel, culturel et moral de la France ? Fleuron de la réforme catholique, au coeur de la plus importante querelle théologique d'alors - celle du jansénisme -, le monastère de Port-Royal, auquel furent liés, de près ou de loin, les plus grands écrivains (Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Racine, Mme de Sévigné...), irradia la société de son temps. C'est en 1608, sous l'impulsion de la mère Angélique, que commence la réforme de Port-Royal : la jeune femme décide de mettre en oeuvre au monastère la "règle de stricte observance". S'imposant dès lors comme un modèle de rigueur et d'austérité, Port-Royal commence son irrésistible ascension. L'abbé de Saint-Cyran y prêche, diffusant la doctrine de son ami Jansénius, imprégnée d'augustinisme. Il y fonde les Petites Ecoles, qui révolutionnent l'enseignement - alors monopole des jésuites. Port-Royal attire : de nouvelles vocations, mais aussi des femmes du monde, qui viennent s'y retirer, ou encore les "Solitaires" - ces hommes désireux de mener une vie tournée vers Dieu sans pour autant entrer dans les ordres, et qui, pour ne pas déroger à l'exigence de labeur, s'illustreront par des travaux remarquables, parmi lesquels la première traduction en français moderne de la Bible. Promouvant l'exigence spirituelle contre le faste et l'ostentation des biens de ce monde, Port-Royal ne pouvait que s'attirer les foudres de Louis XIV, dont le règne était marqué par le culte du moi et du divertissement : après avoir brillé au milieu des persécutions, l'abbaye fut finalement rasée en 1712, sur ordre du roi, qui souhaitait qu'il n'en demeurât pas un seul vestige. Comprendre à quoi tient la puissance singulière de cette poignée de femmes et d'hommes dévoués à Dieu, scruter les plis de leurs vies, traquer leurs voix au plus juste de ce qu'elles furent... Voilà ce que propose cette anthologie, qui rassemble des textes d'auteurs célèbres (Pascal, Racine, Saint-Cyran, Lemaistre de Sacy, etc.) comme de religieuses anonymes. On y découvrira l'histoire de l'abbaye, de sa fondation à sa destruction ; la description des lieux et des activités quotidiennes ; les Vies des principales personnalités de Port-Royal ; des écrits spirituels ; des récits de captivité de religieuses... Formant un fabuleux gisement narratif, cet ensemble de textes d'époque, d'une qualité littéraire remarquable, fait renaître tout un pan de l'âge classique. Etablie et présentée par Laurence Plazenet, l'anthologie Port-Royal est l'oeuvre d'une spécialiste incontestée de la période, et d'un écrivain qui, par sa plume, transporte le lecteur. Elle s'impose comme une référence absolue sur le sujet.
10/2012
Non classé
Education and the Values Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
Fundamental educational reform is one of the central elements of the social transformation taking place in the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In this volume selected experts and eye witnesses of the radical change taking place in the region provide detailed and graphic presentation of the problems and controversies surrounding reform. They explore how the educational systems have responded to the collapse, and they explain the source of new models, ideas, and values on the part of educational policy makers, researchers and teachers. A focus of attention is the values crisis among the youth. The authors explore the values the socialist systems attempted to convey, the manner in which the youth have responded to the collapse, and the possible sources of new values and ideals.
05/1994
Autres collections (9 à 12 ans
Les enquêtes de Tom et Lola : Le mystère du kidnapping de la princesse. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Du haut de la grande roue de Londres, London Eye, nos héros sont les témoins involontaires du kidnapping de la princesse royale Wendy. Réussiront-ils à la retrouver et à aider la police anglaise ? - From the London Ferris Wheel, our heroes are the witnesses of the Royal Princess Wendy Kidnapping. Will they manage to help the police to find her ?
11/2021
Sciences de la vie
History and description of the Royal Museum of natural history. Translated from the French
History and description of the Royal Museum of natural history ... translated from the French of M. Deleuze... Date de l'édition originale : 1823 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.
03/2021
Philosophie
Pascal et Port-Royal
" Mon intention n'est pas de présenter Pascal, encore moins d'offrir une introduction à sa pensée. Cette perspective impliquerait une conception totalisatrice de l'oeuvre pascalienne, la volonté d'en retrouver la logique d'ensemble, le désir d'en produire le système achevé. Mon propos est inverse : insister sur la détotalisation du texte pascalien, montrer comment les logiques différentes y sont à l'oeuvre, s'offrir aux effets de rupture et de discontinuité qui s'y indiquent ", L.M. Résister au désir de totalisation qui s'empare de l'historien, de l'exégète, et qui le rend peu à peu insensible à la force du discours qu'il soumet à la violence de sa lecture, tel est l'un des principes qui ont orienté les travaux de Louis Marin. Ce n'est donc pas une présentation de Pascal ni de Port-Royal, que le lecteur trouvera dans ce recueil mais un ensemble d'études de quelques représentations produites par Pascal et à Port-Royal, un parcours à travers certains discours et certaines images, voyage non totalisateur, recherche inquiète des effets de rupture et de discontinuité qui constituent autant d'indices des forces qui animent les diverses formes de représentations, autant de portes d'entrée dans ce qui, au sein de ces images et de ces discours, instruit le procès critique de La Représentation, à cette époque et dans ce lieu (en France, dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIe siècle). Recherche qu'elle investit découvre dans leurs discontinuités les traces d'une critique transcendantale de cette Représentation dont Pascal et Port-Royal conduisent une élaboration à la fois théorique et pratique.
01/1997
Pléiades
Port-Royal. Tome 3
Manquant de ce rayon qui s'appelle la Grâce, on ne dira pas que Sainte-Beuve était janséniste ; mais il avait, comme les disciples de Jansenius, un caractère pessimiste et par suite l'aptitude morale à comprendre leur amère et désolante doctrine. On cherche bien loin les origines de son monumental ouvrage, Port Royal, mais ne seraient-elles pas au plus profond de lui-même, dans sa misanthropie native ? C'est ce que démontre Maxime Leroy dans la remarquable préface qu'il consacre à l'historien de Pascal et de Saint-Cyran. Pourquoi Sainte-Beuve a-t-il choisi un sujet tel que Port-Royal ? Il a répondu lui-même à cette question : "J'y avais, dit-il, été conduit par mon goût pour les existences cachées et par le courant d'inspiration religieuse que j'avais suivi dans les Consolations". Un texte de 1842 est suggestif : "Mon but est surtout historique, on le sait ; mais il est philosophique aussi, qu'on me permette de le d'ire, plus philosophique peut-être qu'il ne paraît. Je tiens à faire ressortir et à montrer tantôt le côté abrupt, tantôt le côté plausible du point de vue janséniste, à indiquer l'état et le remède chrétien, s'il se peut, mais au moins, au pis, à noter le mal humain, à démasquer la fourbe humaine et l'inconséquence presque universelle".
01/1955
Pléiades
PORT-ROYAL. Tome 2
Manquant de ce rayon qui s'appelle la Grâce, on ne dira pas que Sainte-Beuve était janséniste ; mais il avait, comme les disciples de Jansenius, un caractère pessimiste et par suite l'aptitude morale à comprendre leur amère et désolante doctrine. On cherche bien loin les origines de son monumental ouvrage, Port Royal, mais ne seraient-elles pas au plus profond de lui-même, dans sa misanthropie native ? C'est ce que démontre Maxime Leroy dans la remarquable préface qu'il consacre à l'historien de Pascal et de Saint-Cyran. Pourquoi Sainte-Beuve a-t-il choisi un sujet tel que Port-Royal ? Il a répondu lui-même à cette question : "J'y avais, dit-il, été conduit par mon goût pour les existences cachées et par le courant d'inspiration religieuse que j'avais suivi dans les Consolations". Un texte de 1842 est suggestif : "Mon but est surtout historique, on le sait ; mais il est philosophique aussi, qu'on me permette de le d'ire, plus philosophique peut-être qu'il ne paraît. Je tiens à faire ressortir et à montrer tantôt le côté abrupt, tantôt le côté plausible du point de vue janséniste, à indiquer l'état et le remède chrétien, s'il se peut, mais au moins, au pis, à noter le mal humain, à démasquer la fourbe humaine et l'inconséquence presque universelle".
01/1954
Non classé
Metamorphosis of the Administrative Welfare State
The book's conceptual framework is built upon an analysis of different varieties of rationality. A conception of political rationality is elaborated. First, orientations of contemporary administrative theory and research are analysed from the point of view of that rationality. Next, the same viewpoint is applied to an analysis of an entity called the 'administrative welfare state'. This concept is used to cover the typical institutional shape of the leading highly developed countries until the 1980s. The strengths and the weaknesses of the contemporary 'new public management' reforms are also evaluated from the point of view of political rationality. Finally, steps are taken to define elements of actual reform programmes in the terms of the political rationality.
07/1997
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
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
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
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
Romans policiers
Souvenir de Port-Royal. Roman
Anicet Descartes, ex-flic brut de décoffrage devenu détective privé à la petite semaine, reçoit la visite d'un ancien camarade de lycée perdu de vue. Celui-ci, à présent Provincial de la puissante Compagnie de Jésus, lui demande d'enquêter discrètement sur deux décès récents de jésuites qui, bien qu'en apparence accidentels, lui apparaissent suspects. Très réticent à aider celui qui, à l'époque, fut son heureux rival, Descartes, plein de défiance et de rancur mais aussi d'ironie, finit par accepter par pur appât du gain. Pour ce tandem improbable de bras cassés excessifs et attachants, commence alors une course contre la montre pour arrêter un tueur en série soi-disant investi d'une mission divine, où tout semble étrangement les ramener à la fameuse querelle de Port-Royal qui, au XVIIe siècle, sous l'égide de Blaise Pascal, vit s'affronter jésuites et jansénistes ; l'occasion, pour nos deux cabossés de la vie, de tenter maladroitement de se réconcilier.
09/2023
Du XVIe au XIXe siècle
Port-Royal et la prison
La détention est toujours vécue comme une "parfaite solitude" . Les emprisonnements ont ménagé aux détenus un espace introspectif qui a nourri la littérature mémorielle et épistolaire. Comme l'incarcération a marqué l'expérience des individus, leurs textes ont marqué définitivement l'identité de Port-Royal
12/2021
Littérature française
L'ermite de Port-Royal
" ...Lucien, qui peut-être séjournait en Suisse, entra en force dans mon existence. Lui que je n'avais pas revu depuis des lustres... bouscula mes projets sur son passage, entendit en effet me mettre à l'oeuvre, construire le présent ouvrage en prolongement de cette cousinade dont, ai-je songé, il n'était pas sorti grandi... " " J'ai, saisissant mon stylo pour amorcer ce texte, décidé de donner à voir Lucien à la lumière de nos jeux d'enfants, de nos bavardages, de nos rencontres au fil du temps, et au détour de mes impulsions intérieures. Mais ce sont les années de plomb de l'Occupation qui, d'entrée de jeu, se présentèrent à mon esprit. Et avec elles la mère de Lucien, ma tante, continûment sur le pied de guerre si l'on ose cette expression, prête à envahir ma page blanche. " Alors, entre Bourgogne et Paris, entre Paris et Bourgogne, le narrateur essaie de comprendre. Enfance, guerre, adolescence, les souvenirs affluent... Toute famille a ses mystères !
05/2014
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
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
Autres
Chroniques de Port-Royal N° 71 : Port-Royal et l'inteprétation des écritures
Port-Royal a marqué pour longtemps la culture biblique française, avec la fameuse Bible de Sacy, admirée par beaucoup pour la beauté de sa langue. Cette traduction de la Bible a déjà suscité des études, qui éclairent son contexte et ses enjeux, mais on manque encore d'une synthèse sur la manière dont l'herméneutique biblique était pratiquée dans le milieu intellectuel lié au monastère. Le colloque "Port-Royal et l'interprétation des Ecritures" en propose une esquisse. Deux axes on été privilégiés : d'une part, rendre compte des différents contextes où l'on trouve, à Port-Royal, une interprétation des Ecritures, aussi bien sous forme de traduction que d'explication ; d'autre part, situer Port-Royal dans l'histoire longue de l'exégèse. Le rayonnement intellectuel de Port-Royal dans la société française arrive à un moment où le rapport à la Bible des chrétiens en général, et des catholiques en particulier, est en mutation profonde. La réflexion herméneutique de Port-Royal paraît assez libre : les autorités ecclésiales lui reprochent un défaut de catholicité, et Richard Simon, un défaut de scientificité. Mais cette réflexion n'est pas hors-sol. Elle revendique, outre un retour à l'Ecriture, l'héritage des Pères de l'Eglise, dont l'oeuvre exégétique fondatrice est largement reconnue. Port-Royal s'inscrit ainsi dans le renouveau des études patristiques au XVIIe siècle.
07/2021
Histoire internationale
Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression
Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression is the first comprehensive study of Mongolian royal marriages from World Empire (1206-1279) to the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) in Asia. This study examines the Mongolian royal family's marriage strategies and the political implications of these royal marriages, specifically, the intermarriages between the Mongolian royal house and its allies, including the Onggirat, the Oirat, and other Mongol peoples as well as the Uighur State and Korea in Central and East Asia. This book concludes that the short lifespans of Mongol royalty after Khubilai Khan were the result of consanguineous marriage and inbreeding – genetic factors that contributed to the collapse of the Mongol dynasty.
06/2008
Non classé
Steering and Auditing
The purpose of this book is to evaluate the functioning of the management by results (MbR) reform in the Finnish public administration, especially from the point of view of parliamentary steering and auditing : how the relations between the parliamentary actors and public administration have developed since the reform. The question is analysed using documents and expert interviews. The book indicates that the shift to the MbR system has meant in many cases a shift to a new, more flexible way to steer the administration. However, the reform is not yet complete from the point of view of parliamentary steering and auditing. The information on the realization of the civil service agencies' and state institutions' result targets could be forwarded more effectively to the ministries. Thus far the management reform insufficiently enables the realization of parliamentary steering and auditing.
09/1997
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 de France
CRASH IN BAYEUX - The Last Flight of Sergeant Ferguson
Normandy, France, January 15, 1943. The weather is clear, the sun is shining. Two Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft fly over the Bayeux-Caen railroad. The target is a German freight train - and its locomotive. Aboard the first Spitfire, Sergeant Ferguson is aligning his gun sights on the target. It is 02 : 30 p. m. This will be his very last flight... HARASSING THE OCCUPYING FORCES TO PREPARE THE INVASION The RAF and RCAF had been flying hundreds of similar sorties over France for months, in order to weaken the German forces, particularly the Luftwaffe. The pilots of No. 401 Squadron were among those who took part in this patient work, made up of constant patrols and attacks. Among the 63 men mentioned in this book, 25 were killed in action between 1942 and 1944. A CRASH THAT AWOKE THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE Touched by William Ferguson's sacrifice, some French citizens decided to bury the young Canadian flier with dignity, honour and respect. The Germans took this as a provocation. A few weeks later, the Sipo-SD (the "Gestapo") arrested a dozen of them. They were sent to concentration camps - some of them later died in Büchenwald, Dachau and Mauthausen. Others did survive, including Paul Le Caër. He is the one who has supported the author and told him what happened. Today, he is signing the preface of this book. UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONIES Based on an in-depth analysis of unpublished documents, including the Fergusons' archives and No. 401 Squadron Operation Record Book, this work depicts the very last flight of the young Canadian pilot in detail. With a striking truthfulness, you will relive the squadron's daily life, the faith of the pilots, as well as the beginning of the sortie and "Bill" Ferguson's last minutes. FIVE YEARS OF RESEARCH AND EMOTION A young and talented historian involved in the field of remembrance in Normandy, François Oxéant has spent over five years fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. This book will help you discover all aspects of his fascinating investigation with a methodical and rigorous approach. He has met some of the last witnesses of the events and has been in touch with the pilot's family for a few years, making us share his emotion and admiration for Bill, who was barely younger than himself.
09/2014
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
Littérature française
My Ulster haven
1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."
02/2022
Monographies
The Gregory Gift
Presenting for the first time the Alexis Gregory Gift to The Frick Collection, this exquisite publication provides illuminating insights into Gregory's magnificently eclectic collection, cataloging his fine and decorative works of art in detail. Twenty-eight works of art bequeathed to the Frick by Alexis Gregory range from Limoges enamels to Saint-Porchaire ware to pastels by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera. This remarkable gift has introduced new types of objects to the Frick : works in ivory and rhinoceros horn are the first of their kind to be held in the collection. Gregory's gift includes fifteen Limoges enamels, one of them produced in the workshop of Suzanne de Court, the only woman known to have led an enamel workshop in Limoges. Also part of the gift are a gilt-bronze sculpture, an ivory hilt, a pomander, ewers, saltcellars, and two clocks. Many of Gregory's objects came from such prestigious owners as the French royal collections and the Rothschilds. Included in the publication are commentaries on each gift. This lavishly illustrated publication accompanies an exhibition that will be on view at The Frick Collection February 16 through May 14, 2023.
02/2023
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 internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
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
