[PDF] En Guerre eBook

Author : Neil Harris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780943056425

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Explores World War I through French graphics from books, magazines, and prints of the period, presenting a wide range of perspectives.

Author : Bill St. Amour
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1426996241

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This book is the "greatest hits" compilation of more than 100 French books, journals, papers and articles. It contains more than 15000 key French economic, legal, medical, military, political, scientific, sociological terms and colloquial phrases. It also contains important abbreviations. One look will convince you, the student or interpreter, of the value of this work!

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1984-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674766914

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The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago. Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode. Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines. Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.

Author : St. Louis Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1915
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