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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 1889
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File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Archives
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Vols. 2- include section "Bibliographie analytique internationale des publications relatives a l'archivistique et aux archives."
Author : Julia Gasper
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 073918234X
In The Marquis d’Argens: A Philosophical Life Julia Gasper analyzes the life and works of an influential Enlightenment writer and philosopher. The facts of d’Argens’ life as well as his works have been a source of controversy due to the many rumors and anonymous publications erroneously linked to him. Through meticulous research, Gasper provides the only comprehensive list of d’Argens’ works and separates the realities of his life from the myths that have built up around him. Accused of being a libertine or an unoriginal mimic of greater minds, d’Argens has too often been dismissed as an unimportant figure. Gasper defends this much maligned philosopher and reveals how imaginative and influential he truly was.
Author : Emmet Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137512865
Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Civilization, Modern
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Civilization, Modern
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Author : Christine (de Pisan)
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Authors, French
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Author : Emily Kilpatrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316395707
Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919–25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal the heart of Ravel's compositional aesthetic. In this comprehensive study, Emily Kilpatrick unites musical, literary, biographical and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's operas. In documenting the operas' history, setting them within the cultural canvas of their creation and pursuing diverse strands of analytical and thematic exploration, Kilpatrick reveals crucial aspects of the composer's working life: his approach to creative collaboration, his responsiveness to cultural, aesthetic and musical debate, and the centrality of language and literature in his compositional practice. The first study of its kind, this book is an invaluable resource for students, specialists, opera-goers and devotees of French music.
