Catalogue d'une précieuse collection de très beaux dessins originaux des grands maîtres de l'école hollandaise, d'une série de dessins très capitaux de Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, de quelques estampes de Rembrandt, etc., provenant du cabinet de M. le Chevalier de Claussin, amateur et conaisseur très distingué, graveur à l'eau-forte, auteur du Catalogue de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt, et des principales pièces de ses élèves; ainsi que du Supplément à ce catalogue, suivi d'une Description des estampes des ses élèves, augmentées de pièces et d'épreuves inédites ... par suite de son décès [1844].
Catalogue d'une précieuse collection de très beaux dessins originaux des grands maîtres de l'école hollandaise, d'une série de dessins très capitaux de Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, de quelques estampes de Rembrandt, etc., provenant du cabinet de M. le Chevalier de Claussin, amateur et conaisseur très distingué, graveur à l'eau-forte, auteur du Catalogue de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt, et des principales pièces de ses élèves; ainsi que du Supplément à ce catalogue, suivi d'une Description des estampes des ses élèves, augmentées de pièces et d'épreuves inédites ... par suite de son décès [1844].

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Published: 1844

Total Pages: 31

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Orestes
Orestes

Author: Voltaire

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-02

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1627933212

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Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."

Modernization and Urban Water Governance
Modernization and Urban Water Governance

Author: Thomas Bolognesi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1137592559

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This book describes the impact of modernization on the organization and sustainability of Urban Water Systems in Europe (UWSEs). Bolognesi explains that the modernization of UWSEs was a regulatory shock that began in the 1990s and was put into action with the EU Water Framework Directive in the year 2000. This process sought to reorganize water governance in order to achieve certain sustainability goals, but it fell short of expectations. Modernization and Urban Water Governance provides an update on the organization and sustainability of UWSEs, while drawing from a comparative analysis of German, French, and English water models and an institutionalist explanation of the current situation. With a focus on transaction costs, property rights allocation and institutional environments, this book argues that the modernization of UWSEs tends to depoliticize these systems and make them more resilient but also limits their potential for sustainable management. This book will be relevant to those wishing to understand the real impacts of water reform in Europe according to national contingencies.

International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems
International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems

Author: Celine Rozenblat

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9811077991

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This book reviews the recent evolutions of cities in the world according to entirely revised theoretical fundamentals of urban systems. It relies on a vision of cities sharing common dynamic features as co-evolving entities in complex systems. Systems of cities that are interdependent in their evolutions are characterized in the context of that dynamics. They are identified on various geographical scales—worldwide, regional, or national. Each system exhibits peculiarities that are related to its demographic, economic, and geopolitical history, and that are underlined by the systematic comparison of continental and regional urban systems, following a common template throughout the book. Multi-scale urban processes, whether local (one city), or within national systems (systems of cities), or linked to the expansion of transnational networks (towards global urban systems) throughout the world over the period 1950–2010 are deeply analyzed in 16 chapters. This global overview challenges urban governance for designing policies facing globalization and the subsequent ecological transition. The answers, which emerge from the diversity of situations in the world, add some reflections on and recommendations to the “urban system framework” proposed in the Habitat III agenda.