Une famille très honorable (tome 1 : le portrait déchiré)
Une famille très honorable (tome 1 : le portrait déchiré)

Author: Jacques DISSLER

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1291998217

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Les Deravin du Quesnoy, une famille honorable, qui compte dans le domaine des vignobles bordelais. Rene le grand-pere, epicier parti de rien dans la petite ville de Chernon en Basse-Normandie, a assis sa fortune durant la seconde guerre mondiale, dans le commerce du gros et du demi-gros, fait l'acquisition de Chateau-Pompiac et de ses deux cents hectares de vigne, quittant definitivement sa region natale. La paix revenue, il a conforte son image en mettant en avant un glorieux passe de resistant, et, toujours pousse par l'ambition, s'est lance avec succes dans la politique. Une vie a citer en exemple, la fierte de son fils Herve, de son petit-fils Thomas. Celui-ci decide de monter en Basse-Normandie pour alimenter le sujet d'un memoire qu'il prepare sur la Resistance, l'occasion aussi de mieux connaitre le passe de son grand-pere qu'il n'a pas connu, mais dont sa famille entretient la legende...

Une famille très honorable (tome 2 : galerie de portraits)
Une famille très honorable (tome 2 : galerie de portraits)

Author: Jacques DISSLER

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1326005715

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Thomas Deravin du Quesnoy dans le tome I de: Une famille tres honorable a decouvert la vie cachee et peu glorieuse de son grand-pere Rene. Jeune homme il l'a condamnee, s'est convaincu que jamais il ne marcherait dans les brisees de son aieul. Cependant, arrive a l'automne de sa vie et alors que la mort le guette, un regard sur son passe lui fait voir combien ce qu'il affirmait plusieurs decennies plus tot n'est pas forcement verite aujourd'hui. A l'epreuve des evenements, il a beaucoup change. Son portrait en pied dans le hall de Chateau-Pompiac fief des du Quesnoy, affiche une image d'homme fait, petri d'orgueil, un orgueil qu'il n'a plus. Il n'est plus le meme ni au physique ni au caractere. Le tableau qui le represente peint le meme suffisance que ceux de Rene, et d'Herve son grand-pere et son pere, de Laurent son fils, eux aussi accroches dans le hall, il est le troisieme dans une dynastie fiere de sa race, mais dans laquelle il ne se reconnait plus vraiment.

Absorption and Theatricality
Absorption and Theatricality

Author: Michael Fried

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1988-09-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780226262130

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With this widely acclaimed work, Michael Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism are viewed and understood. Analyzing paintings produced between 1753 and 1781 and the comments of a number of critics who wrote about them, especially Dennis Diderot, Fried discovers a new emphasis in the art of the time, based not on subject matter or style but on values and effects.

Diderot on Art: The salon of 1765 and Notes on painting
Diderot on Art: The salon of 1765 and Notes on painting

Author: Denis Diderot

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780300062489

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An introduction by Thomas Crow describes the peculiar circumstances under which these texts were written, and concise notes make it possible for non-specialist readers to keep their bearings in the vividly evoked world of late eighteenth-century Paris.

Salvator Rosa in French Literature
Salvator Rosa in French Literature

Author: James Patty

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2005-01-31

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0813171938

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" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Simple Past
The Simple Past

Author: Driss Chraibi

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1681373602

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The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author’s native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist, who shares the author’s name, Driss, comes from a Moroccan family of means, his father a self-made tea merchant, the most devout of Muslims, quick to be provoked and ready to lash out verbally or physically, continually bent on subduing his timid wife and many children to his iron and ever-righteous will. He is known, simply, as the Lord, and Driss, who is in high school, is in full revolt against both him and the French colonial authorities, for whom, as much as for his father, he is no one. Driss Chraïbi’s classic coming-of-age story is about colonialism, Islam, the subjection of women, and finding, as his novel does, a voice that is as cutting and coruscating as it is original and free.

Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen)
Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen)

Author: Hsain Ilahiane

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1442281820

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Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between 15-50 million, depending on how they are classified, the Berbers have influenced the culture and religion of Roman North Africa and played key roles in the spread of Islam and its culture in North Africa, Spain, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Taken together, these dynamics have over time converted to redefine the field of Berber identity and its socio-political representations and symbols, making it an even more important issue in the 21st century. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Berbers contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Berbers.