Author: Howard Sutton
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600034586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Alan Grubb
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Despite his importance in conservative politics of the early years of the Third Republic of France, Duc Albert de Broglie has been largely ignored by historians. Historian Alan Grubb seeks to right that oversight in this book.

Author: John Edward Courtenay Bodley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Kimberly Philpot van Noort
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042013766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Darling of the Jazz Age, the globe-trotting diplomat and acclaimed writer Paul Morand and his literary and political careers underwent a radical shift following his collaboration with the Vichy government during the Occupation of France. Abandoning the terse, glittering portraits of the contemporary era that had garnered him early fame, he turned to the past and to historical fiction, biography and autobiography.Paul Morand: The Politics and Practice of Writing in Post-War France, the first full-length study of Morand in English and the first ever of his post-war works, traces Morand's politically charged explorations of history as he obsessively rewrites the Occupation in historical guise. From Napoleonic Spain to the court of Louis XIV, nineteenth-century California, Revolutionary France and Venice across the ages, Morand probes the limits of historiography and genre as he constructs a curiously Benjaminian model of redemption for his collaborationist heroes. This book analyses Morand's post-war project, placing it within the highly-politicized context of writing during the de Gaullian era. Many issues are at stake in Morand's late oeuvre, from the genres of historical fiction, biography and autobiography, to the very act of historicization itself in the context of the post-war era. Morand's handling of these issues suggests that literature furnishes perhaps the best space within which the complex and highly political question of our ties to the past may be most tellingly examined.

Author: Richard Griffiths
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Marshal Philippe Pétain was, in the words of historian Andrew Roberts, 'the most controversial Frenchman of the twentieth century.' A truly distinguished soldier who rose from humble origins, he commanded French forces at Verdun in 1916 and became a national hero. But though by 1940 he had become French Deputy Prime Minister his political abilities were meagre. And after France fell to the Nazis it was Pétain who signed the armistice and, from the spa town of Vichy, ruled over the Etat Francais Hitler had left him. Richard Griffiths tells this sorry story in outstanding detail, all the way to Pétain's ignominious end, and not stinting to show his culpability in the Vichy persecution of French Jews and its suppression of the internal Resistance. 'Petain, utterly obscure until the age of 58, was hurled to fame by his defence of Verdun in 1916. This saved his country's bacon (he would say her honour) at a crisis point of the Great War. Thereafter he became an almost monarchical figure, more revered than any living Frenchman, even after the disaster of 1940. But then, as head of the puppet Vichy government, he slid into ignominy after failing to square honour with military humiliation. Griffiths's durable biography... paints not a devil but a courageous, misguided man with a hole where others keep their political acumen.' Robin Blake, Independent

Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679720235
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.

Author: Abraham Hayward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Martine J. Kincaid
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820478319
Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 138

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Theatre of ideas, the theatre of Marguerite Yourcenar lets us foresee the philosophical fabric which implies its writing: a vision of the world with lucid, tragic and revolutionary time. Order and measurement characterize the style of Yourcenar. This s

Author: Eugène Labiche
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 34

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