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Author : Robert Miquel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Histoire des cinq siècles de faits divers written by Robert Miquel and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Magraw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317892852
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book France, 1800-1914 written by Roger Magraw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century France was a society of apparent paradoxes. It is famous for periodic and bloody revolutionary upheavals, for class conflict and for religious disputes, yet it was marked by relative demographic stability, gradual urbanisation and modest economic change, class conflict and ongoing religious and cultural tensions. Incorporating much recent research, Roger Magraw draws both upon still-valuable insights derived from the 'new social history' of the 1960s and upon more recent approaches suggested by gender history , cultural anthropology and the 'linguistic turn'.
Author : Gall Collectifs
Publisher : Gallimard Education
ISBN 13 : 9782070438990
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Dans les archives secrètes de la police written by Gall Collectifs and published by Gallimard Education. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De l’assassinat d’Henri IV à Mai 68, ce livre raconte quatre siècles de dossiers brûlants. Il plonge dans la grande Histoire : Ravaillac, Louis XVII, Ravachol, la Résistance, la guerre d’Algérie, mais aussi dans le monde de la pègre, des marginaux et des courtisanes. Il fait revivre les affaires criminelles qui ont passionné les Français : Landru, Violette Nozières, Petiot, et dévoile les secrets d’artistes et d’écrivains comme Hugo, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Colette ou Picasso. Les textes de la police, rédigés dans un constant souci de précision, décrivant tour à tour le drame, la passion ou l’insolite, donnent à ce livre une force historique et parfois humoristique prodigieuse.
Author : Edward Berenson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520073479
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Trial of Madame Caillaux written by Edward Berenson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a pleasure it is to read a book by a gifted writer whose exhaustive research results in such thought-provoking insights."--Deirdre Bair, author of Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
Author : Venita Datta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139498207
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France written by Venita Datta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France Venita Datta examines representations of fictional and real heroes in the boulevard theater and mass press during the fin de siècle (1880–1914), illuminating the role of gender in the construction of national identity during this formative period of French history. The popularity of the heroic cult at this time was in part the result of defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, as well as a reaction to changing gender roles and collective guilt about the egoism and selfishness of modern consumer culture. The author analyzes representations of historical figures in the theater, focusing on Cyrano de Bergerac, Napoleon and Joan of Arc, and examines the press coverage of heroes and anti-heroes in the Bazar de la Charité fire of 1897 and the Ullmo spy case of 1907.
Author : Eugen Weber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804710139
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Peasants into Frenchmen written by Eugen Weber and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.
Author : Sarah Maza
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948734
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Violette Noziere written by Sarah Maza and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.
Author : Jérôme Blanchart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782373440317
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Une histoire française du crime written by Jérôme Blanchart and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols de reliques, assassinats d'enfants, lycanthropie, duels interdits, crimes de masse... Dans l'ombre de l'Histoire de France et de ses rois se cache une histoire en minuscule, celle des fous, des voleurs et des meurtriers. Le crime s'inscrit aussi dans son époque par l'écho qu'il produit auprès de ses contemporains. Mais qu'en était-il avant l'irruption de la presse écrite qui "industrialisa" le genre du fait divers ? Qui se souvient de ce trafic de reliques à l'abbaye de Conques (855) ? De cette baston dans une taverne qui déboucha sur la première grève universitaire (1229) ? Et que dire du complot (les Lépreux (1231) et du massacre urbain du Pet-au-Diable (1453) ? Le lecteur découvre ici la préhistoire des faits divers, des premiers gangs mérovingiens qui ravagèrent la basilique Saint-Denis (579) à l'affaire de la Malle sanglante et de Gabrielle Bompétard (1890), qui signe sans doute les débuts flamboyants du crime dans la presse grand public.
Author : Edward Berenson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234278
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Heroes of Empire written by Edward Berenson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines, through the lives of five important English and French figures, the history of the exploration and colonization of Africa between 1870 and 1914, and the role the mass media played in promoting colonial conquest.
Author : Robert M. Burns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415320818
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Historiography: Culture written by Robert M. Burns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection aims to enable the reader to disentangle some of the ambiguities and confusions which have characterized the use of the term 'historiography'.
Author : Jay M. Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674267435
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Monsters of the Gévaudan written by Jay M. Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story. In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature, or creatures, whose cunning and deadly efficiency terrorized the region and mesmerized Europe. The fearsome aggressor quickly took on mythic status, and the beast of the Gévaudan passed into French folklore. What species was this killer, why did it decapitate so many of its victims, and why did it prefer the flesh of women and children? Why did contemporaries assume that the beast was anything but a wolf, or a pack of wolves, as authorities eventually claimed, and why is the tale so often ignored in histories of the ancien régime? Smith finds the answer to these last two questions in an accident of timing. The beast was bound to be perceived as strange and anomalous because its ravages coincided with the emergence of modernity itself. Expertly situated within the social, intellectual, cultural, and political currents of French life in the 1760s, Monsters of the Gévaudan will engage a wide range of readers with both its recasting of the beast narrative and its compelling insights into the allure of the monstrous in historical memory.
Author : Aaron Freundschuh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503600971
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Courtesan and the Gigolo written by Aaron Freundschuh and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death—the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde. Newspapers eagerly reported the lurid details, and when the police arrested Enrico Pranzini, a charismatic and handsome Egyptian migrant, the story became an international sensation. As the case descended into scandal and papers fanned the flames of anti-immigrant politics, the investigation became thoroughly enmeshed with the crisis-driven political climate of the French Third Republic and the rise of xenophobic right-wing movements. Aaron Freundschuh's account of the "Pranzini Affair" recreates not just the intricacies of the investigation and the raucous courtroom trial, but also the jockeying for status among rival players—reporters, police detectives, doctors, and magistrates—who all stood to gain professional advantage and prestige. Freundschuh deftly weaves together the sensational details of the case with the social and political undercurrents of the time, arguing that the racially charged portrayal of Pranzini reflects a mounting anxiety about the colonial "Other" within France's own borders. Pranzini's case provides a window into a transformational decade for the history of immigration, nationalism, and empire in France.
Author : Marie-Françoise Barbot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782812909092
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Un siècle de faits divers en Côte-d'Or written by Marie-Françoise Barbot and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis toujours, les faits divers fascinent l'opinion. Les historiens, quant à eux, les ont trop souvent délaissés, considérant, sans doute à tort, qu'ils étaient des évènements sans intérêt. Dans le département de la Côte-d'Or, Marie-Françoise Barbot a examiné minutieusement les archives de la presse locale, de 1900 à nos jours, pour en extraire des pépites d'anecdotes où l'insolite le dispute au sordide, le mystère à l'inattendu, le pittoresque à l'horrible. Catastrophes à la une, faits de société, crimes multiples, mystères en tout genre nourrissent cet ouvrage où s'entremêlent tragique, pathétique, comique, suscitant larmes et éclats de rire. De l'inauguration mouvementée du monument dédié à Garibaldi dans la capitale bourguignonne, en 1900, à l'escroquerie, sur la Toile, d'un faux prince charmant un siècle plus tard, en passant par le dramatique lynchage de Jacques Marsac, collaborateur trop zélé pendant les heures sombres de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, apparaissent en filigrane les mœurs et les tourments d'une société en pleine mutation. En tout, une impressionnante collecte de faits divers que Marie-Françoise Barbot, de sa plume alerte, s'est attachée à rassembler ici pour notre plus grand plaisir.
Author : Véronique Pouillard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674259467
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Paris to New York written by Véronique Pouillard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative history of the fashion industry, focusing on the connections between Paris and New York, art and finance, and design and manufacturing. Fashion is one of the most dynamic industries in the world, with an annual retail value of $3 trillion and globally recognized icons like Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent. How did this industry generate such economic and symbolic capital? Focusing on the roles of entrepreneurs, designers, and institutions in fashion’s two most important twentieth-century centers, Paris to New York tells the history of the industry as a negotiation between art and commerce. In the late nineteenth century, Paris-based firms set the tone for a global fashion culture nurtured by artistic visionaries. In the burgeoning New York industry, however, the focus was on mass production. American buyers, trend scouts, and designers crossed the Atlantic to attend couture openings, where they were inspired by, and often accused of counterfeiting, designs made in Paris. For their part, Paris couturiers traveled to New York to understand what American consumers wanted and to make deals with local manufacturers for whom they designed exclusive garments and accessories. The cooperation and competition between the two continents transformed the fashion industry in the early and mid-twentieth century, producing a hybrid of art and commodity. Véronique Pouillard shows how the Paris–New York connection gave way in the 1960s to a network of widely distributed design and manufacturing centers. Since then, fashion has diversified. Tastes are no longer set by elites alone, but come from the street and from countercultures, and the business of fashion has transformed into a global enterprise.
Author : Bernard Pouderon
Publisher : Editions Beauchesne
ISBN 13 : 9782701014135
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (141 download)
Download or read book L'historiographie de l'Eglise des premiers siècles written by Bernard Pouderon and published by Editions Beauchesne. This book was released on 2001 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les recherches sur l'historiographie de l'Église primitive se sont multipliées depuis des temps récents, en France comme à l'étranger, et de grands projets d'édition et de traduction arrivent actuellement à leur terme. Il a donc semblé utile de faire le point sur les travaux en cours, qu'ils aient été entrepris par des historiens de l'Antiquité tardive ou par des philologues, latinistes, hellénistes et orientalistes, par des théologiens ou par des exégètes, et d'engager une réflexion sur la manière dont s'écrivait l'histoire de l'Église et dont l'Église pensait ses origines et sa propre histoire. C'est l'ensemble de leurs travaux qui se trouve présenté dans ce volume, dont la problématique correspond à une actualité à la fois médiatique, historique et religieuse, puisque se célèbre cette année le deuxième millénaire de l'ère chrétienne - tant il est vrai que toute réflexion sur le passé est aussi (et avant tout?) une réflexion sur le présent et sur l'avenir.
Author : Georges Michel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782915204018
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Un siècle de faits divers written by Georges Michel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Hiner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350339822
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Behind the Seams written by Susan Hiner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original book, Susan E. Hiner looks behind fashion's seams and focuses on the women fashion producers both working- and middle-class who were key to shaping the French fashion economy. Behind the Seams thus opens up the fields of both fashion and French cultural studies and explores new ways of understanding the 19th century by demonstrating that these women's complex and contradictory roles as producers of luxury items left them exploited by an oppressive fashion system even as they served as influencers within it. In 19th-century France, fashion was a powerful and lucrative network that depended on women's expert manipulation of its raw materials. The delicate finger work of seamstresses and modistes yielded frothy dresses and ethereal hats; the subtle, persuasive rhetoric of written chronicles resulted in savvy, targeted marketing campaigns of goods and lifestyles; and the stylized visual splendour of the detailed drawing, engraving, and painting of fashion plates fed an aspirational fantasy that ended in consumption. Yet this fashion system paradoxically effaced many of the women on whom it depended. Rather than repeating the familiar narrative of women as victims of fashion, Behind the Seams tells a more complicated story. Hiner's close examination reveals the productive women workers, writers, and artists who achieved agency, influence, and active careers even as their work and lives were masked by the ways in which they were mythologized in popular culture, rendered anonymous, and marginalized by institutional exclusion. Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout, Behind the Seams is a rich resource and essential reading for all those interested in fashion history, 19th-century French history and visual culture, and the social history of women.
