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Mission France

Author : Kate Vigurs
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300258844
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Mission France written by Kate Vigurs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known—Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan—others have had their stories largely overlooked. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents’ missions lasted for years, others’ less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.

FRENCH MISSION LIFE

Author : Thomas Carter
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362071563
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book FRENCH MISSION LIFE written by Thomas Carter and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

French Mission Life

Author : Thomas Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book French Mission Life written by Thomas Carter and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Mission Life, Or Sketches of Remarkable Conversions and Other Events Among French Romanists in the City of Detroit

Author : Thomas Carter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243406210
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book French Mission Life, Or Sketches of Remarkable Conversions and Other Events Among French Romanists in the City of Detroit written by Thomas Carter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Mission Life, or Sketches of Remarkable Conversions and Other Events Among French Romanists in the City of Detroit: With Five Letters to the Roman Catholic Bishop Residing in That City I have never liked reading a long intro duction, and my reader will therefore ex cuse me from the task of writing one.' The incidents of the following sketches occurred, with five or six exceptions, in the city of Detroit during the time I was pastor of the French congregation in that place, a Church in the meantime having been organized by me under the direction of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Several of them have appeared in the columns of the Christian Advocate and Journal, and, as I could not help learning, have been extensively read. Subsequent particulars are added in this work, With new narratives never be fore published 3 and the whole are now put in this form, in the hope that they may serve to encourage Christians in the great work of spreading Scriptural holiness, and perhaps interest the heart of some one far from Christ, and induce him to turn and live. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

French Mission Life, Or, Sketches of Remarkable Conversions & Other Events Among French Romanists in the City of Detroit

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Total Pages : pages
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Monterey in 1786

Author : Jean-François de Galaup comte de La Pérouse
Publisher : Heyday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Monterey in 1786 written by Jean-François de Galaup comte de La Pérouse and published by Heyday. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of September 14, 1786, two French ships appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit Spain's California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists, navigators, cartographers, illustrators, and physicians. For the next ten days the commander of this expedition, Jean François de La Pérouse, took detailed notes on the life and character of the area: its abundant wildlife, the labors of soldiers and monks, and the customs of Indians recently drawn into the mission. These observations provide a startling portrait of California two centuries ago.

Recollections of Mission Life in Madagascar

Author : James Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Mission Life in Madagascar written by James Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civilizing Habits

Author : Sarah A. Curtis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199889473
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Civilizing Habits written by Sarah A. Curtis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilizing Habits explores the life stories of three French women missionaries--Philippine Duchesne, Emilie de Vialar, and Anne-Marie Javouhey--who crossed boundaries, both real and imagined, to evangelize far from France's shores. In so doing, they helped France reestablish a global empire after the dislocation of the Revolution and the fall of Napoleon. They also pioneered a new missionary era in which the educational, charity, and health care services provided by women became valuable tools for spreading Catholic influence across the globe. Philippine Duchesne traveled to former French territory in Missouri in 1818 to proselytize among Native Americans. Thwarted by the American policy of removing tribes even further west, she turned her attention to girls' education on the frontier. Emilie de Vialar followed French troops to Algeria after its conquest and opened missions throughout the Mediterranean basin in the mid-nineteenth century. Prevented from direct evangelization, she developed strategies and subterfuges for working among Muslim populations. Anne-Marie Javouhey evangelized among Africans in the French slave colonies, including a utopian settlement in the wilds of French Guiana. She became a rare Catholic proponent of the abolition of slavery and a woman designated a "great man" by the French king. Paradoxically, through embracing religious institutions designed to shield their femininity, these women gained increased authority to travel outside France, challenge church power, and evangelize among non-Christians, all roles more commonly ascribed to male missionaries. Their stories teach us about the life paths open to religious women in the nineteenth century and how both church and state benefitted from their initiative to expand the boundaries of faith and nation.

Jungle Mission

Author : René Riesen
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787205614
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Jungle Mission written by René Riesen and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jungle Mission is a poignant account of René Riesen’s life and mission during the First Indochina War amongst the Montagnards, and his ever growing love for these people by going native, learning their language, their traditions, their rituals, and their way of life. During World War II, Riesen worked briefly for the Vichy government and, following liberation, received a 20-year prison sentence. He volunteered to serve in the “BILOM” (Bataillon Leger d’Infanterie d’Outre-Mer), where WWII political prisoners could redeem themselves. Arriving in Saigon in May 1950 as a Colonial Infantry “2eme Classe” soldier affected to the BILOM—which by then had ceased to exist and most of its soldiers assigned to the BMEO (“Bataillon de Marche Extreme Orient”) created in January 1950—Riesen was assigned to the 1st Company, 4th BMEO at the outpost of Kon Plong, controlling access to the coastal plains of Son Ha and Ba To; this post was located about a day’s travel away from Kontum, positioned on a 1,800m high peak, where the rainy season lasted about seven months, with thick fog present almost every day. In December 1950, the 4th BMEO was renamed to the 4th Montagnard battalion, and its HQ remained at Ban Mé Thuot whilst its Battalions operated around Kontum. Riesen would go on to serve four years in the Kontum area and joined the GCMA after its formation, serving under Captain Hentic (“L’action Hre”). For his services in French Indochina, Corporal Riesen was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, the Croix des T.O.E (Théâtres d’opérations extérieures) and the Croix de la Vaillance Vietnamienne, with palm for his actions in French Indochina. As with many others, following his tour in Indochina Riesen was sent to the much quieter operational theatre of Algeria; however, this area too did not remain peaceful for long, escalating quickly into full warfare, and Riesen and his wife died during an ambush by Arabs in December 1956.

Across China's Gobi

Author : Linda Benson
Publisher : Missionary Experience in Asia
ISBN 13 : 9781599880150
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Across China's Gobi written by Linda Benson and published by Missionary Experience in Asia. This book was released on 2008 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, three adventurous and determined British women missionaries traveled along China¿s old Silk Road to ¿gossip the Gospel¿ in the Muslim regions of northwestern China. As this ground-breaking biography of Mildred Cable and the sisters Eva and Francesca French illustrates, their dedicated service in the Gobi Desert¿as members of the China Inland Mission (CIM)¿was only one aspect of these three unconventional women¿s lives.

Apostles of Empire

Author : Bronwen McShea
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229088
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Apostles of Empire written by Bronwen McShea and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism.

A Great Improvisation

Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429907991
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Great Improvisation written by Stacy Schiff and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a streaming series ● In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin--seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French--convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. When Franklin stepped onto French soil, he well understood he was embarking on the greatest gamble of his career. By virtue of fame, charisma, and ingenuity, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies, French informers, and hostile colleagues; engineered the Franco-American alliance of 1778; and helped to negotiate the peace of 1783. The eight-year French mission stands not only as Franklin's most vital service to his country but as the most revealing of the man. In A Great Improvisation, Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. From these pages emerge a particularly human and yet fiercely determined Founding Father, as well as a profound sense of how fragile, improvisational, and international was our country's bid for independence.

Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Author : Ji Li
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004498699
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present written by Ji Li and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China offers readers an overview of the French MEP’s activities in China and provides insights into the significant and complex cross-cultural encounter of the Catholic Church and Chinese society

The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought

Author : Lawrence D. Kritzman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231107907
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought written by Lawrence D. Kritzman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.

The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole

Author : Amelia H. Lyons
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080478714X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole written by Amelia H. Lyons and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France, which has the largest Muslim minority community in Europe, has been in the news in recent years because of perceptions that Muslims have not integrated into French society. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole explores the roots of these debates through an examination of the history of social welfare programs for Algerian migrants from the end of World War II until Algeria gained independence in 1962. After its colonization in 1830, Algeria fought a bloody war of decolonization against France, as France desperately fought to maintain control over its most prized imperial possession. In the midst of this violence, some 350,000 Algerians settled in France. This study examines the complex and often-contradictory goals of a welfare network that sought to provide services and monitor Algerian migrants' activities. Lyons particularly highlights family settlement and the central place Algerian women held in French efforts to transform the settled community. Lyons questions myths about Algerian immigration history and exposes numerous paradoxes surrounding the fraught relationship between France and Algeria—many of which echo in French debates about Muslims today.

Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France

Author : Jonathan Dewald
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271067462
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France written by Jonathan Dewald and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family’s needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family—government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime’s ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.

Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform

Author : Alison Forrestal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198785763
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform written by Alison Forrestal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform offers a major re-assessment of the thought and activities of the most famous figure of the seventeenth-century French Catholic Reformation, Vincent de Paul. Confronting traditional explanations for de Paul's prominence in the devot reform movement that emerged in the wake of the Wars of Religion, the volume explores how he turned a personal vocational desire to evangelize the rural poor of France into a congregation of secular missionaries, known as the Congregation of the Mission or the Lazarists, with three inter-related strands of pastoral responsibility: the delivery of missions, the formation and training of clergy, and the promotion of confraternal welfare. Alison Forrestal further demonstrates that the structure, ethos, and works that de Paul devised for the Congregation placed it at the heart of a significant enterprise of reform that involved a broad set of associates in efforts to transform the character of devotional belief and practice within the church. The central questions of the volume therefore concern de Paul's efforts to create, characterize, and articulate a distinctive and influential vision for missionary life and work, both for himself and for the Lazarist Congregation, and Forrestal argues that his prominence and achievements depended on his remarkable ability to exploit the potential for association and collaboration within the devot environment of seventeenth-century France in enterprising and systematic ways. This is the first study to assess de Paul's activities against the wider backdrop of religious reform and Bourbon rule, and to reconstruct the combination of ideas, practices, resources, and relationships that determined his ability to pursue his ambitions. A work of forensic detail and complex narrative, Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform is the product of years of research in ecclesiastical and state archives. It offers a wholly fresh perspective on the challenges and opportunities entailed in the promotion of religious reform and renewal in seventeenth-century France.