Historical Dictionary Of France

Author : Gino Raymond
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810862565
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of France written by Gino Raymond and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to NapolZon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of these events in the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of France. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers, a thorough history of France is presented.

Author : Paul R. Hanson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810878925
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution written by Paul R. Hanson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution remains the most examined event, or period, in world history. It was, most historians would argue, the first “modern” revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution, from “restoration,” as in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England, to its modern sense of connoting a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past, one that moves a society in a forward, or progressive, direction. No revolution has occurred since 1789 without making reference to this first revolution, and most have been measured against it. One cannot utter the date 1789 without thinking of revolution, and so significant were the changes unleashed in that year that it has come to mark the dividing line between early modern and late modern European history Kings This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on the causes and origins; the roles of significant persons; crucial events and turning points; important institutions and organizations; and the economic, social, and intellectual factors involved in the event that gave birth to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this period.

Author : Edgar Leon Newman
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire written by Edgar Leon Newman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1987 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick H. Hutton
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313255526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940 written by Patrick H. Hutton and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dayna Oscherwitz
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of French Cinema written by Dayna Oscherwitz and published by Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. This book was released on 2007 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumière in 1895 with the invention of the cinématographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinématographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumière's La Sortie de l'usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumière factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges Méliès, Alice Guy, and Charles Pathé. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world's best directors-Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Louis Malle-and actors-Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou. The Historical Dictionary of French Cinema covers the history of French film from the silent era to the present in a concise and up to date volume detailing the development of French cinema and major theoretical and cultural issues related to it. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, photographs, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on many of the major actors, directors, films, movements, producers, and studios associated with French cinema. Going beyond mere biographical information, entries also discuss the impact and significance of each individual, film, movement, or studio included. This detailed, scholarly analysis of the development of film in France is useful to both the novice and the expert alike.

Author : John Flower
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538168588
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of French Literature written by John Flower and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the possible exception of Great Britain, France can justifiably lay claim to possess the richest literary history of any country in Western Europe. This book covers the authors and their works, literary movements, and philosophical and social developments that have had a direct impact on style or content, and major historical events such as the two world wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the Algerian War, or the events of May 1968 that are directly reflected in a substantial body of imaginative writing. Historical Dictionary of French Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on individual writers and key texts, significant movements, groups, associations, and periodicals, and on the literary reactions to major national and international events such as revolutions and wars. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about French literature.

Author : Patrick H. Hutton
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313220807
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940 [2 volumes] written by Patrick H. Hutton and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [The volume] achieve[s] high marks in scholarship, factual content, organization, and ease of use. Reference Books Bulletin

Author : John Flower
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087945X
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of French Literature written by John Flower and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don’t know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into English. And, even if we don’t read, we would have seen film and television versions (think Count of Monte-Cristo) and even a musical rendition (Les Mis). So this is a particularly interesting volume in the literature series, since it covers French literature from the earliest times to the present. It is also a particularly rich literature, espousing ever genre from poetry, to novel, to biography, to drama, and adopting every style, including realism and surrealism, and expressing the views of all classes and political stands, with recently strong feminist and gay strains. Obviously, the core dictionary section includes among its panoply of often substantial and detailed entries, hundreds of authors, dozens of significant works, the various styles mentioned above and many others, events that have impacted literature such as the Dreyfus Affair and the Algerian War, and literary prizes. The chronology manages to cover about 1,200 years of literary output. And the introduction sets it all out neatly from one historical and literary period to the next. The bibliography, broken down by period and author, directs us to further reading in both French and English.

Author : William E. Echard
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313211361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870 written by William E. Echard and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echard's dictionary is an exciting contribution to the knowledge of historical and cultural events of the Second Empire. . . . Echard has produced a valuable dictionary. Choice