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Author : André Souyris-Rolland
Release : 1982
Genre : Military decorations
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Book Synopsis Guide des ordres, décorations et médailles militaires françaises et étrangères by : André Souyris-Rolland
Download or read book Guide des ordres, décorations et médailles militaires françaises et étrangères written by André Souyris-Rolland. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : André Souyris-Rolland
Release : 1979
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Book Synopsis Guide des ordres, décorations et médailles militaires française et étrangères, 1814-1963 by : André Souyris-Rolland
Download or read book Guide des ordres, décorations et médailles militaires française et étrangères, 1814-1963 written by André Souyris-Rolland. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Wittman
Release : 2007
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 917/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France by : Richard Wittman
Download or read book Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France written by Richard Wittman. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book offers a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian architecture, with detailed analyses of the public debates that erupted around such Parisian monuments as the east facade of the Louvre, the Place Louis XV [the Place de la Concorde], and the church of Sainte-Genevieve [the Pantheon]. Depicting the passage of architecture into a mediatized public culture as a turning point, and interrogating it as a symptom of the distinctly modern configuration of individual, society, and space that emerged during this period, this study will interest readers well beyond the discipline of architectural history.
Author : V. Hélénon
Release : 2011-03-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 912/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis French Caribbeans in Africa by : V. Hélénon
Download or read book French Caribbeans in Africa written by V. Hélénon. This book was released on 2011-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the French Caribbean presence in the colonial administration in Africa before World War II.
Author : Paul Metzner
Release : 2024-07-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 400/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crescendo of the Virtuoso by : Paul Metzner
Download or read book Crescendo of the Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner. This book was released on 2024-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
