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Bonnet, Florian. "French spatial inequalities in an historical perspective." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01E041/document.

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Cette thèse a un double objectif. En premier lieu, elle présente les méthodes ayant permis de construire deux bases de données historiques relatives aux départements français. La première met à disposition les tables de mortalité départementales sur la période 1901-2014. La seconde permet de disposer des distributions départementales de revenu sur la période 1960-2014. En second lieu, cette thèse présente les travaux issus de l'utilisation conjointe de ces deux bases de données et d'autres statistiques: ils concernent aussi bien les dynamiques longues des inégalités spatiales que certains évènements historiques. Ainsi, l'analyse de la répartition spatiale de la population depuis le milieu du 19eme siècle permet de comprendre à la fois la dynamique induite par l'exode rural, mais aussi par les nouvelles tendances des migrations d'aujourd'hui, différentes selon les âges. L'analyse des inégalités de mortalité depuis 200 ans montre quant à elle que les inégalités ont largement baissé depuis la fin du 19ème siècle, alors que la géographie de la surmortalité a profondément changé. Enfin, l'analyse des inégalités spatiales de revenus révèle une baisse continue des inégalités depuis les années 1920, baisse qui n'intervient que depuis 1950 si l'on introduit les inégalités de mortalité dans un indicateur synthétique de bien-être. La thèse se conclut par l'analyse des migrations internes durant la seconde guerre mondiale : leur caractère à la fois massif et à destination de la zone libre témoigne aussi bien de l'impact qu'a eu cet évènement sur la démographie française que de la formidable quête de la liberté des français de l'époque, peu entravée par la ligne de démarcation
This thesis has a dual purpose. First, it presents the methods used to build two new historical databases relating to departments. The first database provides the departmental lifetables for the period 1901-20-14. The second database provides the departmental distributions of income over the period 1960-2014. Second, this thesis presents the first work resulting from the joint use of these two databases and other statistics: they concern both the dynamics of spatial inequalities and some specific historical events. Thus, the analysis of the spatial distribution of the population since the middle of the 19th century allows to understand the dynamics induced by the rural exodus, but also by the new trends of today's migrations. The analysis of mortality inequalities over the last 200 years shows that inequalities have fallen dramatically since the end of the 19th century, while the geography of excess mortality has changed. Finally, the analysis of spatial income inequalities reveals a continuous decline since the 1920s. This decline occurred only since 1950 spatial inequalities are observed using a synthetic indicator of welfare, combining both mortality inequalities and income inequalities. The thesis ends with the analysis of internal migrations during the Second World War: these migrations were massive, and clearly oriented towards the free zone. These results testify both to the impact of this event on French demography, and to the quest for freedom of the French of that time, little hampered by the demarcation line
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Shortall-Stevenson, Joyce. "Jean Schlumberger ʹEveils : a historical autobiography /." Electronic version, 2004. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2004/shortall-stevensonj/joyceshortall-stevenson.html.

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L'Hostis, Aurelie Marie. "Literature and historical consciousness in the French Caribbean." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609280.

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Gess, Randall Scott. "Optimality theory in the historical phonology of French /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8377.

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Jacobs, Hendrik Marinus Gertrudis Marie. "Nonlinear studies in the historical phonology of French /." Nijmegen : Katholiek universiteit te Nijmegen, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb353460105.

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Cromley, Gordon A. "Using Digital and Historical Gazetteers to Geocode French Airborne Operations during the French Indochina War." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1417696951.

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Botelho, Antonio José J. "Professional against the state : French electronics policy in historical perspective." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100659.

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Tomlinson, H. E. "French historical elements in the civic heraldry of the United Kingdom." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375196.

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Gerhard, Timothy Michael. "New beginnings : transnational literature and the French nation at four historical moments /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Butler, Christopher. "Spectatorial Shock and Carnal Consumption: (Re)envisaging Historical Trauma in New French Extremity." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4648.

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New French Extremity films are violent, transgressive, and break many social taboos in their narratives. However, this genre's directors are intelligent and construct these films with clues to France's past and how it still has implications in the present. This thesis was written to point out how New French Extremity films offer spectators the potential to reincorporate traumatic moments in French history by juxtaposing them against present day social, political, and economic ideologies. The purpose for this course of study was to investigate historical encounters that are present in New French Extremity filmmaking, something that has yet to be addressed by other scholars in any great detail. The general approach taken was to use Walter Benjamin's theory of allegory to secure connections between the past and present and illustrate how they could be interpreted by the film's spectators. The outcome of this research indicates how a spectator can potentially change his or her relationship with history and work towards reassessing his or her relationship with the present under certain social, political, or economic structures.
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Gerber, Michael Ryan. "Vichy's New Man: National Regeneration and Historical Revisionism in French Education, 1940-1944." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524501870504622.

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Doherty, Annabelle. "Living the Past through French Heritage Film: Historical Thinking and Cinematic Cultural Memory." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15296.

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This thesis examines the French heritage film, a contemporary genre of period drama and historical film in France, which like other nations’ heritage cinema has often been neglected or dismissed by scholars. In comparison to precursor or parallel genres designated as “serious historical film”, such as the “New History film”, the heritage genre is typically regarded as a costume drama of fantasy, “romance and adventure”, presenting “history as spectacle” for audiences’ entertainment and “visual pleasure” in a largely surface reconstitution of history. In terms of cultural memory, French heritage cinema is generally confined to being a reflection of present socio-political contexts or a celebratory cinematic vehicle of “nostalgia”. My study sets up however the hypothesis that the genre encourages “historical thinking”, providing a deep understanding of the past that engages with historical discourse. It examines French heritage films against historical texts, biographies, memoirs, archival films, photos, period paintings and objects, considering the films’ effect of authenticity, historical realism and fidelity to the past. My research investigates how the “corporeal effect” of heritage cinema’s cinematographic language, through its “visual and aural sensuality”, stimulates spectators to acquire a complex, multi-layered, multi-faceted “cinematic cultural memory” of historical figures, events and landscapes. It argues that through the embodiment effect of contemporary filmic technologies, audiences are immersed in a vividly real history of enhanced colours, surround sound, widescreen high-definition, with multi-camera action, advanced crane movement, aerial filming and digital effects, where spectators have the sensation of a past not directly lived. Addressing the dilemma of a genre simultaneously incarnating auteur/art-house and popular cinema, the impact of auteurism and of stardom is also explored. The corpus includes heritage films Life and Nothing But (Tavernier: 1989), A Very Long Engagement (Jeunet: 2004), Madame Bovary (Chabrol: 1991), Camille Claudel (Nuytten: 1988) and La Reine Margot (Chéreau: 1994).
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Howell, Jennifer Therese. "Popularizing historical taboos, transmitting postmemory: the French-Algerian War in the bande dessinée." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/683.

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In addition to proposing a survey and subsequent analysis of the French-Algerian War in French-language comics, also known as bandes dessinées, published in Algeria, France, and Belgium since the 1960s, my dissertation investigates the ways in which this medium re-appropriates textual and iconographic source materials. I argue that the integration or citation of various sources by artists functions to confer a measure of historical accuracy on their representation of history, to constitute a collective memory as well as personal postmemories of the war, and to re-contextualize problematic images so that they and the hegemonic discourses they reinforce may be deconstructed. Moreover, the bande dessinée mimics secondary schoolbook representations of the war in both Algeria and France in its recycling of problematic images such as Orientalist painting, colonial postcards, and iconic images of war. The recycling of textbook images has the double advantage of ensuring reader familiarity with these images and of inviting critical interpretations of them. By exploring how the bande dessinée reuses colonial images as well as critical histories in predominantly anti-colonialist narratives, I seek to explain how this popular medium uniquely problematizes questions of history, memory, and postcolonial identity related to French Algeria and its decolonization. It is my contention that, because historical bandes dessinées frequently include or reference authentic textual and iconographic source material documenting the repercussions of the French-Algerian war on various communities, they represent a valuable resource to middle and high school teachers looking to enrich the state-mandated history curriculum. By using the bande dessinée in this capacity, educators exploit this medium as both a historical document (whose objective is to transmit knowledge of the past) and a document of history (which allows scholars to retrace the evolution of public opinion).
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Ortiz, Suarez Pedro. "A Data-driven Approach to Natural Language Processing for Contemporary and Historical French." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022SORUS155.

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Depuis plusieurs années, les approches neuronales ont régulièrement amélioré l'état de l'art du traitement automatique des langues (TAL) sur une grande variété de tâches. L'un des principaux facteurs ayant permis ces progrès continus est l'utilisation de techniques d'apprentissage par transfert. Ces méthodes consistent à partir d'un modèle pré-entraîné et à le réutiliser, avec peu ou pas d'entraînement supplémentaire, pour traiter d'autres tâches. Même si ces modèles présentent des avantages évidents, leur principal inconvénient est la quantité de données nécessaire pour les pré-entraîner. Ainsi, le manque de données disponibles à grande échelle a freiné le développement de tels modèles pour le français contemporain et a fortiori pour ses états de langue plus anciens.Cette thèse met l'accent sur le développement de corpus pour le pré-entraînement de telles architectures. Cette approche s'avère extrêmement efficace car nous sommes en mesure d'améliorer l'état de l'art pour un large éventail de tâches de TAL pour le français contemporain et historique, ainsi que pour six autres langues contemporaines. De plus, nous montrons que ces modèles sont extrêmement sensibles à la qualité, à l'hétérogénéité et à l'équilibre des données de pré-entraînement et montrons que ces trois caractéristiques sont de meilleurs prédicteurs de la performance des modèles que la taille des données de pré-entraînement. Nous montrons également que l'importance de la taille des données de pré-entraînement a été surestimée en démontrant à plusieurs reprises que l'on peut pré-entraîner de tels modèles avec des corpus de taille assez modeste
In recent years, neural methods for Natural Language Processing (NLP) have consistently and repeatedly improved the state of the art in a wide variety of NLP tasks. One of the main contributing reasons for this steady improvement is the increased use of transfer learning techniques. These methods consist in taking a pre-trained model and reusing it, with little to no further training, to solve other tasks. Even though these models have clear advantages, their main drawback is the amount of data that is needed to pre-train them. The lack of availability of large-scale data previously hindered the development of such models for contemporary French, and even more so for its historical states.In this thesis, we focus on developing corpora for the pre-training of these transfer learning architectures. This approach proves to be extremely effective, as we are able to establish a new state of the art for a wide range of tasks in NLP for contemporary, medieval and early modern French as well as for six other contemporary languages. Furthermore, we are able to determine, not only that these models are extremely sensitive to pre-training data quality, heterogeneity and balance, but we also show that these three features are better predictors of the pre-trained models' performance in downstream tasks than the pre-training data size itself. In fact, we determine that the importance of the pre-training dataset size was largely overestimated, as we are able to repeatedly show that such models can be pre-trained with corpora of a modest size
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Uglow, Nathan. "The historian's two bodies : the reception of historical texts in France, 1701-1790." Thesis, University of Kent, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242904.

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Piussi, Anna. "Images of Egypt during the French Expedition (1798-1801) : sketches of a historical colony." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335058.

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Høye, Marit Johanne. "The North French Kyrie Chant : A Historical and Stylistic Study of the Repertory before 1200." Doctoral thesis, Saarbrücken : VDM Verl. Dr. Müller, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017641941&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Loth, Shon William. "A historical comparative analysis of British and French nuclear weapons proliferation : 1940-1947, 1954-1960." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285743.

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Smith, Anthony David Stephen. "Patriotism and neo-classicism : the 'historical revival' in French and English painting and sculpture, 1746-1800." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317949/.

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The aim of this thesis is to explore the links between historicism and patriotism in French and English painting and sculpture From 1748 to 1800. It argues that the reaction to Rococo hedonism took the Form of an 'historical revival' to rejuvenate European culture and society by a return to an heroic morality for the individual and the community. While artists generally Followed historians and poets in their choice of themes, they managed to produce images that defined and diffused the exemplary heroic virtues, and to endow different periods of history with tangibility and verisimilitude. While patriotic sentiments antedated the artistic 'historical revival', the latter was important in enlarging and deepening that patriotism to include an historical ethnic nationalism. Part I of the thesis uses a quantitative approach to analyse the numbers,types, themes and dates of 'history' paintings and sculptures exhibited at the Paris Salons and London Academies until 1800, revealing that, though 'history' works are in a clear minority in relation to 'non-public' genres of art, they, and their heroic cults, Form an influential and distinguished segment of French and English art of the period. Part II analyses in depth the main historical themes within some basic moral categories of the period to reveal both the common moral framework, and the vital stylistic and iconographical differences, ofFrench and English art. Part III charts the emergence of different styles for different historical periods, and some of the differences between a more literary English medievalism and a more historical French classicism. Finally, the role of key art critics and theorists reveals that while the French sought to revive an earlier era of national and artistic grandeur, their English counterparts, riding the crest of a wave of national glory, sought to enhance it by founding a native school of history painting and sculpture; but both encouraged artists to pursue the ideal of moral historicism avant Winckelmann, backed by their respective states and Academies, and so give deeper historical and ethnic content to a swelling civic patriotism.
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Scrivner, Olga B. "A Probabilistic Approach in Historical Linguistics Word Order Change in Infinitival Clauses| from Latin to Old French." Thesis, Indiana University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3714098.

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This thesis investigates word order change in infinitival clauses from Object-Verb (OV) to Verb-Object (VO) in the history of Latin and Old French. By applying a variationist approach, I examine a synchronic word order variation in each stage of language change, from which I infer the character, periodization and constraints of diachronic variation. I also show that in discourse-configurational languages, such as Latin and Early Old French, it is possible to identify pragmatically neutral contexts by using information structure annotation. I further argue that by mapping pragmatic categories into a syntactic structure, we can detect how word order change unfolds. For this investigation, the data are extracted from annotated corpora spanning several centuries of Latin and Old French and from additional resources created by using computational linguistic methods. The data are then further codified for various pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and sociolinguistic factors. This study also evaluates previous factors proposed to account for word order alternation and change. I show how information structure and syntactic constraints change over time and propose a method that allows researchers to differentiate a stable word order alternation from alternation indicating a change. Finally, I present a three-stage probabilistic model of word order change, which also conforms to traditional language change patterns.

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Lechintan, Adela A. "Cinematic Reverberations of Historical Trauma: Women's Memories of the Holocaust and Colonialism in Contemporary French-Language Cinema." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1315504205.

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Duclos, Marie-France. "A MUSICAL-HISTORICAL STUDY OF ITALIAN INFLUENCES IN THREE REGINA CAELI OF THE FRENCH BAROQUE PERIOD." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/141.

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The French baroque petit motet was the most prolific genre of seventeenth-century France. In this study, three petits motets, specifically Regina caeli settings of French composers Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Nicolas Bernier and François Couperin are examined with an emphasis on the motets’ historical context in relation to the French monarchy and the Italian concepts that the composers incorporated into each work. All three Regina caeli settings display some Italian compositional techniques of the stile moderno in various degrees and were written in different contextual ecclesiastic milieux. The intersections of, as well as distinctions between, musical ideas of traditional French style and Italian innovations was at the center of music and musical discourse during the baroque period. The French were introduced to Italian style by travelling musicians at the court of France; however, when Louis XIV gave Jean-Baptiste Lully the important position of surintendant de la musique, the idea of an authentic unaltered French sound became prevalent among musicians and critics. Lully, strongest defender of “pure” French style, created a strict environment for musicians at court, and only after his death, did composers gain in freedom. The study suggests that a closer association to Louis XIV permitted musicians to integrate more of the Italian stile moderno techniques than those who did not have this opportunity. Crucial figures of the French monarchy, Louis XIV, Philippe II d’Orléans and the duc de Bourgogne were connected to the three composers central to this project and impacted the outcome of their work. With the musical-historical study of three Regina caeli settings, this project demonstrates the importance of the petit motet genre within the repertoire and the need for additional research to increase the accessibility of this inestimable music
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Youngs, Jennifer (Soprano). "The Historical and Pedagogical Significance of Excerpts by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505272/.

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This collection of 9 vocal works, taken from the oœuvre of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), was chosen for their utility in teaching undergrad voice majors. This collection offers a group of songs that are attractive in their simplicity allowing the time in their lessons to be devoted to the instruction of French pronunciation. Grétry's attention to detail in the setting of French prosody provides undergraduate singers with a collection of songs that offer an immediate understanding as to the nuances of the French language. With funding from an I-GRO grant through the University of North Texas, research was conducted in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and work continued in the Grétry Museum in Liège, Belgium. The primary sources found within these locations formulated valuable insights into to the life and influence of Grétry, and provided first-hand experience with research techniques within foreign libraries. This research has solidified the relationship between Grétry's compositional style and its usefulness within the undergraduate voice studio.
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Stephenson, William John. "Form, parody and history in 'The French lieutenant's woman' and 'A maggot' by John Fowles, and 'To the ends of the Earth: a sea trilogy' by William Golding." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249288.

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Schuman, Samuel A. "Representation, Narrative, and “Truth”: Literary and Historical Epistemology in 19th-Century France." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1621948796558803.

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Fedorenko, Gregory. "The texts, manuscripts and historical significance of the prose Chronique de Normandie and Geste de France (c.1180-c.1230)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610656.

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Hoelbeek, Thomas. "The spatial expressions containing French 'travers' and Italian 'traverso': a functional semantic description from diachronic perspective." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209319.

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This thesis belongs to the research tradition of Romance historical semantics, and combines diachronic methods with cognitive hypotheses. Analysing complex adpositions in French and Italian, its originality resides in the fact that, both for literal and metaphorical uses, it applies a functional approach to a diachronic problematic, carrying out a corpus analysis.

The period covered consists of four hundred years (from the 16th until the end of the 19th Century). The constructions under analysis conform to the pattern [PREP1 (+ article) + travers(o) (+ PREP2)], viz. the French expressions 'à travers (de)', 'au travers (de)', 'en travers (de)', 'de travers' and their Italian formal equivalents 'a traverso/at(t)raverso (a, di, per)', 'al traverso (di)', 'in traverso (di)' and 'di traverso (a)' ('traverso (a)', without PREP1, is included too). These expressions, and especially their prepositional uses, are assumed to be intrinsically dynamic. However, they are no pure prepositions, in that all of them can be used in at least two different syntactic roles. More specifically, some are principally found as a preposition, and secondarily as an adverb; others behave mostly as an adverb, but also as an adjective; finally, certain expressions exhibit all three types of uses.

The results can be structured around four axes. Firstly, a complete diachronic-semantic description of all uses is given of this set of hardly explored expressions, in order to contribute to a better comprehension of their semantic structure. The study bears on morphological, syntactic, but most of all semantic aspects of the evolutions observed. Secondly, functional concepts such as Guidance, proposed in synchronic research (in particular by Stosic (2002b; 2007; 2009)), and notions we elaborate on the basis of research on Modern French (cf. Somers 1988; and Plungian 2002), in particular Contrast and Deviation, are put to the test. By adopting a diachronic perspective, we assess to what extent these notions are able to describe the semantics conveyed in the past by the expressions under study. Thirdly, this thesis determines in what measure the expressions analysed were subjected to a grammaticalisation process, and why some of them (in particular 'à travers', and, to a lesser extent, 'a traverso/at(t)raverso (a, di, per)') became significantly more frequent from the 18th Century onwards. We provide elements that point to a more advanced grammaticalisation for certain expressions. Moreover, we determine to what extent the evolutionary trends observed corroborate or, on the contrary, disconfirm various mechanisms considered to be part of the process of grammaticalisation. Finally, a comparison between the evolutions in the two languages under study helps to distinguish between more general and language-specific mechanisms of semantic and grammatical evolution, given that every natural language has a specific way of organising its own modelling of space.

The results of this study enrich our knowledge of the phrases studied and their functioning in the past, but also in present-day French and Italian, providing diachronic observations regarding the functional notions put to the test. Further, it contributes to a better understanding of the grammaticalisation mechanisms of complex constructions. Finally, it shows that typologically related languages may evolve differently in their ways of representing space, and in particular in their semantic distribution of various functional concepts within a group of close constructions./Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le domaine de la sémantique historique romane, et combine des méthodes diachroniques avec des hypothèses cognitives. En analysant des adpositions complexes en français et en italien, son originalité réside dans le fait que, à la fois pour des usages littéraux et métaphoriques, elle applique une approche fonctionnelle à une problématique diachronique, en réalisant une analyse de corpus.

La période traitée est constituée de quatre cents ans (à partir du XVIe jusqu’à la fin du XIXe siècle). Les constructions analysées sont conformes au modèle [PREP1 (+ article) + travers(o) (+ PREP2)], à savoir les expressions françaises 'à travers (de)', 'au travers (de)', 'en travers (de)', 'de travers' et leurs équivalentes formelles italiennes 'a traverso/at(t)raverso (a, di, per)', 'al traverso (di)', 'in traverso (di)' et 'di traverso (a)' ('traverso (a)', sans PREP1, est aussi incluse). Ces expressions, et surtout leurs usages prépositionnels, sont supposées être intrinsèquement dynamiques. Cependant, elles ne sont pas de pures prépositions, en ce que chacune d’elles peut être utilisée dans au moins deux rôles syntaxiques différentes. Plus précisément, certaines se rencontrent principalement comme préposition, et accessoirement comme adverbe ;d’autres se comportent la plupart du temps comme adverbe, mais aussi comme adjectif ;enfin, certaines expressions présentent les trois types d’usages.

Les résultats s’articulent autour de quatre axes. Tout d’abord, une description diachronique et sémantique complète est donnée de tous les usages de l’ensemble de ces expressions qui sont à peine explorées, afin de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de leur structure sémantique. L’étude porte sur des aspects morphologiques, syntaxiques, mais surtout sémantiques des évolutions observées. Deuxièmement, des concepts fonctionnels tels que celui de Guidage, proposé dans des travaux en synchronie (en particulier par Stosic (2002b; 2007; 2009)), et des notions que nous élaborons sur la base d’analyses du français moderne (cf. Somers 1988; et Plungian 2002), en particulier celles de Contraste et Déviation, sont mises à l’épreuve. En adoptant une perspective diachronique, nous évaluons dans quelle mesure ces notions sont en mesure de décrire la sémantique véhiculée dans le passé par les expressions étudiées. Troisièmement, cette thèse détermine dans quelle mesure les expressions analysées ont été soumises à un processus de grammaticalisation, et pourquoi certaines d’entre elles (en particulier 'à travers' et, dans une moindre mesure, 'a traverso/at(t)raverso (a, di, per)') sont devenues beaucoup plus fréquentes à partir du XVIIIe siècle. Nous fournissons des éléments qui indiquent une grammaticalisation plus avancée de certaines expressions. De plus, nous déterminons dans quelle mesure les tendances évolutives observées corroborent ou, au contraire, infirment différents mécanismes considérés comme faisant partie du processus de grammaticalisation. Enfin, une comparaison entre les évolutions dans les deux langues étudiées permet de distinguer des tendances sémantiques et grammaticales plus générales de ceux qui sont plus spécifiques à une langue, étant donné que chaque langue naturelle a une façon spécifique d’organiser sa représentation de l’espace.

En fournissant des observations diachroniques sur les notions fonctionnelles mises à l’épreuve, cette thèse enrichit notre connaissance des constructions étudiées et leur fonctionnement dans le passé, ce qui aide aussi à mieux comprendre leur usage contemporain. De plus, elle contribue à une meilleure compréhension des mécanismes de grammaticalisation des constructions complexes. Enfin, elle montre que des langues typologiquement proches peuvent évoluer différemment dans leurs modes de représentation de l’espace, et en particulier dans la distribution sémantique de différents concepts fonctionnels dans un groupe de constructions proches.


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Speck, Reto Peter. "The history and politics of civilisation : the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/423.

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During the second half of the 18th century, a debate about Russia developed in France and Germany. Spurred on by a preoccupation with Peter I’s project to swiftly civilise his country through Europeanisation, and by the evolving idea of a philosophic history with its concern to explain the historical process of civilisation in general, and Europe’s historical journey out of a state of barbarism in particular, an array of thinkers turned to the example of Russia with a set of interrelated historiographical and political questions: Does Russia share a history with Europe, and if so, how can its particular history be related to generalised accounts of the development of civilisation? What was the role of Peter I in fostering civilisation in Russia, and what political lessons can be learned from his reign? Can the historical process of civilisation be accelerated through willed, top-down reform and through wholesale importation of ideas and models from without as Peter attempted, or are there unsurpassable limits to such a project? The present thesis reconstructs this central Enlightenment debate, which has so far only received scant attention in modern scholarship, by providing an in-depth analysis of the relevant works of its main participants: Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Pierre Charles Levesque, August Ludwig Schlözer and Johann Gottfried Herder. By contextualising their Russian writings in terms of wider Enlightenment discourse on philosophic history and political reform, it seeks to recover the rich and conflicting nature of the debate about Russia. In this way, it ultimately contributes to the revision of the customary portrayal of the Enlightenment as a unified ‘project’ based on a universalising and rationalistic approach to the human sciences, and marked by a concomitant inability either to appreciate the complexities of historical development or to conceive of a reforming politics outside the framework of enlightened despotism.
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Goyette, Stefanie Anne. "Indiscriminate Bodies: The Old French Fabliaux in Relation to Thirteenth-Century Medical and Religious Cultures." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10646.

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This dissertation examines representations of the body in the Old French fabliaux in order to elucidate these stories’ philosophy (or philosophies) of language and their relationship to religious, medical, and dietetic cultures. An exploration of contemporary discourses referenced in the fabliaux – moral discourses around sex and food, medical and dietetic theories concerning food and animals, and rituals and rites surrounding the living and dying body – demonstrates how these elements shape narrative structure, characters, key objects, and décor. The fabliaux exhibit bodies founded by and coextensive with language, which, particularly in the form of speech, is simultaneously a function of the body. This dissertation shows the fabliaux to be profoundly anchored in the material world, but also aware that the physical and material are affected by language, and subject to transformation by the greater context of twelfth-, thirteenth-, and early fourteenth-century literature in its vernacular and Latin, secular and religious forms. The first chapter provides a critical history of the major questions in fabliaux scholarship through the 1980s, when the field began to undergo a number of important changes. The first part of Chapter 2 pursues the physical body in the fabliaux through pleasures, particularly the sexual and alimentary, while arguing that the stories respond to outside discourses about physical behavior, and that sensual or carnal pleasures and those of language coexist. The second section traces the relationship of spaces – social and domestic, permitted and forbidden – to morality. Analysis of the localization of the body in space indicates that space is essential to the construction of bodies, and may even determine (the perception of) guilt or innocence. The third chapter demonstrates that the humor of many fabliaux depends on anxieties concerning the spatial incursions of death, which mirror the visitations of outside texts. Miracles and superstitions constitute the focus of the fourth chapter, which examines the exploitation of supernatural events by the fabliaux’ human actors. The final chapter shows the importance of dysphemism and polysemy, of audience interpretation, and of the potential dangers of misinterpretation when texts become bodies and bodies become texts.
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Karmali, Ammar. "Analyzing Large Shocks to the Dow Jones Industrial Average using Historical Industry-Specific Leverage Ratios." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1794.

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In this paper, I examine the top ten historical upward and downward daily shocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and test whether industry specific abnormal returns can be explained by industry specific leverage ratios on those days. I use modified versions of the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Fama French 3 Factor regression to examine within-industry abnormal returns. I then proceed to rank the industry abnormal returns and industry leverage ratios, from high to low, on days corresponding to these large shocks. Finally, I examine the correlation between these ranks on the days corresponding to the large moves. The results show that on upward moving days, there is no relationship between industry abnormal returns and industry leverage. However, on downward moving days, there is moderate negative correlation between industry abnormal returns and leverage, suggesting that higher leverage leads to lower abnormal returns. This paper explains these results in further detail, and discusses the implications to the greater field of financial economics.
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Gosse, Douglas. "Historical fiction, drama, and journal infusion in grade nine, early French immersion history, a curriculum guide using Enfants de la rébellion." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23140.pdf.

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Domareki, Sarah. "To Stay or to Go? A Literary and Historical Study of French-Canadian Emigration From Quebec to New England, 1820-1930." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/DomarekiS2005.pdf.

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Ferar, Nolan Y. "Neoliberal Ideologies and Cultural Models of Work among Young French and American Business Students and Professionals: A Study in Institutional Change and Cultural Meaning." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/91.

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In this thesis I analyze semi-structured interviews I conducted with fifteen young French and American business students and professionals in order to uncover cultural models relating to work, while paying particular attention to the acceptance or rejection of neoliberal ideas. To contextualize the analysis, I first review the history of neoliberal ideology along with its arrival and political and institutional influence in both countries. In the U.S., the neoliberal transition was rapid and dramatic under the Reagan administration, which constitutes a critical institutional juncture and a shift in the dominant paradigm of governance. In France, in contrast, neoliberal policies have been implemented reluctantly and incrementally, suggesting traditional French values relating to the state and its role in regulating the economy remain largely intact. In line with these historical patterns, the Americans I spoke to primarily conceptualize work as a commodity, accepting the definition of work as defined in the market; while the French interviewees conceptualize work as personal fulfillment and occupational citizenship, emphasizing the human and psychological essence of work and the need for moral regulation of the market economy, perceived as immoral and anarchic. Overall, the Americans much more readily accepted neoliberal ideas and policy directives and towards which the French were far less welcoming. In particular, I argue that the traditional role of the French state as responsible for the wellbeing of its citizens presents a major obstacle to neoliberal ideology, historically on an institutional level as well as in the minds of the French interviewees.
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Montgomery, III Erwin B. "Specters of Marks: Elements of Derridean Hauntology and Benjaminian Politico-Historical Eschatology in Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, and The French Lieutenant's Woman." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194105.

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The present work explicates the concept of "the messianic" as it figures in the work of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin in order to establish the foundation of a useful (and, one hopes, potentially innovative) critical approach to the works of Mary Shelley, Joseph Conrad, John Fowles, as well as to novelistic fiction generally. This foundation rests on a common quality of the messianic as it figures in Derrida and Benjamin's respective corpora. In their conception the messianic refers not to some individual of divine, semi-divine, or even mortal origin who is charged with functioning as the world-historical agent by whose deeds history itself comes to an end, and a new holy, paradisiacal order is thereby founded, but to the aspirational tenor to humankind's orientation to futurity. The messianic finds expression in the myriad instantiations of human beings' future-oriented activity. As such, it achieves a sort of spectrality--or, to borrow the term Marx applies to the commodity, a phantom-like objectivity--having a somewhat intuitive apprehensibility, if in fact not form or substance.Novelistic fiction, which exploits its own spectrality in a bid for arranging impossible arrangements, realizing impossible realities, ordering impossible orders, attempts to occupy an impossible-to-occupy space between on one hand, the catastrophic present and the messianic future, and on the other hand, the future to come and the future as it is wished to be. Wracked by the tension created by its allegiance to chance, the contingent, and the aleatory on one side, and to the deterministic, the necessary, and the climactic or teleological on the other side, novelistic fiction achieves its particular character precisely through pursuit of its abortive program, just as humanity achieves its character, to the extent that such a notion is legitimate, precisely through its abortive program, which is nothing more no less than survival, than living on.
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Vest, Jason Christopher. "ADOLPHE NOURRIT, GILBERT-LOUIS DUPREZ, AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF TENOR TECHNIQUE IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY: HISTORICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/1025.

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Title from document title page (viewed on August 3, 2009). Document formatted into pages; contains: v, 116 p. : ill. (some col.), music. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-115).
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Kay, Simon Michael Gorniak. "Literary, political and historical approaches to Virgil's Aeneid in early modern France." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13837.

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This thesis examines the increasing sophistication of sixteenth-century French literary engagement with Virgil's Aeneid. It argues that successive forms of engagement with the Aeneid should be viewed as a single process that gradually adopts increasingly complex literary strategies. It does this through a series of four different forms of literary engagement with the Aeneid: translation, continuation, rejection and reconciliation. The increasing sophistication of these forms reflects the writers' desire to interact with the original Aeneid as political epic and Roman foundation narrative, and with the political, religious and literary contexts of early modern France. The first chapter compares the methods of and motivations behind all of the sixteenth-century translations of the Aeneid into French; it thus demonstrates shifts in successive translators' interpretations of Virgil's work, and of its application to sixteenth-century France. The next three chapters each analyse adaptation of Virgil's poem in a major French literary work. Firstly, Ronsard's Franciade is analysed as an example of French foundation epic that simultaneously draws upon and rejects Virgil's narrative. Ronsard's poem is read in the light of Mapheo Vegio's “Thirteenth Book” of the Aeneid, or Supplementum, which continues Virgil's narrative and carries it over into a Christian context. Next, Agrippa d'Aubigné's response to Virgilian epic in Les Tragiques is shown to have been mediated by Lucan's Pharsalia and its anti- epic and anti-imperialist interpretation of the Aeneid. D'Aubigné's inversion of Virgil is highlighted through comparison of attitudes to death and resurrection in Les Tragiques, the Aeneid and Vegio's Antoniad. Finally, Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas' combination, in La Sepmaine and La Seconde Sepmaine of the hexameral structure of Genesis with Virgil's narrative of reconciliation after civil war is shown to represent the most sophisticated understanding of and most complex interaction with the Aeneid in sixteenth-century France.
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Philo-Gill, Samantha Adele. "Novelists and women in WW1: challenging traditional binarisms: a critical essay, and, The half painted war: an original novel." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9245.

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Academic study of women and WW1 literature has taken place since the 1970s, with a focus on female novelists published pre-1939. Despite the variety of studies, questions remain as to whether the breadth of women’s roles in WW1 is accurately represented in fiction. The purpose of this study was to examine female characters in WW1 novels (published in Britain) who challenge traditional war binarisms i.e. war (male)/peace (female), by taking on war work. It specifically compared novels published pre-1939 and historical (post-1939) novels written by both female and male novelists. The methods employed were the critical reading of forty novels, as well as data collection related to the roles of female characters and the language used to describe them. he study found that there is little representation of women’s war work in the forty novels. A key factor is that they are by middle class authors and written from a middle class point of view. Although historical novels are often used to re-imagine the role of women, WW1 is an exception. Key factors here include the perpetuation of stereotype and nervousness around detracting from the horrific experiences of the male soldier. Challenges to binarisms in subsequent wars (e.g. women in the armed services) have not stimulated a re-visioning of women’s roles in WW1. Society will continue to accept and endorse traditional binarisms, if they are not challenged by cultural representations of war. There is no novel based on the female military experience of WW1. In response, I was inspired to write a historical novel: The Half-Painted War. The protagonist is a female artist who enrols in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). It is intended as an act of remembrance but also allows the reader to consider the role of women in the military, both in WW1 and today.
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McFarlane, Elizabeth Anne. "French travellers to Scotland, 1780-1830 : an analysis of some travel journals." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21711.

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This study examines the value of travellers’ written records of their trips with specific reference to the journals of five French travellers who visited Scotland between 1780 and 1830. The thesis argues that they contain material which demonstrates the merit of journals as historical documents. The themes chosen for scrutiny, life in the rural areas, agriculture, industry, transport and towns, are examined and assessed across the journals and against the social, economic and literary scene in France and Scotland. Through the evidence presented in the journals, the thesis explores aspects of the tourist experience of the Enlightenment and post -Enlightenment periods. The viewpoint of knowledgeable French Anglophiles and their receptiveness to Scottish influences, grants a perspective of the position of France in the economic, social and power structure of Europe and the New World vis-à-vis Scotland. The thesis adopts a narrow, focussed analysis of the journals which is compared and contrasted to a broad brush approach adopted in other studies.
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Jomphe, Michèle. "La philosophie théologique de l'histoire dans les romans historiques de Laure Conan : fondement à l'idéologie de la langue gardienne de la foi /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2003. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Cazelles, Nathalie. "Évolution et adaptation des industries sucrière et rhumière en Guyane, XVIIe-XXe siècle." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE4038/document.

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Dès ses débuts, l'aventure sucrière en Guyane est l’objet d’une oscillation permanente entre fascination et désespoir, la luxuriance trompeuse de la forêt ayant longtemps donné l’illusion d'un bel avenir sucrier. Cette aventure s'inscrit naturellement dans l’histoire des industries sucrières des Amériques. Cette dernière, en tant que thématique de recherche, n'a pourtant que récemment attiré l'attention des historiens en France, et ceci bien qu'elle soit partie intégrante de l’histoire de la colonisation de l’Amérique. Une des causes de ce retard peut probablement s’expliquer par un sentiment « douloureux » et « honteux » lié à cette période du passé. La subjectivité des archives, qui restent muettes sur une grande partie de l’histoire — quotidien des colons et des esclaves, stratégies d’installation, évolution des paysages, peut avoir également masqué l'intérêt que présente l'industrie sucrière dans la compréhension du phénomène colonial. Au travers de l'analyse des difficultés rencontrées par les colons pour implanter de manière rentable une industrie sucrière puis rhumière en Guyane, le présent travail vise à montrer l’importance et le rôle fondamental que doit tenir et jouer l’archéologie coloniale en Guyane dans l'élaboration d'une vision plus complète et précise de ce territoire. Dans un premier temps, la très forte contrainte que le milieu amazonien exerce sur l’installation des hommes est analysée ; une deuxième partie met en évidence la contrainte à la connaissance du territoire et de son passé imposée par les conditions de la recherche archéologique en Guyane. Enfin, la présentation des résultats des travaux archéologiques de l'auteur permet d'insister sur l'ingéniosité des hommes à s’adapter en continu au milieu
The history of the sugar industry in French Guiana has fluctuated since its beginnings between fascination and despair, because of the misleading luxuriant forest which seemed to imply a prosperous future to it. This adventure is naturally related to the history of the sugar industries of the Americas, but has only recently been considered as a research subject by the French historians, even if it is totally involved in the colonial history of America. A cause of such a delay may be due to a “painful” and “shameful” feeling regarding these years of the past. Archives are subjective and silent about a great part of the history (daily life of the settlers and their slaves, settlement strategies, evolution in the landscapes,…). This fact may have hidden all the interest that brings the sugar industry to understand the colonial phenomenon. The present work lies on an analysis of the difficulties met by the settlers who wanted to establish a profitable sugar- then rum-industry in French Guiana, and aims to show the importance and prominent role that colonial archaeology in French Guiana must play in the elaboration of a more exhaustive and consistent vision of this territory. A first part deals with the high constraint of the Amazonian environment upon a human settlement; a second part will bring to the fore how imperative it is to know the territory and its past due to the conditions of an archaeological research in French Guiana. Eventually, the presentation of the author’s archaeological works allows to insist on the human ingenuity to continuously adapt to the environment
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Soukni, Leïla Inès. "Hegemonic power from colonisation to colonial liberation : A historical-analytical narrative of French colonial dominance over Tunisia from 1881-1956 and how it resulted in the Bizerte crisis of 1961." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18459.

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Petit, Aimé. "L'anachronisme dans les romans antiques du XIIe siècle." Lille : Centre d'études médiévales et dialectales de l'Université de Lille III, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/13978956.html.

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McCain, Stewart N. "The langauge question under Napoleon." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:610a14d5-a7fc-4842-996a-ab3bc7e6b334.

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From the campaign waged by Revolutionaries like Barère and the Abbé Grégoire against those regional languages they referred to pejoratively as 'patois', to the educational policies of Jules Ferry a century later, successive governments of France engaged in a broadly successful struggle to force the French to speak French. Inverting the logic of cultural nationalists like Herder, who claimed a shared language as the legitimate basis of national polities, French legislators sought to impose French as a common language on a linguistically diverse population that had already been constituted as a state. Recent historical work has shown the particular significance of such projects during the Napoleonic period. Historians have begun considering how far the Napoleonic regime was characterized by cultural imperialism. While the ideological nature of such projects- the 'view from the centre', so to speak- is now well understood by historians, this thesis is concerned with the practice of Napoleonic imperialism in one sphere of action: language. By focusing on the practice of linguistic imperialism under Napoleon this thesis makes an important contribution to understandings of the cultural politics of the period as well as Napoleonic state-building policies more generally.
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Langoureau-Morel, Fabienne. "Quand l'intime devient éthique : du régionalisme à l'universel dans la Trilogie niçoise de Louis Nucera." Thesis, Nice, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NICE2053/document.

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Dans cette seconde partie du XXe siècle, les écrivains cherchent à déchiffrer les bouleversements du monde. La réflexion de Louis Nucera, dans ce contexte d’après guerre, reste trop peu connue. Elle balaie pourtant plusieurs champs littéraires. L’impression laissée par la musicalité de ce monologue intérieur ne ressemble à rien de connu. Le récit laisse la place à une déambulation labyrinthique dans les dédales de la mémoire, à la recherche de la mère trop tôt disparue. Nourri d’une profusion de petits portraits, le « romancero nucerien » devient un véritable album de famille du petit peuple niçois. Le lecteur s’y découvre des ancêtres auxquels il se sent scellé. Ces voix intimes ne le quitteront plus. Les romans de la Trilogie plongent également le lecteur en plein cœur de l’Histoire et de ses crises. Avenue des Diables-Bleus, Chemin de la Lanterne et Le Kiosque à musique couvrent vingt-trois siècles. A l’heure où s’affrontent littérature de l’engagement et écoles littéraires ambitieuses, Louis Nucera fait le choix d’une voix solitaire et intime. Il peint ce peuple niçois, en ne cessant de le louer pour l’authenticité de ses valeurs humaines. Egalement, se déchiffre, comme sur un palimpseste, une histoire personnelle du communisme français, des illusions à la prise de conscience. L’écrivain en appelle alors à une véritable philosophie de la vie, où les seules entités à valoir encore la peine se nomment amis, famille et couple amoureux. La seule règle à suivre est de retrouver le sens de l’effort et du travail, et de continuer à transmettre les enseignements du passé. Se déploie également une incessante recherche littéraire et une réflexion sur l’acte d’écriture
In the second half of the twentieth century, writers tried to fathom the world’s upheavals. Louis Nucera’s writings in this post-war context are little known. Yet they cover numerous literary genres. The musical quality of his interior monologue leaves us with an impression unlike anything we have ever known. His narrative becomes a labyrinthine meandering through the maze of memory, in search of a mother gone too soon. The “romancero nucerien”, consisting of a plethora of short portraits, becomes a true family album of the ordinary people of Nice. The reader finds traces of ancestors which will never leave him. The Trilogy novels also plunge the reader into the heart of history and its crises. Avenue des Diables-Bleus, Chemin de la Lanterne and Le Kiosque à Musique span no fewer than twenty-three centuries. At a time when committed literature and ambitious literary schools were vying with each other, Louis Nucera chose to resort to a solitary and intimate voice. He depicts the ordinary people of Nice whilst constantly praising them for the authenticity of the human values they embody. Underneath the captivating voice of these intimate family novels, one can also read, as if it were a palimpsest, a personal history of French communism from illusions to awakening. The author draws upon a true philosophy of life, in which the only entities still worth fighting for are friends, relatives and loving couples. The only rule to be followed is to rediscover a sense of endeavour and a taste for hard work and to keep imparting the lessons of the past. Both an endless literary quest and a painful reflection on the act of writing unfold in his novels.Key-words: Louis Nucera, Nice, 20th century French literature, mother, memory, novel, autobiography, auto fiction, poetic narrative, portrait, historical novel, history, communism
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Noteboom, Emilie Jeannette. "Critical analysis of Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer's Christian-historical principle, with a comparative critical analysis of his argument of 'history' with that of Edmund Burke's as used in their critique of the French Revolution." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6233d0bf-9fd2-4c4a-ad1c-9becb5cd514c.

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This thesis provides an analytical interpretation of the critique Dutch nineteenth-century statesman-cum-historian Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801-1876) articulated of French revolutionary ideology. It achieves an original reading of Groen's thought as Protestant right-order theory. This reading achieves a clarification of the functions that Scripture, 'nature', and 'history' have in his thought, and connects his thinking to that of a small group of contemporary British-based political theologians, notably Oliver and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, and their minority view on the ontological grounding of justice. Our comparison of Groen's argument of 'history' with that of Edmund Burke achieves original critical leverage on their concepts of 'history', and draws out that Burke's critique of the Revolution purposes to re-affirm English common law, while Groen's is an apologia for Christianity.
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Martinez, David Jordan. "Dirt to Desk: Macrobotanical Analyses from Fort St. Joseph (20BE23) and the Lyne Site (20BE10)." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1243623707.

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Englebert, Annick. "Analyse sémantique et fonctionnelle du "petit mot" DE: étude synchronique et diachronique." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213412.

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Evrard, Ivan. "La diathèse, des origines à l'aube de la grammaire française: contribution à l'histoire d'un objet linguistique." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211372.

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Rubio, Rostom Clémentine. "Une langue en mission : histoire des politiques linguistiques et didactiques françaises en Palestine." Thesis, Tours, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOUR2008/document.

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Réalisée à partir d’archives diplomatiques, cette thèse propose une lecture de l’histoire de l’enseignement du français en Palestine depuis le point de vue diplomatique. Elle propose d’étudier les objectifs politiques et symboliques qui ont guidé l’évolution de ce réseau d’enseignement du français. A la croisée de questionnements communs à la didactique du français langue étrangère et à la sociolinguistique, il s’agit de s’intéresser aux conceptions de la langue et de l’altérité sous-jacentes à la politique de diffusion du français. La thèse s’attache également à caractériser les politiques de diffusion du français dans un espace particulier : la Palestine. Ces questionnements permettent de formuler une certaine continuité dans le type de relations entretenues à travers l’enseignement du français et de poser la question de ce que serait non plus une politique de diffusion mais une politique de l’appropriation
Based upon the interpretation of diplomatic archives, this doctoral thesis presents an understanding of the history of French language teaching in Palestine, from the diplomatic point of view. It aims at studying the political and symbolical goals guiding the evolution of the French teaching network. At the crossroads of issues common to the fields of French as a second language and sociolinguistics, it will focus on the conceptions of language and of alterity underlying the French language spread policy. The thesis also seeks to characterize language planning policy in a specific territory: Palestine. Those questions allow us to formulate the hypothesis of continuity in the type of relationships established through French language teaching and to put in perspective the spreading policy with an appropriation policy
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Curti-Contessoto, Beatriz Fernandes. "Terminologia de certidões de casamento : estudo terminológico bilíngue e elaboração de glossário português-francês /." São José do Rio Preto, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/183611.

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Orientador: Lidia Almeida Barros
Resumo: Neste trabalho, realizamos um estudo comparado bilíngue português-francês sobre os aspectos socioculturais e históricos que subjazem aos termos recorrentes em certidões de casamento brasileiras e francesas. Propomos ainda um glossário bilíngue português-francês do domínio das certidões de casamento, que foi elaborado com o intuito de auxiliar interessados na área do Direito e, principalmente, tradutores públicos e intérpretes comerciais (TIPCs) em seu trabalho. Estudamos também a evolução semântico-conceitual e lexical dos termos casamento e mariage e do conjunto terminológico em português e em francês que denomina os agentes e os locais responsáveis pela celebração e pelo registro dos casamentos e pela expedição das certidões que os comprovam ao longo da história do Brasil e da França, bem como as particularidades culturais que marcam essa evolução de acordo com a realidade sociocultural e histórica desses países. Como metodologia de nossa investigação, criamos o CCBCorpus, composto por 333 certidões brasileiras expedidas entre os anos de 1890 e 2015, e o CCFCorpus, que contém 102 certidões francesas expedidas entre 1791 e 2015. Essas certidões foram adquiridas graças a colaboradores e à internet. Criamos também o LBCorpus e o LFCorpus, compostos por leis, decretos e emendas constitucionais respectivamente brasileiros e franceses promulgados no mesmo período das certidões do CCBCorpus e do CCFCorpus. Criamos ainda o Corpus de ApoioBR e o Corpus de ApoioFR, formados por dicio... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This PhD research presents a comparative study on the socio-cultural and historical aspects that underlie the terms occurring in Brazilian and French marriage certificates. It also proposes a bilingual Portuguese-French glossary in the field of marriage certificates, which was elaborated to assist professionals interested in the field of Law and mainly certified translators in their work. In addition, it was studied the semantic-conceptual and lexical evolution of the terms casamento and mariage, and the terminological set denominating the agents and places responsible for celebration and registration of civil marriages and issuance of certificates that proved these unions throughout the history of Brazil and France, as well as the cultural particularities that mark this evolution according to the sociocultural and historical reality of these countries. As a methodology for this investigation, the CCBCorpus, composed of 333 Brazilian certificates issued between 1890 and 2015, and the CCFCorpus, which contains 102 French certificates issued between 1791 and 2015, were created. These certificates were acquired thanks to collaborators and the internet. LBCorpus and LFCorpus were also created to bring, respectively, Brazilian and French constitutional laws, decrees and amendments promulgated in the same period as the certificates of CCBCorpus and CCFCorpus. In addition, the SupportCorpusBR and SupportCorpusFR were created, in which it is possible to find general and specialized d... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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