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The Legacy of Iconoclasm: religious war and the relic landscape of Tours, Blois and Vendôme, 1550-1750
No full textThis study explores the process of physically rebuilding, renewing and reinventing the relic landscape in the regions around Tours, Blois and Vendôme following the widespread iconoclastic damage of the French religious wars. The author takes a long-term perspective exploring developments over two hundred years, from the mid-sixteenth through to the mid-eighteenth centuries. The book explores what the physical renewal of the landscape can tell us about evolving beliefs and practices concerning relics during the Catholic Reformation and what reconstruction activities reveal about the meaning and experience of relic veneration. It pays particular attention to how the relic landscape evolved through relic translations and how communities that oversaw relic shrines remembered the iconoclastic acts of the religious wars through liturgical and ritual commemorations, memorials, artistic renderings, oral traditions and written accounts.Publisher PD
“Proven patriots”: the French diplomatic corps, 1789-1799
No full textThis study analyzes a hitherto unexamined group, the French diplomatic corps during the Revolution (1789 to 1799), and focuses on the question of loyalty and conscience. For some diplomats choice was an illusion as their status often determined their fate. Some supported the king and continued to do so in spite of the high cost, often creatively sabotaging the Revolution. Others put nation, as they defined it, above king. Because the definition of loyalty constantly shifted the corps, like the army and the bureaucracy, was periodically purged. Those who had worked for or been sympathetic to the old regime or those who had allied with a certain political faction came under scrutiny. The turmoil in the diplomatic corps not only had international repercussions but also reflects larger societal trends, such as the attack on the aristocracy and the displacement of one elite by another. The French diplomatic corps was thus emblematic of many issues surrounding the revolutionary struggle of this decade.Publisher PD
Hold still, Madame: wartime gender and the photography of women in France during the Great War
No full textThis study investigates French images of women during the First World War, the feminine postures and roles captured by photographers, how female images were used in the wartime media and by the state, and how captions and other textual modes strengthened an overarching message of total consent. By analysing the three most prominent genres of female imagery during the period – women in distress, feminine devotion, and women toiling for the war effort – this book seeks to demonstrate how photography assisted in the gender work of the war. Photographers and publishers showed how traditional feminine traits could contribute to a male-designed and directed war effort, while also concealing instances of female dissent, which included feminist, socialist, popular and pacifist objections to the war. Yet, although the archives contain few wartime images created by French women themselves, this work also introduces a small group of period photographs, lithographs, articles and literary works that disrupted the visual narrative of subordination.Publisher PD
Editor Profile: Eric Chevet
No full textInternational audienceIn this special interview series, we profile members of The FEBS Journal Editorial Board to highlight their research focus, perspectives on the journal and future directions in their field. Eric Chevet is Research Director at the French National Institute of Health (INSERM) and Director of the INSERM Unit U1242 'Oncogenesis, Stress, Signaling' in the Comprehensive Cancer Centre Eugene Marquis at the University of Rennes. He has served as Editorial Board Member of The FEBS Journal since 2019
Singer-songwriter Eric Vincent Brings Contemporary French Music to Morris
No full textThe University of Minnesota, Morris French Discipline and Entre Nous are pleased to announce that contemporary French singer-songwriter Eric Vincent will perform a live concert on Wednesday, October 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Edson Auditorium. All are invited to attend this family-friendly event
Fables et Fabulettes: Recueil Fables de La Fontaine et Contes Inspirés d'Ésope
No full textThis book reproduces in French Brimax's "Treasury of Fables" from 1981, right down to the pagination. A curiosity is that that book is subtitled "A Collection of Aesop's Fables" while this is subtitled "Recueil Fables de La Fontaine et Contes Inspirés d'Ésope." French book-buyers need to find La Fontaine's name if they are going to buy a book of fables! Mention of Lucy Kincaid, the author of the English stories, is dropped here. Brimax is acknowledged for the 1981 copyright. Several online sources list the publication date of this book by Artima as 1981, though I cannot find it in the book. This book should not be confused with Artima's "Historiettes et Fables," which duplicates Brimax's "Timeless Fables," both also from 1981. I will include remarks that I made on the Brimax 1981 edition of "Treasury of Fables." With this book I have, I believe, worked my way back to the original publication from which Brimax and the Kincaids had developed so many offshoots. In particular, consult their "Timeless Fables: A Collection of Aesop's Fables" (1981) and "Fabulas Clasicas: Seleccion de Fabulas de Esopo" (1981/85). This edition, by contrast with those, has about twice the pages (125) and fables. On this trip through, I am struck with the facial expressions Eric Kincaid gives to both fox and stork in their two scenes together (22-23). Even the contrasting checkered napkins help to set the two scenes against each other.Language note: FrenchNo Autho
‘Race’, sexualities and the French public intellectual: an interview with Eric Fassin
No full textFrench academic Eric Fassin is interviewed about his work in the field of public sociology, particularly around race and sexuality, over the last two decades. He explains the background and context of intellectuals in France before moving on to the specifics of addressing firstly ‘race’, and secondly sexuality. He argues that 1989 and 2005 are the key turning points in public discourse on ‘race’. Prior to 1989, which saw the first of the ‘Headscarf crises’, ‘race’ was not dealt with explicitly, either in French colonial history or its postcolonial present. The headscarf crisis clarified the tensions within the republican tradition (in which people are formally divided only into French citizens and foreigners, rather than recognised as classes or ethnic groups). The discourse surrounding the riots of 2005 made this the other key year. The framing of debate was along the lines of discrimination (between French citizens) rather than integration (of foreigners into Frenchness), marking a shift towards an acceptance that racism was a social issue. Fassin coins the term ‘sexual democracy’ to encapsulate the distinction between characteristics that are immanent rather than transcendent, and argues that discourse about sexuality and families represents a conflict between those who see them as governed by the social, and those who see them as outside these norms, beyond the social
N. Eric Lindsay oral history interview
No full textDr. N. Eric Lindsay was born in Houston in 1981 to a Japanese American mother and English,
French, and Scottish father. He recalls his childhood memories of figuring out his racial identity in school and going to Japan when he grew older. Dr. N. Eric Lindsay majored in economics and managerial studies at Rice University and speaks of how he transitioned from pre-law to pre-med by the end of his college career. He then detailed his experience in medical school and residency while having children and finally talks about his current position at Blue Fish Pediatrics as a pediatrician. Dr. N. Eric Lindsay also talks about his family life and connection to church along and how that connects to his work as a pediatrician
Dr. Jan French – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Jan French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, discusses her new book, Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast, which shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity
Prins (Α. Α.). French influence in English phrasing
No full textBuyssens Eric. Prins (Α. Α.). French influence in English phrasing. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 31, fasc. 2-3, 1953. pp. 608-610
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