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Hugues Faure, 1928–2003: The unique adventure of his life
No full textHugues Faure was not only one of the greatest pioneers of the study of the Quaternary and a man of outstanding personality, with the highest integrity, an uncommon strength of character, with a lot of kindness and generosity, but also a man who made his dreams, conceived in the inhospitable solitudes of the Sahara, come true. He was very young when he chose his way: barely 10 years old and his passion for geology already filled his life. It was in Africa, a continent he discovered at his earliest years as a field-geologist, and deeply loved, that he nursed and matured many of his most stimulating ideas on Quaternary environmental change. It was in the desert that he built up his exceptional personality and found his truth, which finally allowed him to accomplish his destiny. Hugues Faure was born in Paris, on the 11th March 1928, the son of a jeweller. The comfortable circumstances of the family were darkened by his father's death when Hugues was only 3 years old. As a consequence of this sad event, Hugues used to spend in England most of his school holidays far from his family. Then during World War 2, he lived the exodus on the roads of France, cycling under the bombs, with his dog in his basket. He was 12 years old, and it was the end of his youth. His passion for earth sciences had began before the age of ten, when he started collecting flint and fossils from the chalk of the Paris Basin, and decided to stop playing piano, so as to devote himself to Geology. Hugues graduated in Mathematics from Lycée Jacques-Decour in 1948, and in Sciences from the Faculté des Sciences de Paris Sorbonne in 1949. On the same year he enrolled as a geologist of the “France of Overseas”, then as a hydrogeologist at the French Geological Survey (BRGM) (1949–1963), so as to work in Africa
A drawing book for digital eyes
No full textLooking at book covers may not tell you everything, but they do tell you something. A collection of leather-bound ‘how to draw’ books of the nineteen twenties exudes
confidence, the expertise of the masters handed down. The titles indicate attention to technique, referring to ‘pencil drawing’, ‘lead pencil drawing’, or ‘pen and ink’, and speak of the ‘art’ of drawing. Some of these had been in print for fifty years. There are idealised classical figures, nature studies, but also stirrings of a more liberal approach. By the nineteen forties and fifties the books are less formal, less symmetrical, and more Do-It-Yourself: ‘I wish I could draw’, ‘Drawing at Home’, ’The Natural Way to Draw’, ‘Drawing Without a Master’. Some are slim volumes running in series devoted to subjects such as ships, cats, trees, even tanks. You draw the world around you
Forum for drawing presentation, James Faure-Walker: 'the drawing lesson'
No full textJames Faure-Walker looked at a selection of how-to-draw books of the nineteen twenties and issues raised by digital drawing processes
D. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi, Epistolae maiori studio, fide ac religione quàm hactenus unquam excusae, atque à vitiis, quibus multiplici olim impressione contaminatae fuerant, vindicatae : tomus secundus.
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D. Aurelii Augustini, Hipponensis Episcopi, Homiliae de tempore ... [et de sanctis].
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Il "Rapporto Faure" e le ricadute sul sistema scolastico italiano
No full textThe Faure Report represents in several respects a fundamental, pioneering step in grasping the evolution of certain trends that are still ongoing. In the first place, in today’s globalised world, documents originating from supranational bodies, and therefore unrelated to the usual lines of pedagogical research elaborated in the various national spheres, have taken on increasing importance. The authority of these new principals has forced the various countries to confront these proposals, in which, it should be noted, the close relationship between the education system and the economic system is very often favoured. As it is clear from the present essay, the effects in our country of the Faure Report are measurable in a profound paradigm shift, at the level of scholastic and educational culture, which has seen a radical change in traditional models over the long term, both in terms of the primacy of state schools, and in terms of the declining role of pedagogical knowledge in terms of its importance in school policies. These are processes that cannot be derived exclusively from the Faure Report, but which have found authoritative support in that document
Collecte et traitement des solutions alcalines de détartrage des cuves à vin pour la récupération des sels tartriques
No full textThe waste waters of the chemical removing of argols from vats are highly pollutive as they contain till 28 % of tartaric acid. The saturation of alkaline solutions can be controlled by conductivity determinations. An equipment on this basis had been conceived to follow the quality of argols removal. The alkaline solutions are collected free by FAURE society, skilled in tartaric products since 1904. By addition of sulfuric acid till pH 3.6 this society recuperates 80 % of tartaric acid in form of potassium hydrogenotartrate cristals. The solution after cristal elimination is conveyed in a distillery which recuperates calcium tartrate by addition of sulfuric acid till pH 2,5 and neutralization by Ca CO3 till 4,9. / Les solutions alcalines de détartrage des cuves sont très polluantes car elles contiennent jusqu'à 28 % d'acide tartrique. Le contrôle de la saturation des solutions peut-être fait par des mesures de conductivité : un appareillage basé sur ce principe a été conçu pour gérer la qualité du détartrage. Les solutions concentrées sont collectées gratuitement par la société FAURE spécialisée dans les tartres depuis 1904. Par addition d'acide sulfurique jusqu'à pH 3,6 cette société récupère 80 % de l'acide tartrique par précipitation de cristaux de tartrage acide de potassium. Le surnageant est envoyé dans une distillerie qui récupère du tartrage de calcium par acidification à pH 2,5 et neutralisation par Ca CO3 jusqu'à un pH de 4,9. Ces sels sont vendus aux fabricants de tartrage acide de potassium et d'acide tartrique
Faure and French musical aesthetics
No full textThis study of Gabriel Faure and his circle reconstructs the meanings of aesthetic categories crucial to the creation and reception of music in France between 1885 and 1925. Recent studies of Faure have established the facts of his life and works, but broader aesthetic and historical issues that would help explain his overall achievement have received less attention. The interrelated chapters of this study treat the topics of sincerity, originality, novelty, self-renewal, homogeneity and religious belief in relation to Faure\u27s music and thought. Probing these categories leads to a historical understanding of Faure\u27s aesthetics. During Faure\u27s lifetime, ideas like sincerity and originality bore meanings lost or muddled in later historical currents. Retrieving these meanings enables us to examine Faure\u27s conception of his own creative work as well as to interpret nuances in the opinions expressed by other composers and critics. Faure\u27s music and letters form the primary materials of this study, which builds on the pioneering work of Jean-Michel Nectoux. Vital secondary material is provided by musicians and critics contemporary to Faure, including Saint-Saens, Dukas, Debussy, d\u27Indy, Ravel, Koechlin, Vuillermoz, and Pierre Lalo. The analysis of literary and speculative writings by Valery, Proust, Dromard, and Bergson also helps uncover the stakes in aesthetic categories shared by many French artists. Several chapters deliberately move beyond the historical range of Faure\u27s lifetime to consider changes in the significance of sincerity, novelty, and originality in the later twentieth century; witnesses as different as Nadia Boulanger, Pierre Boulez, and Stanley Cavell are called to account. Throughout this study, beliefs and aesthetic ideas are connected to concrete artistic choices. The movement from broad ideas to particular pieces permits new analytical insights into Faure\u27s music, including the Requiem, Second Quartet, First Quintet, La bonne chanson, La chanson d\u27Eve, and L\u27horizon chimerique
Quaternary global change: review and issues(Special issue in memory of Hugues Faure)
No full textThe French National Committee of INQUA, the IGCP Project n° 459 (Carbon Cycle and Hydrology in the Paleo Terrestrial Environments),the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), the CCGM (Commission de la Carte Géologique du Monde), the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), and the BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières) have organized in June 2004 a special International Colloquium dedicated to the memory of Hugues Faure who passed away in May 2003. It was the occasion to make a review and to emphasize new results and issues on the different topics initiated by Hugues and his collaborators. It was also a chance for all his colleagues and friends to remember a rare human being and a great scientist, passionately involved in the observation and understanding of the planet, which he called “the real world”, and assuming his destiny up to the end. The Scientific committee of this colloquium has decided to publish a special issue of Global and Planetary Change with some selected papers presented during this colloquium. This GPC special issue includes some of the papers presented at this colloquium and some invited papers from scientific personalities who wished to contribute to this special volume. The general theme of the special publication in honour to Hugues Faure is the Quaternary and the Global Changes. It will focus on the global cycles and Quaternary climate (3 papers), sea-level fluctuations, tectonics and climate variations (3 papers), climate changes in terrestrial records (9 papers), and man, environment and global change (4 papers). A total of 20 contributions, including a foreword on Hugues Faure, are proposed by the participants of this colloquium
Towards effective compensation for victims of natural catastrophes in developing countries
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