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Claude Julien (journalist)
Claude Julien (17 May 1925, Saint-Rome-de-Cernon (Aveyron, France) – 5 May 2005, Sauveterre-la-Lémance (Lot-et-Garonne, France)) was a French journalist. He joins the foreign department of French newspaper of record ''Le Monde'' in 1951. In 1973, he became editor-in-chief then director of ''Le Monde diplomatique''. Biography Of modest origins, Claude Julien was born in a large family in Saint-Rome de Cernon. His father was a railroad station manager and he was the ninth of thirteen children. He passes the Certificat d'études primaires in June 1937 and then the French National diploma in June 1940. He was a militant for the French Young Christian Students (YCS) from 1937 and then for the Young Christian Workers. In 1942, during World War II, the YCS hires him to work in Lyon, where is the administration center for the Zone libre. He quickly follows to join the Resistance. At the time of the Liberation, in September 1944, with the assistance of officer Pierre Dunoyer de Sego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Rome-de-Cernon
Saint-Rome-de-Cernon (; oc, Sent Roma de Sarnon) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Population See also *Communes of the Aveyron department The following is a list of the 285 communes of the Aveyron department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Aveyron Aveyron communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Aveyron-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Dunoyer De Segonzac
Pierre Dunoyer de Segonzac (10 March 1906, Toulon – 13 March 1968) was a French Resistance and Brigade General. Biography Pierre Dominique Dunoyer de Segonzac was born on March 10, 1908, in Toulon. He is the son of Charles Dunoyer de Segonzac, naval officer, and Adèle Desvaux. His childhood takes place in the various maritime bases in which his father is affected: mainly Toulon and Lorient. As a child, during the war of 1914–1918, he spent a few years in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in the Limousin, where his mother settled, while his father was engaged in the Atlantic then in the Mediterranean and France. black Sea. At the beginning of the war of 1939–1945, at the head of his squadron of tanks of the 4th regiment of cuirassiers, he fought near a Quesnoy a regiment of panzers supported by a regiment of riflemen, and fights until the armistice. He then becomes the director of the School of the cadres of Uriage, which he creates immediately after the defeat of 1940 with the supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Obs
(), previously known as (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation. Its current editor is Cécile Prieur. History and profile The magazine was established in 1950 as ''L'Observateur politique, économique et littéraire''. It became ''L'Observateur aujourd'hui'' in 1953 and ''France-Observateur'' in 1954. The name ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' was adopted in 1964. The 1964 incarnation of the magazine was founded by Jean Daniel and Claude Perdriel. Since 1964, ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' has been published by Groupe Nouvel Observateur on a weekly basis and has covered political, business and economic news. It features extensive coverage of European, Middle Eastern and African political, commercial and cultural issues. Its strongest areas are political and literary matters and it is noted for its in-depth treatment of the main issues of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third World
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the " First World", while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and their allies represented the "Second World". This terminology provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on political divisions. Strictly speaking, "Third World" was a political, rather than an economic, grouping. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the term ''Third World'' has decreased in use. It is being replaced with terms such as developing countries, least developed countries or the Global South. The concept itself has become outdated as it no longer represents the current political or economic state of the world and as historically poor countries have transited different income stages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Monde Diplomatique
''Le Monde diplomatique'' (meaning "The Diplomatic World" in French) is a French monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. The publication is owned by Le Monde diplomatique SA, a subsidiary company of ''Le Monde'' which grants it complete editorial autonomy. Worldwide there were 71 editions in 26 other languages (including 38 in print for a total of about 2.2 million copies and 33 electronic editions). History 1954–1989 ''Le Monde diplomatique'' was founded in 1954 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, founder and director of ''Le Monde'', the French newspaper of record. Subtitled the "organ of diplomatic circles and of large international organisations," 5,000 copies were distributed, comprising eight pages, dedicated to foreign policy and geopolitics. Its first editor in chief, François Honti, developed the newspaper as a scholarly reference journal. Honti attentively followed the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement, created out of the 1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pocket Edition
Small-size books which could fit in a reader's pocket have existed from early times. For example, the early 8th-century gospel book known as the St Cuthbert Gospel has a page size of only . However, the concept of producing a specific pocket edition of a book dates to the 20th century. It refers to an edition that has been altered to fit in the reader's pocket, usually by using thinner paper, smaller print, and abbreviation of the text: Pocket editions have been criticized as "not really suitable for library use", with the recommendation that "those bought to cover gaps when no alternative was available should be relegated to reserve as soon as they can be replaced". One kind of book popularly issued in the pocket format is the pocket dictionary as an edition of larger dictionaries. A pocket dictionary generally "contains no more than 75,000 entries",Mary Ellen Guffey, Carolyn Seefer, ''Business English'' (2010), p. 5. with abbreviated information about each entry, compared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangier
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Ṭanja-Aẓila Prefecture of Morocco. Many civilisations and cultures have influenced the history of Tangier, starting from before the 10th centuryBCE. Between the period of being a strategic Berber town and then a Phoenician trading centre to Morocco's independence era around the 1950s, Tangier was a nexus for many cultures. In 1923, it was considered as having international status by foreign colonial powers and became a destination for many European and American diplomats, spies, bohemians, writers and businessmen. The city is undergoing rapid development and modernisation. Projects include tourism projects along the bay, a modern business district called Tangier City Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Dépêche Marocaine
''La Dépêche marocaine'' was a daily francophone Moroccan newspaper published in Tangier. History and profile ''La Dépêche marocaine'' is considered the oldest published newspaper in Morocco - after being founded by Rober-Raynaud in 1905. The paper reported the use of chemical weapons against the Rif during the war between Spain and Morocco on 27 November 1921. In 1951, ''Le Monde'' journalist Claude Julien became its editor-in-chief. The newspaper ceased to be published in 1961. It was the only paper published in French in Morocco until its disestablishment. There exist collections of the newspaper in volumes in both the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Library of Congress. See also * List of newspapers in Moroccobr>Presse Maroc - جريدة إلكترونية مغربية References External links ''What do you think of Picasso?''- Essay by Jean Tabaud Jean Tabaud (5 July 1914 – 3 December 1996) was a French portrait painter and war artist. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Présence Africaine
''Présence Africaine'' is a pan-African quarterly cultural, political, and literary magazine, published in Paris, France, and founded by Alioune Diop in 1947. In 1949, ''Présence Africaine'' expanded to include a publishing house and a bookstore on rue des Écoles in the Latin Quarter of Paris. The journal was highly influential in the Pan-Africanist movement, the decolonisation struggle of former French colonies, and the birth of the Négritude movement. Magazine The magazine published its first issue in November 1947, founded by Alioune Diop a Senegal-born professor of philosophy, along with a cast of African, European, and American intellectuals, writers, and social scientists, including Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Alioune Sarr, Richard Wright, Albert Camus, André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Théodore Monod, Georges Balandier and Michel Leiris. While not all authors published in the magazine were from the African diaspora, its subtitle (''Revue Culturelle du Monde N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vie (magazine)
() is a weekly French Roman Catholic magazine, edited by Malesherbes Publications, a member of the . History Founded in 1924, by Francisque Gay as ''La Vie catholique'' (''Catholic Life''), the magazine was renamed ''La vie'' in 1977. In 1945, the magazine appeared as ''La Vie catholique illustrée'', as the postwar period placed a great importance on visual magazines (compare Life Magazine in the US). The magazine was originally targeted at active laity through parish promotions, before eventually being sold on newsstands from 1976. Its editors in chief were Georges Hourdin, José de Broucker, Jean-Claude Petit, Max Armanet and Jean-Pierre Denis . Since 1945, the magazine was published by ''le groupe de presse La Vie catholique'', which in 2003 became a part of the larger . In 2001, created a charitable association which as of 2006 had around three thousand members, based in fifty-odd regional centres across France, called ''Les Amis de La Vie'' (''Friends of La Vie''). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th state on December 11, 1816. It is bordered by Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west. Various indigenous peoples inhabited what would become Indiana for thousands of years, some of whom the U.S. government expelled between 1800 and 1836. Indiana received its name because the state was largely possessed by native tribes even after it was granted statehood. Since then, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States; the state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by people from New England and New York, Central Indiana by migrants fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campus covers 1,261 acres (510 ha) in a suburban setting and contains landmarks such as the Golden Dome, the ''Word of Life'' mural (commonly known as ''Touchdown Jesus''), Notre Dame Stadium, and the Basilica. Originally for men, although some women earned degrees in 1918, the university began formally accepting undergraduate female students in 1972. Notre Dame has been recognized as one of the top universities in the United States. The university is organized into seven schools and colleges. Notre Dame's graduate program includes more than 50 master, doctoral and professional degrees offered by the six schools, including the Notre Dame Law School and an MD–PhD program offered in combination with the Indiana University School of Medicine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
