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Le Cabinet Des Antiques
''Le Cabinet des Antiques'' (''The Cabinet of Antiquities'') is a French novel published by Honoré de Balzac in 1838 under the title ''les Rivalités en province'' (''Rivalries in the provinces'') in ''le Constitutionnel'', then published as a work in its own right in 1838 by the Souverain publishing house. With '' la Vieille Fille'', the work fits into ''les Rivalités'', an isolated group in the ''Scènes de la vie de province'' collection of ''la Comédie humaine''. In it, Balzac portrays the old nobility in the French provinces, ruined by the French Revolution and forgotten by the restored Bourbons. The marquis d’Esgrignon, his sister and his friends represent this social group, which the author had already portrayed in '' la Vieille Fille''. The younger generation within this class, represented by the marquis's son, causes his loss, sucked in by the whirlpool of Paris, where he lives merrily and ruins his fortunes. ''Le Cabinet des Antiques'' works as a sequel to ''la V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Hernández Morillo
Daniel Hernández Morillo (1 August 1856, Salcabamba – 23 October 1932, Lima) was a Peruvian painter in the Academic style who spent most of his working life in Paris. He also served as the first Director of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. Biography His mother was Peruvian and his father was from Spain. He was brought to Lima at the age of four and began his artistic education at fourteen, in the studios of Italian-born Leonardo Barbieri, who had worked as a portrait painter and daguerrotypist in California during the Gold Rush. Later, when Barbieri had left Lima, Hernández took over his art classes. In 1872, he painted a version of the " Death of Socrates" that won him recognition from the government of President Manuel Pardo, and a grant that enabled him to study in Europe. He left Peru in 1874. After his arrival in Paris, he met his fellow Peruvian, Ignacio Merino, who advised him to study in Rome instead. He did so, and remained there for nine years, working w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Comédie Humaine
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Books Of La Comédie Humaine
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a book cover, cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a Recto, leaf and each side of a leaf is a page (paper), page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1838 French Novels
Events January–March * January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London. * January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration of Morse's new invention, the telegraph. * January 11 - A 7.5 earthquake strikes the Romanian district of Vrancea causing damage in Moldavia and Wallachia, killing 73 people. * January 21 – The first known report about the lowest temperature on Earth is made, indicating in Yakutsk. * February 6 – Boer explorer Piet Retief and 60 of his men are massacred by King Dingane kaSenzangakhona of the Zulu people, after Retief accepts an invitation to celebrate the signing of a treaty, and his men willingly disarm as a show of good faith. * February 17 – Weenen massacre: Zulu impis massacre about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoikhoi and Basuto around the site of Weenen in South Africa. * February 24 – U.S. Representatives William J. Graves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Larthomas
Pierre Henri Larthomas (4 June 1915 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande – 8 July 2000) was a French theatre theorist.L'information grammaticale. N. 88, p. 60 Larthomas entered the French Army in 1930 as a cadet officer and in the Spring of 1940 was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Shortly thereafter he was taken prisoner and spent the next five years in German P.O.W. camps. It was during that period that he began to write. After WWII he was a schoolmaster at Lycees in Bordeaux and Paris. Works *1948: '' Rencontre: roman '', Paris, Rene Julliard, 1948 *1951: ''Solitaire'', Boston, Houghton Mifflin. *1965: ''Le Supplément du ''Dictionnaire critique'' de Féraud'', Le Français Moderne, 33: 241-55 * ''Le Langage dramatique'', Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1972, 1997 et 2012, *1966: ''Eugénie'', collection Espace théâtre, Espaces 34, *1997: ''La Technique du théâtre'', Que sais-je ?, Presses universitaires de France, *1998: ''Notions de stylistique générale'', Linguistiq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Citron
Pierre Citron (19 April 1919 – 10 November 2010) was a French musicologist and university professor, a specialist of novelist Jean Giono. He was the husband of historian Suzanne Citron. Biography Pierre Citron held the degrees of ''agrégé ès lettres'' (1946) and ''docteur ès lettres'' (1960); his main thesis was entitled ''La poésie de Paris dans la littérature française de Rousseau à Baudelaire''. ''Attaché de recherche'' at the ''Centre national de la recherche scientifique'' from 1957 to 1960, he later was study director at the ''Institut français du Royaume-Uni, Institut français de Londres'' (1960–1963), then professor of French literature at the ''Faculté des lettres'' at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1963–1969). From 1970 to 1983, he held the same position at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, New Sorbonne University. He was responsible for the editions of works by Honoré de Balzac, Balzac, Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Villiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourbon Restoration In France
The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the first fall of Napoleon on 3 May 1814. Briefly interrupted by the Hundred Days War in 1815, the Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed king Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable to reverse most of the changes made by the French Revolution. Exhausted by decades of war, the nation experienced a period of internal and external peace, stable economic prosperity and the preliminaries of industrialization. Background Following the French Revolution (1789–1799), Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France. After years of expansion of his French Empire by successive military victories, a coaliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, while phrases like ''liberté, égalité, fraternité'' reappeared in other revolts, such as the 1917 Russian Revolution, and inspired campaigns for the abolition of slavery and universal suffrage. The values and institutions it created dominate French politics to this day. Its causes are generally agreed to be a combination of social, political and economic factors, which the ''Ancien Régime'' proved unable to manage. In May 1789, widespread social distress led to the convocation of the Estates General, which was converted into a National Assembly in June. Continuing unrest culminated in the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July, which led to a series of radical measures by the Assembly, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vieille Fille (Balzac)
''La Vieille Fille'' (''The Old Maid'' or ''An Old Maid'') is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. Written in 1836, it was first published as a serial in La Presse (French newspaper), La Presse, then published by Edmond Werdet in 1837 in ''Études de mœurs'', in the section ''les Scènes de la vie de province''. ''La Vieille Fille'' was republished in 1839 by éditions Charpentier, before being published alongside ''le Cabinet des Antiques'' in the isolated ''les Rivalités'' group within ''Scènes de la vie de province'' in ''la Comédie humaine'', published in 1844 by édition Furne. The work was dedicated to Balzac's brother in law, an engineer in the corps royal des ponts et chaussées, Eugène Midy de la Greneraye Surville. Even so, Balzac offered its manuscript to comtesse Guidoboni-Visconti,André Maurois, 1965, p. 324-326. in 1844. This short and incisive novel stands out for the density of its story and its rapid succession of events. Balzac takes time to care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoré De Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his '' magnum opus''. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Constitutionnel
''Le Constitutionnel'' (, ''The Constitutional'') was a French political and literary newspaper, founded in Paris during the Hundred Days by Joseph Fouché. Originally established in October 1815 as ''The Independent'', it took its current name during the Second Restoration. A voice for Liberals, Bonapartists, and critics of the church, it was suppressed five times, reappearing each time under a new name. Its primary contributors were Antoine Jay, Évariste Dumoulin, Adolphe Thiers, Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire, as well as Alexander Chevassut and his son-in-law Nicole Robinet de La Serve. During the 19th century, European monarchs were wary of the press and often suppressed it because they believed it could spark popular uprisings. Newspapers which covered national news were rare and read by few, especially since Germany and Italy were not yet nation-states. According to the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', "the first signs of a popular press" appeared in Continenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
