Podcast featuring Domna Stanton
Submitted by klaporta on 29 January 2016 - 11:40amDomna Stanton
CUNY Graduate Center
French Renaissance Paleography
Submitted by Volker Schröder on 28 January 2016 - 7:51amhttps://paleography.library.utoronto.ca/
This site presents over 100 carefully selected French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning about their social, cultural, and institutional settings.
Scholarly Resources:
Responses to Violence in Renaissance and Baroque France
Submitted by ccarlin on 27 January 2016 - 8:29pmSCSC Bruges, Aug. 18-20, 2016
Literary-studies and interdisciplinary papers are solicited for one or several sessions to be proposed for the 2016 Sixteenth Century Society & Conference: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference/
Deadline: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 (midnight)
Languages: French or English
Abstract wordcount: 200-250
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Versailles in the World, 1689-1789
Submitted by ccarlin on 25 January 2016 - 10:49amIf you're in New York on Friday January 29 -- NYU, Jurow Hall, Silver Center, Washington Square Campus
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Richard Goodkin, How Do I Know Thee: Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France
Submitted by ccarlin on 24 January 2016 - 9:08pmNorthwestern University Press, 2015 (315 pages)
Contents
Introduction: The Horizons of Personality
Part One. Wars of Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France
Chapter One: “Clear and Distinct”: Two Aspects of Cognition in Descartes
Chapter Two: The (Dis-)Unity of Time, Place, and Cognition
Part Two. Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Twentieth-Century Psychology
Chapter Three: Freud between Drama and Narrative
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De la parole à l’écrit : formes, fonctions et représentations de l’oralité sous l’Ancien Régime: colloque jeunes chercheurs
Submitted by ccarlin on 24 January 2016 - 2:58pmLes 16 et 17 juin prochains se tiendra à l'Université du Québec à Rimouski le seizième colloque « Jeunes chercheurs » du Cercle interuniversitaire d’étude sur la République des Lettres (CIERL) et du Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la première modernité (CIREM), sous le thème De la parole à l’écrit : formes, fonctions et représentations de l’oralité sous l’Ancien Régime. Nous vous invitons à faire part de cet événement aux étudiants de maîtrise, master, doctorat ou postdoctorat dont le thème pourrait susciter l’intérêt.
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PHILIPPE QUINAULT, Livrets d’opéra
Submitted by ccarlin on 24 January 2016 - 2:56pmPrésentés et annotés par Buford Norman
3e édition revue et corrigée
Hermann - Collection Bibliothèque des Littératures classiques, 22 février 2016. 838 pages, 46 €. ISBN : 978 2 7056 9187 5
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CFP: European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska-Omaha. Due date: 18 May 2016
Submitted by farisallison3 on 23 January 2016 - 1:34pm41st European Studies Conference
October 6-8, 2016
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Éloge et critique du voyage (XVIe-XVIIIe s.) (Toronto)
Submitted by ccarlin on 21 January 2016 - 10:50amSi vous êtes à Toronto le 22 janvier 2016:
Journée d’étude organisée dans le cadre des rencontres du GEAR
(Groupe d’Etudes sur l’Ancien Régime),
University of Toronto, Etudes françaises.
Programme de la journée d’étude, organisée par G. Holtz
La journée se déroule dans la « Senior Common Room » (2nd étage), à Brennan Hall (College Saint Michael)
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Être parisienne sous l’ancien régime : des femmes dans la ville (Moyen Âge- XVIIIe siècle)
Submitted by ccarlin on 21 January 2016 - 10:44amParis - 17 et 18 mars 2017.
Date limite pour les propositions: le 1er juin 2016.
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S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique
Submitted by ccarlin on 19 January 2016 - 11:25pmMarie-Christine Pioffet, Anne-Élisabeth Spica (éd.) Biblio 17. Tübingen, G. Narr, 2016. 68,00€. ISBN 978-3-8233-6935-6.
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01/27/1701 Naissance de Charles Marie de La Condamine.
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 8:05pmDate:
27 Jan 1701
Naissance de Charles Marie de La Condamine, mathématicien, explorateur, astronome et encyclopédiste du xviiie siècle.
Il est élu à l'Académie française en 1760 et reçu par Buffon.
03/17/1680 Mort de François de La Rochefoucauld
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 7:39pmDate:
17 Mar 1680
Mort de François de La Rochefoucauld
02/02/1704 Mort du mathematician Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital.
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 7:19pmDate:
2 Feb 1704
Mort du mathematician Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital.
Il est connu pour la règle qui porte son nom : la règle de L'Hôpital qui permet de calculer la valeur d'une limite pour une fraction où le numérateur et le dénominateur tendent tous deux vers zéro.
02/20/1685 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 6:33pmDate:
20 Feb 1685
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, intending to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands with 200 surviving colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast, believing the Mississippi near. He establishes Fort St. Louis.
02/10/1673 Première au Théâtre du Palais-Royal du Malade imaginaire,
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 6:29pmDate:
10 Feb 1673
Première au Théâtre du Palais-Royal du Malade imaginaire, comédie ballet en trois actes. La musique est de Marc-Antoine Charpentier et les ballets de Pierre Beauchamp.
01/21/1670 execution de Claude Duval
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 6:23pmDate:
21 Jan 1670
Le voleur de grand chemin Claude Duval, né en Normandie en 1643 est executé à Tyburn (Londres). Son épitaphe est ainsi rédigée:
- Here lies DuVall: Reder, if male thou art,
- Look to thy purse; if female, to thy heart.
- Much havoc has he made of both; for all
- Men he made to stand, and women he made to fall
- The second Conqueror of the Norman race,
- Knights to his arm did yield, and ladies to his face.
- Old Tyburn’s glory; England’s illustrious Thief,
- Du Vall, the ladies’ joy; Du Vall, the ladies’ grief.
02/03/1653 Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile.
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 6:01pmDate:
3 Feb 1653
Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile.
03/29/1632 The Treaty of Saint-Germain
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 5:42pmDate:
29 Mar 1632
The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
01/23/1631 Treaty of Bärwalde
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 5:39pmDate:
23 Jan 1631
Thirty Years' War: Sweden and France sign the Treaty of Bärwalde, a military alliance in which France provides funds for the Swedish army invading northern Germany.
02/05/1626 Treaty of Paris,
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 5:36pmDate:
5 Feb 1626
The Huguenot rebels and the French government sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the second Huguenot rebellion.
01/17/1625 Huguenots launch a second rebellion against king Louis XIII
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 5:34pmDate:
17 Jan 1625
Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against king Louis XIII with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet
01/15/1616 Champlain's last trip in North America
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 5:28pmDate:
15 Jan 1616
After overwintering with the Huron Indian, Samuel de Champelain and Recollect Father Joseph Le Caron visit the Petun and Ottawa Indians of the Great Lakes. This is Champlain's last trip in North America before returning to France.
03/29/1613 Samuel de Champlain becomes the first unofficial Governor of New France.
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 5:14pmDate:
29 Mar 1613
Samuel de Champlain becomes the first unofficial Governor of New France.
03/19/1623 Le Père Garasse
Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 4:56pmDate:
19 Mar 1623
Le Père Garasse obtient un privilège pour la Doctrine curieuse des beaux esprits de ce temps