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1817: Parisian Everyday Life in Vaudeville and in the Novel [PDF]
The article deals with two reflections of the everyday life of Paris in 1817: in the vaudevilles “Living Calendar” and “Battle of the Mountains,” composed and staged exactly in this year, and in Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables, which was published in ...
Vera A. Milchina
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Le Paris créole des sœurs Nardal : une rétrospective historique (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)
Paris, Ville-Lumière, a dès l’aube de la colonisation vu arriver les premiers créoles, issus des « Isles d’Amérique », dans le sillage de planteurs qui les ont retenus surtout comme domestiques.
Erick NOËL
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The Russian Paris of Sergei Rachmaninoff [PDF]
This article addresses Rachmaninoff’s activities in Paris, both a musical capital of the world and unrivalled cultural centre of the Russian emigration until 1940.
Campbell Stuart
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What makes Paris look like Paris? [PDF]
Given a large repository of geo-tagged imagery, we seek to automatically find visual elements, for example windows, balconies, and street signs, that are most distinctive for a certain geo-spatial area, for example the city of Paris.
Doersch, Carl +4 more
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Tracing the public of the first Parisian library for art and archaeology: on the readership at Doucet’s library (1910-1914) [PDF]
In 1909, the grand couturier Jacques Doucet opened a library dedicated to art history and archaeology. Soon this library, although the result of a private initiative, gained a reputation for scholarly depth and utility, reflected in its reader’s register.
Claire Dupin de Beyssat
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Ville, Symbolique, Forme, Projets: Communicating the Grands Projets in Paris During the 1980s
Stating the exemplary situation of the city of Paris in regards to architecture, begun with the Beaubourg operation and fully realized with the campaign for new, monumental and strategic buildings in the heart of the city in the 1980s, a group of French ...
Chiara Velicogna
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The Notion of Housing Need in France: From Norms to Negotiations (19th–21st Centuries)
This article aims to show how the concept of “housing need” has circulated between the social sciences and architectural design fields in France since the second half of the 19th century up until today.
Yankel Fijalkow
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FREEMASONRY AND THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE (JANUARY 1919 – JUNE 1920) [PDF]
The Romanian delegation - headed by Prime Minister Ion I.C. Brătianu - accompanied by other well-known Romanian figures who were not part of the delegation, but represented the Romanian elite who had emigrated to the French capital, attended the Paris ...
Mihai D. DRECIN
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Alberto Blest Gana: 100 Years Later
Blest Gana at 100 is a special edition for Open Cultural Studies. Alberto Blest Gana was a Chilean writer who wore many hats during his long life, dying in 1920 at the age of 90.
Vilches Patricia
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THE TREATY OF TRIANON BETWEEN LEGEND AND REALITY [PDF]
The Paris Peace Conference introduced a new international juridical concept as a decisive factor in their decisions: the right of all nations to selfdetermination.
Ioan SCURTU
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