Publication Date: 02/27/2024
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting “Death to Judas!” In this book, Maurice Samuels gives...
Publication Date: 01/01/2024
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature, published by the University of Chicago Press is an analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes.
Social climbers have often been...
Publication Date: 11/21/2023
Yale French Studies 142 explores the contemporary relevance of an alternative strand of feminism as theorized by Monique Wittig
This volume of Yale French Studies foregrounds Monique Wittig (1935–2003), a writer who left France to live and teach in the United States, in a diverse range of...
Publication Date: 10/20/2023
The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state in the Americas to permanently abolish...
Publication Date: 04/21/2023
L’esclavage, la colonisation et le racisme pensés par des intellectuels noirs dans les premières nations indépendantes de l’ère des révolutions.
Poèmes, pamphlets, lettres ouvertes, allocutions, récits de vie : dès la fin du xviiie siècle, aux États-Unis et en Haïti – les deux premières nations...
Publication Date: 03/31/2023
Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 642. Geneva: Droz, 2023.
De la fin du Moyen Âge jusqu’à l’aube de l’Âge classique, la musique ne cesse d’exercer une influence profonde sur les diverses formes de la poésie lyrique française – tantôt de manière positive, en imposant certaines contraintes formelles au texte, tantôt de manière plus négative, en présupposant...
Publication Date: 10/05/2022
Published by W.W. Norton
For history readers, travelers, and scholars alike, an indispensable behind-the-scenes guide to the great cathedrals of Paris.
“So infectious is R. Howard Bloch’s passion for his subject that even those unable to do the traveling required will find in Paris and Her...
Publication Date: 03/24/2022
information at: Le droit à la différence - Maurice Samuels - Éditions La Découverte (editionsladecouverte.fr)
Publication Date: 03/07/2022
https://lebruitdumonde.com/livre/29
Publication Date: 01/13/2022