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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"French History"”.
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Oh, The Hypocrisy! Or, A Dramaturgical Analysis of Moliere's Tartuffe
… After consulting scholarly articles concerning French history and literature, I compiled a Dramaturgy Casebook that contains information and analyses crucial to understanding the world of the play.</p>
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Posters, Politics and immigration during the May 1968 Protests in France
… of the most significant moments in contemporary French history and it occurred during a time when immigrant populations were rapidly increasing. There is a multitude of research, analysis and reflections on the protests and strikes; yet there is very little mention of the place of immigrants …
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Beyond the Banlieue: French Postcolonial Migration & the Politics of Sub-Saharan Identity
<p>“Beyond the Banlieue: French Postcolonial Migration & the Politics of a Sub-Saharan Identity” details and historicizes the interstitial area between French state acculturation policies and the lived experience of Afro-French residents from 1945-2018. The project uses oral histories from Black …
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The French and Indian Wars: New France's Situational Indian Policies During the Fox and Natchez Conflicts, 1701-1732
… the Great Lakes. These histories champion a French Indian policy that was dominated by the fur trade and illustrated by the outbreak of the Fox Wars in 1712. However, New France's Indian policy was not always dictated by the vast and powerful fur trade. Once the French reached the Gulf of …
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The gentil example : thematic parallels in Froissart's Chroniques and Chaucer's Franklin's tale
… Chroniques, the innovative and epic account of French history in the thirteenth century. I have adopted a method of thematic comparison between the two in an effort to illuminate parallels of example and authorial intent in the works of these almost exactly contemporaneous authors. My thesis …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… interest in this significant period of French history? This dissertation engages with this question using a large body of sources, including print, patents, paintings and engravings, and surviving instruments. Interweaving manifold cultural practices and social actors, it enquires how …
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Nourishing the political body: Banquets in early Third Republic France, 1878 – 1914
… as the form of government, and expansion of the French empire – were advanced at banquets, ritualized gatherings over food and drink. Drawing on the key historical success of banquets as a means of political mobilization during the prelude to the Revolution of 1848, socialists/anarchists, …
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Constructing the "perfect" voyage: Nicolas Baudin at Port Jackson, 1802.
In 1802, a French scientific expedition under the command of Nicolas Baudin made an uscheduled visit to the British colony at Port Jackson, New South Wales. It was a pivotal episode in the course of Baudin's Australian voyage. The commander had already fulfilled most of his instructions, though …
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The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London
Abstract Annalisa Nicholson: The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London This thesis examines the history and literary output of the Mazarin salon, which was formed by French exiles Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, and Charles de Saint-Évremond. Established in London in …
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Manifestations of Poland in nineteenth-century French culture
… to France during the nineteenth century, changed French perceptions of Poland. The more Polish migrants entered France and settled into Parisian society, the more representations became realistic. Hence, stereotypes changed and evolved as a result of political changes and increased factual …
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Conspiracy in Balzac and Sand's July Monarchy Fiction
… within wider discourses on European political history in the years leading up to the upheaval of 1848. Through close readings of Balzac and Sand’s common investment in conspiracist modes of explanation, this study makes the case for a new generic category, the novel of conspiracy, around which …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
The thesis takes the French revue Lignes (1987-present) as its object of study to provide a new account of French intellectual culture over the last twenty-five years. Whilst there are now many studies covering the role of such revues throughout the twentieth-century, the majority of such …