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Paris on a shoestring
Set in Paris in the late 1980s, Paris On a Shoestring is narrated progressively by the two main teenage protagonists, who, through a series of events, find themselves living on the streets of Paris and begging for money. The two narrators, Vicki and Sage, flee to France after deliberately …
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Urban segregation | clichy-sous-bois | paris
… of clichy and its dedicated french metropolis paris. it gives background information about the riots of 2005 and today's situation of the banlieue. then, the thesis follows some general examples about the "haussmannisation" of paris and gives a short insight in the statistical coherences of …
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A city of projects: Grand Paris, the 2024 Summer Olympics, and the jurisdictional negotiation of contemporary Paris
Paris' successful bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics arises in the midst of a grand rethinking of the politics of regional and local development in the Île-de-France region. The emerging ambition to advance a metropolitan model is fundamentally hindered by a historically persistent and burdensome …
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Masculinity in the nineteenth-century Paris opéra ballet
… overtook male dancers on the stage of the Paris Opéra Ballet and in critical writings about the ballet. At the same time, there was tremendous growth in bourgeois male subscribership to the Opéra. Subscribers engaged in backstage affairs with ballerinas, replicating an aristocratic …
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Paris and Havana: A Century of Mutual Influence
<p>This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach to trace the history of exchange and influence between Cuban, French, and Francophone Caribbean artists in the twentieth century. I argue, first, that there is a unique and largely unexplored tradition of dialogue, collaboration, and mutual …
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The Police and the City: Paris, 1660-1750
… research explores the practices developed by the Paris police to control, discipline, and manage the city, and the discourse that informed and authorized those practices. The focus is on two critical passages: the creation, in 1667, of the Lieutenance de Police, an institution that reconfigured …
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International competition for "Plateau Beaubourg Center" Paris, France.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1971. M.Arch.
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Sketches for a Benedictine monastery, Paris Mountain, Virginia
The site is the Northwest side of Paris Mountain overlooking the valley, flat fields and the winding road along the river. The monastery is thought of as a whole encompassing its various parts: the church, the monk's dormitory, the library, the winery, the bakery, the barns and the field chapel. …
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Models of Utopia: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Paris
… analyzed in this thesis, nineteenth-century Paris illustrates the utopian principles formulated by Karl Mannheim whose conceptualizations concern the social and moral order that makes up human existence. His utopia is characterized by human thoughts, behaviors, and actions. In our analysis of …
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Komentovaný překlad: La phonétique (J, Vaissière, 2006, Paris, PUF)
… překlad: La phonétique (J, Vaissière, 2006, Paris, PUF) je rozdělena do dvou částí. První část tvoří překlad vybraných kapitol publikace La phonétique od autorky Jacqueline Vaissièrové z francouzského jazyka do českého jazyka. Druhá část obsahuje komentář, který se věnuje překladatelské …
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Mapping sound: musical routes in fin-de-siecle Paris
Paris emerged at the end of the nineteenth century as a newly restructured city, after Baron Haussmann’s massive architectural project redrew the urban map to favor a bourgeois lifestyle. Wide boulevards, new parks and squares, improved sanitation, and a thriving consumer culture made Paris the …
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Conservative Modernism at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris
In opposition to the prevailing tendency of historians to characterize French modernization as backward and interwar French society and culture as stagnant and even reactionary, I illustrate how the organizers' focus on human production and its representation in a conservative modernism was a valid …
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The fight for equality: four women in the Paris Commune
… the involvement of four women in the 1871 Paris Commune. The case studies focus on Elisabeth Dmitrieff, Paule Mink, André Léo and Louise Michel whose links with socialism and the emerging feminist movement are investigated using a number of historical sources, including biographies. The …
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An American's Paris: tourism and the American consumer, 1947-1961
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Paris and Patronage: Christine De Pizan and Her Writer's Market
… understood the medieval manuscript business in Paris, she knew the aristocrats and royalty who might buy her works, and she knew how to market her work to her prospective patrons. As a young widowed mother in Paris, Christine built a career as an author not just to support her family but to …
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