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François de Menthon
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François de Sales, 1567-1622
Dans la première partie du volume, l'auteur reprend les résultats de ses enquêtes antérieures en les focalisant sur les particularités de l'écriture salésienne, singuliè- rement complexe à l'intérieur du genre épistolaire. La seconde partie du volume délimite l'étendue du corpus épistolaire autographe à partir de l'identification épistolématique des lettres.
Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance
“The most complete account of the French Resistance in English, and the most sensitive... A masterful rendering of the Resistance...” — Philip Hallie, The New York Times “A celebration and a memorial... Mr. Schoenbrun has had long conversations with a number of the best-known survivors, each one the keeper of a sacred flame... the fullest account of the French Resistance in English.” — Robert O. Paxton, The New York Review of Books “Political history chiefly, not heroics: the most extensive account in English of the two French Resistances — that of the Underground against Vichy and the Nazis, and that of de Gaulle against all other claimants to authority over fallen France......
The Betrayal
At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The Allied answer to this conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the thirteen Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 1949, and in corresponding cases elsewhere, a concerted effort was made to punish key perpetrators while at the same time providing a complex analysis of the Nazi state and German history. Building on a long debate about Germany's divergence fr...
The French Resistance
Chapter 14. Formez vos Bataillons! -- Chapter 15. Social Components -- Chapter 16. The Repression -- Chapter 17. Incomplete Victory -- Chapter 18. A Divided Memory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chronology -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Christian Democracy in the European Union, 1945/1995
The authors investigate the influence of Christian Democratic parties on political institutions (parliamentary democracy and European integration) and socio-economic structures (the collective-bargaining economy and the welfare state).
The Fifth Republic at Twenty
The first twenty years of the Fifth Republic encompass four presidential elections, alternating political control of the National Assembly, and years of rapid economic growth and contraction. Thus a variety of events now allow an evaluation of the efficacy of the Fifth Republic. The chapters of this book examine: the governmental framework and various political groups that have vied for control of it; industrial development and modernization; education and culture; and foreign policy. Containing both favorable and critical assessments, the book provides a comprehensive balance sheet on the Fifth Republic and the influence of Charles de Gaulle. Its 25 essays were written by such well-known sc...
