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L'Histoire nous le dira
Qu’est-ce qui fait que le Québec est tel qu’on le connaît ? Nous pourrions dire que c’est grâce à sa culture, entre autres choses. Mais de quelle culture parle-t-on, exactement ? Il y a notre langue avec ses sacres, ses accents, ses expressions. Il y a aussi notre gastronomie avec sa poutine, son sirop d’érable et son fameux pâté chinois, qui, on s’en doute, ne vient pas de Chine. Ensuite, il y a le sport. Par exemple, le hockey, aves ses grandes rivalités et les émotions fortes qu’il suscite chez les Québécois. Nous n’avons qu’à penser à la fameuse Bataille du Vendredi saint en 1984! Parlant de saint... le calendrier religieux a longtemps ponctué l’ordinaire de la vie du Québec. Malgré tout, savons-nous pourquoi nous célébrons le jour de l’An, la fête des Rois ou la Saint-Valentin? Ou ces fêtes bien québécoises comme la Saint-Jean-Baptiste et le Carnaval de Québec? De plus, la façon dont nous nous sommes doté d’un système de santé et comment nous nous sommes soignés à travers l’histoire s'avère également un parcours bien singulier. Le Québec, c’est tout cela et plus encore.
Stagestruck
Stagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban cultural institutions in prerevolutionary France, becoming key sites for the articulation and contestation of social, political, and racial relationships. Combining rich description with nuanced analysis based on extensive archival evidence, Lauren R. Clay illuminates the wide-ranging consequences of theater's spectacular growth for performers, spectators, and authorities in cities throughout Fr...
L'Homme de l'ombre - Tome 1
Québec, 17 février 1770. Il fait plus froid que froid. Un mort gît dans la côte de la Montagne, la gorge tranchée. Pierre Dubois, un Français arrivé depuis peu en ville, est un des premiers à voir le corps. Suspecté, il décide de mener une enquête pour découvrir l’auteur du crime. Au coeur du régime britannique, il évolue dans un monde où l’armée est omniprésente. Son ami, Peter O’Sullivan, un Irlandais de la Royal Artillery, va l’aider dans ses recherches — tout comme Madelon, prostituée, qui n’attend plus rien de la vie et qui trouve en Dubois une oreille attentive. Les indices s’accumulent, comme les obstacles. S’agirait-il d’un complot ? Dubois rencontre toute une galerie de personnages : un curé, une maquerelle, des francs-maçons, un marchand et un juge en chef. Tous veulent connaître la vérité... mais quelle vérité ?
Sporting Cultures, 16501850
Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century.
The Thinking Space
The cafe is not only a place to enjoy a cup of coffee, it is also a space - distinct from its urban environment - in which to reflect and take part in intellectual debate. Since the eighteenth century in Europe, intellectuals and artists have gathered in cafes to exchange ideas, inspirations and information that has driven the cultural agenda for Europe and the world. Without the café, would there have been a Karl Marx or a Jean-Paul Sartre? The café as an institutional site has been the subject of renewed interest amongst scholars in the past decade, and its role in the development of art, ideas and culture has been explored in some detail. However, few have investigated the ways in which...
Voisines et Rivales
Written in the 18th century by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, this seminal work of travel writing was too Anglophile for French readers of the time. It was to remain unpublished for more than 200 years. Mercier first traveled to London, and began recording his impressions, in 1780. A leading exemplar of a new form of literature, with a journalistic style, less rigid and more reflexive, he presented emotive representations of the city as collections of experiences, habits and personalities. And in contrast to Dickens's London or Baudelaire's Paris, with their vivid contrasts of opulence and misery, Mercier's descriptions transport us to a less familiar urban environment--one more optimistic, and p...
Wounded Feelings
Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts from 1870 to 1950, and how lawyers and judges translated those feelings into the rational language of law.
The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island
Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark walks were as thrilling to visitors as the fountains and fireworks. Vauxhall was the venue that made the careers of composers, inspired novelists, and showcased the work of artists. Scoundrels, sudden downpours, and extortionate ham prices notwithstanding, Vauxhall became a must-see destination for bot...
