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A unique study of a postwar campaign by the UN, NGOs, governments and individuals to address the global refugee crisis.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Etudes sur les oeuvres de Robert Challe : les "Illustres françaises", le "Journal de voyage" et les "Difficultés sur la religion proposées au père Malebranche" révèlent un mélange détonant de rire et de goguenardise, et les nombreux aspects originaux d'une époque incertaine qui voit la fin du règne de Louis le Grand et l'aube des Lumières.
Charles Pinot Duclos' biography dramatizes the evolution from the rigid separation of the aristocratic and plebeian classes in the seventeenth century to the gradual social democratization in the eighteenth. This son of a Brittany merchant from the little village of Dinan rose to social prominence in the aristocratic salon circles of Paris and to literary pre eminence, as attest contemporary memoirs, the success of his novels, histories and moral writings as well as his official positions - a member of two academies, Royal Historiographer, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy -a feat nearly impossible in the stratified society of seventeenth century France. Moreover, not only was Duclos...