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Le Musée Josèphe Jacquiot, Montgeron Ce voyage dans le temps nous entraîne sur les traces de sa fondatrice, rappelle la genèse du musée, son évolution, ses ativités et propose une visite dans les collections...27 ans passés à son chevet génèrent tant de souvenirs que vous retrouverez l'auteure au fil des pages. Evoquons encore la prestigieuse carrière de l'éminent égyptologue Etienne Drioton et l'arrivée de ses archives au musée, léguées par Josèphe Jacquiot. Témoins d'histoire et de ses travaux, ces documents se sont révélés d'un immense intérêt pour la communauté scientifique.
In the midst of the fierce controversies raging in France over the papal bull Unigenitus, worshipers at the tomb of a revered Jansenist deacon in Paris's Saint-Médard cemetery witnessed a variety of miraculous occurrences. These well-publicized events led to the emergence of a cult that came to affect and be affected by the most furious religious debate of the eighteenth-century. Professor Kreiser provides a full and objective account of the conflicts surrounding this unsanctioned cult, which remained a major cause célèbre in ecclesiastical politics for nearly a decade. The author details the intricate relationships between Church and State and broadens our awareness of the political impl...
For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed many other opportunities that his enormous talent held out to him. Monet did not paint classical compositions with figures, and he did not become a portraitist, although his professional training included those skills. He chose a single genre for himself, landscape painting, and in that he achieved a degree of perfection none of his contemporaries managed to attain. Yet the little boy bega...