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Michel Biard, Philippe Bourdin, Hervé Leuwers (dir.), Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, 1792-1795, Ferney-Voltaire, Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, 2022, 1300 p. en 2 volumes ISBN : 978-2-84559-153-0 Jusqu'au 15 février... more
Denne artikkelen er et utdrag fra boken publisert av Europa-programmet "Frankrike og Europa; visjon og ambisjon. Europa-programmet 2002. " EU er en fantastisk katalysator for vår innflytelse i verden så lenge vi vet hva vi vil og vi kan... more
This is a biography of a politician-bureaucrat-judge whose achievements-and indeed heroism-during the French Revolution have been relegated to the footnotes of history. He was not one of the Revolution's great thinkers, orators or writers... more
Livre recensé par David Krasovec // La Révolution russe, une histoire française: Lectures et représentations depuis 1917, Eric Aunoble, La Fabrique, Paris 2016, in Actographe 1 (2), Annecy 2018, p. 247–258.
This article focuses on the slow rediscovery of Germaine de Staël’s political thought in the studies of the last forty years: after a century and half of oblivion, since the late 1970s and 1980s some French authors start to point out... more
Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi İİBF Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü öğrencileri için hazırlanan dersin Yarı-başkanlık sistemi ve Fransa Beşinci Cumhuriyeti örneğini kapsayan bölümünde ülkenin tarihinden dönüm noktaları... more
El artículo está dividido en tres partes: en a primera se elabora un panorama sobre el maoísmo en Francia en una perspectiva de mediana duración, con la pretensión de ir más allá del Mayo 68; posteriormente se elabora una reflexión sobre... more
The term "dynasty" is reminiscent of the ruling dynasties of bygone times. But to this day, people all over the world strive to pass on possessions, power and status to the next generation. The contributors to this volume examine how... more
Pendant des décennies, la réalité du régime soviétique a été occultée par des images mythiques : la « glorieuse révolution d’Octobre 1917 », les kolkhoziennes souriantes, les ouvriers épanouis, les figures paternelles de Lénine et de... more
On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty this study deals with the historical development of Franco-German relations in the 20th century. The focus is on the historical models of rapprochement between the two nations.... more
This essay explores the triangular relations between de Gaulle's France, the Federal Republic of Germany and the US during the 1960s, in three policy areas: military (nuclear) policy; European policy; and East-West relations. It explores... more
Special issue on Mme de Staël, Germaine, ou la politique. Madame de Staël,
From the point of view of intellectual tools: a book of critical political theory with empirical indices, at the crossroads of social sciences and political philosophy - An ideological and political history of France since the 1980s (with... more
Reviewed Work(s): "Tony Garnier da Roma a Lionne," Rassegna, VI, no. 17/1, March 1984 by Jean-Louis Cohen and Michel Roz: Tony Garnier by Louis Piessat: Tony Garnier: L'oeuvre complèteby Alain Guiheux and Olivier Cinqualbre: Tony Garnier,... more
During the fifteenth century the organic body politic metaphor was gradually associated or superseded by a physiological paradigm built on the ancient humoral theory. The new body politic, based on humours rather than on organs,... more
Reviewed by Remy Davison, Jean Monnet Chair in Politics & Economics, Monash University. © 2019. Published in Australian Book Review, March 2019. There is a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail outside a castle, brimming with French... more
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, its Western Reception and Impact in the Media (1974-1978): a Cold War shock This article presents the comparative critical analysis of three documents: a report of the Soviet Political... more
Talk given at Cambridge University's Centre for Languages and Inter-Communication. It covers the French political system, the election process at local and national levels, political parties and their funding, a comparison of the... more
Abstract: This essay provides an introduction to the articles by Laird Boswell, Stéphane Gerson, and Gilles Pécout in this forum, which is based on a one-day conference held at UCLA in December 2006, several months before the death of... more
L`Harmattan, Bp. 2021. https://harmattan.hu/a-jelenkori-franciaorszag-i-2632 TARTALOM Előszó A tábornok-elnök Charles de Gaulle belpolitikája (1958–1969) A De Gaulle-korszak fontosabb belpolitikai eseményei Charles de Gaulle... more
The study analyses the domestic political background of the conflict that resulted in the French conquest of Algeria. The author begins at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries when the Paris government bought grain from Algerian... more
Après l’adoption du mariage pour tous, les mouvements réactionnaires ont orchestré une vaste campagne contre la théorie du genre, dangereuse propagande venue tout droit des campus américains ! Bruno Perreau démontre que cette... more
This book considers the uses of the portrait as an instrument of propaganda in both totalitarian regimes and democratic countries. Focusing on the last one hundred years and covering a wide range of countries around the globe, the volume... more
A l’instar des formations politiques européennes, les partis politiques français sont confrontés à plusieurs défis et soumis à nombre de tensions à l’aube de ce XXIe siècle, alors même que leur attractivité n’a jamais semblé aussi... more
Italian translation and critical edition of the Chantelou report of Bernini stay in Paris in 1665.
Selon Michael Chapman « On peut dire que la langue, la culture ou l'histoire à l’autorité en Afrique du Sud lorsque la fin de l'apartheid a soulevé des questions épineuses quant à savoir ce qu'est un Sud-Africain, ce que c'est de vivre,... more
This book examines John Calvin’s sense of vocation. 1) It begins with an analysis of thinking on prophecy in early, medieval, and Reformation theology. 2) It finds Calvin within a non-mystical, non-apocalyptic prophetic tradition... more
Both the possibility and success of the Brumaire coup, and, consequently, the failure of the Directory, can best be explained by the manner in which the Revolutionary notables went about politics. The economic, military and social... more
Depuis quelques années, le vote d'extrême droite progresse dans de nombreux pays européens. Si dans certains d'entre eux, il s'agit d'une manifestation récente, dans d'autres pays, l'extrême droite a connu un enracinement certain. Ainsi,... more
La réforme des institutions en cours s’appuie sur une réforme électorale d’ampleur dont l’objectif est d’améliorer l’efficacité du Parlement et sa représentativité. Une mise en perspective montre, toutefois, qu’elle échouera à atteindre... more
L’élection présidentielle du 22 avril 2007 et le scrutin législatif qui l’a suivie ont été une terrible désillusion pour Jean-Marie Le Pen et le Front national (FN). Après avoir dominé l’agenda politique et médiatique durant les années... more
This is the first installment of a book on changing mentalities in 17th and 18th cent. Bordeaux that I am working on. It shows that, contrary to the existing literature on the French provincial Affiches, the Affiches de Bordeaux... more
Kniha Milan Rastislav Štefánik – Muž, ktorý sa rozprával s hviezdami je prvá vedecká biografia tejto významnej osobnosti slovenských dejín. Historik Michal Kšiňan v nej pútavo približuje Štefánikov život na základe dlhodobého výskumu v... more
The small city of Nancy, France, is arguably the center where Art Nouveau architecture had the most lasting impact. Nancy’s Art Nouveau was a divergent form of modernity that was defined by regionalism and a distinct sense of place, which... more
An analysis of the 2018-2019 "Yellow Vest" (Gilet jaune) protests in France, with papers by Emile Chabal, Valerie Charolles, and Daniel A. Gordon, and an introduction by Michael C. Behrent
Richard Bonney, in his article "Absolutism: What's In a Name?", writes that "absolute power" can be simply defined as "'the freedom of the monarch in practice from institutional checks on his power', in short, a regime where the ruler is... more
Una storia di contadini, soldati, mercanti, aristocratici, vescovi e qualche re Dispensa per il corso di "Storia d'Italia 1" (Università d'Islanda) Versione 0.0 Forlagið Snorri Sturluson Reykjavík AD 2012
In 1755, the Marquise de Pompadour commissioned a marble statue of Eros-Harpocrates, the right index finger resting on the lips, to decorate the hôtel d’Évreux, the future Palais de l’Élysée. This gesture of the little Horus, who is... more
Voici le corpus des sources et références utilisées pour l'écriture de Une contre-révolution catholique. Aux origines de la Manif pour tous (Seuil, 2019).
This paper sets out an ambitious critique of contemporary political scientists, political historians and others concerned with the history of democracy. It argues that overwhelmingly the history of democracy relies on an overtly... more
Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaries is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaries, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary France who were proponents of a nuanced... more
Hervé Leuwers, « Danton et Robespierre. Le duel réinventé », dans Michel Biard et Hervé Leuwers (dir.), Danton. Le mythe et l’histoire, Paris, Armand Colin, 2016, p. 141-153 Danton et Robespierre ; deux noms que l’on rapproche ou,... more