The Unmemntioable, Moure Erin

Автор: Moure Teresa
Название: Black Nightshade
ISBN: 9543840857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789543840854
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Ein s Andrade is a doctoral student whose studies center on the figure of the French philosopher Ren Descartes. But when she is only seven or eight, she is sent to the attic for calling her great-grandmother a monkey, and there she discovers a hutch, a large chest, from which emanate the scents of various herbs and fruits. She also discovers private papers belonging to Queen Christina of Sweden and a certain H l ne Jans, a herbalist and healer of Amsterdam. Digging deeper, she discovers that the two women shared a common passion. In 1649, Christina of Sweden invited Descartes to her court to give her lessons in philosophy, but he was reputed to have caught pneumonia and died in February, 1650. Before that, he had an affair--only once, as he claimed--with the maid of the bookseller in whose house he was staying in Amsterdam, H l ne Jans. She became pregnant and gave birth to their daughter, Francine, who died at the age of five in 1640. Fifteen years later, Queen Christina and H l ne meet to exchange impressions and ease their nostalgia. They strike up a correspondence in which Christina urges H l ne to continue her work on an artificial language, a language that can be easily learned and will serve to promote communication among different nations and prevent war. H l ne also puts together a recipe book, called Book of Women, in which she gives various remedies that can be used to alleviate pain in childbirth, to improve one's appearance, to attract a lover... Before she dies, she hands down her knowledge, the recipe book and her private papers, to her adopted daughter, Agnes, a distant ancestor of Ein s's. Ein s decides to abandon all research on rationalism and to devote her time to writing an account of these women whom Time has forgotten. Black Nightshade, which could just as easily have been titled Chest in the Attic, Patchwork Quilt or Scent of Raspberries, is an emblematic work by a leading writer of her generation, Teresa Moure, and was awarded the Xerais Prize for best novel in 2005.

Автор: Moure, Kenneth;Alexander, Martin
Название: Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century France
ISBN: 157181146X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781571811462
Издательство: Berghahn
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Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in 1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the deep division of France during the Nazi Occupation, political reconstruction after 1944, de-colonization (with threatening civil war provoked by the Algerian crisis), and dramatic postwar modernization. However, this tumultuous period was not marked just by crises but also by tremendous change. Economic, social and political "modernization" transformed France in the twentieth century, restoring its confidence and its influence as a leader in global economic and political affairs. This combination of crises and renewal has received surprisingly little attention in recent years.

The present collection show-cases significant new scholarship, reflecting greater access to French archival sources, and focuses on the role of crises in fostering modernization in areas covering politics, economics, women, diplomacy and war.