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Lycée Lamartine
The Lycée Lamartine is a French institute of secondary education in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It combines a ''collège'', a ''lycée'', and a ''Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles'' (prep school for the ''Grandes écoles''). The school is named for the 19th-century writer Alphonse de Lamartine. History The ''lycée'' was founded in 1893 in a former folly owned by Pierre Beauchamps. Some parts of the current building date from a renovation done in 1740 by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne; the panelling in one of the ancient rooms is designated a National Heritage. The national department of education acquired the building in 1891 and turned it into a ''lycée'' for girls. In 1914, a baccalauréat in science was first awarded; one of the students receiving it, Jeanne Lévy, became the first woman professor at the medical school of the University of Paris, in 1934. The directrice from 1917 to 1919 was Marguerite Canon, an educator who also directed two other Parisia ...
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9th Arrondissement Of Paris
The 9th arrondissement of Paris (''IXe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as (; "ninth"). The arrondissement, called Opéra, is located on the right bank of the River Seine. It contains many places of cultural, historical and architectural interest, including the (home to the Paris Opera), on the Place de l'Opéra, together with the InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel's Café de la Paix, as well as Boulevard Haussmann, with the Galeries Lafayette and Printemps, two large department stores, in addition to the newspaper. It hosts two historic churches, noted for their classical architecture, art and decoration: Saint-Louis-d'Antin (18th c.) and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette (19th c.). The arrondissement also contains a number of theatres and music venues including the Olympia, Folies Bergère, Théâtre Mogador, Théâtre Édouard VII and Théâtre de Paris. Along with the 2nd and 8th a ...
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies of World War II, Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, End of World War II in Europe, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, an ...
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1893 Establishments In France
Events January * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Committee of Safety (Hawaii), Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bec ...
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The Missing Italian Girl
''The Missing Italian Girl'', a third crime novel by Barbara Corrado Pope, is set in France during the Belle Époque. Clarie, one of its main characters, teaches at the Lycée Lamartine. Critical reception Pope's third crime novel has had critical acclaim for its exploration of multiple Parises during the period just before the 20th century. "Although the book is billed as third in the Bernard Martin mystery series, the lead character is Bernard’s wife, Clarie," according to the Historical Novel Society The Historical Novel Society (HNS) is a nonprofit international literary society devoted to promotion of and advocacy for the genre of historical fiction. Definition of historical fiction There are varying definitions as to what types of literat ... Review. ''Publishers Weekly'' commented, "Pope’s engaging third mystery featuring magistrate Bernard Martin (after 2011’s ''The Blood of Lorraine'') shines a light on both the glamor and the grime of late-19th-century Paris." ...
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Barbara Corrado Pope
Barbara Corrado Pope, professor emerita, (born 1941) is a novelist, historian, a former director of Robert D. Clark Honors College, Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, and the founding director of Women's and Gender Studies at Oregon. Biography A native of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, Pope earned a Ph.D. in the Social and Intellectual History of Europe at Columbia University. She has taught history and women's studies in Hungary, Italy, France, the University of New Mexico, and Harvard Divinity School. At the University of Oregon, she was the founding director of women's studies, which was approved first as a certificate program in 1973, approved as an academic major in 1997, and became a department of the University in 2009. She has also been the director of Robert D. Clark Honors College at Oregon. Research and teaching Pope's 1981 Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University was entitled, ''Mothers and daughters in early nineteenth-century Paris''. As a post-do ...
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Dina Lévi-Strauss
Dina Dreyfus (French: ʁɛˈfys, also known as Dina Levi-Strauss (French: evi stʁos 1 February 1911, in Milan – 25 February 1999, in Paris), was a French ethnologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher, who conducted cultural research in South America. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and also became an agrégé. She taught at the University of São Paulo in Brazil and later founded the first ethnological society in the country. She met her husband through her brother, Pierre Dreyfus, as much of their environment had everyone interconnected. In 1932 she married Claude Lévi-Strauss, who was also a French anthropologist. It can be assumed that part of his interest in ethnology was developed while working with Dina Levi-Strauss. In 1935 she joined the French cultural mission to lecture at the newly founded University of São Paulo. She taught a course on practical ethnology that attracted a large audience from the city's educated, French-speaking soc ...
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Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. Biography Laurencin was born in Paris, where she would live for most of her life. She was raised there by her mother, Pauline-Mélanie Laurencin (1861–1913), an unmarried domestic servant. Although never confirmed, Marie Laurencin believed that she had Creole heritage through her maternal grandmother, something she saw as part of her identity her whole life. Her father, fiscal administrator Alfred-Stanislas Toulet (1839–1905), visited her during her childhood and paid for her education. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to oil painting. During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. ...
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Burnt Offering (Galzy Novel)
''Burnt Offering'' (French: ''L'initiatrice aux mains vides'') is a French novel by Jeanne Galzy. Published in French in 1929, it won the 1930 Prix Brentano and was subsequently published in English, as the only one in this language out of the author's many novels. While the novel (and the translation) received some praise in 1930 and 1931, it was never a great success in its time. Though now it is appreciated by critics for its study of the main character, Marie, a school teacher struggling with her (lesbian) desire for one of her students. Autobiographical elements permeating the novel have also been studied; these include the novel's perspective on the school where Marie and the author both worked, the Lycée Lamartine in Paris; and the college where they both received their education, the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres. Plot Marie Pascal is a single woman who teaches seventh-grade "literature, geography, history, everything" at a small school in a sma ...
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Jeanne Galzy
Jeanne Galzy (1883–1977), born Louise Jeanne Baraduc, was a French novelist and biographer from Montpellier. She was a long-time member of the jury for the Prix Femina. Largely forgotten today, she was known as a regional author, but also wrote three novels early in her career that explore lesbian topics; she has been referred to as one of the "pioneers in the writing of lesbian desire and despair." Biography Galzy was born in 1883 in Montpellier, France, the daughter of a wholesaler and an unpublished poet. She grew up in a Protestant environment and went to better schools, exceedingly rare for a young girl of the time. She studied at the ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' in Sèvres and passed the ''agrégation'' competitive exam. In 1915, she gained a position teaching at the boys' lycée in Montpellier; she was the first woman to teach at the school and replaced a man who had died in the trenches of World War I. While teaching, she contracted tuberculosis, a ...
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Stéphane Audran
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville; 8 November 1932 – 27 March 2018) was a French film actress. She was known for her performances in the films of her husband Claude Chabrol, including '' Les Biches'' (1968) and '' Le Boucher'' (1970), Luis Buñuel's ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' (1972), and Gabriel Axel's ''Babette's Feast'' (1987). The role she was mostly associated with was that of the haughty bourgeois woman. Biography Audran was born in Versailles and raised by her mother after her father, a doctor, died when she was six years old. A graduate of the Lycée Lamartine, she studied drama at the Ecole de théâtre Charles Dullin in Paris. She first appeared on stage, though with little success, and gave her film debut in the 1957 short film ''Le jeu de la nuit''. Her first collaboration with director Chabrol was the 1959 '' Les Cousins'', with whom she would make a total of 25 films. Having previously been married to actor Jean-Louis Trintign ...
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May 1968 Events In France
May 68 () was a period of widespread protests, strikes, and civil unrest in France that began in May 1968 and became one of the most significant social uprisings in modern European history. Initially sparked by student demonstrations against university conditions and government repression, the movement quickly escalated into a nationwide general strike involving millions of workers, bringing the country to the brink of revolution. The events have profoundly shaped French politics, labor relations, and cultural life, leaving a lasting legacy of radical thought and activism. After World War II, France underwent rapid modernization, economic growth, and urbanization, leading to increased social tensions. (The period from 1945 to 1975 is known as the ''Trente Glorieuses'', the "Thirty Glorious Years", but it was also a time of exacerbated inequalities and alienation, particularly among students and young workers.) By the late 1960s, France's university system was struggling to a ...
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Baby Boom
A baby boom is a period marked by a significant increase of births. This demography, demographic phenomenon is usually an ascribed characteristic within the population of a specific nationality, nation or culture. Baby booms are caused by various fertility factor (demography), fertility factors. The Mid-20th century baby boom, best-known baby boom occurred in the mid-twentieth century, sometimes considered to have started in the aftermath of World War II, from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. People born during this period are often called baby boomers. Africa "According to the new UNICEF report, almost 2 billion babies will be born in Africa between 2015 and 2050 and the 2 main driving forces behind this surge in births and children are continued high fertility rates and rising numbers of women able to have children of their own." By 2050, Africa is predicted to account for about 55% of all births in the world, 40% of all children under the age of five, and 37% of all children ...
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