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Robert Dreyfus
Robert Dreyfus (13 March 1873 - 17 June 1939) was a French writer and journalist who wrote for Le Figaro. During World War I, between January 1916 and February 1919, he was employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working in the ministry's "diplomatic information service" where he compiled a valuable body of documentation concerning the workings of the Austro-Hungarian empire. His contributions earned him a knighthood in 1920. A century later, however, it is not for his incisive journalism, nor for his achievements in one of the more self-effacing corners of the Foreign Ministry that he is remembered, but for his loyalty to his childhood playmate and school near-contemporary, Marcel Proust. They began their correspondence while still at school, since poor health kept Proust away from the classroom for much of the time. The correspondence continued at least till 1920 and the friendship was lifelong. Dreyfus, confident that his friend's burgeoning literary reputation w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Bizet
Jacques Bizet (10 July 1872 – 3 November 1922) was a French physician and businessman best known for his long friendship with novelist Marcel Proust. He was the son of composer Georges Bizet, who died when the boy was three and before his works gained success. His mother was Geneviève Halévy, who became known as a literary hostess. Biography Jacques Bizet was born in Paris to composer Georges Bizet and his wife Geneviève Halévy. He was named for his father's patron and his cousin and grandfather, Jacques-Fromental Halévy. Georges Bizet died suddenly when the boy was three, and he became particularly close to his mother. About ten years later, she remarried in 1886. Her second husband was Émile Straus (1844–1929), a wealthy lawyer and passionate art collector. According to one source, when someone asked the vivacious widowed socialite why on earth she had married the ill-tempered balding attorney, she replied that it had been "the only way to get rid of him". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachelor Of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years, depending on the country and institution. * Degree attainment typically takes four years in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Brunei, China, Egypt, Ghana, Greece, Georgia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States and Zambia. * Degree attainment typically takes three years in Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Caribbean, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, the Canadian province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-BergsonTestament starozakonnego Berka Szmula Sonnenberga z 1818 roku who was influential in the tradition of and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Paris
The University of Paris (french: link=no, Université de Paris), Metonymy, metonymically known as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, active from 1150 to 1970, with the exception between 1793 and 1806 under the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of Notre Dame de Paris, it was considered the List of medieval universities, second-oldest university in Europe.Charles Homer Haskins, Haskins, C. H.: ''The Rise of Universities'', Henry Holt and Company, 1923, p. 292. Officially chartered in 1200 by King Philip II of France and recognised in 1215 by Pope Innocent III, it was later often nicknamed after its theological College of Sorbonne, in turn founded by Robert de Sorbon and chartered by List of French monarchs, French King Louis IX, Saint Louis around 1257. Internationally highly reputed for its academic performance in the humanities ever since the Middle Ages – notably in theology and philosophy – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (February 12, 1842 – June 16, 1912) was a French publicist and historian born at Lisieux, Calvados. He specialized in writing about the history of Russia. Biography In 1866 he published ''Une troupe de comédiens'', and afterwards ''Essai sur la restoration de nos monuments historiques devant l'art et devant le budget'', which deals particularly with the restoration of the cathedral of Évreux. He visited Russia in order to collect documents on the political and economic organization of the Slavic nations, and on his return published in the ''Revue des deux mondes'' (1882–1889) a series of articles, which appeared shortly afterwards in book form under the title ''L'Empire des tsars et les Russes'' (4th ed., revised in 3 vols., 1897–1898). The work entitled , published in 1879, was an analysis and criticism of the politics of the Second French Empire. ''Un homme d'état russe'' (1884) gave the history of the emancipation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Sorel
Albert Sorel (13 August 184229 June 1906) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Life He was born at Honfleur and remained throughout his life a lover of his native Normandy. His father, a rich manufacturer, wanted him to take over the business but his literary vocation prevailed. He went to live in Paris, where he studied law and, after a prolonged stay in Germany, entered the Foreign Office (1866). He had strongly developed literary and artistic tastes, was an enthusiastic musician (even composing a little), and wrote both poetry and novels (''La Grande Falaise'', 1785–1793, ''Le Docteur Egra'' in 1873); but he was not a socialite. He was the first cousin to the philosopher Georges Sorel. Academic life Anxious to understand present as well as past events, he was above all a student. In 1870 he was chosen as secretary by M. de Chaudordy, who had been sent to Tours as a delegate in charge of the diplomatic side of the proble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sciences Po
, motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , accreditation = , affiliations = CIVICA Sorbonne Paris Cité APSIACOUPERIN CGE , academic_affiliation = , endowment = €127.2 million (2018) , budget = €197 million (2018) , chairperson = Laurence Bertrand Dorléac ( FNSP) , president = Mathias Vicherat , provost = Sergei Guriev , academic_staff = 270 , total_staff = , students = 14,000 , undergrad = 4,000 , postgrad = 10,000 , doctoral = 350 , other_students = , address = , city = Paris, Nancy, Dijon, Poitiers, Menton, Le Havre and Reims , country = France , postalc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Faure
Lucie Faure, ''née'' Meyer (6 July 1908 – 25 September 1977) was a French woman of letters, novelist and literary review director. Early life The daughter of a merchant of fabrics of Alsatian origin, she was the niece, on the maternal side, of Julien Cain, who was administrator general of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1930 to 1964. In 1931, she married Edgar Faure, then a young lawyer. Second World War A refugee with her husband and daughter in Tunisia in the autumn of 1942 and then in Algiers, after the American landing of 8 November, she was attached to the French Committee of National Liberation and organised the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Algiers. It is also in Algiers that she created in 1943 with the writer Robert Aron the magazine ', which would be the first to be published in Paris the day after the Libération of France and of which she assured the direction until her death. Numerous issues of ''La Nef'' were milestones, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean De Tinan
Jean de Tinan, a.k.a. Jean Le Barbier de Tinan, (1874–1898) was a French writer. Biography Born on January 19 1874, to a Eugène Jean-Marie Théodose Le Barbier de Tinan and Valentine Derval. He would grow up with his grandmother and aunt instead of his parents Jean de Tinan moved to Paris in 1895 after graduating from the School of Agriculture in Montpellier. He is remembered as a figure of the Belle Époque. He died on November 18 1898. Bibliography * ''Un document sur l'impuissance d'aimer'' (1894) * ''Penses-tu réussir !'' (1897) * ''Maîtresse d'esthètes'' (1897) * ''L'Example de Ninon de Lenclos amoureuse'' (1898) * ''Un villain monsieur'' (1898) * ''Aimienne ou le détournement de mineure'' (1899) Film adaptations In 2002, a film was made on his novel ''Le Doux amour des hommes''. Literary significance and criticism Stéphane Mallarmé referred to his ''Penses-tu réussir!'' as a modern version of Gustave Flaubert's ''Sentimental Education ''Sentimental Educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
