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Author : Cynthia Gladwyn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015051403189
Author : R. Pastor-Castro,J. Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137318299
This collection of essays looks at Anglo-French relations from the Second World War to the advent of Margaret Thatcher's government in a new light, focusing on the work of Britain's ambassadors to France. In particular, it looks at moves towards deeper European integration, a key theme in twentieth century British foreign policy.
Author : Agnes Blackwell Herrick
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761839798
The diary of Agnes Herrick presents a firsthand view of social and cultural life in early twentieth-century Paris. At that time, forty-year-old Agnes Blackwell Herrick is the hostess at the American Embassy for her father-in-law, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, the much celebrated "Friend of France." She had privileged access to events and some of the principal people involved in them. What she saw was perhaps a last echo of the Belle Époque and the first tremor of renewed national rivalries that contained the seeds of further struggle and war that lay ahead. It was a time of strenuous post-World War I negotiations between the Allies and Germany shared with a frenetic burst of artistic experimentation and the birth of Modernism. Agnes' social calendar records the relentless tempo of social and cultural life in the highest diplomatic circles as illustrated by selected entries from her diary. The book summarizes the diary and identifies the extraordinary assembly of political, cultural, intellectual, financial, and high society personalities who accepted the Ambassador's invitations to dinner. The detail and immediacy of Agnes' record add a fresh primary source for historians and a firsthand glimpse of a compelling and still relevant world.
Author : John Herman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047456788
Based on original research in British and French archives, this work details the Paris years and explores Phipps's recognition of French economic, political, and military weakness that propelled him into interfering in their internal affairs. It also discusses the ambassador's zeal for Chamberlain's policies, his machinations of the Spanish Civil War, his role as an anti- appeaser in Berlin, and his role as a defeatist appeaser in Paris. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : IND:30000125975775
Author : Alice-Leone Moats
Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:32000007344338
Author : Beckles Willson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Ambassadors
ISBN : IND:32000009877087
Author : Tim Knox
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Design
ISBN : 9782080200785
This beautifully illustrated book celebrates the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris, one of the most splendid historic homes in the French capital and the most impressive of all British ambassadorial residences abroad. The author, Tim Knox, charts the stirring story of the house, from its origins as the home of the Ducs de Charost, to its opulent heyday under Napoleon's sister, Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, much of whose luxurious furniture and decoration survives intact. Since 1814, when Pauline sold the house to the 1st Duke of Wellington, the mansion has served as the residence of successive British Ambassadors to France, who altered the house to suit their taste and character, notably Sir Duff Cooper and his beautiful wife, Lady Diana, whose Empire-style study is still redolent of their brilliant social circle in Post-War Paris. This beautiful house in the rue du Faubourg St Honoré, furnished with masterpieces of French Empire furniture and decorative arts, English silver, and paintings by British artists, remains a splendid, but hard-working setting for promoting the Franco-British relationship.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428949621
Author : R. Pastor-Castro,J. Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137318299
This collection of essays looks at Anglo-French relations from the Second World War to the advent of Margaret Thatcher's government in a new light, focusing on the work of Britain's ambassadors to France. In particular, it looks at moves towards deeper European integration, a key theme in twentieth century British foreign policy.
Author : Mary Beal,John Cornforth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:77619668
Author : Mona Chollet
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250272225
Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society’s seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct descendants to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who live their lives on their own terms.
Author : James Rives Childs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UCAL:$B585405
Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : McArthur & Co
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770870819
The English Channel may be only twenty miles wide, but it’s a thousand years deep. Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war - or at least glowering at each other across what the Brits provocatively call the English Channel. Along the way he explodes a few myths that French historians have been trying to pass off as ‘la vérité’, as he proves that the French did not invent the baguette, or the croissant, or even the guillotine, and would have taken the bubbles out of bubbly if the Brits hadn’t created a fashion for fizzy champagne.Starting with the Norman (not French) Conquest and going right up to the supposedly more peaceful present, when a state visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy becomes a series of hilarious historical insults, it is a light-hearted - but impeccably researched - account of all our great fallings-out. In short, the French are quite right to suspect that the last thousand years have been one long British campaign to infuriate them. And it’s not over yet ...
Author : Julia Deck
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781595589712
Winner of the inaugural French Voices Award: “[A] masterfully conceived debut, arelentless tale, intricately and irresistibly told” (La Quinzaine Littéraire). Only once in a great while does a new novel come along that takes a literary scene by storm, demonstrating real innovation in the craft of storytelling. Julia Deck provides this force in Viviane—the first debut novel in a generation to be released by the most prestigious literary publisher in Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit. This breakthrough novel—nominated for the Prix Femina, the Prix du Livre Inter, and the Prix du Premier Roman and already a bestseller in France—is sure to become a contemporary classic. Viviane is both an engrossing murder mystery and a gripping exploration of madness, a narrative that tests the shifting boundaries of language and the self. For inspiration, Deck read the work of Samuel Beckett, because, as she says, “he positions himself within chaos and gives it coherence.” How can we say that we are who we say we are? What determines our actions, and are we really responsible for them? For Viviane Élisabeth Fauville, these are not abstract questions to be left for philosophers; they will decide whether she will get away with murder. Translated by one of the most celebrated literary translators working in French and written in irresistible, lucid prose, Viviane takes us to the knife’s edge of sanity. This gem of a novel does what only great literature can do: turn us inside out. “Written with a delirious and intimate urgency . . . A remarkable and troubling portrait of murder and madness.” —Lily Tuck, National Book Award–winning author