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books on: AcadEmie FranCaise  - 1923 results

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1.
The Immortal
Book by Alphonse Daudet; Nims & Knight, 1889
...Pierre-Alexandre-Leonard member of the Academie Francaise, was born in 1846 in Sauvagnat...MARCUS AURELIUS, crowned by the Academie Francaise. Summoned to Paris the following...LOUIS XIV . Crowned by the Academie Francaise BONAPARTE AND THE CONCORDAT...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870
Book by William E. Echard; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Second Empire, 1852-1870--Dictionaries
...defeated for election to the Academie Francaise in May 1870. The outbreak...ROMAN QUESTION; THEATER. ACADEMIE FRANCAISE, senior of the five academies...until the elections to the Academie Francaise of Jules Janin and, in particular...
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Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire
Book by Edgar Leon Newman, Robert Lawrence Simpson; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects: France--History--Louis Philip, 1830-1848--Dictionaries, France--History--Restoration, 1814-1830--Dictionaries, France--History--Second Republic, 1848-1852--Dictionaries
...historique et critique de la presse periodique francaise Paris, n.d. and Histoire du journal...historique et critique de la presse periodique francaise Paris, 1866 . Peter McPhee...1818, it was replaced by the Minerve francaise , which it took to court to regain its...
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International Dictionary of Literary Awards
Book by Jane Clapp; Scarecrow Press, 1963
Subjects: Literary Prizes, Literature--Competitions
...1962 Luc Estang . ACADEMIE FRANCAISE GRAND PRIX DU ROMAN France...prison maritime . ACADEMIE FRANCAISE PRIZE FOR A BOOK WRITTEN...Medal . 10 . ACADEMIE FRANCAISE PRIZES France The French...
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Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940
Book by Patrick H. Hutton, Amanda S. Bourque, Amy J. Staples; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940--Dictionaries
...P. H. H. The Dictionary A ACTION FRANCAISE 1898-1944 , a militantly nationalist...France. Founded in 1898, the Action francaise was hardly more than a nationalist study...Maurras launched the daily Action francaise in 1908. The newspaper, which became...
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journal articles on: AcadEmie FranCaise  - 132 results

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Introduction: The Virtue of Idiosyncrasy
Journal article by Stephane Gerson; French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 22, 2004
Subjects: Corbain, Alain--Criticism and interpretation, Cultural criticism, French history, Historians--Criticism and interpretation
...awarding him the 2000 Grand prix Gobert, the Academie francaise aptly extolled a work that "boldly extends...literary prizes, annual public meeting of the Academie francaise, 30 November 2000, www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/discours_ SPA/fumaroli.html...
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Publish and Perish: The 'Epuration' of French Intellectuals
Journal article by Diane Rubenstein; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 89, 1993
Subjects: Authors, French--Cases, Collaborationists, France, French writers--Cases, Intellectual life--Political aspects, World War, 1939-1945
...elite institutions such as the Academie Francaise did not affect the severity...July 1949. Pierre Benoit, Academie Francaise, released from Fresnes prison...hard labour. Abel Bonnard, Academie Francaise, sentenced to death in absentia...
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The Writer's Responsibility in France: From Flaubert to Sartre (1)
Journal article by Gisele Sapiro; French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 25, 2007
Subjects: Authors, French--Ethical aspects, Authors, French--Social aspects, Authors, French--Works, Flaubert, Gustave--Ethical aspects, Flaubert, Gustave--Works, French writers--Ethical aspects, French writers--Social aspects, French writers--Works, Sartre, Jean-Paul--Ethical aspects, Sartre, Jean-Paul--Works, Social responsibility--Analysis
...naturalist schools; members of the Academie Francaise and other, more classical...octogenarian member of the Academie Francaise, contested the interpretation...including thirteen members of the Academie Francaise and famous authors Marcel Ayme...
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Pierre Loti's Mon Frère Yves and Zola's Naturalism
Journal article by Michael G. Lerner; Romance Quarterly, Vol. 41, 1994
Subjects: Romance Philology
...in the contest for Octave Feuillets seat in the Academie Francaise in 1892 1 , he was keen to stress in his "discours...Glasgow Notes 1. On Lotis election to the Academie and reactions to his speech, see M. G. Lerner...
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Annotating a Career: From Pope's Homer to the Dunciad: From Madame Dacier to Madame Dacier by Way of Swift
Journal article by Howard D. Weinbrot; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2000
Subjects: English literature, 1700-1775 (Early 18th century)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Homer--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Iliad (Poem)--Publishing, Pope, Alexander--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Modern fifth columnist in the Academie Francaise who could neither read Greek...Louis XIVs protection of the Academie Francaise one of whose functions, Madame...worse, he operates from the Academie Francaise, "ce Corps si celebre, qui...
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magazine articles on: AcadEmie FranCaise  - 36 results

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The New Europe: Theatrical Adventures in Belgium, Italy, Germany, France and Norway
Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 23, May-June 2006
Subjects: Theater--Evaluation
...first African member of the Academie Francaise, helped form a bridge between...Prix du Jeune Theatre from Academie Francaise. Moreover, the organizers of...or her admittance into the Academie Francaise, and visibility in the political...
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Victor Hugo: The Ghost in the Pantheon
Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 21, October 2002
Subjects: French poetry, Hugo, Victor--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...beneath the monumental cupola of the Immortals at the Academie Francaise. Hugo, avid if not insatiable, gulped down outrage...complete.) Again, on the French website "La Poesie Francaise," more poems by Hugo are available than by any other...
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The Mouse That Ate France
Magazine article by Jenny Rees; National Review, Vol. 44, May 11, 1992
Subjects: Disneyland Paris--Social aspects, French (European people)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, French--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...Euro Disneyland, she declared, is a "cultural Chernobyl." In Le Figaro last week, her colleague, Jean Cau of the Academie Francaise, wrote of "this horror of cardboard, plastic, atrocious colors, solidified chewing-gum constructions, and idiotic...
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Notebook: It Must Be Tough, Being a Contemporary French Artist. All That Hinterland to Cope With
Magazine article by Rosie Millard; New Statesman, Vol. 135, May 29, 2006
Subjects: Art, French--Evaluation, Artists, French art--Evaluation
...artist. All that hinterland to cope with. All those mould-breaking forebears who had only to cock a snook at the Academie Francaise and a new western art movement was created for them. Nowadays you can take off all your clothes and run around...
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The Sacred Heart of Victor Hugo
Magazine article by Algis Valiunas; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2007
Subjects: Authors--Works, Books--Analysis, Hugo, Victor--Works, Les Miserables (Novel)--Analysis, The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Vargas, Mario--Works, Writers--Works
...the life of study, for a prize sponsored by the Academie francaise, and his prodigious success--the Academicians could...drama prevalent since Richelieus founding of the Academie francaise in 1635. Conservative patrons were aghast at, and...
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newspaper articles on: AcadEmie FranCaise  - 18 results

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1.
Willy Poole Column
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 8, 2007
...address to something called the Academie Francaise. This is a load of old Peters...worldly wise the members of the Academie are when they give the principal...but you see it is the Logique Francaise, a complete female contradiction...
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English 'Streamroller' Flattens French Culture: Chirac Takes a Stand for the Language
Newspaper article by Andrew Borowiec; The Washington Times, September 11, 1999
Subjects: Chirac, Jacques
...original title. English is very much "a la mode" here, regardless of the quasi-perpetual efforts of the prestigious Academie Francaise, prompted by President Jacques Chirac, to cleanse creeping Anglicisms from the language of Racine and Voltaire...
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English the Lingua Franca of Internet
Newspaper article by Jennifer Harper; The Washington Times, April 18, 1998
...Still, particularly the French, feel a cultural threat. Troubled with the "Anglophone Internet," the 360-year-old Academie Francaise, which guards the lyrical purity of the French language, has launched a Web site - in French, of course. French...
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NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL: English Has Nearly One Million Words
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 14, 2006
...terms. English has always taken a laissez-faire attitude to adopting words from other languages. By contrast, the Academie Francaise struggles Canute-like to keep foreign terms from the Gallic tongue, expunging words like corner kick from the French...
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FRENCH BAN EMAIL, BLOG AND POST BOX; (but They're OK with Courriel, Bloc and Boite Aux Lettres)
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 12, 2008
...from the culture ministrys language enforcers, the General Commission for Terminology, guided by the Academie Francaise. The stuffy Academie decides what the rules of the language are. It has no English equivalent. The website also reveals the...
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encyclopedia articles on: AcadEmie FranCaise  - 7 results

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1.
AcadÉmie FranÇaise
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACADEMIE FRANCAISE see French Academy . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Ballanche, Pierre-Simon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...pyer-semoN balaNsh , 1776 1847, French philosopher. A frequenter of Mme Recamiers salon, he was elected to the Academie francaise in 1842. He is regarded as the precursor of both liberal Catholicism and romanticism . In Palingenesie (1827...
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MÂle, Émile
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...iconography of the cathedrals of France. He was a director of the Academie de France a Rome and a member of the Academie Francaise. Among Males major works are LArt religieux du XIIIe siecle en France (1913, tr. The Gothic Image, 1958) and...
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Troyat, Henri
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Troyat, who wrote a total of 105 books, is especially noted for the lucidity of his prose. He was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1959. See his autobiographical novel, Aliocha (1991); study by N. Hewitt (1984...
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Green, Julian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...French bestseller. His plays include Sud (1953), LEnnemi (1954), and LOmbre (1956). He was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1971. See his autobiography (4 vol.; pub. in full 1984); Diary (1964), a partial translation of the journal...
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