Prayer in the Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Prayer in the Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Charles A. Spirn
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781433101380

This book casts a new light on Rousseau's personality and beliefs. Although the predominant thinkers of the time had a deistic outlook (God as distant and impersonal) and stressed rationalism and enlightenment, Rousseau stressed man's moral and spiritual aspects and needs, including praying to a God who listens and may respond. In this book, Charles A. Spirn has collected the prayers Rousseau wrote, which are scattered throughout his writings, thus publishing his acclaimed dissertation. Rousseau's beliefs are shown to be largely theistic, believing in a God who rules the world and has a personal, providential, and responsive relationship with humanity. He is increasingly seen as the most influential French thinker of the 18th century who challenged the great of his day. Both clergymen and laymen turned to him for guidance in spiritual and existential matters.

The complete guide to navigate on the Canal du Midi

The complete guide to navigate on the Canal du Midi
Author: The complete guide Editions
Publisher: Éditions Le guide indispensable
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2024-02-21
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

The Canal du Midi is a marvel of French engineering and a jewel of the country's cultural heritage. This waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean,crossing Southern France was built in the 17th century under the direction of Pierre-Paul Riquet.Today, the canal is a major tourist attraction and has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996. The canal is dotted with many works of art, such as locks, bridges, aqueducts, and tunnels, which bear witness to Riquet's ingenuity and that of his collaborators.The Canal du Midi is an example of French creativity and ingenuity, as well as a symbol of France's elegance and beauty it is associated with French history and culture, particularly with the Renaissance and the era of great builders and visionaries.In this complete guide, we present all the options for navigating the Canal du Midi. We also offer routes based on their different levels of difficulty, provide you with maps, and explain how to navigate the locks with illustrations. This is an essential comprehensive guide if you plan to rent a license-free boat for a cruise on the Canal du Midi.

Charles François Gounod

Charles François Gounod
Author: Timothy Flynn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0415973511

Charles François Gounod: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him and his compositions.

The Tour de France, Updated with a New Preface

The Tour de France, Updated with a New Preface
Author: Christopher S. Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0520351134

In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event—including posters, songs, novels, films, and media coverage—Thompson links the history of the Tour to key moments and themes in French history. Examining the enduring popularity of Tour racers, Thompson explores how their public images have changed over the past century. A new preface explores the long-standing problem of doping in light of recent scandals.

The Tour de France

The Tour de France
Author: Christopher S. Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2008-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520256301

"Shows that sport has been for us moderns the ultimate tabula rasa into which we pour our hopes, fears, prejudices and self-interest."—Robert A. Nye, author of Crime, Madness, & Politics in Modern France and Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France "Chris Thompson has written an engaging, nicely-paced account of France's world-famous cycle race: his writing is lively and full of detail and excitement. But he has done much more than simply narrate the story of the Tour. His book sets the race—its history, its participants and its meaning—firmly in its shifting national and cultural contexts. The sections dealing with professional cycling as a form of labor and with the Tour's place in France's troubled twentieth century are absolutely first-rate: insightful and original. This is the best history of the Tour that we have and are likely to have for many years, a work of scholarship that deserves to find a broad general readership."—Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Volume III

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Volume III
Author: Geoffrey P. Megargee
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 1017
Release: 2018-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253023866

Accounts of significant sites in Hungary, Vichy France, Italy, and other nations, part of the multi-volume reference praised as a “staggering achievement” (Jewish Daily Forward). This third volume in the monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, prepared by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, offers a comprehensive account of camps and ghettos in, or run by, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Vichy France (including North Africa). Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses to persecution; demographic changes; and details of the ghetto’s liquidation. Personal testimonies help convey the character of each ghetto, while source citations provide a guide to additional information. Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites—previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust—make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.

France and the American Tropics to 1700

France and the American Tropics to 1700
Author: Philip P. Boucher
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2008-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801887259

This original narrative demonstrates that the transition to sugar and the plantation complex was more gradual in the French properties than generally depicted--and that it was not inevitable.--Robert Forster, The Johns Hopkins University "Journal of World History"