First French Book

First French Book
Author: Lawrence Augustus Wilkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1923
Genre: French language
ISBN:

La Habanera

La Habanera
Author: Raoul Laparra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1908
Genre: Operas
ISBN:

Gabriel Faure

Gabriel Faure
Author: Graham Johnson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780754659600

The career of Gabriel Fauré as a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921); almost the whole history of French mélodie is contained within these parameters. In this book, the distinguished accompanist and song scholar Graham Johnson places the vocal music within twin contexts: Fauré's own life story, and the parallel lives of his many poets. Each of Fauré's 109 songs receives a separate commentary. Additional chapters for the student singer and serious music-lover discuss interpretation and performance in both aesthetical and practical terms and Richard Stokes provides parallel English translations of the original French texts.

The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille

The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
Author: Zina Weygand
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2009-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 080477238X

The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin Haüy, the great benefactor of blind people. Weygand paints a moving picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially-sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze-Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. She has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an impressive array of poems, plays, and novels.The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.

The History of Signboards

The History of Signboards
Author: Jacob Larwood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2022-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752555998

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.