La Marche Research Articles

Gender, Space and Ageing in Marie Rouanet’s La Marche Lente Des Glaciers and Du Côté Des Hommes

In this paper, I discuss the relationship between gender, space and ageing in Marie Rouanet’s La Marche lente des glaciers (1994) and Du Côté des hommes (2001). Space, Rouanet suggests, is the formative element of gender identity, and in these two works she traces how women’s and men’s relationship to space evolves across the life cycle. As Rouanet shows, gender roles and spatial relationships are not static, but rather change as a result of physiological decline and age-based norms, at times leading to clear spatial delimitation, at times to a sharing of spatial parameters. My paper also assesses Rouanet’s contribution in these two works to contemporary debate on space, identity and empowerment and to our conceptualisation of gender and old age.

Settlement pattern, environmental factors and ethnic background on a southwestern Quebec frontier (1795–1842)

In studies of frontier settlement patterns, different site factors are recognized as influential on the immigrant settlement process. Environmental factors such as soil features, while widely cited as crucial, have rarely been studied in enough depth to measure their relationship to other phenomena such as ethnic attractiveness. Qualitative and quantitative case studies in early 19th century Godmanchester township's sequence of land occupancy indicate that pioneer settlers in this region of Quebec were influenced by a mixed set of factors that changed over time. In reconstructing Godmanchester's land colonization process and pattern based on local historical sources and Lower‐Canada manuscript censuses of 1825, 1831 and 1842, the traditional way of understanding such processes was put into question. Geomorphological deposits, while remaining a relatively decisive factor in determining settlement patterns until the end of the 1820s, were gradually displaced by ethnic proximity, as revealed in censuses up to 1842. To understand this settlement pattern, one must consider the pioneers' goals from their perspective: they were primarily interested in self‐sufficiency and were not all necessarily market‐oriented farmers. From this standpoint, attractive land to settle seems more appropriate than the standard assumption of good land for cash‐crop farming.Dans les études portant sur la colonisation des fronts pionniers, les variables reconnues susceptibles d'orienter la marche du peuplement sont multiples. Pour expliquer la localisation des colons, une majorité de ruralistes accorde la prépondérance aux propriétés du sol. Bien qu'elle soit considérée déterminante par plusieurs, l'attirance ethnique ne se voit pas attribuer une importance équivalente. Afin d'évaluer le rôle respectifde ces deux facteurs, nous avons reconstitué l'occupation initiale du sol dans le canton de Godmanchester (Québec). Pour y parvenir, nous avons consulté l'historiographie locale et dépouillé les recensements nominatifs de 1825, 1831 et 1842. Nos résultats indiquent que les deux variables examinées exercent une influence sur l'orientation du peuplement mais que leur attrait respectif ne s'exprime pas nécessairement au même moment. Après avoir été décisifs jusqu'à la fin des années 1820, les dépôts de surface semblent ensuite perdent de leur influence au profit de l'attirance ethnique. Pour comprendre ce patron d'implantation, il importe de reconnaître que les colons sont des producteurs résidentiels plutôt que des agriculteurs commerciaux. Ces derniers recherchent probablement davantage des sites facilitant l'établissement de leur famille que des terres propices à l'agriculture de marché.

Olivier de la Marche: l'homme dans l'œuvre

The article looks at Olivier de la Marche as a person, as revealed in his Memoires, and at his place in the context of other historical writing at the court of the dukes of Burgundy. It reviews existing research on him. His aim in writing was to set down his experiences as a courtier and diplomat; his angle was personal rather than providing an overall view. While his work is especially valued for the detail it provides on tournaments and official functions, we may glean much about the man himself: his modesty, occasional wisdom, truthfulness, integrity, enthusiasm at his active role and his presence at important events, his loyalty to his patrons but also his clearsighted disapproval of some aspects of their behaviour. His style can be lively, providing cleverly observed sketches of people and situations, and he uses contemporary literary images and devices. Instances of all these aspects are shown in quotations from the text. We conclude that he was a 'memorialiste' rather than a chronicler, and that the charm of his work lies in the way he shares his personal experiences with the reader.

Olivier de la Marche: Le Chevalier delibere (The Resolute Knight). Edited by Carleton W. Carroll. Translated by Lois Hawley Wilson and Carleton W. Carroll. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 199). Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. 352 pp. Hb $53.00.

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access OLIVIER DE LA MARCHE: Le Chevalier deliberé (The Resolute Knight). Edited by CARLETON W. CARROLL Translated by LOIS HAWLEY WILSON and CARLETON W. CARROLL (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 199). Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. 352 pp. Hb $53.00. ADRIAN ARMSTRONG ADRIAN ARMSTRONG UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LV, Issue 2, April 2001, Pages 228–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LV.2.228 Published: 01 April 2001

"The Resolved Gentleman" : Lewis Lewkenor, Olivier de La Marche and the consciousness of Burgundy

"The Resolved Gentleman" : Lewis Lewkenor, Olivier de La Marche and the consciousness of Burgundy

Un projet avorté d'intégration républicaine. L'institution nationale des colonies (1797-1802)

A failed plan for republican integration : the National Institution for the Colonies (1797-1802). The former Collège de la Marche in Paris was the site of an original republican experiment during the First Republic, aimed at providing a common education for the sons of the new (essentially black and mulatto) West Indian ruling class that emerged during the revolution and for the heirs to the great white planter families. There were also to be some sons of colonial civil servants and of Oriental dignitaries. The experiment was directed by abbé Coisnon, a friend of Grégoire's and a contact of Toussaint-Louverture's in 1802. It was encouraged by the Minister for the Navy, Truguet, in 1797, under the auspices of the representatives of the colony of Saint-Domingo at the Directoire legislature. This experiment shows, even more clearly than other institutions, the official colonial policy of the Directoire, which was republican integration. Its sudden closure under the Consulat, together with the reestablishment of West Indian slavery, shows how important was the change in May 1802, marking a break with Enlightenment principles of emancipation.

Intrusion level of granitic massifs along the Hercynian belt: balancing the eroded crust

Hercynian granitoid intrusions form a long (3200 km) belt comparable in size to other batholiths in the world. Six massifs have been selected which encompass Cabeza de Araya (Extremadura, Spain), Guitiriz (Galicia, Spain), Pontivy and Mortagne (Brittany, France), La Marche (Massif Central, France) and Fichtelgebirge (Bavaria, Germany). Detailed gravity surveys over these massifs and subsequent inversion provide their shape at depth. Correlation of the deeper zones with internal structures determine the place of the root zones. The shape of the massifs is examined along the strike of the chain. The emplacement of individual massifs is controlled by local tectonics. Most granites are not deeply rooted, but one massif (Cabeza de Araya, Spain) shows a root zone presently as deep as 14 km. Most have about half of their volume in the first 3 km below the present surface. Estimates of the magma volume transferred result in 1500 km 3 issued from one specific feeder, yielding a total of 70,000 km 3 of magma intruded all along the chain. The depth of emplacement of the granitic massifs does not show any significant trend along the strike of the chain. The shallower massifs in the French Massif Central correspond to more deeply eroded areas in the center of the chain. Their root zone, as well as the change in the dip of the walls, are presently observed at depths ranging between 4 and 6 km in Hercynian granites. Both variations are interpreted as being related to the brittle/ductile transition at the time of emplacement. Gross thermal considerations place the transition at its former place during magma emplacement, indicating that the upper crust has not been eroded by more than 6–8 km. This estimate severely contrasts with models involving a doubled crust.

Footsteps and Hauntings: the Theory and Practice of the ‘Romantic Biographer’in Richard Holmes’Footsteps and Jacques Reda's Le Sens de la marche

From an investigation of four biographic studies of figures from France and England's Romantic Generation, as they unfold in Richard Holmes’Footsteps. Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985), and under the dual theme of footsteps and hauntings, a working definition is established of the Romantic Biographer. This definition is then applied to Jacques Réda's Le Sens de la marche (1990) where a sequence of chapters on La Fontaine, Wordsworth, Renard, Proust and Follain are structured around similar notions of journeying, identifying and creating. A number of parallels are elucidated between the two authors, their biographic enterprise and the limits this places on their own developmental or creative processes.

Gait initiation and impairments of ground reaction forces as illustrated in old age by `La marche à petits pas'

Ground reaction forces during gait initiation and kinematics of the first step were recorded in 11 elderly patients with idiopathic `marche à petits pas' and 18 age-matched normal adults. Smaller values of vertical forces, and impaired amplitudes and directions of anteroposterior forces might explain start difficulties of the patients. Higher vertical displacement of the foot, and laborious establishment of the rhythm in the patients could also be related to the perturbations observed in the reaction forces. These perturbations are likely to reflect impairments of muscular synergies of the lower limbs and the lack of limb co-ordination.

Kinematic and kinetic analysis of “la marche à petits pas”*

To better understand “la marche à petits pas”, we focused on ground reactions forces, a key interface between muscular activity and gait kinematics. Computerized recordings were used to measure kinematic and kinetic variables in 11 patients aged between 65 and 84 years and 13 control subjects aged between 65 and 86 years. Kinematics was studied with an ELITE 3D motion analysis system. Anteroposterior and vertical reaction forces were measured under each foot with three force platforms. Free gait and gait with comparable stride lengths in the patients and the control subjects were analysed. Patients displayed higher vertical displacements of toes, ankle, and knee during gait and difficulty in initiating and maintaining rhythmic stepping. In patients, the amplitude and direction of anteroposterior forces were impaired under the starting foot and under both feet during gait. Their vertical forces were weaker and less symmetrical than in control subjects at the start and while walking. Short stride lengths, high vertical foot displacements and laborious rhythm installation seem to be due to perturbations observed in amplitude and regularity of the time course in both vertical and anteroposterior ground reaction forces.

The La Marche Antler Revisited

In the last issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal (Vol. 5:2, October 1995) Francesco d'Errico presented a new analysis of the La Marche antler, one of the most intriguing examples of Palaeolithic ‘notation’. That article has stimulated the following response from Alexander Marshack, who for many years has been a leading researcher in this field. On p. 111 below, Francesco d'Errico replies to Marshack's critique.

A New Model and its Implications for the Origin of Writing: The La Marche Antler Revisited

Current models for the origin of writing do not pay sufficient attention to the origin and early development of means adopted by modern humans to record, transmit and process information outside the human body. The present article attempts to fill this gap by elaborating a theoretical model able to classify and describe the variability of these systems. The model is applied to the study of the engraved antler from La Marche, one of the better-known Palaeolithic objects to have been interpreted as an early system of notation. Technical analysis of the marks, through application of a range of experimental criteria, suggests that the sets of marks carved on this object should be interpreted as an artificial memory system with a complex code based on the morphology and the spatial distribution of the engraved marks. These results have important implications for current theories on the origin of writing.

Dendrochronological Investigation of Halocarpus biformis (Pink Pine) from a Site at the West Arm of Lake Manapouri in New Zealand

A dendrochronological study has been made of a Halocarpus biformis (pink pine (= yellow pine)) chronology (La Marche et al. 1979) obtained from a site at the west arm of Lake Manapouri, New Zealand. The 410 year chronology has considerable low frequency variance, a low mean sensitivity value and no significant periodicities in the power spectrum of less than 13 years. A significant relationship (P < 0.01) exists between ENSO events in the previous spring and growth in the following year. The two other New Zealand Halocarpus species would also appear to have dendrochronological potential.

The Word Eclipsed? Preaching in the Early Middle Ages

The modern interest in and study of medieval sermon literature was first driven by a combination of confessional acrimony and professional scholarship. L. Bourgain, Albert Lecoy de la Marche, Richard Albert, Rudolf Cruel, Anton Linsenmayer, and G. R. Owst combed through the archives to uncover the written remains of medieval preaching, and what they discovered came as a surprise to those who had been raised on the Protestant black legend of a mute medieval Church. For quantity and variety the period from the twelfth century to the Reformation must count as one (or several) of the great ages of pulpit activity. In fact, on the eve of the Reformation there was some concern that too much was being preached too often. For example, as a result of complaints by laity and clergy alike, in 1508 the Bishop of Breslau ordered a limit on the number of sermons preached in the city. To be sure, modern judgments concerning the quality of that preaching in both style and content vary with the confessional stance and aesthetic preferences of the individual scholar. But of the late medieval dedication to preaching in season and out there can be no doubt.

Reviews

Raymond Trousson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. I. La marche à la gloire, reviewed by Aubrey Rosenberg Kenneth M. McKay, Many Glancing Colours: An Essay in Reading Tennyson 1809–1850, reviewed by W. David Shaw Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies, eds., The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 3, 1903–1907, reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers Valerie Eliot, ed., The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 1, 1898–1922, reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers Rudy Wiebe, Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic, reviewed by W. J. Keith

The "Sale" of Carcassonne to the Counts of Barcelona (1067-1070) and the Rise of the Trencavels

Early in 1067 Count Roger of Carcassonne known to some modern historians as Roger II and to others as Roger III died without direct descendants and probably intestate. He was still a young man. Roger was son of Rangard of La Marche and Count Peter-Raimond. With many others he proudly traced his lineage back to tenth-century Count Roger the Old and his brother Odo and through them claimed a cousinage to counts and countesses from high valleys of Pyrenees to ancient cities on Mediterranean. By time of Roger's death houses of Foix, Comminges, Couserans, Beziers-Albi-Nfmes, Bigorre, Barcelona, Navarre, and Aragon were all related through male descent, through daughters who had married out, or through heiresses who had married in. They were but remnant of an even larger number of branch lineages, three of which came to an end in 1060s.I Unlike their neighbors of Toulouse, who systematically joined place names

1987 Presidential Address: King Arthur, Banqueting, and Cultural Literacy

The SCMLA luncheon is not usually remembered as the highlight of one's trip to our annual convention; much less so the presidential address. Yet here I am, standing before you, to play my appointed role in a ritual that perhaps bears some examination from time to time. It might be a good idea, I think, to ask ourselves why we are here this afternoon-and, also, why more of us are not here. Those of us at the head table are here by virtue of our varying functions within the organization: officers of the association, members of the executive committee, members of our journal's staff. We're here because we have to be here; but the rest of you had a choice, and I would wager you didn't spend $12 for a catered hotel lunch in the expectation of culinary delights. Perhaps you came because you had arranged to meet a friend, or because you were not adventuresome enough to risk the multiple offerings of the Galleria, or because you wished to lobby for a specific item on the agenda. But most likely you came here because you wished to reaffirm your own role in the association, to indicate that you too are a member and wish to be counted, to make your own silent statement of belief in the value of this society. Although our organization modestly calls today's meal a luncheon, as a shared and festive occasion it is more properly termed a banquet, though today that implies tastier and more copious food than one can reasonably expect in these circumstances. Nonetheless, a banquet it is and, being a medievalist by profession, I cannot resist drawing an analogy between our situation here and that of medieval banqueters. It would be almost impossible, I suspect, to find a medieval romance that does not contain a banquet, for feasting and rejoicing were two of the principal pleasures of medieval man. At its simplest, a medieval banquet was a meal shared by a host with his guest, an essential component of the hospitality motif. At its most complex, it was a Burgundian court festivity of the fifteenth century. Olivier de la Marche, who chronicled many of these fetes, needed almost a hundred pages to describe the week-long feast for Charles of Burgundy and Margaret of York at Bruges in 1468, at which a tower forty-six feet high was erected on the banquet table and the twelve labors of Hercules were

Four Gallican Bishops in Exile: Concepts of Episcopacy in the Face of Revolution

WHEN THE BISHOPS of the French Church were confronted with the final form of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790 they presented an almost united front of opposition to the new order. Their ideological and social solidarity remained substantially intact in the protracted exile which, with the victory of the revolutionary party, was the almost inevitable consequence of their shared refusal. This was nowhere more apparent than in London where the largest single concentration of exiled bishops gathered. But, given the general concord, there was a subtle variety of response, a continuation of the debate leading up to the Civil Constitution in which many of the bishops had taken part, to the events beginning with the Civil Constitution and ending with the Napoleonic Concordat, which throws some light on the attitudes of these men to their office of bishop. This paper focuses attention on four of the London bishops: La Marche, Dillon, Thémines and Boisgelin; and suggests, from their example, four possible views of, or approaches to, the episcopate.

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Palaeozoic evolution of the Plateau d’Aigurande (NW Massif Central, France)

Summary The Plateau d’Aigurande represents the north-westernmost part of the French Massif Central. It is overlain by the sediments of the Paris Basin to the north and bounded by the La Marche shear zone to the south. Detailed mapping, mainly from the Creuse Valley region, indicates thrust and nappe tectonics. Beginning at the base of the sequence one can recognize: (1) the Fougères unit (schists of low to medium grade) intruded by syntectonic leucogranites; (2) the Eguzon unit (medium- to high-grade schists which are partly diaphtoretic in the lower part of the unit); (3) the Gargilesse unit (high-grade schists); and (4) the Migmatitic unit. The metasediments of the Fougères, Eguzon and Gargilesse units were originally coarse grained clastics. They are interbanded with magmatic units (orthogneisses and amphibolites). The migmatites are derived from greywacke-type rocks intruded by magmatic rocks (orthogneisses and amphibolites). Following a high-pressure (Silurian?) tectonometamorphic event, the piling up of tectonostratigraphic units occurred during two periods of deformation. The main one, probably of late Caledonian (Acadian?) age, was synchronous with or slightly after the climax of metamorphism. The second, of Westphalian age, was accompanied by the emplacement of leucogranitic magma and by retrograde metamorphism. The shear-sense appears to have been from SW to NE during the Acadian phase and from NW to SE during the Westphalian. Structural and lithological studies suggest that the three lowermost units may have been derived from the same palaeogeographic domain while the migmatites have a distinctly different history.