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Preserving Tradition, Embracing Innovation Mohsen Foroughi's Maison de'lIran

Iranian architecture has left its mark on world history, with its influence reaching the farthest corners of Europe through the creation of Byzantine architecture. The traditional architecture of Iran, as described by Professor Pirnia, is built upon five principles. These principles highlight the evolution of Iranian civilization over time. Mohsen Foroughi, an exemplary Iranian architect, has skillfully merged the essence of Iranian architecture with contemporary ideals, exemplified by his masterpiece, the "Maison de l’Iran" in Paris, designed in a modern style. In this study, we aimed to explore how Foroughi incorporated these five principles of Iranian architecture into his project in France. Employing a descriptive and analytical method, we assessed the physical and structural components of Iranian architecture, examining how Foroughi's work aligns with the principles and values of Iranian architecture. Our findings demonstrate that Foroughi is in line with traditional Iranian architectural values, contextual materials, and climate-friendly design in his works. Furthermore, Foroughi's expertise in Statics, Material Studies, and Structural techniques sciences enabled him to successfully execute large-scale projects. The Maison de l’Iran exemplifies his understanding of modern styles while honoring the principles of Iranian architecture. His work has been instrumental in shaping modern Iranian architecture, reflecting his artistic creativity and inspiration from Iran's architectural heritage.

“Reste en écho la voix” – Itzhak Katzenelson’s Dos lid fun oysgehargetn yidishn folk in Batia Baum’s French Translation

This essay offers a discussion of Batia Baum’s translation of Katzenelson’s elegy into French. Opening with a presentation of the Maison de la culture yiddish – Bibliothèque Medem and Baum’s achievements as a translator from Yiddish, the article highlights the significance of the poem written in France during the German occupation and published in Paris shortly after WW2. In an illustrative analysis, challenges of the text are addressed and Baum’s choices are presented.

Le crime à deux, la folie à deux : Étude du mécanisme de contagion. À propos de l’article de Paul Moreau de Tours : « Le crime à deux » paru en 1893 dans le numéro 18 des Annales Médico-Psychologiques

Eldest son of Jacques Moreau de Tours, Paul Moreau de Tours followed in his father's footsteps and chose a career as an alienist, first at La Salpêtrière and then at the Maison de Santé in Ivry. He was president of the Société Médico-Psychologique in 1885. His work was extensive, and among his various topics, the themes of suicide and criminology were both, in some cases, underpinned by the phenomenon of person-to-person contagion, highlighting the role of the Press as a contributing factor. In this article “le crime à deux”, published in issue 18 of the Annales Médico-Psychologiques in 1893, he draws an analogy with the concept of “folie à deux” as described by Jules Falret and Charles Lasègue, by studying the mechanism of contagion.

HOW CAN DYING, DEATH, LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT BE INCORPORATED IN THE POLICY AND PRACTICE OF AGING IN PLACE?

Abstract ‘Aging in place’ has been one of the key goals for policymakers in the last 20 years, often translated into policies of deinstitutionalization. Due to the high costs of residential care, the home has re-emerged as a key site for the provision and consumption of care and support. Several critiques of this evolution have been formulated, including the challenges ageing in place might represent for older people, leading to reduced quality of life, and the need to consider low quality of older people’s houses, meaning that older people’s homes might not be the “best” places to age. However, what has received too little attention in the whole “aging in place” discourse is the end-of-life. This symposium addresses this by illustrating that we cannot talk about ageing in place without talking about dying in place. The authors present research on how dying, death, loss and bereavement might be included in the ageing-in-place policy and practice: Doran sets the stage with a critical reflection of ageing in place and the need to reflect on joining up ageing in place and end-of-life theory and practice. Smetcoren reports on the development of a ‘maison de mourance’ in a ‘co-housing and co-caring’ project in Brussels. Dury discusses consolation spaces in Flanders and how they decrease the taboo on death, grief and loss in the neighborhood. And Stegen reports on the caring neighbourhood-movement in Belgium and how some orient themselves to becoming part of a worldwide network of ‘compassionate communities’.

Notice biographique sur le Dr Achille Delmas (1879–1947). Troisième partie : la fin de la maison de santé d’Ivry – Achille Delmas et les soins aux alcooliques et toxicomanes

Achille Delmas also treated patients affected by alcoholism and drug addiction at the “maison de santé d’Ivry”. As his student Itzko Bussel explained in his thesis, Delmas showed his patients a kindly and compassionate demeanor and did not seek to wean them off their drug at all cost. Maurice Utrillo's stay at the facility was beneficial as it ended a long series of forced hospitalizations due to delirious drunkenness. By contrast, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, who was affected by a severe addiction to opium-containing drugs, sank into a fatal decay after his stay. Antonin Artaud's stay is detailed and a parallel is drawn between the care given to him in Rodez by Dr Gaston Ferdière and Dr Delmas’ more indulgent attitude.

Literature between Collecting and Hoarding: Revisiting the Object in François Bon, Lydia Flem, and Georges Perec

Abstract Recent readings in literature stress the interdependence of the mental and the material, hence offering a bridge between material culture and literary interpretation. This article develops this line of thought using the concepts of collecting and hoarding as two configurations that undermine both the logic of the commodity and the opposition between materiality and semiotics. Specifically, it discusses these topics within the scope of French studies through a revision of the position of the object or thing in the works of François Bon (Autobiographie des objets), Lydia Flem (Comment j’ai vidé la maison de mes parents), and Georges Perec (Les Choses, Penser/classer, and Je me souviens). In the first section, Bon’s sentimental form of collecting is defined as a practice of material self-mourning. In the second section, comparative discussion of Bon and Flem examines themes of memory and mourning through the practices of decluttering and profanation of stuff. The third section of the article connects with recent theories of reading and examines Perec through a ‘surface reading’: instead of symptomatic readings, which follow the logic of the commodity to presume a hidden value behind brute materiality, this reading explores various texts by Perec in which hoarding is at the very surface, manifested in the reader’s experience.

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

Notice biographique sur le Dr Achille Delmas (1879–1947). Deuxième partie : la maison de santé d’Ivry et fin de carrière à la « Médico »

From 1911 to 1947, Dr Achille Delmas was the medical director of one of the most well-known mental health facilities in the Paris area, “la maison de santé d’Ivry-sur-Seine”, founded by J.-E. Esquirol. With his younger brother Paul, he treated numerous – sufficiently wealthy – patients, whose pathologies ranged from terminal forms of General Paralysis, as in the case of the writers Charles Carrington and Louis Chadourne, to perversion, as in the case of the soon-to-be infamous Dr Petiot, as well as psychosis, as in the case of Lucia Joyce, James’ daughter, who spent ten years at this facility. Achille Delmas was a bedrock of the Société Médico-Psychologique, serving as its president from 1941 to 1942. In his speeches, he remained true to his conservative positions, staying faithful to the obsolete diagnosis of Dementia Praecox, and, above all, remained steadfastly convinced that bipolar disorders (such as a cycloidal temperament) were frequently misdiagnosed. In his eulogy, Professor Minkowski implied that Achille Delmas was himself affected by such a temperament.

Textualizing the Maison de retraite in Contemporary Narratives by Francophone Women Authors

In Care Home Stories, Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg emphasize the need "to tell new and better stories about institutional care," arguing that retirement homes provide "a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population" (17). This article examines the diverse ways in which "nursing-home-narrative fiction" (Life 191) by Francophone women authors raises critical questions about longevity and the ethics of care. Given their strong emphasis on modalities of care and their call for dignity and respect, these engaged narratives constitute powerful examples of "protest literature" (Gullette 80) and, as such, make a significant contribution to humanistic gerontology.

Management of patients with chronic kidney disease: a French medical centre database analysis.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an insidious disease that requires early nephroprotective measures to delay progression to end-stage kidney disease. The objective of this study was to describe the management of patients with CKD in primary care, including clinical and biological monitoring and prescribed treatments. A retrospective, single-centre study was conducted on adult patients who were treated in the Maison de Neufchâtel (France) between 2012 and 2017 at least once a year. The inclusion criteria were 2 estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) measurements <60 mL/min more than 3 months apart. Two subgroups were constituted according to whether CKD was coded in the electronic medical records (EMRs). A total of 291 (6.7%, CI95% 5.9-7.4) patients with CKD were included. The mean eGFR was 51.0 ± 16.4 mL/min. Hypertension was the most frequent health problem reported (n = 93, 32%). Nephrotective agents were prescribed in 194 (66.7%) patients, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in 22 (8%) patients, and proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) in 147 (47%) patients. CKD coding in EMRs was associated with dosage of natraemia (n = 34, 100%, P < 0.01), albuminuria (n = 20, 58%, P < 0.01), vitamin D (n = 14, 41%, P < 0.001), and phosphorus (n = 11, 32%, P < 0.001). Eighty-one patients (31.5%) with low eGFR without an entered code for CKD were prescribed an albuminuria dosage. Clinical monitoring could not be analysed due to poor coding. This pilot study reinforces the hypothesis that CKD is underscreened and undermanaged. More systematic coding of medical information in EMRs and further studies on medical centre databases should improve primary care practices.

Childhood, Redemption, and l'écriture de soi : Colette's La chambre éclairée and La maison de Claudine

Abstract: This article examines the child figure in Colette's work, analyzed as a means to a literary redemption after Colette's initiation into literature through another work depicting a child, Claudine à l'école . The reintegration of the child figure is presaged by the appearance in early works, especially La vagabonde , of images of the archetypal "divine" child. The child figure is then integrated into stories, first featuring Colette's daughter Bel-Gazou, then the child Colette herself. The theme of play, traced in vignettes from La chambre éclairée and La maison de Claudine , reveals a process by which Colette reintegrates the child figure into her textual self. This then participates in giving voice to Colette's écriture de soi .

After Molière (1673–1689)

Abstract Molière was, above all, a man of the theatre: an actor and administrator as well his company’s chief playwright, his death in 1673 was a blow from which many thought his company would not recover. This article examines the fifteen or so years following his death to determine how his immediate successors overcame the difficulties his death presented in each of these three areas. Above all, we see them struggling to protect his works from the danger of over-familiarity, while casting round to find new comic authors to replace him (including from among their own number). And in so doing, they almost coincidentally laid the foundations of the venerable institution we know today as the ‘Maison de Molière’.

Food insecurity in households of children receiving care at a paediatric obesity management clinic in Montreal: Overall prevalence and changes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

ObjectivesFood insecurity and paediatric obesity are two major public health issues in Canada that may have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed food insecurity and its correlates among households of children receiving care at a paediatric obesity management clinic in Montreal. We also assessed whether the prevalence of food insecurity among households of children who received care during the COVID-19 pandemic differed from those who received care before it.MethodsThis is a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of medical records of children (2 to 17 years) who received care at a paediatric obesity management clinic in Montreal (Maison de santé prévention – Approche 180 [MSP-180]). Children’s household food security status was assessed using Health Canada’s Household Food Security Survey Module.ResultsAmong the 253 children included in the study, 102 (40.3%) lived in households with moderate (n=89; 35.2%) or severe food insecurity (n=13; 5.1%). Food insecurity was more prevalent in households of children who were first- or second-generation immigrants compared with those who were third generation or more (48.3% versus 30.1%; P=0.03). Prevalence of food insecurity among households of children who received care during the COVID-19 pandemic was 5.5% higher than among those who received care before the pandemic, but the difference was not statistically significant (39.6% versus 45.1%; P=0.65).ConclusionsForty per cent of children treated at this paediatric obesity clinic lived in a food insecure household. This prevalence may have increased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but statistical power was insufficient to confirm it.

Metal‐Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Structures, and Applications

Metal‐Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Structures, and Applications

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Foodways in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Edited by Sylvie Yona Waksman (Archéologies 4). Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée 2020. Pp. 508. €65. ISBN 978-2-35668-070-9 (paper).

<i>Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Foodways in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean</i> Edited by Sylvie Yona Waksman (Archéologies 4). Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée 2020. Pp. 508. €65. ISBN 978-2-35668-070-9 (paper).

"I have observed anxious children who hurt themselves to avoid school."

Christine Baveux is a classics teacher. After having worked in various schools, she joined the team of the Maison de Solenn- Maison des adolescents of the Cochin Hospital as a schooling manager in 2005. Her career, rich in experience, has enabled her to appreciate the suffering that some adolescents may experience at school, a suffering often expressed on the physical level.

L’atelier Bomoko en hôpital de jour pour adolescents obèses

The Bomoko workshop of the Maison de Solenn-Maison des adolescents of the Cochin hospital is aimed at obese adolescents who are treated at the day hospital during a therapeutic education day. It was born from the common and multidisciplinary desire of a team to propose an innovative device combining psychomotricity and Photolanguage® to encourage the connection between body sensations, emotions and thoughts. Thanks to the time of body mediation, the work of expression and psychic elaboration is facilitated during the Photolanguage®.

Talking groups, a time for growing up

During adolescence, hospitalization, which accompanies the process of separation and individuation, is a time for self-reflection. Within the framework of the weekly discussion group for young people hospitalized at the Maison de Solenn-Maison des adolescents of the Cochin Hospital in Paris, the latter were able, thanks to group containment and its dynamics, to think about their care and to take an active part in it.

La prego di voler gradire una mia Carta dei prodotti alimentari…

The Authors examine some elements of the work of the great cartographer Benedetto Marzolla (1801-1858) who, together with Carlo Afàn de Rivera, represents the best among the intellectuals and technicians that the Kingdom of Two Sicilies yielded before the Italian unification. This contrasts with the commonplace outlined be the Savoyard-Risorgimental propaganda which describes Naples and the Kingdom as a country inhabited by incapables, depraved and lazy persons. The Authors resume the theme of the Map of Nourishing Products, an excellent work not only because it describes the terrestrial and marine nourishing productions, but also for the connection with many agrarian landscapes and relative trades. Moreover, the Authors present the Map of Excise Duty (1830) another work of Marzolla together with Valentino, never known or considered by cartography scholars. This map does not seem to be cited inside the catalogues or inventories about Marzolla’s production, compiled by Valerio or by others authors in the frame of the analysis of the Royal Topographical Office of Naples (ROT), especially along the second half of the XIX century. The “modernity” of Marzolla manifests not only in consideration of anti-historical comparisons with actual excellent or “organic” food products, but for the analogies with the original proposals of Brunet, Ferras and other academics of the Maison de la Géographie. Unfortunately, Italian geographers have devoted little attention to this field of study.

"We Thought We Were Alone": The Subjective Experience of the Siblings of Anorexic Adolescent Patients.

Objective: The siblings of patients suffering from Anorexia Nervosa (AN) are potentially affected by a disturbed emotional experience that often remains undetected. In order to bring them a psychological support, the Maison de Solenn proposed a support group program for these siblings. The current research explores their mental representations of AN and their emotional experience in the support group named “sibling group.”Method: This exploratory study is based on a phenomenological and inductive qualitative method. Four girls and three boys aged between 6 and 19 participating in the “sibling group” were included in a one-time focus group session using a semi-structured interview guide. The thematic data analysis was performed by applying the methods of interpretative phenomenological analysis.Results: Themes that emerged from the interview fall into four categories: AN explained by siblings; the individual emotional experience of siblings; the family experience of siblings and the experience inside the “sibling group.”Discussion: According to our participants, the “sibling group” thus functions as a good compromise between keeping an active role in the anorexic patient's care and taking a step back to avoid being eaten up by the illness. Sibling-group participants retrieved a sense of belonging, which is normally one of the functions of being a sibling. It is important to note that the “sibling group” is part of the comprehensive (or global) family-based approach included in an institutional multidisciplinary integrative care framework.