Success In France Research Articles

TEFFİ’NİN MİZAH ANLAYIŞI

Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lohvitskaya, who was the first and the most famous woman humorist writer of the 20th century in Russian literature, continued her literary success in France, as well in Russia, until the October Revolution in 1917. In the period of Tsarist Russia, Teffi`s popularity, attributed to her poems and humoristic stories, was so great that candies and perfumes were named after her. As a result of the events in October producing inability to adapt to the drastic changes occurring after that, Teffi decided to move abroad. She lived in Istanbul for a few months and then went to France. She lived in France for 32 years, never returning back to Russia. All the motifs and humoristic elements in Teffi`s early works were mixed with melancholy and nostalgia due to emigration. Nevertheless, humor stayed as an integral part of her works. In this study it has been analyzed how the writer’s humor perception changed as a result of the hard conditions and tragedy involved in emigration.

For the Abolition of the Death Penalty in America: The Advocacy of Robert Badinter

This essay reviews two books by Robert Badinter, former President of France's Constitutional Council and former French Minister of Justice. Taken together, they describe his successful advocacy against the death penalty in France, both in the courtroom and in the political arena. The essay focuses on his current goal of advancing the cause of abolition in the United States, as expressed in Contre la peine de mort . After making the case that arguments against the death penalty are for the most part unoriginal and unconvincing to non-abolitionists, the essay maintains that successful opposition to capital punishment must be based primarily on the strategies and tactics of the advocate. It then goes on to explore and analyze the reasons for Badinter's success in France, and concludes by stressing Badinter's ability to exercise a highly nuanced judgment, grounded in his historical and literary sensibilities, that enables him to be flexible and adaptable as his advocacy takes different forms or as situations develop in unpredictable ways.

Can the large ecological amplitude of Ambrosia artemisiifolia explain its invasive success in France?

SummaryIn order to understand the successful spread of Ambrosia artemisiifolia in France, the variability of colonised habitat by this species was studied at 48 locations, from its central to peripheral area of distribution. Each site was characterised by a vegetation survey, a description of the A. artemisiifolia population and a soil analysis. Differences in the number of species, Shannon diversity index, evenness index and plant life form spectra were compared among the sites. A total of 276 species occurring along with A. artemisiifolia was observed. Therophytes and hemicryptophytes represented more than 80% of all the species. The two most frequent species occurring along with A. artemisiifolia were Chenopodium album and Polygonum aviculare. Multivariate analysis of vegetation surveys showed that A. artemisiifolia has a wide ecological tolerance. It colonises a large range of disturbed habitats differing in terms of vegetation cover, species composition and type of soil. The present study highlights the potential of A. artemisiifolia for invading spring crops and all semi‐natural or disturbed open areas. The success of its ongoing invasion can be explained by both its generalist character and the existence of vacant ecological niches, which are poorly occupied by the French native flora.

Did work-sharing work in France? Evidence from a structural co-integrated VAR model

French employment increased significantly after a labor-market reform in 2000. This paper analyzes whether that development was driven by work-sharing (the mandated reduction of the workweek length) as claimed by the government. We use a structural VAR model in error correction form (SVECM) to assess the impact of shocks to the workweek length. It turns out that downward workweek shocks actually had adverse employment effects. We conclude that other reform components were responsible for the employment success in France, namely reduced non-wage labor costs and possibly higher firm-level flexibility of temporarily adjusting the workweek.

``Flowers and Wreaths'': Radio theater and surround

Originally produced in late 1992, ``Flowers and Wreaths'' is a setting for poems by Jacques Prvert (paroles Prvert) in French and in English translations by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and me. Prvert's success in France after World War II was largely due to his unabashed use of street language and his staunch antiwar, antirational political stance. The performance featured much original instrumentation: an amplified skull-resonator dental floss violone, a 35-ft.-long infrasonic electric monochord, a naval signal lamp, mechanized moving audience seating, the amplified electrocution of vegetables, unconventional speaker placement, etc. Mari Novotny-Jones and I continued to perform the piece through 1993. This new, surround recording is of only the title poem in the suite, ``Flowers and Wreaths,'' with a few elements which were originally used with other texts. It was a relatively quiet passage in an otherwise fairly raucous performance but was also a kind of spiritual center for the piece. The point of view for the listener during this extracted section is that of a corpse laying in a ditch by the side of a road. My intent is to explore the possibility of new, surround broadcast technology and its suitability for a resurgence of radio theater.

``Flowers and Wreaths'': Radio theater and surround

Originally produced in late 1992, ``Flowers and Wreaths'' is a setting for poems by Jacques Prvert (paroles Prvert) in French and in English translations by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and me. Prvert's success in France after World War II was largely due to his unabashed use of street language and his staunch antiwar, antirational political stance. The performance featured much original instrumentation: an amplified skull-resonator dental floss violone, a 35-ft.-long infrasonic electric monochord, a naval signal lamp, mechanized moving audience seating, the amplified electrocution of vegetables, unconventional speaker placement, etc. Mari Novotny-Jones and I continued to perform the piece through 1993. ``Flowers and Wreaths'' was decidedly a kind of live radio theater, but far too contingent, too phenomenological to expect that it could actually be recorded and distributed in any satisfactory way. Nevertheless, this work continued to be pursued through the mid-nineties, finally producing Radio Etudes (with Sarah Hickler and technical help from the late Robert Moog), which addressed directly the issues of reproduction before being given up entirely. Now, on the brink of a new era in broadcast technology, imagine a radio theater renaissance.

Retazos de novela sentimental castellana: Hacia La Princesse de Clèves

This article reviews the Spanish sentimental novels preceding La Princesse de Clèves (1678), which enjoyed great success in France in its multiple and frequently editions and translations first in the 16th century and then throughout the 17th century. The author of the article sorts out slight hints, literary resources or basic narrative strategies of those remote novels which were emerging onto the scene within the new context of 17h century France so as to analyse the refined sophistication with which those resources were to be employed by the Countess de La Fayette. Other relevant contributions of this study concern the investigation of historical sources for the princess's lover and the comprehensive and innovative interpretation of the French masterpiece thanks to the discoveries related to its sources.

Pigscripts The Indignities of Species in Marie Darrieussecq's Pig Tales

The humanist discovery of man is the discovery that he lacks himself, the discovery of his irremediable lack of dignitas. Giorgio Agamben, The Open 1 It is facile, virtually meaningless, to demand ...

Subverted representation in La Nuit sacrée and its Arabic translation

This article is a reading of Tahar Ben Jelloun's La Nuit sacrée and its Arabic translation. Its main argument is that, despite its success in France, La Nuit sacrée remains essentially a subverted representation of Moroccan, and by extension Maghrebi, Arab and Islamic, realities. Contrary to what Ben Jelloun's apologists try to make of it, this text cannot be said to represent resistance of any kind to oppression both internal and external. Far from it, the text renders its writer a useful tool at the service of those who still maintain the degradation and subversion of all their Others. Likewise, its Arabic translation employs calculated discursive choices that make it alien in Arabic. After all, it is not a translation in the conventional sense of the term since its French source text is itself an instance of translation.

The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back, 1955-1957.

Preface - The Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal: The Formation of a National Emergency - Status Assessment - Crisis Diplomacy - Preventive War - Operation Kinneret - Defensive Deployment - 'The Alpha Plan' - The Peace Brokers: Robert Anderson's Mission - The Struggle over the Armistice Agreements - The Failure of Arms Procurement in the US - Success in France - Waiting in the Wings: August-September 1956 - The Jordanian Border Flares Up - General Challe's Scenario - 'Collusion': The Shvres Conference - Operation Kadesh: Political Dimensions - Withdrawal - Difficult Decision - Afterword - List of Abbreviations - Notes - References - Index

The French videotex system, Minitel: its uses and applications in libraries

The Minitel videotex system has been a success in France, connecting millions of people to information services of every description via their home telephone system. It has been examined by both information specialists and business people to determine the reasons for its unique success. But, how many librarians outside of France know about the information available on Minitel and use this tool in their work? Assuming that those librarians who use the Internet and participate in library‐oriented discussion lists are the most likely at least to be aware of Minitel and its services, the author queried the participants of two discussion lists, LIBREF‐L (reference librarians) and PACS‐L (computer service librarians), to find out if anyone outside of France is using Minitel in the library environment. This article will trace the history of Minitel and will conclude with the results of the informal Internet survey, along with some suggestions for exploration of Minitel services.

Sidney Laufman's: Early Success in France and at Home

Previous articleNext article No AccessSidney Laufman's: Early Success in France and at HomeDavid M. SokolDavid M. Sokol Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Archives of American Art Journal Volume 32, Number 21992 Sponsored by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/aaa.32.2.1557518 Views: 5Total views on this site Copyright 1992 Archives of American ArtPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

L'attelage dans l'Antiquité. Le Prestige d'Une erreur scientifique

Les grandes synthèses historiques nous présentent encore comme des certitudes scientifiques les affirmations péremptoires concernant l'histoire des transports : c'est au Moyen Age qu'apparaît le collier d'épaule ; l'Antiquité ne connaissait qu'un attelage défectueux qui gênait la respiration des chevaux; c'est encore au Moyen Age que l'on découvre le gouvernail d'étambot et la voile latine triangulaire. Dans l'Antiquité, les navires, avec de simples rames comme gouvernails et des voiles carrées qui ne fonctionnaient que vent arrière, ne pouvaient naviguer de nuit et pratiquaient essentiellement le cabotage.

Une histoire économique du football en France est-elle possible ?

Is an economie history of French soccer possible ? Jacques Marseille. Through the mass of spectators attracted to stadiums and the advertising revenues from the show that it offers, the local industrial stakes which it exacerbates, the income of the clubs, soccer now has a great economie weight. The French example shows that this sport deserves to become a topic for an original economie history, dealing with the clubs as firms, and with the specifie market that soccer has structured. Its success in France was closely connected, like previously the overall industrial development of the country, to that of small groups in medium-sized cities.

Impact of measles in France.

Although measles vaccine has been licensed since 1968, immunization against measles has not met with much success in France, partly because the disease is no longer feared. The level of vaccination coverage appears to be less than 20%. Indeed, the present epidemiologic situation is similar to the natural situation in a developed country. A multicenter, retrospective hospital survey revealed that 1,157 patients with measles were hospitalized during a 30-month period in five areas (total population, 4.2 million). Analysis of the preliminary results of this survey and of available national data showed an incidence of 5.6-7.5 cases per 1,000 population; a hospitalization rate of one per 10,000; a death rate of 0.56 per 1 million; and a disability rate of 0.48 per 1 million. Encephalitis (the definition of which should be reappraised) occurred once in 2,850 cases, and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis was not rare (incidence, one case per 2.6 million people). The problem posed by measles is sufficiently grave to justify a national campaign urging the widespread vaccination of children.

The Theatre of the Absurd

The plays of Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, and Eugène Ionesco have been performed with astonishing success in France, Germany, Scandinavia, and the English-speaking countries. This reception is all the more puzzling when one considers that the audiences concerned were amused by and applauded these plays fully aware that they could not understand what they meant or what their authors were driving at.At first sight these plays do, indeed, confront their public with a bewildering experience, a veritable barrage of wildly irrational, often nonsensical goings-on that seem to go counter to all accepted standards of stage convention. In these plays, some of which are labeled “anti-plays,” neither the time nor the place of the action are ever clearly stated. (At the beginning of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano the clock strikes seventeen.) The characters hardly have any individuality and often even lack a name; moreover, halfway through the action they tend to change their nature completely.

British Food Journal Volume 36 Issue 10 1934

About the year 1806 or 1807 consumers of cane sugar, and particularly those in central Europe, began to find out that there was very little of this kind of sugar to be obtained. Naval warfare and Napoleon's Continental System had resulted in something very like a sugar famine; and the only means of relief appeared to be either to extend and improve the existing methods of producing sugar from the beetroot or to discover new sources of saccharine matter from materials furnished by Europe itself, and so to make Europe independent of supplies of overseas sugar. Napoleon—the master of Europe at that time—made it his first care to provide, as far as possible, for the needs of the people of France; and French chemists were ordered and encouraged to undertake researches with the view to finding a more or less efficient substitute for cane sugar and molasses. The first step which was taken in the direction of relieving the situation was taken by Proust, who turned his attention to the possibilities inherent in grape juice. After a little time he had so well succeeded in his research that he was able to present the people of France with a sort of treacle, and with this it appears the masses had to be contented for about four years; refined cane sugar had become somewhat of a luxury. The use of molasses was the common practice in Germany—where the cost of moist sugar had been about fifteen pence a pound for some years before the time we are referring to. Proust's treacle must have proved an exceedingly poor article, and Napoleon, realising that human endurance of this would not survive for long, appointed a Committee, with the celebrated Chaptal as its head, to consider the best means of introducing the manufacture of beet sugar into France. Chaptal had succeeded Lucien Bonaparte as Minister of the Interior in 1801. He was the President of the Society for the Encouragement of National Industries, and in all respects he was well qualified to supervise a public enquiry of such importance. Marggraf's discovery in 1747 had already been taken advantage of to some extent in Prussia, and Achard of Berlin and others were already cultivating the beetroot and obtaining small quantities of beet sugar. After an interval of three or four years, during which careful examination had been made of the Prussian methods and results with beet sugar, Chaptal was able to send in a favourable report to Napoleon regarding their probable success in France. Events then moved rapidly. By Imperial decree 32 thousand hectares, say 80 thousand acres, of French soil were at once sown with beet. An absolute embargo was placed on all overseas sugar; and in the same year (1811) Chaptal was created Count de Chantaloupe. The start of the beet sugar industry in Europe may be said to date from this time.

Reviews: The Birth-Rate and the Laws of Succession in France. Natalita et Régime Successoral

Reviews: The Birth-Rate and the Laws of Succession in France. Natalita et Régime Successoral

VIII. Account of a new operation lately performed with success in France, for restoring sight in certain cases of blindness

VIII. <i>Account of a new operation lately performed with success in France, for restoring sight in certain cases of blindness</i>