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Yourcenar, Marguerite, --- Biographie --- Yourcenar, Marguerite
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Pasteurs, banquiers, industriels, négociants, hommes d'État... mais aussi des artistes, des écrivains, des cinéastes, des résistants, des féministes, des prix Nobel, des chanteurs et des préfets, des hommes de droite, de gauche, des conservateurs, des révolutionnaires... une galerie de figures extrêmement variées qui ont contribué à donner un accent particulier à l'histoire de notre pays. Ce dictionnaire, prévu en 4 volumes, couvre tous les secteurs de l'activité humaine, toutes les régions de France, toutes les nuances spirituelles.
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Monographie dévolue à l'oeuvre du philosophe et historien des idées I. Berlin (1909-1997). La liberté, le pluralisme, le nationalisme, l'esprit des Lumières et le romantisme politique, sont les thèmes de prédilection du penseur britannique qui sont abordés.
Philosophers --- Philosophes --- Biographie --- Berlin, Isaiah,
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Le récit intimiste et documenté de la vocation d'A. Rodin pour la sculpture et de son apprentissage hors du commun, de ses 11 ans à ses 24 ans. ©Electre 2015
Sculptors --- Sculpteurs --- Biography --- Biographie --- Rodin, Auguste,
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Biographie de l'anarchiste, née en Lituanie et morte à Toronto, E. Goldman (1869-1940), militante de l'émancipation, libertaire, communiste, féministe et nietzschéenne. Elle fut considérée comme l'une des anarchistes les plus dangereuses des Etats-Unis, en résonance avec les événements politiques du XXe siècle, notamment la Grande Guerre, la révolution russe, la montée du fascisme, etc. ©Electre 2017
Anarchists --- Anarchistes --- Biography --- Biographie --- Goldman, Emma, --- Biographies.
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Recent outbursts sparked by a viral video and controversial cartoons powerfully illustrate the passions and sensitivities that continue to surround the depiction of the seventh-century founder of Islam. The Lives of Muhammad delves into the many ways the Prophet's life story has been told from the earliest days of Islam to the present, by both Muslims and non-Muslims. Emphasizing the major transformations since the nineteenth century, Kecia Ali shows that far from being mutually opposed, these various perspectives have become increasingly interdependent. Since the nineteenth century, two separate streams of writing, one hagiographic and the other polemical, have merged into a single, contentious story about the life of Muhammad. Protestant missionaries, European Orientalists, Indian and Egyptian modernists, and American voices across the spectrum, including preachers, scholars, Islamophobes, journalists, academics, and new-age gurus, debated Muhammad's character and the facts of his life. In the process, texts written symbolically came to be read literally. Muhammad's accomplishments as a religious and political leader, his military encounters with Meccans and Medinan Jews, and-a subject of perennial interest-his relationships with women, including his young wife Aisha, are among the key subjects writers engaged, repurposing early materials for new circumstances. Many of the ideas about Muhammad that Muslims embrace today-Muhammad the social reformer, Muhammad the consummate leader, Muhammad the ideal husband-arose in tandem and in tension with Western depictions. These were in turn shaped by new ideas about religion, sexuality, and human accomplishments.
Biographie. --- Biography. --- Muḥammad, --- History and criticism.
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In the first comprehensive study of the Astaire's theatrical career together, Riley traces their rise to fame from humble midwestern origins and early days as child performers on small-time vaudeville stages. From the start, Adele was the more natural performer, while Fred had to hone his trademark timing and elegance through endless hours of rehearsal. Before "Fred and Ginger, " there was "Fred and Adele, " a show-business partnership and cultural sensation like no other. In our celebrity-saturated era, it's hard to comprehend what a genuine phenomenon these two siblings from Omaha were. At the height of their success in the mid-1920s, the Astaires seemed to define the Jazz Age. They were Gershwin's music in motion, a fascinating pair who wove spellbinding rhythms in song and dance. In this book, the first comprehensive study of their theatrical career together, Kathleen Riley traces the Astaires' rise to fame from humble midwestern origins and early days as child performers on small-time vaudeville stages (where Fred, fatefully, first donned top hat and tails) to their 1917 debut on Broadway to star billings on both sides of the Atlantic. They became ambassadors of an art form they helped to revolutionize, adored by audiences, feted by royalty, and courted socially by elites everywhere they went. From the start, Adele was the more natural performer, spontaneous, funny, and self-possessed, while Fred had to hone his trademark timing and elegance through endless hours of rehearsal, a disciplined regimen that Adele loathed. Ultimately, Fred's dancing expertise surpassed his sister's, and their paths diverged: Adele married into British aristocracy, and Fred headed for Hollywood. The Astaires examines in depth the extraordinary story of this great brother-sister team, with full attention to its historical and theatrical context. It is not merely an account of the first part of Fred's long and illustrious career but one with its own significance. Born at the close of the 1800s, Fred and Adele grew up together with the new century, and when they reached superstardom during the interwar years, they shone as an affirmation of life and hope amid a prevailing crisis of faith and identity.
Dancers --- Actors --- Actresses --- Danseurs --- Acteurs --- Actrices --- Biography --- Biography --- Biography --- Biographie --- Biographies --- Biographie --- Astaire, Fred. --- Astaire, Adele.
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China --- Chine --- Biography --- Dictionaries --- Biographie --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Dictionaries.
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Biography --- Biographie --- Salimbene, --- Compagni, Dino, --- Joinville, Jean, --- Catherine, --- Christine, --- Joan,
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Women authors, German --- Ecrivaines allemandes --- Biography --- Biographie --- Wolf, Christa --- Diaries.
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