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Thursday, December 15, 2011

New Acquisitions- December 2011

French

Balibar, Etienne, and Etienne Balibar. Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2011.

Blanchet, Karl, and Boris Martin. Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Daniel Maher, Marie Lise Laquerre, and François-Hédelin Aubignac. Dictionnaire analytique des toponymes imaginaires dans la littérature narrative de langue française (1605-1711). [Québec, QC]: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2011.

Richard, Jacques. Dictionnaire des acteurs du cinéma muet en France. Paris: Fallois, 2011.

Stanek, Łukasz. Henri Lefebvre on space: architecture, urban research, and the production of theory. Minneapolis [Minn.]: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Ticktin, Miriam Iris. Casualties of care: immigration and the politics of humanitarianism in France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Italian

Brunelli, Cristiana. La ballata romantica italiana. Firenze: Le Càriti, 2011.

Campbell, Julie D., and Maria Galli Stampino. In dialogue with the other voice in sixteenth-century Italy: literary and social contexts for women's writing. Toronto: Iter Inc, 2011.

Comba, Rinaldo. Griselda: metamorfosi di un mito nella società europea ; atti del convegno internazionale a 80 anni dalla nascita della Società per gli Studi Storici della Provincia di Cuneo ; Saluzzo, 23 - 24 Aprile 2009. Cuneo: Società per gli Studi Storici, Archeologici ed Artistici della Provincia di Cuneo, 2011.

De Luca, Erri. I pesci non chiudono gli occhi. Milano: Feltrinelli, 2011.

Leprai, Stella. Il governo del disordine ai confini di uno stato: Borgotaro e gli Sforza, 1467-1488. Bologna: CLUEB, 2011.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Bon Anniversaire, Gustave Flaubert!

French novelist Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary, was born on December 12, 1821 in Rouen, France.

Primary Sources:

Flaubert, Gustave. Lettre de M. Gustave Flaubert à la municipalité de Rouen au sujet d'un vote concernant Louis Bouilhet. Paris: Michel Lévyfrères, 1872.

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs De Province. Paris: M. Lévyfrères, 1857.

French Autograph Collection. (Consists of samples of the writing of French notables, including Flaubert.)

Hobson, Charles, Gustave Flaubert, and Julian Barnes. Flaubert &Louise: Letters and Impressions. San Francisco: Limestone Press, 1988. (Flaubert had an affair with poet Louise Colet from 1846 to1855.)

Sand, George, and Gustave Flaubert. Correspondance Entre George Sand Et Gustave Flaubert. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1904.

Madame Bovary on film:

Chabrol, Claude, et al. Madame Bovary.[S.l.]: MK2 Productions S.A., 2002. (Starring Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Francois Balmer)

Minnelli, Vincente, et al. Madame Bovary. Burbank, CA: Distributed byWarner Home Video, 2007. (Starring Jennifer Jones and Van Heflin)

Renoir, Jean, et al. Madame Bovary. Las Cruces, NM: Hen's Tooth Video, 1989. (Starring Valentine Tessier and Pierre Renoir)

Monday, November 28, 2011

Recently Acquired Rare and Antiquarian Materials- December 2011

More early works on women...

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from De conceptu...

Durey de Meinières,Octavie Guichard. Observations sur la noblesse et le tiers-état.Amsterdam: Chez Arkstée & Merkus, 1758.

Feydeau, Ernest. Du luxe des femmes: des moeurs,de la littérature et de la vertu. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1866.

Mirabaud., Mme. Robert. A propos du suffrage desfemmes. Epinal: Imprimérie Nouvelle, 1912.

Rueff,Jakob, and Jost Amman. De conceptu et generatione hominis: de matrice eteivs partibvs, nec non de conditione infantis in vtero, et gravidarum cura etofficio: de partu & parturientium infantiumq́; cura omnifaria: dedifferentijs non naturalis partus & earundem curis: de mola alijsq́; falsisuteri tumoribus, simulq́ue de abortibus & monstris diversis, nec non deconceptus signis varijs: de sterilitatis causis diversis, & de praecipuis matricisaegritudinibus, omniumq́ue horum curis varijs, libri sex. Francofurti adMoenum: [Apud Petrum Fabricium, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendii], 1587.

Tonini, Luigi. In Occasione della Compianta Mortee Grandioso Funerale dell’Eccellentissima, Rinaomatissima Laureata BologneseSignora Laura Maria Caterina Bassi-Verati. Bologna: Nella Stamperìadella Colomba, 1778.

Zecchini, Petronio. Di geniali della dialetticadelle donne ridotta al suo vero principio. In Napoli: presso i FratelliRaimondi, 1773.

...and a novel by Lucie Delrue-Mardrus:

Delrue-Mardrus, Lucie. L'hermine passant: roman inédit. Paris: J. Ferenczi et fils, 1938.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Anniversary of Révolte des Canuts

November 21^st is the 170^th anniversary of the Révolte des Canuts in Lyon, France. The silk weavers of Lyon (called canuts) rose up against the tarif, or fixed minimum rate for finished cloth. Following salary decreases, the tarif was negotiated between manufacturers of silk, foremen, and silk weavers in October of 1831. However, most of the manufacturers refused to apply it.

On November 21, 1831, over a thousand silk workers and their supporters revolted against the manufacturers in all districts of Lyon. The insurgents held Lyon for three days and captured the arsenal of the National Guard. The battle turned violent, with over 200 civilians and 75 soldiers killed. The workers’ victory was short-lived as Louis Philippe sent his son, the Duke of Orleans, and the Minister of War, Marshal Soult, along with an army of 30,000 with orders to dissolve the collective of workers, cancel the tarif, and disarm the population. While the workers did not immediately achieve their desired outcome, this was an important event which created worker solidarity and led to stronger organization and support in fighting for future labor laws.

Primary Sources:

Chevalier, Michel. Evénemens de Lyon. [Paris]: Everat, imprimeur, 1831. (Extracted from the Le Globe, the main Saint-Simonian newspaper, Oct. 31- Dec. 27, 1831. Includes letters by Francois and Peiffer, chefs de l'eglise saint-simonienne de Lyon.) Special Collections D385 .C44 1831.

Cours de theorie de la fabrication d'étoffes de soie deLyon dirigé par Messieurs Martin et Faure suivi par Rivoire Adrien. (manuscript treatise on the history and weaving of silk, with hundreds of silk samples attached, circa 1860.) Special Collections - Manuscript Collection. M1834 & M1834 FLAT BOX 1.

L'écho de la fabrique. Lyon: De l'imprimerie de Charvin, 1831. (A labor newspaper dedicated to silk manufacturing and related industries. It was published from 1831-1835.) Special Collections – Rare Book Collection. DC801 .L96 E3 1831-1832. *Also available full-text online.
See also Frobert, L., & Beecher, J. (2010). L'écho de la fabrique : naissance de la presse ouvrière à Lyon, 1831-1834. Lyon: ENS.

Monfalcon, Jean Baptiste. Histoire des insurrections de Lyon, en 1831 et en 1834: d'après des documents authentiques : précédéed'un essai sur les ouvriers en soie et sur l'organisation de la fabrique. Lyon: L. Perrin, 1834. Green - Stacks K .M782.

Monday, November 14, 2011

New Acquisitions- November 2011

French

Amselle, Jean-Loup. L'ethnicisation de la France. Paris: Lignes, 2011.

Biet, Antoine, and Jack Le Roux. Voyage de la France équinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne entrepris par les François en l'année 1652. [Colombelles]: Valhermeil, 2011.

Brouard, Sylvain, and Vincent Tiberj. As French As Everyone Else? A Survey of French Citizens of Maghrebin, African, and Turkish Origin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.

Demelemestre, Gaëlle. Les deux souverainetés et leur destin: le tournant Bodin-Althusius. Paris: Cerf, 2011.

Drévillon, Hervé, and Diego Venturino. Penser et vivre l'honneur à l'époque moderne: actes du colloque organisé à Metz, 20-22 novembre 2008. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

Groult, Martine. Savoir et matières: pensée scientifique et théorie de la connaissance de l'Encyclopédie à l'Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2011.