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The article analyzes the relation between slavery and the structures and practices of law with reference to a story of a woman named Rosalie who, in the late 18th century, was deported as a slave to the French colony of Saint-Domingue (modern day Haïti). Efforts made by Rosalie in regaining her liberty are highlighted. Role of law and judicial processes in upholding and challenging the structures of caste and white supremacy that emerged after the end of slavery is discussed.

Traces the history of the advances and setbacks experienced by proponents of sign language in France and in the United States from the 18th century to the present. (AM)

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The bocage landscape has long been an object of study albeit by only a few scientific disciplines (history, geography…). A bibliometric analysis shows a considerable increase in publication numbers on bocage landscapes, with a switch of emphasis over the past 10 years. Initially researchers focussed on the impact of hedges and bocage structures on field functioning and on overall agricultural production while at present hedgerow functioning is being analysed for itself correlatedly with the impact of fields on hedgerows. French agricultural research first displayed an interest in the bocage in 1964 with a conference held in Rennes on the impact of hedges on bioclimatic and agronomic factors. An analysis of the papers published in subsequent years highlights the drift from the initial reasons that justified research to present research concerns. Some aspects, such as the relations between livestock farming and the bocage were never explored. Current research on the bocage displays two trends: -- research that attributes the bocage objective environmental usefulness as a resilience factor for biophysical systems: this is supported by environmental scientists in landscape ecology, hydrology and soil science in particular; -- research that invests the bocage with a subjective function expressing a specific connection with nature from a landscape, historical, patrimonial or even fantasy perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a debate on the potential contributions of material culture to French Revolution historiography. Topics of discussion include the concept of material culture, the growing interest in the history of material culture, and the relationship between the economy and politics. Social relations, luxury, and consumption are also mentioned.

The essay examines The Allegorical Portrait of Minister Colbert, engraved by Van Schuppen after Le Brun's design, in 1664, the year of Colbert's appointment as the Chief Administrator of Buildings, Arts, and Manufactures in France. It locates the print's programme within the context of the new administrative system for the arts in France implemented by the Minister and interprets it as an inventive conjuncture of pictorial genres. Either as a frontispiece or as an impresa, Le Brun's design for the print linked Colbert's political virtues with the new, collective forms of artistic enterprises. The theme of the collaborative relationship among the arts exemplified by Colbert's institutional reforms calls attention to the emerging variance between the individual and the institutional in the creation of the national style urged by Colbert's administration. The print demonstrates how the distillation of collective authorship can be achieved through the remediation of the specific arts -- painting and tapestry in this case -- based on the unifying role of disegno and the efficiency of print in translating ad vivum the generic characteristics of different media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses aspects of 18th century French literary life through an examination of the journal, "Journal et Mémoires de Charles Collé sur les hommes de lettres, les ouvrages dramatiques et les événements les plus mémorables du règne de Louis XV (1748-1772)," by French dramatist Charles Collé. Topics mentioned include the use of the journal to examine 18th century French literary history, the methodology of Collé's writing, and Collé's work in relation to contemporaneous memoirs.

The article looks at the history of the medical discourse concerning the physical activities and sports for women and menstruation at the turn of the 20th century. It aims to demonstrate how physicians considered physical activity as a means to cause, aggravate, and regulate menstruation. The author discusses the medical debates surrounding menstruation and its effects on women, medical control and women being forbidden to practice sports during menstruation, and the association of blood to disease, life, and maternity.

The article focuses on the functioning of credit and merchant credit practices. The author discusses the relationship between the creditor and the debtor, or salesman and customer, analyzes the open accounts belonging to French merchant and shipowner Abraham Gradis, and mentions the credit negotiation practices of Nathan Appleton, an importer of English textiles from Boston, Massachusetts. Additional topics mentioned include industrial capitalist credit, free and informal credit, and financial transactions and accounting practices.

The article discusses Charles Le Brun, a seventeenth-century French painter and art theorist who worked for French King Louis XIV, focusing on his work designing altars for churches in Paris, France. It examines his designs for altars in the church of the Grands-Augustins, the church of Saint-Séverin, and the chapel of the University of Paris-Sorbonne. The author also comments on Le Brun's architectural influence and reflects on the context of his artistic ambitions as well as his career strategies.

The article discusses French-Canadian newspaper coverage of the Dieppe Raid, an Allied World War II operation in Dieppe, France on August 19, 1942 which involved predominately Canadian forces. It comments on the focus of coverage on the French-Canadian regiment les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, and how this focus shaped the myth in Québec that French-Canadian forces were the primary victims. The author considers Canadian World War II propaganda and reflects on themes of strategy, heroism, and loss in newspaper coverage.

The article discusses the collection of altarpieces at the former monastery of Chartreuse de Campmol near Dijon, France. Among other topics addressed are the building complex itself, its notable medieval patrons, and the economic value of the materials entirely used apart from their application to objects of art.

The article examines ivory Gothic mirror vignettes depicted in various literary and iconography sources in France from the 13th to the 15th century. The author describes the ivory vignettes' decorations and ornaments and discusses how they show various aspects of daily life and provide information about the context and social practices surrounding the production of mirrors. Topics include the vignettes' decorated scenes such as Tristan and Iseult, characters from a French Middle Age love poem, the theme of epic poems such as the one about the knight Huon de Bordeaux, and designs symbolizing love.

The article focuses on the digitization of the text "Précis de la Révolution relativement à Louis 16: Respec du aux Rois et aux Puissances" written during the French revolution by Toussaint Bonvoisin. The author provides a small biography of Bonvoisin, and explains that Bonvoisin wrote this book for his son, Louis, as a French revolution's testimony. The document is divided into twenty notebooks, and relates precisely the historical events occurring at that time in France, from the point of view of a worrying royalist.

The article discusses the challenges of translating republican texts during the French revolution (1789-1799), and focuses on the translation of texts from the first English revolution in particular. In this context, translating a work is considered a political act, most of translators tried to promote the ideas of a certain author by recreating the spirit of his work more than translating it faithfully. It is noted that the translation of foreign works played an important part in the propagation of revolutionary ideas.

The article explores the aesthetic and medical conceptions of the Côte d'Azur as a privileged place of beauty and health during the nineteenth century. The author used texts and images from French writers, invalids, tourists, physicians and artists containing poetic descriptions of the landscape. She argues that the descriptions were couched in a medical rhetoric and shows how art and medicine intertwined in French perceptions and imaginations of the Côte d'Azur from 1860-1900.