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Zoui, a village in the Tibesti Mountains (Chad), was once a lively and prosperous place. Today, however, most of its inhabitants have left it. How did the once flourishing Zoui become the almost abandoned village it is today? How can its landscapes, in which material remains become markers telling us about the past, inform about this evolution? In the present contribution, the author will follow Zoui's inhabitants, acting as « local archaeologists » and contextualizing remains and their histories in timescapes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is no shortage of flights and evasions in Jules Verne's novels. The most spectacular of these is undoubtedly that of the novelistic writing itself, which quickly deviates from the conventions formed most notably by Balzac. In between a confirmation of literary heritage and a desire for emancipation from the same, the writing of Paris au XXe siècle and Cinq semaines en ballon bears witness to Verne's renegotiation of the realist rulebook at the beginning of his career as a novelist. Through a tripartite displacement of the realist narrative towards the extraordinary, the scientific, and the spaces abroad, Verne found his own vein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]