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Henri Rousseau: A Jungle Expedition

Henri Rousseau: A Jungle Expedition

Susanne Pfleger

Offers a look at the French artist's life and the sources of inspiration for his paintings
The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri ...

The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri ...

Henri Joutel

The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687 Henri Joutel William C. Foster. 26 the final expedition march; on the emotions felt by the colonists and the natives; and on the customs of the many different Indian tribes between the Texas coast and the ...
Rousseau et le spectacle

Rousseau et le spectacle

Jacques Berchtold

Le spectacle apparaît comme une notion centrale dans l’œuvre et la vie de Rousseau.
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The ...

The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The three works collected in The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau represent an important contribution to eighteenth-century political theory that has exerted an extensive influence on generations of thinkers, beginning with ...
Emile: Or, On Education

Emile: Or, On Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first new English translation of Rousseau's eighteenth-century masterpiece on education in more than seventy years offers a prescription for the bringing up of autonomous, responsible, truly democratic human beings
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society'

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society'

Maurizio Viroli

This book studies a central but hitherto neglected aspect of Rousseau's political thought: the concept of social order and its implications for the ideal society which he envisages.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Political principles and institutions:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Political principles and institutions:

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John Plamenatz Source: M. Cranston and R. S. Peters (eds), Hobbes and Rousseau: A Collection of Critical Essays, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972, pp . 318-32. These words have shocked and puzzled many readers of the Social Contract.
The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The ...

The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The ...

Mads Qvortrup

Bertil Friden, in an insightful study, offers this interesting observation: The spot was not always marginal. In the enlightened salons of Paris during the decades just before the fall of the Ancien Regime, Rousseau's economic philosophy was ...
Frederick the Great V2: The Memoirs of His Reader Henri de ...

Frederick the Great V2: The Memoirs of His Reader Henri de ...

Henri De Catt

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
The solitary self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in exile and adversity

The solitary self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in exile and adversity

Maurice Cranston

As Boswell was on his way to Italy, t Rousseau gave him a letter of introduction111 to Alexandre Del eyre in Parma. In it he described Boswell as 'a young man with a troubled soul and black thoughts,' and he urged Deleyre to discuss moral ...
Frederick the Great, the Memoirs of His Reader, Henri de ...

Frederick the Great, the Memoirs of His Reader, Henri de ...

Henri de Catt

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment

Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment

Marian Hobson

A collection of Marian Hobson's most important essays analysing key texts by Diderot and Rousseau.
Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau

John Plamenatz

This volume presents lucid and insightful lectures on three great figures from the history of political thought. It explores a range of themes in the political thought of Machiavelli Hobbes, and Rousseau.
The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

Maurice Cranston

In this third and final volume of his masterly biography, Maurice Cranston traces the last tempestuous years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life.
Number Theory: Volume I: Tools and Diophantine Equations

Number Theory: Volume I: Tools and Diophantine Equations

Henri Cohen

Volume I: Tools and Diophantine Equations Henri Cohen. Université Bordeaux I Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux 351, cours de la Libération 33405, Talence cedex France Henri.Cohen ...
Encyclopedia of Education. 6. Race - State

Encyclopedia of Education. 6. Race - State

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... St. Martins. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1993. Emile (1762), trans. Barbara Foxley. London: Dent. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1988. The Social Contract ( 1762), trans. George Douglas Howard Cole. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus. Sevan G. Terzian ...
Histoire de Lorraine

Histoire de Lorraine

Auguste Digot

... Armoises, Thiesselin de Domremy, Henri de Ligniville, Arnould de Sampigny , Henri comte de Linange , Renaud et Hermann de Prény, Conrad d'Haussonville, Nicolas de Tlmi- lières et Philippe Collignon , capitaine de Pont -à-Mousson.
Annales de La Societe Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Annales de La Societe Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jacques Berchtold

Sommaire/ Table of contents: Jacques Berchtold et Michel Porret, "Editorial"; Berengere Baucher, "Quand le visage de Glaucos devient statue de Glaucus"; Jacques Berchtold, "La musique des murailles: Rousseau visiteur de Vauban"; Bruno ...
The Last Voyage Perform'd by de la Sale

The Last Voyage Perform'd by de la Sale

Henri Joutel

Henri Joutel. Man" Water of the River, where we were, roul'd "585' down violently into the Sea', he fancy'd that might be one of the Branches ot the Mijfifipi, and propos'd to go up it. to see whether he could find any Tokens of it, or of the Marks  ...
Henri's Scissors

Henri's Scissors

Jeanette Winter

An introduction to the life and paper-cutout art of Henri Matisse describes his early sketching hobby, famous paintings and the illness that confined him to a wheelchair and inspired his sophisticated paper-cutout masterworks.
The Journeys of Réné Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle: As ...

The Journeys of Réné Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle: As ...

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As Related by His Faithful Lieutenant, Henri de Tonty; His Missionary Colleagues , Fathers Zenobius Membré, Louis Hennepin and Anastasius Douay; His Early Biographer, Father Christian LeClercq; His Trusted Subordinate, Henri Joutel; ...
Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French Literary Relations in ...

Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French Literary Relations in ...

Hugh M. Richmond

15. Yates, p. 176. 16. See Bullough, vol. 1, pp. 429-30. 17. Jo Gerard, Henri IV: he plus vert des galants (Paris: Dargaut, 1967), p. 33. 18. Gerard, p. 34. 19. Charles de Batz-Trenquelleon, Henri IV 301 '--'SHAKESPEARE S FRANCE^
Henri Le Saux: Christianisme et spiritualité indienne

Henri Le Saux: Christianisme et spiritualité indienne

Harry Oldmeadow

Henri Le Saux (1910-1973) est un moine bénédictin français qui a passé les vingt-quatre dernières années de sa vie en Inde où il devint connu sous le nom de Swami Abhishiktananda.
An Introduction to Compactness Results in Symplectic Field ...

An Introduction to Compactness Results in Symplectic Field ...

Casim Abbas

32. H. Hofer, Ljusternik–Schnirelman theory for Lagrangian intersections. Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré 5 (5), 465–499 (1988) 33. H. Hofer, Pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectizations with applications to the Henri Syst. H. function U. Weinstein ...
Cavelier de La Salle à la recherche du Mississipi: le ...

Cavelier de La Salle à la recherche du Mississipi: le ...

Henri Joutel

Henri Joutel retrace le périple de l'expédition à laquelle il participa avec Cavelier de la Salle entre 1685 et 1687 et qui visait à reconnaître le delta du Mississippi.
T&T Clark Companion to Henri de Lubac

T&T Clark Companion to Henri de Lubac

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ON RELIGION David Grumett Henri de Lubac was both a theological writer and a theological teacher. As a writer, he is best known for the topics covered elsewhere in this book, such as grace, ecclesiology, and scriptural exegesis. However ...
Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales

Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales

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Bouveret (Paul) . .. ... .. .. . Bouvier (Henri) Bouvier (Henri) Bouygues (René) .......... . Boyenval et fils (Sté) Boyer (Auguste) Bradel (Robert) ... ... . - - - - - Braeme ( André) Branca (Antoine) ... ... ... . Branchu (Jean) ... .. ... ... - Brandon (Jean) .
The Coinages of Latin America and the Caribbean: An Anthology

The Coinages of Latin America and the Caribbean: An Anthology

E. A. Furber

Gourds and Gourdes Of Henri Christophe, King of Haiti In The Numismatist for April, 1940, was a very interesting and carefully studied article on that remarkable character, Henri Christophe, or Henry I, the negro king of Haiti, whose career and  ...

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