History, nostalgia and the lure of the Gallic way of life are all brought into sharp focus on a visit to friends in Normandy ...

We often think of celebrities basking in the limelight of Hollywood or the bustling streets of New York City. However, for ...

The horrifying case in France of a husband who drugged his wife to orchestrate her rapes raises difficult questions about the ...

First articulated in the 18th century by a hobbyist-mathematician seeking to reason ... until it was independently discovered and refined in 1774 by the French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace. Before ...

It was rumored that the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte read ... Meaning "storm and stress" in English, this late 18th century movement among others focused on the individual as well as intense ...

Laura Balladur is Lecturer in the French ... literature and science, and the embodied mind. Her dissertation “Imagination, Physiology, and the Dynamics of Representation” (2005) explored the emergence ...

18th-century French literature is French literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France, and 1798, the year of the coup d'État of Bonaparte which brought the ...

The Western Yimkhiung Students’ Union (WYSU) held its ‘Literary Day’ on the theme ‘Evolution of Yimkhiung dialect in literature’ on October 12 at ...

A one-semester survey of seventeenth-century French literature, with an emphasis on the relationship ... New trends in the second half of the 18th century; the emergence of the age of sensibility and ...

A new biography gives the fullest portrait yet of the Palestinian-Lebanese writer May Ziadé, who presided over a famous ...

A new biography, “The Brothers Grimm” by Ann Schmiesing, explores the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and how they created ...

One of the famous quotes attributed to John Adams is that: ...