Erik Orsenna - Louis Pasteur - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Les Presses Universitaires de France et Fremeaux & Associes proposent cette biographie de Leon Gambetta, analysee et expliquee par Eric Anceau, professeur d'histoire contemporaine a l'Universite de Lorraine, et specialiste de l'histoire politique et sociale de la France et de l'Europe. Leon Gambetta (1838-1882), don't la vie a ete aussi breve qu'intense, est une figure centrale de la Troisieme Republique. Rien ne predestine ce petit-fils d'immigre italien a devenir un homme d'etat si ce n'est cette passion de la politique qui l'anime des son plus jeune age. Avocat, orateur impetueux, depute, journaliste, esprit brillant aime des Francais, Gambetta est une personnalite incontournable, de la fin du Second Empire aux annees fondatrices de la Troisieme Republique, en passant par la guerre franco-allemande, la Commune et les premiers grands combats republicains ceux des institutions, de l'ecole, de l'armee et du retour de la France sur la scene internationale. Il incarne l'esprit republicain, l'aspiration a l'egalite et la grandeur de la nation. Son heritage perdure. Claude COLOMBINI FReMEAUX Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associes offer this biography of Leon Gambetta, analyzed and explained by Eric Anceau, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Lorraine, and specialist in the political and social history of France and Europe. Leon Gambetta (1838-1882), whose life was as brief as it was intense, was a central figure of the Third Republic. Nothing predestined this grandson of an Italian immigrant to become a statesman other than his passion for politics from an early age. Lawyer, impetuous orator, member of parliament, journalist and a brilliant mind beloved by the French, Gambetta was a key figure from the end of the Second Empire to the founding years of the Third Republic, through the Franco-Prussian War, the Commune and the first grea

Michel Serres - Retour Au Contrat Naturel [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/01/2008

The Ebor Singers, with director Paul Gameson, returns to the Resonus Classics tag with an album of American Christmas music. The contemporary American Christmas choral tradition is a remarkable confluence of stylistic confluences, sacred and secular, which reflect the country's cultural vibrancy more so than other times of year. Featuring works from composers including Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, Stephen Paulus, Susan LaBarr, Abbie Betinis, Timothy C. Takach, Jake Runestad, Matthew Culloton, René Clausen, Alfred Burt, Dan Forrest and Melinda Dunphy, the ensemble is joined by harpist Rachel Dent and oboist Jane Wright.