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This article sets out to compare two high points in the written simulation of oral exchange in France: the mid-sixteenth century for the genre of “dialogue” (or “colloque”) and the second half of the seventeenth for that of the “conversation” (or “entretien”). The article demonstrates that the relation of continuity postulated by Marc Fumaroli between “humanist dialogue” and “classical conversation” is problematic for more than one reason. We will see that it might be preferable to consider this relation in terms of discontinuity, or perhaps even opposition. In conclusion, we deal briefly with a “middleman” who played a major role in this reversal, and whose ethical motivations and politics seem questionable: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac.
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ABSTRACTThis article suggests that Sir William Logan's Geology of Canada can be read as a narrative describing the past dynamic changes that shaped the present structure of the earth. The author also suggests, since the foundation of nineteenth century geology was a bio-stratigraphic consensus that combined stratigraphy and the fossil record, that the use of a narrative offered Logan a dynamique method for presenting his central argument.
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The position of Chief Minister established by Cardinal Richelieu conjoined the minister’s role with the exercise of power. Since all final decisions remained with the king, this system of government was claimed as legitimate. Nevertheless, there were opponents of Richelieu’s ministry. The devout faction, represented by Mathieu de Morgues et Michel de Marillac, saw the new institution as a change to the current theory of monarchy, and thus open to legal challenge. On that basis, they laid out their opposition with a set of arguments. This essay analyzes the arguments, against Richelieu ’s ministry, that refer to the principles of monarchy.
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In 1971, two young Quebec academics, Serge Carlos and Daniel Latouche, fresh from their studies at the University of Chicago, published a scathing review of a book published the previous year: Une élection de réalignement, written by Vincent Lemieux, Marcel Gilbert and André Blais. In their book, these three authors, all affiliated with the political science department of Laval University, made use of two pre-election surveys (the first ever published in Quebec) to demonstrate that the 1970 Quebec provincial election was a realigning election, understood as an election that induces a shift in long-term trends, particularly with regard to voters' partisan orientations, albeit without necessarily influencing existing short-term trends. Fifty years later, Daniel Latouche looks back at the critique of this book, the political and academic context of the time, and diverse arguments put forward by others. This retrospective allows us to follow the evolution of the concept of realignment through the thirteen provincial elections that followed.
Keywords: élections (Québec), réalignement, partis politiques, dynamique électorale, Vincent Lemieux, elections (Quebec), realignment, political parties, electoral dynamics, Vincent Lemieux