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Tout comme le "pauvre diable" de Voltaire, l'abbé Ladvocat a passé la majeure partie de sa vie active à compiler. La poussière du temps et de l'oubli s'accumule rapidement sur le nom et l'œuvre des compilateurs, et l’auteur du Dictionnaire historique portatif n’a pas échappé au destin de son espèce. Les manuels d'aujourd'hui ne mentionnent pas son nom, et l'influence qu’il a pu exercer en son temps échappe complètement à l'attention des dix-huitièmistes.
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If history has noted the work of the dictionary maker Louis-Alexandre Bélisle, author and publisher of the Dictionnaire de la langue française du Canada, it has remained silent concerning his work conceiving and publishing business information for the layman. As early as 1932, he published Initiation pratique à la bourse and developed the idea of editing a series of business books, published by the Enseigne Les affaires that he managed in the early 1940s shortly before the creation of La Bibliothèque de l'homme d'affaires by Bélisle, éditeur in 1947. The publisher used the series to shed light on the world of business but also to demonstrate that economic development must first and foremost serve the advancement of the nation.
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The accession of the House of Bourbon to the Spanish throne after the death of the last Habsburg king, Carlos II, in 1700 brought important changes for the court high nobility. Historians have seen Philip V’s reign as the beginning of the titled nobility’s withdrawal from the front line of politics. The process, encouraged by the Bourbon’s reformism during the War of the Spanish Succession, was carried out by the nobility in several ways. This article will analyze the careers of aristocrats such as Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal and José Solís y Valderrábano, dukes of Veragua and Montellano, and Rodrigo Fernández Manrique de Lara, Count of Frigiliana, who adapted their actions to the new regime’s politics in order to enjoy the patronage of new political actors. They took part in royal court circles to achieve important political positions without renouncing their right to oppose change through strategies linked to the political culture of the previous dynasty: for example, their involvement in political gatherings and their absence in important court celebrations. My article posits that, although the relations between the House of Bourbon and these nobles were undoubtedly complex and ambivalent, as their career at court shows, they were far more nuanced and fluid than has previously been revealed.