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This study will attempt to trace the ascendancy and the developments of a particular vision of luxury in la Naissance du jour. If on the one hand it is possible to show, that Colette, in her articles on fashion and throughout her works, subscribes fully to luxury in its industrial meaning, on the other it is possible to notice that in this 1928 poetical narrative, another vision of luxury is put into place. In a compact style by which Colette evokes the joys of a retreat from Paris, she celebrates the transformation of intimate space marked by serenity into a place of exaltation and refinement of desire.
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This study tries to point out the reasons why Alain includes many «propos» dealing with literary matters in the papers he gives in La Dépêche de Rouen et de Normandie between 1906 and 1914. At first, it points out that literature is only mentionned in some circumstances and is always linked with social or political cares. It also shows that Alain criticizes the way literature is celebrated at the beginning of the century. His differents targets are identified and an analysis of his own idea of literature is given. At the end, it examines why (re)reading appeared to Alain as one of the most effective support of a real democracy.
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On the sex front, Michelle PerrotThe conclusions of a recent colloquium on « Women and War » organized by the Center for European Studies at Harvard University shake up the conventional wisdom that the 20th century wars helped in the emancipation of women. Two world conflicts certainly gave them « man's » work and greater individual freedom. But such changes hardly altered the inherited sexual roles : as nurses or Resistance flghters, factory workers or union activists, women are subjected to the power of man in war as in peace time. Wars accelerated some changes and retarded others. Contradictory in their impact, they helped the victory of feminist ideas, but announced the men's revenge.
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