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1971.More information
Although the development of the Rhône River was intended to protect against flooding, to produce hydroelectricity, to facilitate navigation and to irrigate crops, it also had negative hydrological, geomorphological, and ecological consequences. To mitigate these, a ten-year program of hydraulic and ecological restoration of the river was launched in 1998. This article aims to critically evaluate the idea of ecological restoration through the philosophical approach proposed by Souriau. After presenting the salient points of his reflections, we develop the case of the island of La Platière, at the limit of three French departments (Ardèche, Isère, and Loire), by detailing the results of a survey that focused on the way this space is inhabited and on the works envisaged to revitalize the functioning of the Rhône River. While the people interviewed recognize the hybridity of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, their comments reveal not only that they remain attached to them but also that the situation could be improved. Thus, the inhabitants could actively contribute to efforts to give the river more autonomy. Souriau's work provides a solid theoretical framework for recent developments in the revitalization of the Rhône River, which are more the results of the trial and error inherent in real-life experimentation than with the scrupulous respect for all the steps imposed by a restoration project blind to the particularities of local and concrete situations.
Keywords: instauration, projet, restauration écologique, Rhône, situation problématique, Souriau, trajet, ecological restoration, instauration, problematic situation, project, Rhône River, Souriau, trajectory
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1972.More information
AbstractMilitary literature, popular literature, youth literature, literature proper, newspapers and magazines: this paper deals with memory in that 1870-1914 French literature which developed war as its central theme. To heal defeat's wound, France seems to give itself over to a new great narrative and its therapeutic principles: the gende narrative of history's foam. However something escaped the optimism of the great narrative: frequent representations of a ludicrous Army, perverted or revolting, sometimes defeated, often called back to the frailty of its individual soldier.
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1973.More information
AbstractThe relations between taste and the city have largely gone unstudied. In an effort to stimulate reflection on this nexus, three lines of investigation are suggested. The first line explores the way in which different cities - for geographical, historical and cultural reasons - have developed their own unique “signature” dishes and systems of savours. The second seeks to demonstrate how the changing patterns of eating and drinking in Montreal have impacted on the experience and development of urban space and time, tipping the balance in favour of greater conviviality. Finally, with a view to the future, this essay foresees the relations between taste and the city growing ever more intricate, most notably through the development of gourmet circuits; the ideal of the garden-city becoming reality (with the increasing production of food in urban environments), and the creation of new institutions dedicated to the furtherance of taste.
Keywords: Lemasson, ville, goût, Montréal, circuits, gastronomie, cosmopolite, ville-jardin, Lemasson, city, taste, gastronomy, Montréal, circuit, cosmopolitan, garden city, Lemasson, ciudad, gusto, gastronomía, cosmopolíta, ciudad-jardín
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1976.More information
AbstractThe seigneur who lived on, colonized and cleared the land constituted for a long time an « image d'Épinal » of the history of New France. While the historiography of the last decades has widely revisited the seigneurial regime and the seigneurs, privileging the study of religious seigneuries instead of « seigneurial families », the presence of the seigneurs on their lands remains an uncertain question. As the first part of a larger study regarding the seigneurial presence in the Saint-Lawrence Valley, this paper establishes the state of this presence from the beginning of the seigneurial system in the 1620s, until its abolition in 1854. The « gentilshommes campagnards » were, over the centuries, a minority among Laurentian seigneurs, even if their presence increased over the course of time, reaching its highest point (nearly 40%) in the middle of the 19th Century. Within this seigneurial subgroup, which was largely made up of commoners who were sometimes of very modest origin, rarer still were the families that established themselves in a lasting and multigenerational way on their fiefs. This seigneurial presence, although unusual, represents nonetheless an interpretive framework for understanding the diversity of seigneurial and rural Laurentian society.
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1979.More information
ABSTRACTSummer 1926. Commotion and agitation characterise the Canadian political life; a major crisis threatens its democratic institutions. For the first time, it seems impossible to constitute a viable government. Two men, two parties are the key players at the heart of the crisis: William Lyon Mackenzie King's liberals and Arthur Meighen's conservatives. For the latter, the task is heavy since they carry the weight of their conscriptionist policy, a burden which is particularly present in Québec. This paper presents an analysis of the strategies used by Meighen's team to conquer a skeptical electorate, but not without having first taken up the challenges presented by a divided party, a torn country, and an ambivalent Parliament.