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Faced with the development of popular science comics, this article proposes to meet the authors of this new niche, their perceptions of these developments, and to distinguish different profiles of francophone authors. Based on an analysis of specific collections and titles and semi-directive interviews with several authors (Pochep, Héloïse Chochois, Martin PM, Emanuelle Dufour and Pierre Nocerino), the article looks in detail at three profiles: one-time popularizers, author-mediators and author-researchers. Once these profiles are described, a last part gathers feedbacks on the collaboration with scientists, showing similar ways of working and limits, with notably a paradoxical unthought on the scientific evaluation of the drawing and the graphic narration, nowadays almost absent in the feedbacks of the researchers' works adapted in comics.

Keywords: comics, bande dessinée, graphic narratives, romans graphiques, scientific popularization, vulgarisation scientifique, collaboration, collaboration, recherche-création, research-creation

Self-representation as auto-critique remained a constant in playwright-director Jean-Pierre Ronfard's work, from Tête à tête—an autofiction developed in tandem with close collaborator Robert Gravel—to the paradoxical take on self-representation, Les objets parlent, an actor-less play where the director's invisible hand dominated. His plays explicitly about the creative process oscillate from Socratic dialogue to Homeric tall-tales, but, surprisingly, his other plays also bear the mark of self-referential quotation. Ronfard thus used self-quotation as a tool for creating theatre within theatre, for insistent digressions, and even as illustration for "living quote". Ronfard didn't reveal much of his private life through his conscious work on self-representation, but rather gave us a moral and intellectual autobiography.

The province of Québec has considerable potential for the continued expansion of its wind power industry. Wind farms may be a cause of mortality for birds of prey and could have a particularly negative affect on certain vulnerable species, such as the peregrine falcon. To help determine the types of sites to favour for the establishment of new wind farms, we compared the use of 5 environments by 10 female peregrine falcons nesting in southern Québec during the period from 2008 to 2010. To minimize potential collision risks with wind turbines, the environments least used by females peregrine falcons should be preferentially chosen for locating wind farms. Once the young had fledged, females traveled farther afield than when the chicks were flightless. During this period, 90 % of the telemetry locations in corn and soybean fields were recorded within an 8.3-km radius of the nest, compared to a 15.9-km radius for other crops. Also, females were less likely to use corn and soybean fields, than other crops and environments that were not suitable for hunting. Our results lead to recommendations regarding the environments to favour for the location of future wind farms, and the minimal distances that should be respected between wind farms and peregrine falcon nests sites to minimize collision risks.

Keywords: développement éolien, domaine vital, Falco peregrinus, nidification, utilisation de l'habitat, breeding birds, Falco peregrinus, habitat use, home range, wind power development

AbstractThis paper explores the architecture of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (Qc) to disentangle the role of religion in the treatment of tuberculosis. In particular, we analyze the design of Mount Sinai, the jewel in the crown of Jewish philanthropy in Montreal, in relation to that of the nearby Laurentian Sanatorium. While Mount Sinai offered free treatment to the poor in a stunning, Art Deco building of 1930, the Protestant hospital had by then served paying patients for more than two decades in a purposefully home-like, Tudor-revival setting. Using architectural historian Bernard Herman's concept of embedded landscapes, we show how the two hospitals differed in terms of their relationship to site, access, and, most importantly, to city, knowledge, and community. Architects Scopes & Feustmann, who designed the Laurentian hospital, operated an office at Saranac Lake, New York, America's premier destination for consumptives. The qualifications of Mount Sinai architects Spence & Goodman, however, derived from their experience with Jewish institutions in Montreal. Following Herman's approach to architecture through movement and context, how did notions of medical therapy and Judaism intersect in the plans of Mount Sinai?

This article investigates chocolate in Ancien Régime society through a selection of treatises, dictionaries, and novels from the Enlightenment.  These texts provide valuable information on its benefits, preparation, and consumption – revealing new dietary as well as social rituals, closely linked to the libertine imagination.  In addition, the novels inform the evolution of descriptive practices. The analysis of short excerpts enables us to propose a few topoi, such as “to take one’s chocolate,” “to invite to take chocolate,” “to feel pleasure with chocolate” or “(to attempt) to administer poison or narcotic in chocolate.”

Keywords: chocolate, Enlightenment, libertine novel, poisoning, chocolat, Lumières, roman libertin, empoisonnement

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis is far from being a simple coming-of-age narrative. The autobiographical tale, projected onto the background of a relatively hostile country, tells the story of a young girl growing up in revolutionary Iran, a place where threats of violence, arrest, and torture are everyday fears. Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus is the story of the Holocaust seen through the eyes of the main character, Vladek, which juxtaposes the minutiae of day-to-day life with the enormity of the experience. This paper analyzes the social, historical, and cultural context that led to the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq-Iran war, on the one hand, and to the greatest extermination of the Jews in history, on the other. It aims to prove how lies, misconception, and murderous actions can be justified by virtues or allegedly good intentions.

Keywords: totalitarisme, totalitarianism, totalitarismo, fundamentalism, fondamentalisme, fundamentalismo, propagande, propaganda, propaganda, anclaje histórico, historical background, ancrage historique