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How was history written in 1900 in the seesaw movement between history as great literature and scientific history? Two sources from the period published more than 200 parochial portraits: the Bulletin des recherches historiques [Historical Research Bulletin] and Le diocèse de Montréal à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle [The Diocese of Montreal at the end of the Nineteenth Century] that together form a very coherent mosaic. The two sources help us to understand how people in 1900 perceived colonization and the occupation of territory, the respective roles of political, social and economic history and to discern which groups were present and who the heroes and the visionaries of the period were. From this emerges the imagination of space and progress and territorial utopias. In short, this helps us reflect upon the history of the history of Québec.
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The “undulatory” glass pieces of the Tourette Convent (1953-1961) – constituted of an irregular distribution of glass pieces of various lengths – appears to be a new expression of the traditional and long-lasting analogy between music and architecture. Its creator, Iannis Xenakis, created them drawing from his research in music, when he was working as an engineer and architect at the Le Corbusier workshop. On the basis of archival documents, this essay develops an hypothetical method to decipher their conception and link to his work as a composer, aspects which have not been examined for a long time.
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From the 1840s onwards, folklorists set out to document and disseminate French songs of the former Illinois Country, a former province of New France located in the central Mississippi Valley. This article recounts the career of these scholars and aims to highlight their impact on local practices and the representations they project onto the “Francos” of the Illinois Country. Several profiles and approaches emerge : from local Franco-American bourgeois scholars seeking, in a memorialist vein, to highlight the historical legitimacy of their ancestors, to regionalist Anglo-American folklorists striving to construct a cultural identity specific to the Midwest, as well as the emergence of a Franco-Ontarian folklorist's concern to situate the Illinois “Francos” within the more global framework of French America.
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Three ecological models are presented to back the following working hypothesis : there is a continuity of ecological processes that animate the adaptation and behaviour of plants, animals, and man. Human ecology can found itself upon biological ecology to integrate geographical, economic, and psycho-social factors and phenomena. A recourse to ecological premises will reveal, among others things, the distance between ecology and economies. The "ball-of-arrows" somewhat expands the triangular model of the ecosystem proposed by the biologists. The ecological space classification also exceeds the framework of "land use" adopted by the geographers. Finally, the pattern of sharing of resources ("environmental pie") borrows from the psychologists a scheme of strategy of human responses to environmental conditions. Four maps demonstrate the application of this methodology to wild or rural and urban environments.
Keywords: Modèles écologiques, écologie humaine, classification écologique de l'espace urbain, Ecological models, human ecology, ecological classification of urban space