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From The Drawing Room To The Guillotine: A Study Of French Women's Intellectual Involvement In The Enlightenment, Allison Rau Apr 2023

From The Drawing Room To The Guillotine: A Study Of French Women's Intellectual Involvement In The Enlightenment, Allison Rau

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Déconstruire Les Idées Reçues : Une Analyse Décoloniale De L’Intégration De L’Islam Dans Les Films Français Contemporains, Aníbal Gómez-Contreras Apr 2021

Déconstruire Les Idées Reçues : Une Analyse Décoloniale De L’Intégration De L’Islam Dans Les Films Français Contemporains, Aníbal Gómez-Contreras

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Recapturing Memory : Violence, Resistance And The Algerian War In La Seine Était Rouge And Hors-La-Loi, James Kaynor Apr 2021

Recapturing Memory : Violence, Resistance And The Algerian War In La Seine Était Rouge And Hors-La-Loi, James Kaynor

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The Architecture Of Violence: The Reign Of Terror And The Character Of Bloodshed, Aidan Turek Apr 2020

The Architecture Of Violence: The Reign Of Terror And The Character Of Bloodshed, Aidan Turek

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Revolutions are pivotal event in political history, compressing far-reaching social changes into the space of a few years. The French is the best understood revolution, and yet political scientists have focused more on the causes of revolution, its initial phase, and the consequences. This scholarship ignores the Reign of Terror, and revolutionary violence more broadly, despite the central importance of violence in shaping the course of revolutions. This thesis breaks down the Reign of Terror as an exemplary phase of violence via three broad ecumenical theoretical approaches, and in so doing makes vital connection between social and political developments on …


Silenced Voices: Situating Disability Studies In France Through The Poet Babouillec, Mira Nakhle Apr 2020

Silenced Voices: Situating Disability Studies In France Through The Poet Babouillec, Mira Nakhle

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Disability studies is a growing field of research in the US, but has been slow to take root in countries with more conservative academic structures like France. In particular, representation of the experience of life with a disability is challenged when individuals face barriers of communication or stigma about their abilities. This paper looks specifically at works by and about Babouillec, a young French poet with autism classified by her doctors as “deficient by 80%”. In exploring the implications of her work, I evaluate the ways in which the mediation of her story by those around her (in the production …


Jacques-Louis David And The Enlightenment: The Intersection Of Art And Politics In Prerevolutionary France, Ashley B. Mullen Apr 2015

Jacques-Louis David And The Enlightenment: The Intersection Of Art And Politics In Prerevolutionary France, Ashley B. Mullen

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An analysis of Jacques-Louis David's art and politics before and during the French Revolution.