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The article discusses the presence of French culture in Poland during the 18th century, specifically focusing on the presence of the French language based on a collection of French manuscripts stored in the Jagiellonian Library. Various types of texts are cov- ered here (political, diplomatic, administrative, as well as private correspondence, trav- el journals, scientific treatises, texts relevant to the study of Polish history, etc.) that are preserved in the Jagiellonian Library’s manuscript collection, authored or copied by Poles. The French manuscripts found in these collections are mainly of “Polish” origin, created in Poland; they were written by Poles and they vividly demonstrate the signifi- cant role played by the French language and French culture during the mentioned period.

In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provocative nature of this insolent mass culture resonated with the intellectual and political preoccupations of the surrealists, as Robin Walz demonstrates in this fascinating study. Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, re-evaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement. Pulp Surrealism presents four case studies, each exploring the out-of the-way and impertinent elements which inspired the surrealists. Walz discusses Louis Aragon's Le paysan de Paris, one of the great surrealist novels of Paris. He goes on to consider the popular series of Fantômes crime novels; the Parisan press coverage of the arrest, trial, and execution of mass-murderer Landru; and the surrealist inquiry \"Is Suicide a Solution?\", which Walz juxtaposes with reprints of actual suicide faits divers (sensationalist newspaper blurbs). Although surrealist interest in sensationalist popular culture eventually waned, this exploration of mass print culture as one of the cultural milieux from which surrealism emerged ultimately calls into question assumptions about the avant-garde origins of modernism itself.

From pick-up games in the park or neighborhood to the fervor that accompanies the FIFA World Cup tournaments, sports are a significant part of modern life. However, sports are not immediately associated with France, despite the country's excellent record of performance in international competitions, not to mention hosting the premier international cycling event and one of four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. I present an intermediate-advanced college-level culture class I created and taught, using sports as a cultural and historical lens into French society and giving students an opportunity to communicate in French about the global phenomenon that is sports. Abstract: Des matchs informels dans les parcs ou dans les quartiers, à la ferveur qui accompagne la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA, le sport est important dans la vie moderne. Néanmoins, on n'associe pas toujours le sport avec la France, en dépit d'excellentes performances françaises dans les compétitions internationales, et qu'elle est l'hôte du Tour de France et du tournoi de Roland-Garros. Je présente un cours universitaire de culture française, niveau intermédiaire/avancé, que j'ai créé et enseigné. Ce cours emploie le sport comme angle culturel et historique de la société française et donne aux étudiants l'occasion de s'exprimer en français au sujet de ce phénomène global.

The recently created Réunion des Théâtres Lyriques Nationaux (RTLN), which in 1939 had brought both the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique in Paris under the same heading, was now a state-run organization, placing France's leading stages even more firmly within the orbit of its political systems.3 Few works premiered at the Opéra during this period, but as Cecile Auzolle has shown, most returned to the grand operatic genre stylistically speaking.4 Once again, this historical style was used to assert a state-influenced view of French culture and dominance. By questioning the assumptions surrounding French Fourth Republic opera, and Bolivar itself, and utilizing new sources from archival research, this paper contributes to the larger reappraisal needed in this area of study and demonstrates the dynamic nature of Milhaud's \"failed\" opera. Milhaud lost forty family members, including his nephew Jean Milhaud, in the concentration camps, and his parents both passed away during the war.13 Several studies have focused on how pivotal Milhaud's time in America was, especially because his French and Jewish identities were placed into a level of conflict he had not experienced before.14 As Jane Fulcher notes, Milhaud strongly identified as both French and Jewish, as was traditional among the highly assimilated Jewish population in the south of France, and he believed in the universality of music and the French tradition.15 Erin Maher and Annegret Fauser have each examined Milhaud's American exile, illuminating his distress and efforts to promote French culture. [...]he did not consider the work as the basis of a libretto until his exile in America.19 Supervielle was a natural choice during this time, as the writer was also involved in the French Resistance and enduring an exile from France.20 Madeline Milhaud crafted Bolivar's libretto from the original play with the addition of some of Bolivar's own writing.21 Bolivar completed Milhaud's trilogy of operas on South American tragic heroes begun in 1928 with his Christophe Colomb and followed by Maximilien in 1930.22 The opera follows nearly three decades of the life of Simon Bolivar, a colonial landlord and slave-owner in Venezuela, who works to free the colonies from Spanish rule.

Ecocritical thought presents serious challenges for political readings of crime fiction and noir, notably in French and American cultural contexts, and these challenges merit a broad examination. How does the Anthropocene change our relation to the frames of intelligibility and the definitions of violence found in crime fictions? The scalar problems introduced by the cosmological perspectives of ecological awareness suggest the need to redraw the frontiers of noir, to imagine new green-black readings that transform our understanding of what counts in and as a noir novel.

During my three-month stay at the BSR as a Rome Awardee, I investigated the role of noblewoman Maria Mancini (1639–1715) in diffusing the French taste for female horseback riding during her residence in Rome between 1661 and 1672.My doctoral thesis and recent publications argue that Louis XIV's court provided a fertile ground for the development of a thriving female equestrian culture that allowed some elite women to exercise and display their proficient skill in the saddle. Following the completion of my PhD, I have been exploring how aristocratic women marrying abroad played a key role in spreading equestrian habits from the French court to other European centres such as Madrid, Turin, Florence and Rome.

Nowadays, it is imperative to comprehend the relationship between intercultural communication and international representations of cultures and nations. This study focuses on exploring the representations that Junior Algerian students hold concerning the French language as well as culture, in order to apprehend students’ attitudes towards the language in question, identify pre-existing stereotypes, and eventually promote a more competent understanding of the culture associated with the language. Through surveys’ responses by 130 juniors at the University of Oum El Bouaghi who have undergone a year of training in French Civilization, researchers attempt to comprehend the impact of the programs followed on the potential reconfiguration of these representations and to identify the relationship of these future educators with the French language. The researchers adopt a descriptive-analytic approach to evaluate the effects of this on students’ conceptions and associated images, concerning the French culture as a whole. The responses exhibited less positive associations with France compared to the French language itself, revealing a positive shift in stereotypical images of French culture among university students. Adopting an intercultural dimension to investigate this underscores the need to prepare learners culturally as well as linguistically in order to effectively interact with different cultures.

The Veil Rentier of the lords of Audenarde (Brussels, KBR, 1175) and the Terrier d'Évêque of the bishops of Cambrai (Lille, Archives du Nord, MS 3 G 1208 [Mus. 342]) are among the only extant illustrated medieval rent-books. This study situates the illustrations of these manuscripts within their specific urban contexts and argues that they are the product of a new category of book-makers, the professional secretary or clerk. Although the illustrations show some awareness of Gothic manuscript painting, the artists were more influenced by contemporary urban vernacular visual culture-that is, the memes of late medieval urban life-including signage, tokens, and seals. Through the use of these urban references, the artists promoted the traditional feudal concerns of the patrons of these manuscripts at a time when territorial contests were playing out in new ways with respect to the city.

This article examines the various institutions of the Université Saint-Joseph (U.S.J.) in Beirut, the works of its scholars, and their contributions to the knowledge of the Orient in the Christian East. The research question is the following: Were these prestigious institutions all \"cultural symbols\" of the knowledge of the Orient in the Christian East at the time? In order to answer the question, we particularly refer to the Oriental Library (La Bibliothèque Orientale); the creation of the Oriental Faculty; its publications, including the faculty's organ entitled Les Mélanges de la Faculté Orientale (Mélanges of the Eastern Faculty); the Catholic Printing Press, the journals Al-Machriq and Al-Bashir; and various other publications. Indeed, these institutions expanded the knowledge of the Orient to the students of the Université Saint-Joseph. This study is part of the scientific debate dealing with cultural, political history in the region.