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La Revue des lettres modernes is a French academic literary magazine founded in 1954 by Michel J. Minard. [1] Originally intended to be a periodical devoted to the "history of ideas and literatures", it now publishes series of monographs devoted to authors. The headquarters of the magazine is in Paris. [2]
Les Lettres Françaises (French for "The French Letters") is a French literary publication, founded in 1941 by writers Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan. Originally a clandestine magazine of the French Resistance in German-occupied territory , it was one of the many publications of the National Front resistance movement.
Nouvelles de la république des lettres (News from the Republic of Letters) [1] was a periodical devoted to reviews of current publications, edited and in large part written by Pierre Bayle. It began publication in 1684, and is the first known book review journal.
In 1895 and 1897 the Salon des Indépendants was held at the Palais des Beaux-Arts et des Arts libéraux (Champ de Mars). Between 1901 and 1907, the exhibition was held in the Grandes Serres de la Ville de Paris (Cours-la-Reine, Paris), also called Grande Serre de l'Alma , built for the Exposition Universelle of 1900 .
The Union des Français de l'Etranger (French Foreign Union), or UFE, is a French organization with branches in more than 100 countries around the world in major world cities including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. where there is a significant French or Francophone population. It was founded in 1927 and is the oldest ...
Though the manuscripts from which were set editions A and B have not survived, there are notebooks of corrections and addenda ("Cahiers de corrections") at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (n. a. fr. 14365): see Edgar Mass, "Les éditions des Lettres persanes," Revue française d’histoire du livre nos. 102–103 (1999), pp. 19–56.
It takes its name from the commune of Saint-Chamond where its manufacturers Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt (FAMH) were based. Born of the commercial rivalry existing with the makers of the Schneider CA1 tank, the Saint-Chamond was an underpowered and fundamentally inadequate design.
The Montagne des Français Reserve (French for: mountain of the French) is a protected area consisting principally of dry deciduous forest in northern Madagascar. It is part of the larger Ramena protected area complex which also includes Orangea Reserve and the Ambodivahibe Marine Reserve. These three protected areas are currently being created ...