Publications
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Villard de Honnecourt, architecte du XIIIe siècle
(2015)
The only document we have by a 13th-century architect, the Album of Villard de Honnecourt has been the subject of writings by art and architectural historians since the 19th century and has been considered the work of an ...
Soixante-trois. La peur de la grande année climactérique à la Renaissance
(2013)
People have interpreted the numeration of the years of their life since Antiquity (when, for example, the Emperor Augustus did so). Ancient medical theories thus maintained that matter is renewed every seven or nine years. ...
Le Privilège des livres
(2021)
Klossowski, l’incommunicable
(2015)
Can we communicate the incommunicable? Language is general, but the “depths of the soul” are unique, and only the experience lived in silence is authentic. Would it be possible to find a language that would appear to say ...
L'Œuvre sans fin. Réception des romans de Monique Saint-Hélier par la critique française (1932-1955)
(2013)
Monique Saint-Hélier became quite successful during the 1930s in particular because of the violent controversy that surrounded her second novel, Bois-Mort. How is it that Saint-Hélier’s work provoked such passionate ...
Ovide veut parler ». Les négociations de Clément Marot traducteur
(2016)
This is the first French verse version of Ovid’s Metamorphosis, translated by the sixteenth century poet Clément Marot. Marot’s translation marks not only a literary achievement, but also cleaves to deontological standards ...
Art et démocratie
(2020)
En quête du grand style : la peinture d'histoire britannique au XVIIIe siècle
(2020)
The British eighteenth century has not only been a period of portraitists, landscape painters and miniaturists. There were also many painters who dedicated themselves to religious, mythological, allegorical, literary and ...
La Chine en partage
(2021)
