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• CHAPITRE 7 DU CANDIDE DE VOLTAIRE (lecture analytique)

  Si on a souvent remarqué à quel point l'invraisemblance du genre romanesque est parodiée dans Candide, on n'a pasassez réfléchi, semble-t-il, sur le double aspect de cette parodie, non plus que sur ses limites à l'intérieur del'oeuvre. Un roman traditionnel, c'est encore certes, du temps de Voltaire comme au XVIIe siècle, un " ouvrage enprose contenant des aventures fabuleuses " (Dictionnaire de l'Académie, 1694). Mais cette notion de fabuleux,d'invraisemblable, telle qu'elle a...

• Venus - Mythology.

• El Salvador - country.

  III PEOPLE The Spanish subjugated the native population of El Salvador in the 16th century. Few Spanish women came to the country, however, so many Spanish men took NativeAmerican women as their mates. Today nearly 90 percent of the population is mestizo , of mixed European and Native American descent. People of purely Native American descent represent about 5 to 10 percent of the population, while people of European descent represent only about 1 percent. El Salvador’s population, 5.2 millio...

• United Kingdom - country.

  B Natural Regions and Topography The island of Great Britain can be divided into two major natural regions—the highland zone and the lowland zone. The highland zone is an area of high hills andmountains in the north and west. The lowland zone in the south and east consists mostly of rolling plains. The zones are divided by an imaginary line running throughEngland from the River Exe on the southwest coast to the mouth of the River Tees on the northeast coast. The lowland zone has a milder climat...

• Boston - geography.

  The neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton occupy the northwest corner of the city to the west of Fenway. The Allston-Brighton area is bordered to the east, north, andwest by the Charles River and to the south by the Massachusetts Turnpike and the town of Brookline. It is an industrial and residential neighborhood that is also thelocation of Boston College and Harvard University Business School. Boston has been unsuccessful in annexing Brookline, the birthplace of U.S. president John F.Kennedy an...

• Vietnam - country.

  E Natural Resources Vietnam’s most valuable natural resource is its land, particularly the fertile, alluvial soils in the Red and Mekong deltas. Some 29 percent of the land is currently beingcultivated. Vietnam has some valuable mineral resources, including gold, iron, tin, zinc, phosphate, chromite, apatite, and anthracite coal. Most deposits are located in the northernpart of the country. Few attempts were made to extract these minerals until the French takeover of Vietnam at the end of the 1...

• Chemistry - chemistry.

  parts of oxygen by weight, which is a ratio of about 1 to 8, regardless of whether the water came from the Mississippi River or the ice of Antarctica. In other words, acompound has a definite, invariable composition, always containing the same elements in the same proportions by weight; this is the law of definite proportions. Many elements combine in more than one ratio, giving different compounds. In addition to forming water, hydrogen and oxygen also form hydrogen peroxide.Hydrogen peroxide h...

• Africa.

  The highest elevations in Africa are found in the various ranges of East Africa. After Kilimanjaro, the next highest peaks are Mount Kenya (5,199 m/17,057 ft), north ofKilimanjaro in central Kenya; Margherita Peak (5,109 m/ 16,762 ft) in the Ruwenzori Range on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC); Ras Dashen (4,620 m/ 15,157 ft) in the Ethiopian Highlands of northern Ethiopia; Mount Meru (4,565 m/ 14,977 ft), close to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; and MountElgon (4,...

• Africa - Geography.

  The highest elevations in Africa are found in the various ranges of East Africa. After Kilimanjaro, the next highest peaks are Mount Kenya (5,199 m/17,057 ft), north ofKilimanjaro in central Kenya; Margherita Peak (5,109 m/ 16,762 ft) in the Ruwenzori Range on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC); Ras Dashen (4,620 m/ 15,157 ft) in the Ethiopian Highlands of northern Ethiopia; Mount Meru (4,565 m/ 14,977 ft), close to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; and MountElgon (4,...

• English Literature I INTRODUCTION English Literature, literature produced in England, from the introduction of Old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present.

  evident. That feature is typical of other Old English literature, for almost all of what survives was preserved by monastic copyists. Most of it was actually composed byreligious writers after the early conversion of the people from their faith in the older Germanic divinities. Sacred legend and story were reduced to verse in poems resembling Beowulf in form. At first such verse was rendered in the somewhat simple, stark style of the poems of Caedmon, a humble man of the late 7th century who w...

• Fiche de lecture : PLÉIADES (Les) Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau

  le prince devient peu à peu leur ami: il leur avoue son amour pour sa cousine Aurore. Mais, marié, il ne peut l'épou­ ser. Il abdi que, s'exile à Pale rm e. s'abandonne à sa passion. Alors qu'il touche au fond du désespoir, il ap­ prend que sa femme vient de mourir et rejoint Aurore qu'il peut enfin épouser. • Si Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau 11816- 1882) est stigmatisé pour son racisme (voir l'Essai sur l'inégalité etes races humaines•> et pour l'ext...

• Le Rouge et le Noir Incipit Analyse

• Mouvements littéraires

• NERCIAT André Robert Andréa de : sa vie et son oeuvre

• la curee, zola

• KANT: En quel sens peut-on dire que la raison affranchit l'homme de la nature ?

  106 LA RAISON • imagination : elle désigne au sens premier la faculté de penser à partir d'images, perçues ou non à l'extérieur. Elle peut donc reproduire ces images ou bien en produire de nouvelles, en faisant entrer l'homme dans ce que Kant nomme le règne du« superflu». Elle est en quelque sorte un relais entre la raison et la sensibilité. • instinct naturel : il est ici opposé à la raison. Il désigne la faculté, com­ mune à tous les animaux,...

• Museum.

  History museums are dedicated to promoting a greater appreciation and knowledge of history and its importance to understanding the present and anticipating thefuture. They range from historic sites and small historic house museums to large, encyclopedic institutions such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of AmericanHistory in Washington, D.C. Many cities and states have historical societies that operate museums or historic sites. History museums usually collect a wide range ofobjects, includi...

• Van gogh et Mirbeau

  2 Introduction Mirbeau, dont le regard scrutateur fut d’une grande acuité, fit de sa passion pour la peinture un acte de foi, de sa critique un sacerdoce. Doté d’un flair quasiment infaillible - Gustave Geffroy parle de «prescience» et Frantz Jourdain d’une «certitude un peu divinatrice» - il pose sur l’art qui l’entoure un regard lucide. S’érigeant en chantre de l’impressionnisme, il souffle dans les trom pettes de...

• John Irving: vie et oeuvre

  ~ Une scène du film Hôtel New Hampshire , réalisé par te metteur américain Tony Richardson en 1984. Nastassja Kinski , Jodie Fos ter et Rob Lowe en sont tes acteurs . elu Viêt-nam en te ntant cie sauve r d es vies. Vo u­ l a nt attrape r la balle de base-ba il qu'il pense avo ir soudainement re trouv ée, il saisit e n f a it au vol une gre n ade qui lui exp los dans les m a ins. En 1 993 , Irvin g publi e en France un recueil d e nou...