478 résultats pour "midi"

• La Cour de Louis XIV terrasse et la facade du palais etaient decores de statues, de vases, de candelabres eclaires d'une maniere ingenieuse, qui les faisait paraitre comme enflammes a l'interieur.

  De 1675 a 1682, les travaux de Versailles se poursuivirent avec une etonnante activite. On acheva les grands appartements du roi et l'escalier dit des Ambassadeurs. On construisit la galerie des Glaces, a l'endroit ou une terrasse occupait le milieu de la facade, du cote des jardins. On ajouta au chateau l'aile du midi, dite aile des Princes. On termina, a droite et a gauche, les batiments qui bordent la premiere cour avant le chateau, et qu'on designe sous le nom d'ailes des Ministres. On eleva...

• Le Ventre de Paris Il haussa les epaules, comme pour dire que tout cela etait bien ennuyeux.

  l'eussent devancee a la prefecture: elle n'aurait pas a tromper Quenu, elle en dormirait mieux. —Est-ce que tu as les places? lui demanda Quenu, lorsqu'elle rentra. Il voulut les voir, se fit expliquer a quel endroit du balcon elles se trouvaient an juste. Lisa avait cru que la police accourrait, des qu'elle l'aurait prevenue, et son projet d'aller au theatre n'etait qu'une facon habile d'eloigner son mari, pendant qu'on arreterait Florent. Elle comptait, l'apres-midi, le pousser a une promenade...

• Gorazde, l'échec de la communauté internationale

  heures, l'ONU exigeait toutefois un soutien aérien rapproché de l'OTAN, les chars serbes venant d'entrer dans la ville où sedéroulaient des combats de rue. Plusieurs porte-parole de la FORPRONU à Sarajevo confirmeront aux journalistes ledéclenchement d'un nouveau raid aérien de l'OTAN contre les forces serbes à Gorazde. L'un d'entre eux, le major Annink,expliquera ensuite en détail que les frappes n'ont pas pu avoir lieu parce que les observateurs militaires de l'ONU qui, depuisl'enclave, devaie...

• vous n'allez pas lui parler de.

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• LA LITTERATURE COURTOISE

  Les principaux de ces poètes sont Jaufré Rudel, Bertran de Born, Raimbaut de Vaqueyras, Bernard de Ventadour et Giraut de Borneil. Leurs œuvres, surtout lyriques, chantent le printemps, les fleurs, l'amour heureux, l'amour lointain, l'amour perdu. Dans la deuxième moitié du XII• siècle, ces mœurs plus polies ont gagné lentement le Nord de la France. C'est Aliénor d'Aquitaine qui paraît avoir le plus contribué à y acclimater la courtoisie du Midi,...

• The Scarlett letter

  The Scarlet Letter is an american romantic novel of fiction, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in the mid-nineteenth century. It is considered to be his best work. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer from the nineteen century. He is a dark romantic (anti-transcendentalist) which means that he explores the psychological effects of guilt and sin, madness, derangement in the human psyche. The Scarlett letter is marked by this exploration. The st...

• XXIX Sur les navires de la flotte immigrante, on mourait beaucoup, mais pas tellement plus, si l'on y songe, que dans les villages u Gange décimés par les guerres, les épidémies, les famines et les inondations.

  XXX Le Vendredi saint,enfin d’après-midi, M. JeanPerret,secrétaire d’ÉtatauxAffaires étrangères etconseiller privédu président delaRépublique, seprésenta aupalais del’Élysée etfut immédiatement introduitauprèsduPrésident. Le Président étaitseuldans sonbureau. Apparemment, ilne faisait rien,quefumer lecigare enbuvant unwhisky légerà petites gorgées gourmandes. Prèsdelui, surune table basse, s’entassaient lesdépêches qu’unaidedecamp luiapportait de quart d’heure enquart d’heure, certainspassages s...

• MISTRAL Jean Étienne Frédéric : sa vie et son oeuvre

  surgit l'image d'un être tout de vitalité, poète, homme d'affaires et homme d'action, infatigable travailleur (il suffit de songer aux dizaines de milliers de lettres qu'il écrivit), > d'écrivains, marieur de jeunes gens, grand amoureux devant l'éternel et fier amant dès ses années aixoises ... Il épousa en 1876 Marie Rivière; elle avait dix-neuf ans. Naissance d'une œuvre On connaît mieux l'histoire de l'homme public, celui dont le génie s'est voué...

• l'odeur des truffes.

  cheveux-là. Et,dans lesgrandes tournées, lorsquetoustrois, Claude, CadineetMarjolin, rôdaientautourdesHalles, ils apercevaient, parchaque boutderue, uncoin dugéant defonte. C’étaient deséchappées brusques,desarchitectures imprévues, lemême horizon s’offrant sanscesse sousdesaspects divers.Claude seretournait, surtoutrueMontmartre, après avoirpassé l’église. Auloin, lesHalles, vuesdebiais, l’enthousiasmaient : unegrande arcade, uneporte haute, béante, s’ouvrait ; puislespavillons s’entassaient, a...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DORMIR, verbe.

  dormir debout. Confer debout. Au figuré dormir sur les/ses deux oreilles. N'être nullement inquiété. Je veillerai à votre sécurité, dormez sur les deux oreilles (Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. 1835-1932). b) [Désignant un sommeil léger] Souvent en emploi figuré. Ne dormir que d'un oeil, que d'une oreille; dormir les yeux ouverts, en gendarme. Dormir à demi, tout en restant aux aguets. Être sur le qui-vive. Il n'en dort pas. Il est préoccupé ou inquiété par quelque chose qui le tient en év...

• Jacksonville (Florida) - geography.

  and southern sections and avoiding the downtown bottleneck where Interstate 95 crosses the Saint Johns River at the Fuller Warren Bridge. In addition to being a regional highway crossroads, the city is a railway hub, with Amtrak passenger service and several freight routes. The city’s expanding airport,located in northern Jacksonville, was the nation’s fastest growing in passenger volume in the mid-1990s. V GOVERNMENT Jacksonville has a mayor-council form of municipal government. The mayor and...

• Atlanta - geography.

  Prominent cultural and historical institutions in the city include the High Museum of Art (1983), designed by the noted postmodern American architect Richard Meier; theAtlanta Symphony; the Atlanta History Center, which maintains a history museum, historic houses and gardens, and extensive library and archives; NexusContemporary Art Center; the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center; the Apex Museum; the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University; the Clark Atlanta University ArtGallery; Fernbank Scie...

• Valley.

  Except in mountainous terrain, rivers are almost always flanked by floodplains. Floodplains are flat wide deposits of alluvium, river-deposited sediment, on either side of the river channel. During floods, a river overflows its banks and spreads out the sediment near the river to form a floodplain. Floodplains of large rivers, such as thoseof the Mississippi River, can be flat areas tens of kilometers across. River channels migrate back and forth across their floodplains as alluvium is repeate...

• Valley - Geography.

  Except in mountainous terrain, rivers are almost always flanked by floodplains. Floodplains are flat wide deposits of alluvium, river-deposited sediment, on either side of the river channel. During floods, a river overflows its banks and spreads out the sediment near the river to form a floodplain. Floodplains of large rivers, such as thoseof the Mississippi River, can be flat areas tens of kilometers across. River channels migrate back and forth across their floodplains as alluvium is repeate...

• Denver - geography.

  Denver is the center of professional sports in the Rocky Mountain region. Major league teams are the Denver Broncos (football), Colorado Rockies (baseball), DenverNuggets (basketball), and Colorado Avalanche (ice hockey). Coors Field (opened in 1995) is the home of the Colorado Rockies. The Broncos began play at the newlyconstructed Invesco Field at Mile High in 2001, and the Nuggets and Avalanche play at the Pepsi Center. The National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, one of thelargest such shows i...

• Middle East - geography.

  years.Spectrum Colour Library Apart from the Nile River, which provides much of the water supply and irrigation systems of Egypt, and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which supply Iraq, Syria, andTurkey, there are no major rivers or navigable waterways. The Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias) in northern Israel, fed from the north by the shallow, unnavigable JordanRiver, provides Israel’s main source of fresh water. With such a limited water supply, access to water for drinking, irrigation, and hydro...

• gothique, art - peinture.

  tendent vers une certaine rigueur formelle et un équilibre des proportions. Par exemple, les différents types de voûtements sont abandonnés pour ne retenir, à quelques exceptions près, que la voûte quadripartite sur travée barlongue. En plan, un transept saillant sépare la nef et le chevet d’égale importance, alors qu’en élévation les grandes arcades possèdent la même hauteur que les fenêtres hautes. L’élévation est à trois niveaux : grandes arcades, triforium et fenêtres hautes. Les supports so...

• gothique, art - sculpture.

  tendent vers une certaine rigueur formelle et un équilibre des proportions. Par exemple, les différents types de voûtements sont abandonnés pour ne retenir, à quelques exceptions près, que la voûte quadripartite sur travée barlongue. En plan, un transept saillant sépare la nef et le chevet d’égale importance, alors qu’en élévation les grandes arcades possèdent la même hauteur que les fenêtres hautes. L’élévation est à trois niveaux : grandes arcades, triforium et fenêtres hautes. Les supports so...

• Woman Suffrage - U.

  form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. For many years thereafter the association worked to advance women’s rights on both the state and federallevels. Besides Stone, Anthony, and Stanton, leaders and supporters of the association included the noted American feminists Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe,Clara Barton, Jane Addams, and Carrie Chapman Catt. Largely as a result of agitation by the association, suffrage was granted in the states of Colorado (1893), Utahand Idaho (18...

• Miami (Florida) - geography.

  VI EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Colleges and universities in the area include the University of Miami, Florida International University, Barry University, St. Thomas University, and Florida MemorialCollege. Miami-Dade Community College, one of the nation’s largest two-year colleges, has six campuses in the region. Leading museums include the Historical Museumof Southern Florida, the Miami Museum of Science, the Miami Art Museum, the Lowe Art Museum on the campus of the University of M...

• Article de presse: 27 jours qui ébranlèrent la France

  Après quelques discours enflammés, on se disperse vers 13 heures. Au début de l'après-midi, les Nanterrois qui ne savent où aller sont toujours là et à nouveau les orateurs se succèdent. Le tonmonte. La psychose d'agression reparaît : les " fafs " vont attaquer. Dans la confusion, les fausses nouvelles, les bruits alarmistes,la foule étudiante grossit rapidement. Comme la veille à Nanterre, les autorités font fermer à clef les portes des amphithéâtres,puis encercler la Sorbonne par la police,...

• Slovenia - country.

  Democratic Party of Slovenia, the Christian Democratic Party, United List, the Slovenian National Party, the Democratic Party of Slovenia, and Greens of Slovenia. Slovenia has eight trial courts, four appellate courts, and a Supreme Court. The Assembly appoints all judges, including the justices of the Supreme Court. Slovenia hasan extensive network of social service programs sponsored by the government, including low-cost medical coverage and retirement pensions. Slovenia had an army of 6,550 a...

• Mapa 1 INTRODUCCIÓN Mappa Mundi, catedral de Hereford El Mappa Mundi realizado por Ricardo de Haldingham, el prebendado de Hereford, es un elaborado mapa del mundo, con un tamaño de 165 cm de largo por 135 cm de ancho.

  montañosa o cascada que aparecen aquí, pueden parecerse a las realidades que representan.© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. Los principales elementos del mapa son la leyenda y la escala. Para que un mapa pueda contener gran cantidad de información de fácil lectura debe reflejar en la leyenda un sistema de símbolos arbitrarios o convencionales y debeelaborarse siguiendo un uso adecuado de los colores. Muchos de estos se utilizan con tanta frecuencia que son aceptados por todo...

• transport.

  Un navire est improductif lorsqu’il est immobilisé dans un port. La réduction de ces temps morts a d’abord été obtenue par l’accélération des opérations de manutention grâce à l’unitisation des charges, qui permet l’automatisation du chargement et du déchargement. D’autre part, dans le transport maritime, une large partie des coûts est affectée aux échanges dans les ports. On a donc cherché à les réduire au minimum en supprimant les ruptures de charge de la marchandise entre les différents modes...

• Vanuatu - country.

  and Luganville. V GOVERNMENT Vanuatu is governed under a constitution that came into effect with the republic’s independence in 1980. The president of Vanuatu serves as head of state, a largelyceremonial office. The president is elected by Vanuatu’s parliament and the heads of regional government councils. The parliament, or legislature, is a single-chamberbody whose membership has increased several times since independence; in 1998 the parliament had 52 members. Members of parliament are chose...

• Pittsburgh - geography.

  College of Allegheny County (1966), with branches in the city and suburbs. Pittsburgh has many outstanding cultural institutions. The Oakland district is where Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are located. The CarnegieMuseums of Pittsburgh include The Carnegie Museum of Art (including the Scaife Galleries), which holds a distinguished motion-picture and video collection and a uniquestudy of architecture; the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which displays an extensi...

• Ernest Miller HEMINGWAY : Mort dans l'après-midi

  Photo TaU 1 Sipa-lcono Hemingway, on le sait, était un fervent adepte des corridas depuis son premier séjour en Espagne. Il s'essaya à toréer, sans autre succès, dit-il, que de faire rire ses compagnons et prendre quelques bleus. L'écriture res­ tait son vrai métier, d'où ce livre qui fait le lien entre l' expé­ rience de l'artiste et celle du matador. C'est le poète René Daumal (1908-1944) qui le traduisit en français en 1938. Le livr...

• Native American Literature.

  Many Native American writers of the 19th century wrote histories of their tribes. One tribal historian was David Cusick (Tuscarora), whose Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827) was the first published tribal history. Tribal histories explained the deep ties that tribes had to their ancestral homelands. Beginning in the 18th century, these ties took on special meaning because the United States government began removing Native Americans from their traditional lands. These removal...

• Slavery in Africa.

  The spread of Islam from Arabia into Africa after the religion’s founding in the 7th century AD affected the practice of slavery and slave trading in West, Central, and East Africa. Arabs had practiced slave raiding and trading in Arabia for centuries prior to the founding of Islam, and slavery became a component of Islamic traditions.Both the Qur'an (Koran) (the sacred scripture of Islam) and Islamic religious law served to codify and justify the existence of slavery. As Muslim Arabs conquered...

• Electronic Games.

  arcade game of all time. With Pizza Time Theaters legitimizing the idea of arcades and hits such as Ms. Pac-Man , Asteroids , Donkey Kong , Tempest , Frogger , and Defender bringing new excitement to gaming, the coin-operated video game business boomed. In 1981 Americans spent 75,000 person-years and $5 billion playing video games at anestimated 4,300 arcades in the United States. Many popular arcade games also were translated for use on the Atari 2600 and its chief rivals in the homemarket—M...

• Democratic Party.

  At the beginning of the 20th century the Democrats’ minority position among voters remained central to their existence. The Progressive split in Republican rankshelped elect Woodrow Wilson twice, but the entry of the United States into World War I ended that. The war, popular at first, backfired against the Wilsonadministration when large numbers of German Americans and Irish Americans protested with their votes against U.S. involvement on England’s side. The result wasanother Republican landsli...

• Atlantic Slave Trade.

  members of the planters’ society. Through most of the years of the Atlantic trade, prices for Africans remained favorable in relation to the price of the crops theyproduced. They were, thus, the best economic solution for plantation owners seeking inexpensive labor. The Atlantic slave trade began as a trickle in the 1440s and grew slowly through the 17th century. By 1700, 25,000 slaves, on average, were crossing the Atlantic everyyear. After 1700 the trade grew much more rapidly to a peak in the...

• Chess.

  There are two standard methods of recording chess moves: the algebraic system and the descriptive system. In both systems, the pieces are designated by capitalinitials: K for king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, and N for knight. The initial P for pawn is used in the descriptive system only. Castling is noted as either 0-0(“short” castling on the king’s side) or 0-0-0 (“long” castling on the queen’s side). Each square is part of both a file and a rank, and in the algebraic system, that u...

• Indo-Pakistani Wars - History.

  wrest Jammu and Kashmīr from India through the use of force. This effort failed as India held its ground, and the war ended in a stalemate after almost two months ofarmed conflict. Although the second war over the territory was shorter than the first, the increased firepower of the two nations resulted in a more deadly war, with atotal of about 6,800 battle casualties. A Events Before the War A number of factors precipitated the second conflict over Jammu and Kashm īr. In the wake of a border w...

• analyse de la pensée de midi dans l'homme révolté de camus

  antique toujours eu une opposition entre deux formes antagonistes (camus parle de «mesure» et de «démesure» animant l'histoire de l'occident), c'est une course entre «les rêves allemands et la tradition méditerranéenne» . En outre, l'idéologie allemande est met fin à: «vingt siècles de vaine...divinisée ensuite» (p.373) . Autrement dit, l'idéologie suivante à rompu avec la nature, dieu, elle les a substituée par l'histoire, qui s'est dès lors placé...

• Sexual Harassment.

  A person who believes he or she has experienced sexual harassment on the job has a limited period of time in which to file a complaint with the EEOC. After the EEOCinvestigates the matter, it issues a right to sue letter, regardless of its conclusions about the matter. The victim then has 90 days to file a lawsuit against the employer in federal court. If he or she is successful in the lawsuit, the victim can receive up to $300,000 in compensatory damages for each incident of unlawful harassme...

• Literary Criticism I INTRODUCTION Literary Criticism, discussion of literature, including description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of literary works.

  IV THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES The climate of criticism changed with the arrival on the literary scene of such giants as Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and Pedro Calderòn in Spain; WilliamShakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Milton in England; and Pierre Corneille, Jean Baptiste Racine, and Molière in France. Most of these writers specialized or excelled indrama, and consequently the so-called battle of the ancients and moderns—the critical comparison of Greek and Roman authors with more rece...

• Mexico City - geography.

  The park houses some of Mexico's most important public buildings, including Chapultepec Castle. Construction of the castle began in 1783. Positioned on the park’shighest elevation, the castle functioned as a fortress during colonial times. It once served as the presidential residence and now houses the National Museum of History,which includes murals by 20th-century Mexican painter Juan O'Gorman. Los Pinos, the official residence and working offices of the president, is also on the grounds, buti...

• Lithuania - country.

  pollution. III PEOPLE Ethnic Lithuanians constitute about 80 percent of the country’s population. The proportion of Lithuanians increased slightly in the first years after the dissolution of theSoviet Union—many Lithuanians returned to their homeland from that country and abroad while some Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians left the country. Russiansand Poles constitute the country’s largest minority groups, each accounting for roughly 7 percent of the population. Jews were the largest mino...

• Welfare.

  industrializing societies. Governments typically financed social insurance programs with tax funds and direct levies on the wages of potential recipients. Social insurancereplaced part of incomes lost when workers became disabled, were laid off, or had reached an age that forced them out of the labor market. Later, governments of Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, and other countries developed forms of social insurance that provided population-wide, or universal,coverage. Such forms included chil...

• Dominican Republic - country.

  Manatees and sea turtles also live in Dominican waters. Common birds include blue herons, glossy ibis, flamingos, and brown pelicans. E Environmental Issues Urban dwellers of the Dominican Republic enjoy good access to safe water, but rural communities do not. While current water use is low relative to available resources,water shortages do occur. Although deforestation was once a serious problem in the Dominican Republic, by the beginning of the 21st century, the annual rate of deforestation h...

• Denmark - country.

  forests, which cover just 11.6 percent of the country, include conifers (mainly fir, spruce, larch, and pine), beech, oak, birch, and ash. Several varieties of ferns andmosses common to the northern European mainland are also found. Wild animals are scarce. Natural animal life is limited to deer and small animals such as foxes,squirrels, hares, wild ducks, pheasants, and partridges. Numerous species of freshwater fish live in Denmark’s streams and lakes. F Environmental Issues Considered highly...

• Bicycle.

  narrow as possible to minimize weight and interference with pedaling. F Specialty Bicycles Many other types of bicycles are designed for special purposes. Although not as common as standard single-rider racing, touring, mountain, or recreational bicycles,they nonetheless have significant niches. Recumbent bicycles are bicycles on which the rider sits upright as if in a chair, with legs and feet stretched out in front. Because they support the rider’s lower back,recumbents allow the rider far mo...

• Kazakhstan - country.

  mismanagement. Between 1949 and 1991 the Soviet government conducted about 70 percent of all of its nuclear testing in Kazakhstan, mostly in the northeastern area near the city ofSemipalatinsk (now Semey). Nearly 500 nuclear explosions occurred both above and below ground near Semipalatinsk, while more than 40 nuclear detonationsoccurred at other testing grounds in western Kazakhstan and in the Qyzylqum desert. More than 1 million of Kazakhstan’s inhabitants were exposed to dangerous levelsof ra...

• 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...

• North Dakota - geography.

  Bismarck, the growing season averages 134 days, as the average date of the last killing frost is May 11 and that of the first killing frost is September 22. The length ofthe growing season drops to about 110 days in the northerly reaches of the state. The long periods of summer sunshine at this latitude, providing as much as 16 hoursof daylight in summer, help crops to mature quickly, thus compensating somewhat for the relatively short growing season. Temperatures in the north are, on the averag...

• North Dakota - USA History.

  Bismarck, the growing season averages 134 days, as the average date of the last killing frost is May 11 and that of the first killing frost is September 22. The length ofthe growing season drops to about 110 days in the northerly reaches of the state. The long periods of summer sunshine at this latitude, providing as much as 16 hoursof daylight in summer, help crops to mature quickly, thus compensating somewhat for the relatively short growing season. Temperatures in the north are, on the averag...

• Kentucky - geography.

  The climate of Kentucky is characterized by warm or hot summers and cool winters. Throughout the year, temperatures do not vary greatly from place to place,although they are generally slightly lower in the Appalachian Plateaus region than elsewhere in the state. Average July temperatures are usually from 24° to 27°C (76°to 80°F) in the central and western areas and from 23° to 24°C (74° to 76°F) in the east. January averages range from below 1°C (34°F) in the northern Bluegrassregion to more tha...

• Kentucky - USA History.

  The climate of Kentucky is characterized by warm or hot summers and cool winters. Throughout the year, temperatures do not vary greatly from place to place,although they are generally slightly lower in the Appalachian Plateaus region than elsewhere in the state. Average July temperatures are usually from 24° to 27°C (76°to 80°F) in the central and western areas and from 23° to 24°C (74° to 76°F) in the east. January averages range from below 1°C (34°F) in the northern Bluegrassregion to more tha...

• Oregon - geography.

  B Rivers and Lakes The Columbia River forms most of the Oregon-Washington boundary, and with its tributaries this great river drains a large portion of Oregon. From the point where theColumbia first touches the state, at Wallula Gap, the river runs in a shallow gorge, deepening as it approaches the Cascades. This part of the river once had manyrapids and falls, but is now navigable by large vessels because of dams and locks that have been built along much of its length. An important tributary o...