714 résultats pour "henry"

• Life. revue hebdomadaire illustrée américaine. Elle fut fondée par Henry

• War of 1812 - History.

  the thorough training they received in handling guns was far ahead of contemporary British standards. As hostilities loomed, Congress authorized a regular army of 35,000 men, but when the United States officially declared war in June 1812, the actual land force was lessthan 10,000 and nearly half of these soldiers were raw recruits. The existing troops were also widely scattered in small garrisons. The government planned tosupplement this regular force with 50,000 volunteers and 100,000 militiam...

• War of 1812 - U.

  the thorough training they received in handling guns was far ahead of contemporary British standards. As hostilities loomed, Congress authorized a regular army of 35,000 men, but when the United States officially declared war in June 1812, the actual land force was lessthan 10,000 and nearly half of these soldiers were raw recruits. The existing troops were also widely scattered in small garrisons. The government planned tosupplement this regular force with 50,000 volunteers and 100,000 militiam...

• TEISSIER. L’un des personnages principaux de la comédie d’Henry Becque les Corbeaux

• Général Henry Pownall (seconde guerre mondiale - histoire).

• Le personnage de TOM JONES d’Henry Fielding Tom Jones

• Rono Henry, né en 1952 à Kiptaragon, athlète kenyan.

• HISTOIRE D’AMOUR DE LA ROSE DES SABLES. Henry de Montherlant (résumé)

• COMMENT J’AI TROUVÉ LIVINGSTONE. (résumé & analyse) Henry Morton Stanley

• DANS LES TÉNÈBRES DE L’AFRIQUE (résumé & analyse) Henry Morton Stanley

• VIGNERON (la famille). Personnages de la comédie de Henry Becque les Corbeaux

• DU MESNIL Clotilde. Protagoniste de la comédie d’Henry Becque la Parisienne

• SEMAINE SUR LES FLEUVES CONCORD ET MERRIMAC (Une) Henry-David Thoreau

• VILLE DONT LE PRINCE EST UN ENFANT (La). (résumé) Henry de Montherlant

• MILES STANDISH de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - résumé, analyse

• HISTOIRE DES ÉTATS-UNIS D’AMÉRIQUE Henry Adams (résumé)

• TERRE CÉLESTE ET CORPS DE RÉSURRECTION. Henry Corbin (résumé)

• La Reine morte - Henry de Montherlant (Résumé - Fiche de lecture)

  1 • LE CONTEXTEMontherlant, journaliste au front en 1939, est légèrement blessé. Il passe les années de guerre, et les suivantes, àécrire. La Reine morte, la première et la plus célèbre de ses pièces, est suivie, jusqu'en 1965, de quatorze autres,qui, au-delà de leur variété (veine chrétienne et veine profane, pièces historiques et sujets contemporains), dansune dramaturgie et une langue classiques, sont autant de « prétexte[s] à l'exploration de l'homme ». Le sujet de LaReine morte est emprunté...

• AMÉRICAIN (L’) [The American]. Henry James (résumé & analyse)

• AVENTURES DE JOSEPH ANDREWS (Les) Henry Fielding (résumé & analyse)

• STRETHER Lambert. Personnage du roman d’Henry James les Ambassadeurs

• Kissinger Henry Homme politique américain d'origine allemande

• PORTRAIT DE FEMME (Un) Henry James (résumé et analyse de l’oeuvre)

• Martin Van Buren.

  political ambitions. The Clintonians cited as one example of Van Buren's unscrupulous methods his support of a convention in 1821 to revise the state's constitution. Van Buren and hisBucktails said they wanted to make the constitution more democratic. The Clintonians retorted that the real aim was to oust them from office. Both sides were right. Therevised constitution introduced a needed extension of voting rights and improved the operation of the state government. However, it also removed many...

• Martin Van Buren

  political ambitions. The Clintonians cited as one example of Van Buren's unscrupulous methods his support of a convention in 1821 to revise the state's constitution. Van Buren and hisBucktails said they wanted to make the constitution more democratic. The Clintonians retorted that the real aim was to oust them from office. Both sides were right. Therevised constitution introduced a needed extension of voting rights and improved the operation of the state government. However, it also removed many...

• pour son action en faveur de la paix au Viêt-nam Henry Kissinger

• SONGE DE GÉRONTIUS (Le) John Henry Newman (Résumé et analyse)

• « Docteur Livingstone, je présume ? » HENRY MORTON STANLEY, en 1871. Commentez.

• Segrave (sir Henry), 1896-1930, coureur automobile britannique.

• Expert Henry, 1863-1952, né à Bordeaux, musicologue français.

• Le système des grands studios aux États-Unis (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  • Elle produit ausi des films d'aventures (Mogombo de John Ford , 1953 ) et des films policiers (/o Mort aux trousses d'AifrN HitchcfK'k. 1959). • Mais ce sont les superproductions qui forgent la marque de la compagnie (Quo vodis ? de Mervyn LeRoy , 1951 ; Ben Hur de William Wyler, 1959 ; Docteur Jivogo de David Lean, 1966 ; 2001 , l'Odyssée de l'espace de Stanley Kubrick, 1968) . Celles-ci remportent des succès, mais grèvent lourdement les budg...

• Céard Henry , 1851-1924, né à Bercy, écrivain français.

• Prunières Henry, 1886-1942, né à Paris, musicologue français.

• Avec un bâton entre les jambes, j'acquérais une étonnante vélocité, et pour chaque bataille je changeais de monture. Henry Bordeaux, la Maison

• Barraud Henry , 1900-1997, né à Bordeaux, compositeur français.

• Thornton Henry, 1760-1815, né à Londres, économiste anglais.

• HENRY Frédéric. Personnage du roman d’Ernest Hemingway l'Adieu aux armes

• Le Sujet De La Pièce De Roméo Et Juliette

  service de Juliette, très affectée par "la fausse mort" de Juliette l'annonce. Shakespeare n'a pas retenu l'ultime échange entreRoméo et Juliette dans le caveau familial. Cet épisode chez Da Porto paraît très invraisemblable et décrédibilise en quelque sortele pathétique des derniers adieux.De Brooke à Shakespeare :L'histoire de Roméo et Juliette fait l'objet d'un long poème de 3020 vers Comme dans la nouvelle de Bandello, l'action se situe enhiver, au moment de Noël et s'étend sur neuf mois. En...

• EXCURSIONS [Excursions]. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) (résumé)

• CRUCIFIXION EN ROSE (La) [The Rosy Crucifixion]. Henry Miller (résumé)

• LA LITTÉRATURE ANGLAISE DU XVe SIÈCLE

  20 LE QUINZIÈMESIÈCLE détacher Londres lèche-sous (London Lickpenny), peinture assez curieuse de la grande ville, de ses dis tractions ruineuses, de ses aspects principaux. THOMAS OCCLEVE (13707-1450?) a laissé lui aussi des œuvres assez nombreuses, dont la plus considérable est un long poème,DeRegimine Prin- cipum (le Gouvernement des Princes). La plus curieuse cependant est sans doute a Mâle Rè gle, sorte d'autobiogra phie ou deconfession, dans laquelle il s'accuse de quelque...

• COLOSSE DE MAROUSSI (Le) [The Colossus of Maroussi]. Henry Miller (résumé)

• VANINA VANINI. de Stendhal - Henry Beyle (résumé & analyse de l’oeuvre)

• Jane Austen.

  years later.) Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s most ambitious novel—in length, in variety of characterization, and in the scope of its theme. It centers on the effects of upbringing on personal morality in three families—the middle-class Bertrams, the fashionable Crawfords, and the impoverished Prices. Austen has been praised for her presentation ofthe complex relations between the members of the families, but as in Sense and Sensibility, she frustrates the expectations of her readers that the...

• Du conflit entre Henry II Plantagenêt et Thomas Becket à la mort du roi

• American Music I INTRODUCTION American Music, the folk, popular, and classical music of the United States--created by American-born or American-trained composers, or originating in American culture, or written primarily for American audiences.

  The country's first permanent orchestra was the New York Philharmonic Society, founded in 1842. Among the first symphonic and operatic composers the mostprominent was William Henry Fry, who composed the first opera by an American ( Leonora, 1845). Fry is best remembered, however, for four symphonies written in the 1850s and 1860s. George F. Bristow wrote the first opera on an American theme; his Rip Van Winkle was performed in New York City in 1855. Town bands, a popular form of community mu...

• Raeburn (sir Henry), 1756-1823, né à Stockbridge, peintre anglais.

• Abraham Lincoln I INTRODUCTION Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th president of the United States (1861-1865) and one of the great leaders in American history.

  fence in 4 hectares (10 acres) to grow corn. Then he hired out to neighbors, helping them to split rails. That year, Lincoln attended a political rally and was persuaded tospeak on behalf of a local candidate. It was his first political speech. A witness recalled that Lincoln “was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of theday.” In 1831 Lincoln made a second trip to New Orleans. He was hired, along with his stepbrother and a cousin, by Denton Offutt, a Kentucky trader and specul...

• Abraham Lincoln.

  fence in 4 hectares (10 acres) to grow corn. Then he hired out to neighbors, helping them to split rails. That year, Lincoln attended a political rally and was persuaded tospeak on behalf of a local candidate. It was his first political speech. A witness recalled that Lincoln “was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of theday.” In 1831 Lincoln made a second trip to New Orleans. He was hired, along with his stepbrother and a cousin, by Denton Offutt, a Kentucky trader and specul...

• Abraham Lincoln

  fence in 4 hectares (10 acres) to grow corn. Then he hired out to neighbors, helping them to split rails. That year, Lincoln attended a political rally and was persuaded tospeak on behalf of a local candidate. It was his first political speech. A witness recalled that Lincoln “was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of theday.” In 1831 Lincoln made a second trip to New Orleans. He was hired, along with his stepbrother and a cousin, by Denton Offutt, a Kentucky trader and specul...