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This year, Antoine Compagnon has chosen to focus on the figure of the ragpicker, whose many appearances in the poetic works of Charles Baudelaire he sees as something that literary critics, with the exception of Walter Benjamin, have not followed …

While rudimentary communication systems exist in other animals, the use of syntactic structures seems to be unique to the human species. Only homo sapiens is able to express his thoughts precisely in sentences of arbitrary length and complexity. The human …

This year's lecture was devoted to an examination of a work that represents a milestone in our investigation of language relations in Japan from medieval times to the present day, summarized under the general heading of " hieroglossia ". This is the …