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Accounts of the relationship between architectural languages and political regimes focus in particular on the temporal divisions applied to architecture, onto which have been plated those that correspond to major ruptures in the order of politics, rather …

This lecture examines the same historical period as the previous one, namely the last third of the 19th century. The museums of the imperial powers benefited from colonial control, through the great scientific and/or punitive expeditions organized by the …

The site of Ur can be recognized from afar by the imposing mass of its multi-storey tower, otherwise known as its ziggurat; the modern Arabic name of the site, Tell al-Muqayyar, means "bitumen hill", as this material was used as mortar in the construction …

The increase in the number of protein functions per gene and the growing complexity of interactions between regulatory gene networks, probably encouraged by genomic duplications, undoubtedly enabled the emergence of vertebrate animals. But this general …

The role of the Church and monasticism in the officialization of Coptic Alongside administrative initiatives, it was monastic circles that gave a major impetus to the emergence and development of a language capable of competing with Greek in non-private …

In La Délivrance de Renaud , a ballet performed at the French court on Sunday, January 29, 1617, Louis XIII had danced in advance his political project, the assassination of Concini, like a political warning that would not attempt to prevent the event, …

At the end of Sainte-Beuve's Portraits , as if to close their series, we find this advice: "As a critic, I've done enough of the lawyer, now let's do the judge." He has just returned from his "campaign" in Liège, and is about to embark on the Lundis …