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district of Saint-Jean, a single window was still alight on the third floor of an old house, from whose damaged gutters torrents of water were falling into the street. Mme Burle was sitting up before a meager fire of vine stocks, while her little grandson Charles pored over his lessons by the pale light of a lamp. Emile Zola The Death of Olivier Becaille It was on a Saturday, at six in the morning, that I died after a three days' illness. My wife was searching a trunk for some linen, and when she

dans Le Lai du chèvrefeuille. 3. a. Une chanson de toile est un genre poétique du Moyen Âge, ainsi nommé parce que les femmes, sans doute, chantaient ces chansons en travaillant à leur métier à tisser. b. Adam de la Halle (1240  ?-1288  ?), Othon de Grandson (1330-1395) et Jean Froissart (1337 ?-1410 ?) ont écrit des rondeaux. Guillaume de Machaut (1300  ?-1377) et François Villon (1431-  ? [après 1463]) ont écrit des ballades. Christine de Pisan (1364  ?-1431) et Charles d’Orléans (1394-1465) ont

Friday Project, I could use the company’s proper corporate title, Friday Project Media Plc. That always sounds more impressive. Like in that old British Telecom ad, where Maureen Lipman plays the proud grandmother who decides that, even though her grandson failed everything except sociology, he was still a success. ‘You have an ology? You’re a scientist!’ I had a similar theory: you ran a PLC? You’re a fat cat! Karl, meanwhile, thanks to a splash of artistic licence, became a critically acclaimed writer

malgré les signes que lui faisait Guillaume Rym, paraissait déterminé à tenir tête au roi. «Sire, les suisses aussi étaient des manants. Monsieur le duc de Bourgogne était un grand gentilhomme, et il faisait fi de cette canaille. À la bataille de Grandson, Sire, il criait: Gens de canons! feu sur ces vilains! et il jurait par Saint-Georges. Mais l'avoyer Scharnachtal se rua sur le beau duc avec sa massue et son peuple, et de la rencontre des paysans à peaux de buffle la luisante armée bourguignonne

string of Islamic prayer beads, something like a rosary, but treated much more casually. Tata-Bata. Tata is a brand of Indian-made vehicles. Bata is probably added playfully to it. tazias. tea. Replicas of the tombs of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandsons. As in England, often refers to a meal featuring tea and food rather than the drink alone. Small, usually three-legged table for serving tea. Decorative red dot between the eyebrows on the forehead. Lunch or between-meal snack. Decorative forehead

Cluckhohn Clyde (1959), « Value and Value-Orientation in the Theory of Action », in Parsons, Talcott and Shils, Edward, Toward a General Theory of Action, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts. Hart David (1981), Dadda Atta and his forty grandsons : the socio-political organisation of the Ait’ Atta of Southern Morocco, Middle East and North African studies press. Mernissi Fatima (1997), les Aït Débrouille, Le Fennec, Casablanca. Montagne Robert (1930), les Berbères et le makhzen dans le sud

malgré les signes que lui faisait Guillaume Rym, paraissait déterminé à tenir tête au roi. « Sire, les suisses aussi étaient des manants. Monsieur le duc de Bourgogne était un grand gentilhomme, et il faisait fi de cette canaille. À la bataille de Grandson, Sire, il criait : Gens de canons ! feu sur ces vilains ! et il jurait par Saint-Georges. Mais l’avoyer Scharnachtal se rua sur le beau duc avec sa massue et son peuple, et de la rencontre des paysans à peaux de buffle la luisante armée bourguignonne

pseudo-scientists who mingle truth with falsehood . . . In all circumstances we seek refuge in God, the Helper. (Khayyam 1931, p. 47) Accordingly, when there was a revival, as in the Mongol court of the conqueror Hulaghu Khan (c.1260), or that of Timur’s grandson Ulugh Beg at Samarkand (c.1410), scholars looked back to the period of al-Ma’mun and his ‘House of Wisdom’ at Baghdad as a model. What was this ‘golden age’, and where did it come from? Early Islam was, as is well-known, tolerant particularly to

stratagem against him: but We made them the ones that lost most! 71. But We delivered him and (his nephew) Lut (and directed them) to the land which We have blessed for the nations. 72. And We bestowed on him Isaac and, as an additional gift, (a grandson), Jacob, and We made righteous men of every one (of them). 73. And We made them leaders, guiding (men) by Our Command, and We sent them inspiration to do good deeds, to establish regular prayers, and to practise regular charity; and they constantly