...This chapter examines how the Coutume de Paris (customary law of Paris) influenced nineteenth-century domestic affairs, especially inheritance practices, in a large swath of northern France, as well as in French colonies such as Missouri. Beginning in the 1720s, the Coutume...

...This chapter details the early years of Octave Chanute. In 1838, six-year-old Octave arrived in America with his father Joseph Chanut, who had accepted an offer to teach in one of the three major colleges in antebellum Louisiana. The eldest of three, Octave left the security of his life in Paris...

...This chapter concentrates on nineteenth-century Europe and its public health movements, centering on London and Paris, as the most innovative work on smell has concentrated on these two European capitals. It focuses less on the washerwomen and dockers who populated these landscapes, than...

... and film, including an original play for the CBS show Dr. Christian and the writing assignment for the Hollywood movie Catman of Paris. It also looks at Bradbury's relationship with August Derleth, who became his de facto advisor through the middle 1940s, and his decision...

...This chapter investigates repeated attempts to control street noise in order to cleanse Paris of its antiquated soundscapes, which social policy makers associated with mendicancy, vagrancy, sedition, and economic parasitism. Conversely, amateur historians, preservationists, bibliophiles, collectors...

... and low registers is especially salient when Mallarmé's Chansons bas are read alongside Jean-François Raffaëlli's illustrations of types in the tradition of the Cris de Paris. The parodic poetry of Cros and Richepin, written in reaction to Coppée's moralizing sentimental...

... toits de Paris 1930 theater théâtre filmé filmed theater Marius 1931 Pagnol Marcel Andrew Dudley Bergeron Katherine grain of the voice Mazeline François mélodie uncinematic verbocentrism Vincendeau Ginette Bernhardt Sarah montage Barthes Roland Feydeau Georges Simon Michel Bringing Up...

...By combining emotion and gender histories, this study analyzes the affective economy of fear ruling during the Paris Commune and its aftermath. This focus allows us to examine the creation of female collectives, such as the pétroleuses: the revolutionary women accused of having...

...Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth-century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeois with its distinctive sounds. Street vendors bellowed songs known as the Cris de Paris that had been associated with their trades since the Middle Ages...

... ISU Sailor’s Union of the Pacific SUP Coast Seamen’s Journal La Follette Act of 1915 Macarthur Walter maritime organized labor Merchant Marine Act of 1916 United States Shipping Board Wilson Woodrow Denman William Scharrenberg Paul Wilson William B Civil War American Paris Peace...

...Street cries had long defined the ambiance of Paris in the nineteenth century. From the Middle Ages through to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, street cries were used by hawkers to publicize announcements or news and to sell merchandise of all kinds. Each trade had a distinctive cry...

... as a mode of affirming or restoring a consciousness of African heritage. Like Marshall’s previous novels, The Fisher King represents a Black Atlantic geography of migration through a resolutely feminist perspective. In portraying postwar Paris as a site of refuge—especially for jazz...

... in southern homes and considers regional, socioeconomic, and geographic influences on the genres (opera from Paris, waltzes, German songs), composers (Bishop, Abt, Rossini, Beyer), and basic musical qualities (bel canto or Old-World melodies) preferred throughout the South. It considers opera as cultural...

..., the publication of his last story collection, We’ll Always Have Paris (2008), and the passing of Don Congdon, his agent for more than sixty years. Bradbury had come to measure each story he finished as one more victory over death, but the stories were coming more slowly now. Bradbury’s reflections on mortality...

...This chapter examines a popular U.S.-distributed English-language radio series produced by the FBS in Paris during the Cold War. Bonjour Mesdames (Hello Ladies) was a talk program dedicated to fashion, lifestyle, and symbolic gender repair of French and U.S. women. Hosted...

...This chapter presents a historical overview of critical editions since the nineteenth century from three angles: a historic perspective, a contextualizing perspective, and an intrinsic perspective. The historical perspective is based on the development of Karl Lachmann and Gaston Paris, who have...

... concertos with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; the performance was a success with both audience and critics. In 1902, she faced a hostile audience when making her Paris debut with the Lamoureux Orchestra. The chapter recounts Bloomfield-Zeisler's initial reluctance to play before Berlin critics, who were...

... in the modern urban condition and argues for an aural rather than visual conception of modernity. In nineteenth-century Paris, urban renewal did not mark the beginning of a period of diminution of sound, but rather it was a time of increasing awareness of, and emphasis on, noise. By reconsidering the myth...

..., and even Paris. Modern forms of peddling are alive and well, and the intrusiveness of street trade remains a point of contention in today's noise-conscious society. Cris de Paris Haussmannization Parisian urban renewal merchant types ordinances peddlers petits métiers Balzac Honoré de economy...

...Paulette Nardal’s editorials in the journal La Femme dans la cité trace a line of continuity from her writings on race, gender and Antillean cultural identity in Paris in the interwar years, to her writings on women’s political participation in the early years...