... Proust Marcel Leblanc Maurice Normandy Thompson Christopher Faidherbe General internationalism internationalization Juzan Georges Keen John Loste Louis Naudin Pierre Véloce club béarnais Zimmerman Augustus cycling leisure sport cycling clubs French culture French society economic...

... cycling has been significant in French society and culture since the late nineteenth century. Cycling as leisure is considered through reference to the adoption of the bicycle as an instrument of tourism and emancipation by women in the 1880s, for example, or by study of the development in the 1990s...

... offers an examination of these manifestations. It uses analysis of AIDS narratives, mainstream films, popular novels, more mainstream novels, a graphic novel, and rightist polemics to explore the changing meaning of masculinity in French society....

...This chapter provides a typology of themes in the Jewish press and discusses Zionism as the most important influence on French Jewish discourse in the 1920s. It explains how Zionism and Jewishness were often equated with values held in high esteem in French society in the Zionist-oriented press...

... French society Il est si vulnérable qu’il a l’impression qu’un cordon invisible le relie à ces choses et quand elles seront dispersées, il pourra se dissoudre dans l’espace. ¹ – Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex 1 1 ‘He is so vulnerable that he has the impression...

... the French and marked their inferiority. They could not be assimilated; on the contrary, they represented a foreign body in French society, which was believed to be suffering from their corrupting and dominating presence. The racial colouring of French antisemitism at the end of the nineteenth century...