lettre


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lettre

(letr)
n
a letter
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de Bragelonne by insulting his mother; I have written this man's name upon the lettre de cachet which your majesty has been kind enough to give me, so that M.
Plusieurs anciens ambassadeurs des Etats Unis au Maroc ont, dans une lettre adressee lundi au President Barack Obama, mis en avant "la vision et les valeurs communes que Rabat et Washington ont en partage pour le futur de la region d'Afrique du nord et du Sahel".
Le chef du gouvernement italien Enrico Letta s'est excuse hier dimanche dans une lettre au journal La Stampa aupres des jeunes qui se retrouvent "contraints d'emigrer" a cause de la profonde recession qui frappe l'Italie.
A book about Chinese peasants that was banned in China has been awarded the international Lettre Ulysses literary prize in Germany.
The tale, set in London--a city Poe never visited--is an Acconci-esque "Following Piece" avant la lettre: A man in a coffeehouse observes the evening crowd through the window, singles out a man due to the "absolute idiosyncrasy" of his facial expression, and follows him for twenty-four hours across the city.
The texts dealt with include the Supplement au voyage de Bougainville, the Lettre sur les sourds et muets, the Entretiens sur le Fils naturel, Le Paradoxe sur le comedien, Le Reve de d'Alembert, Jacques le fataliste, and Le Neveu de Rameau.
[...] Tout le danger se resume pour moi dans ces mots: diminution de la faculte de vouloir." Ainsi Baudelaire a Armand Fraisse le 12 aout 1860 dans une lettre dont avant 1980 on ne connaissait qu'un fragment et que Claude Pichois vient de publier en entier dans son edition de lettres retrouvees du poete des Fleurs du mal.
Against Edgar Wind, the early Garin, and an older tradition within Italian historiography that had seen Ficino in a somewhat conspiratorial light, as a kind of proto-Enlightenment figure pushing the envelope of orthodoxy or even as a crypto-pagan, Allen (in this respect a faithful disciple of Kristeller) takes Ficino au pied de la lettre, seeing him as a theological reformer, someone above all interested in saving Christian theology from what Allen labels the "integral Aristotelians." Ficino wanted to renew Christianity's corrupted theological traditions by abandoning the failed medieval synthesis with Aristotelianism and returning Christian theology to its ancient Platonic roots.
De nombreux adherents a un club disposant de plusieurs salles a Temara accusent l'administration de les prendre en otage en refusant d'accuser reception de leur lettre de resiliation.