लेखक: Alain Kerhervé

This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex proce …

William Gilpin (1724-1804) is commonly known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque. He was also an Anglican clergyman, a schoolmaster with modern educational ideas and the author o …

Among the numerous letter-writing manuals which were printed in eighteenth-century Britain, a few were authored by such famous novelists as Samuel Richardson or Daniel Defoe.The present volume is a f …

How did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other books, letter-writing manuals provided a possible solution. Although more than 160 editions can be traced for the eighteen …

Though she failed to become a handmaiden to Queen Anne, Mary Delany went on to become a figure at Court, eventually lodging at Windsor. This new edition of her correspondence during her years at Wind …

Though she failed to become a handmaiden to Queen Anne, Mary Delany went on to become a figure at Court, eventually lodging at Windsor. This new edition of her correspondence during her years at Wind …

L”héritage du Général peut-il encore être une source d”inspiration, plusieurs décennies après le décès de l”homme du 18 juin ? On ne peut comprendre de Gaulle sans prendre la mesure de sa solitude …

Cet ouvrage sur la politique sociale de Charles de Gaulle veut évoquer un thème fort peu évoqué par l”ensemble des biographies et ouvrages consacrés à sa politique. Du discours d”Oxford en 1942 jus …

Cet ouvrage sur la politique sociale de Charles de Gaulle veut évoquer un thème fort peu évoqué par l”ensemble des biographies et ouvrages consacrés à sa politique. Du discours d”Oxford en 1942 jus …

L”héritage du Général peut-il encore être une source d”inspiration, plusieurs décennies après le décès de l”homme du 18 juin ? On ne peut comprendre de Gaulle sans prendre la mesure de sa solitude …

‘First letters’ can be understood in various ways: as the first letters written by a person, such as the letters of children, or of drafts which were preserved, amended and copied; as the first lette …

Previously unedited, the letters exchanged by Mary Delany (1700-1788), one of the most prolific women in eighteenth century English correspondence, and Lord Guilford (1704-1790), the father of one of …