Pendant la première moitié du XIXème siècle, d'importantes mutations spatio-économiques se produisent dans la région parisienne. Les canaux de Paris ont alors une influence directe sur le remodelage de la géographie économique de la capitale. Au départ, notre démarche reconstitue le contexte historique et politique sous-jacent à l'avènement des canaux parisiens. Après une mise au point du problème séculaire de l'approvisionnement de Paris et des difficultés du transport fluvial, nous estimons l'importance de la navigation à destination de la capitale. Le dernier volet de notre étude évalue l'impact de la construction des canaux sur l'espace environnant. A cette fin, notre champ de recherche comprend l'espace communal de La Villette entre 1800 et 1859. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2013

The Master thesis has for its objective mapping of destiny of czech comunity in Paris from sixties to eighties. Its purpose is not to get a complete list of all artists, who came to Paris. It's just a sellection of those important persons, who broke through Paris. The personal interviews play an important part of the sources. The thesis is not structured in medallion-biography way, but it is lined up in a thematic way. Most of the artists handled in their new home country withe similar problems and situations. First theoretical part characterise the period, the environment, the czech-french relations and the general phenomena of emigration in the czech historical memory. In sixties the czech-french relations started to be reanimated and many french art critics visited Czechoslovakia and they wrote about czech art. Beside France, the czech emigration refuged in sixties largely to West Germany, United States of America, Canada, austrian Wien, Swiss and nordic countries. Individuals art centres were connected to others by friendships and artists visited themselves. Second and more extensive part of the thesis works with the oral and witten interviews. The respondent artists are Miloš Cvach, Roman Kameš, Karel Machálek-Zlín, Miloslav Moucha, Vladimír Škoda, Ivan Theimer and art historian Jana Claverie....