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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 73-75.

Although the GRC National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1966, its development as an Historic Designed Landscape had never been thoroughly researched. Archival research and a field survey of the site evaluated the existing conditions of the grounds and structures to determine their historical significance, integrity and physical condition.The George Rogers Clark Memorial, the park grounds, and other structures and features in and near the park setting were determined to be a historic designed landscape that used formal, classical design principles in a response to the City Beautiful Movement, popular at the beginning of this century, to memorialize the achievements of a man and people significant to our national history.An analysis comparing the historic plans and designers' intent for the park to the existing conditions has resulted in a rehabilitation recommendation for the park that includes the process for returning the park to its original design and an advocation for the development of the historic park setting. / Department of Landscape Architecture

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Diss.--Freiburg--Universität, 1989. Titre de soutenance : Die Bildhauerkunst in Paris zwischen 1360 und 1420 : Vincennes und die französisch-höfische Skulptur unter Karl V. und Karl VI. / Bibliogr. p. 241-252. Index.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis looks at the role that public history, expressed through civic pride and public memory, and military history have played in shaping the history of Vincennes, Indiana, from the battle fought by George Rogers Clark to the memorial named after him and finally with the four United States Navy ships named Vincennes.

In this thesis I examine the manuscript collection held at the château of Vincennes during the reign of Charles V of France (1364-1380). From the original collection of fifty-six, dispersed after the king’s death in 1380, ten complete manuscripts and one fragment are extant. Through an analysis of the existing manuscripts and information taken from the 1380 inventory of the king’s collections at Vincennes, I consider these manuscripts as a curatorial grouping that forms its own system of meaning, independent of the king’s larger collection of manuscripts at the Louvre. I argue that this collection conveyed a coherent and concerted collection practice, and examine the ways these manuscripts shaped royal identity and animated social memory Charles V “le Sage” was the third of the Valois kings of France and ruled during the Hundred Years’ War. Interestingly, in this time of relative instability, Charles established what is known as his most lasting cultural achievement, a royal library at the Louvre in 1368. All that remains of Charles’s impressive collection of over a thousand manuscripts are detailed inventories compiled by his court officers as well as a limited selection of surviving manuscripts. The royal inventory describes the contents of each volume, the exterior ornamentation and binding, and the interior illumination. Although these records are not detailed enough to reconstruct books that are now lost, it is clear that this collection was extremely luxurious both in the exterior decoration and interior painting. Among the manuscript paintings in this collection there exists a stylistic continuity, with many of the illustrations either executed by or in the style of Parisian illuminator Jean Pucelle. I maintain that this stylistic continuity, among other characteristics, define these manuscripts as a collection. Furthermore, I present an alternative model for interpreting the manuscripts at Vincennes that emphasizes how the works functioned collectively. I argue that all of the unifying characteristics of this collection carried meaning for the reader or viewer at Vincennes. This includes the fact that, according to the specifics of the inventories, virtually all of these manuscripts were originally intended for a reader other than Charles, suggesting a heretofore-unexplored memorial function of the collection. / text

This thesis identifies those elements significant to the redevelopment of urban riverfronts. Its purpose is to determine those planning and design considerations which will protect and enhance river environments while increasing the opportunities for people to enjoy a physical and visual contact with the river. This is accomplished by presenting an overview of urban riverfronts, their development and problems, rivers and their environment, historical progression of settlements along rivers, and planning and design considerations for urban riverfronts.In addition, this thesis presents a case study which applies urban riverfront planning and design considerations to the Vincennes, Indiana-Wabash Riverfront. / Department of Landscape Architecture

Relevant de l’intérêt renouvelé de l’histoire sociale pour la période des « années 1968 », ce travail cherche à comprendre à la fois les conditions de possibilité de la création d’une institution telle que le « Centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes » et comment celle-ci a été initialement façonnée par les investissements pratiques et les projections de ses concepteurs, fondateurs et premiers acteurs. A la croisée de la sociologie des politiques publiques éducatives et de l´histoire sociale des champs intellectuels, la socio-histoire de cette expérience universitaire participe de la connaissance des effets de la crise symbolique sans précédent de Mai 68, et offre une voie d´entrée à l´histoire des idées qui prend en compte simultanément les acteurs mobilisés et mobilisables que sont les étudiants et les enseignants, et leurs négociations avec le pouvoir politique. A l’échelle macro-sociologique, cette recherche s’attache à éclairer les logiques qui président au développement morphologique et symbolique de l´Université depuis les années 50 et participe de la connaissance du fonctionnement de l’Etat et du pouvoir politique en conjoncture de crise. A l’échelle micro-sociologique, elle se veut attentive aux logiques d’action des acteurs sociaux et aspire à comprendre comment et pourquoi, suivant quels représentations, dispositions et intérêts, les acteurs (individuels et collectifs) investissent leurs rôles et « métiers » (de hauts fonctionnaires, responsables politiques, « intellectuels », enseignants-chercheurs, étudiant), sans sous-estimer les contraintes qui pèsent sur eux. Ce travail s’appuie sur des matériaux complémentaires (archives, entretiens, biographies, statistiques) qui permettent de mettre en perspective « données quantitatives » et « données qualitatives », et de renseigner les deux échelles d’analyse. / Building on social history renewed interest for the “long 1968” period, this work seeks to understand both the conditions of possibility of an institution such as the “Experimental University of Vincennes” (Centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes) and the way it was initially shaped by the practical concerns and projections of its planners, creators and first actors. Between a sociology of education policies and a social history of intellectual fields, the history of this university experiment adds to our knowledge of the symbolic crisis of May 1968, and paves the way for a history of ideas which simultaneously takes into account the mobilized and mobilizable actors that are students and professors, and their negotiation with the political power.On a macrosociological scale, this research aims to shed light on the logics that led to the morphological and symbolic development of the University since the 1950s and adds to our knowledge of the functionning of the state and policial power in a context of crisis. On a microsociological scale, it focuses on the logics of action of social actors and seeks to understand how and why, according to which representations, dispositions and interests, actors (both individual and collective) assume their roles and “professions” (of high-civil servants, political leaders, “intellectuals”, professors, students), without underestimating the constraints that are imposed on them. This work is based on complementary materials (archives, interviews, biographies, and statistics) which put in perspective “quantitative data” and “qualitative data”, combining two scales of analysis.

Ce mémoire décrit, en premier lieu, l’analyse géotechnique et géomorphologique du glissement de 1971 à Casselman, Ontario. Les caractéristiques morphologiques identifiées à l’intérieur de la cicatrice confirment qu’il s’agit d’un étalement. Le sol impliqué est une argile sensible de la mer de Champlain, normalement à légèrement surconsolidée (OCR entre 1,0 et 1,2) dont les indices de liquidité varient entre 1,0 et 2,0. La résistance au cisaillement intacte mesurée au scissomètre de chantier varie entre 50 kPa et 87 kPa. L’argile adopte un comportement anti-écrouissage (perte de 40 % de la résistance en pic) lorsque soumise à des essais de cisaillement non-drainé. Une surface de rupture quasi-horizontale à deux niveaux principaux a été identifiée à partir des sondages au piézocône réalisés à l’intérieur de la cicatrice. Les coefficients de sécurité élevés obtenus à partir de méthodes à l’équilibre limite démontrent que la rétrogression ne peut être expliquée par des méthodes d’analyses conventionnelles. La deuxième partie du mémoire présente l’application numérique du principe de rupture progressive aux étalements de Casselman (1971) et de Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes (1986). Une étude paramétrique a été réalisée afin d’évaluer l’influence de la fragilité du comportement après la résistance en pic du sol, reliée dans l’étude à une épaisseur de bande de cisaillement, ainsi que de la résistance à grande déformation, sur l’initiation et la rétrogression résultant du processus de rupture progressive. Les résultats démontrent que la résistance à grande déformation a très peu d’influence sur l’initiation du processus de rupture progressive, qui est principalement influencé par la fragilité du comportement du sol. Il a aussi été observé que la rétrogression était majoritairement influencée par la résistance à grande déformation. / This M.Sc. thesis presents, in the first part, the geotechnical and geomorphological analysis of the 1971 landslide in Casselman, Ontario. The geomorphological characteristics identified inside the landslide scar confirmed it was a spread. The soil involved is a sensitive clay from the Champlain Sea, normally to slightly overconsolidated (OCR from 1.0 to 1.2) with liquidity index ranging from 1.0 to 2.0. The intact shear strength measured with the vane shear test range from 50 kPa to 87 kPa. The clay exhibits a strain-softening behaviour (a loss of about 40 % of its peak shear strength) during undrained shear tests. A quasi-horizontal failure surface with two main levels was identified by mean of the piezocone tests done inside the scar. The High safety factors obtained by the stability analysis performed with limit equilibrium methods show that the retrogression cannot be explained by conventional analysis methods. In the second part of this thesis, the numerical application of progressive failure was applies to the Casselman (1971) case and the Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes (1986) case. A parametric study was realized in order to assess the influence of the post-peak behaviour brittleness of the soil, related in this study to a shear band thickness, and the large deformation strength on the initiation and the retrogression of progressive failure process. The 1971 and 1986 cases were analysed with the finite element program BIFURC. The results demonstrated that the large deformation strength has a very low effect on the initiation of progressive failure process, and the initiation of the failure is mostly influenced by the brittleness behaviour of the soil. It was also observed that the retrogression of the failure is mostly controlled by the large deformation strength.