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<p>In the Algerian city of Oran in 1857, a French civil court convicted and condemned to death the Captain Auguste-Edouard Doineau, officer of the Arab Bureau, for killing Si-Mohammed-ben-Abdallah, the agha of the Beni-Snouss tribe. The trial generated tremendous public attention The the civilian population in Algeria greeted the verdict with approval, but the military administration viewed it with great dismay. In fact, the intensely negative publicity the Arab Bureau, and the military in general, attracted as a result of this trial produced a significant change in the political structure of the French colonial government in Algeria. In 1858, Napoleon III transformed the administration of Algeria from a division between civilian and military administrative zones to an entirely civilian administration. Traditional accounts of Algerian history overlook or underplay this minor administrative shift. Indeed, the change lasted only two years, because Napoleon III returned power to the military in 1860. Nonetheless, this peculiar and short-lived change, and the circumstances which led to it, illuminate the problems and conflicts that the French faced in the early decades of their rule in Algeria. The trial of Captain Doineau and its resulting backlash illustrates the deep division between the civilian and military administrations in Algeria, a division that historians have overlooked but which held profound effects for the establishment of a thriving French colony.</p><p> The roots of this division lie in two major points of conflict between the civilian and military administrative branches: the extent to which the French should adopt or tolerate pre-existing political and social norms and, most important, the process by which Europeans acquired and settled the land belonging to the indigenous population. These issues were informed by post-Revolutionary French political thought and concepts of individual civil liberties. In 1870, the republicans of the Third Republic ended the military administration, the conclusion of decades worth of struggle by the civilian factions in Algeria to end the "rule of the sword." Traditional historical narratives treat this as a triumph for the liberal, republican values proclaimed by the Third Republic and consider a beneficial change for the colony and its inhabitants, both European and indigenous. The military administration, and the Arab Bureau in particular, represented, however, an alternate approach to governing the new colony that failed, ultimately, because it failed to conform to French post-Revolution expectations of what constituted a just and liberal government power. The military and the Arab Bureau advocated a tolerance for and acceptance of local legal and social customs, but the prevailing political culture of nineteenth-century France lacked an ability to accommodate this approach. Moreover, the economic need, and growing colonist demands, for more land for European colonization, accelerated during the 1850s and 1860s, placing financial pressure on the French government to dismantle the local legal and social structures that hindered the process of land appropriation. The French settlers and their supporters in the French civilian administration, in contrast to the Arab Bureau, wanted local practices replaced immediately by French laws and values. The different administrative approaches advocated by the civilian and military administrations, and the significant effect they held for land policy, created tension between these two branches of the French administration in Algeria. These tensions converged in the Doineau Trial of 1857, and the conviction of Captain Doineau initiated the decline of the Arab Bureua's power and its alternate approach toward administering the indigenous population in Algeria.</p> / Dissertation

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Edouard Manet's paintings of working-class women reflect the dramatic social changes which occurred in Paris during the late nineteenth century. This thesis examines Manet's paintings which represent some of the sites of femininity within modern Paris: the home and garden, the prostitute's bedroom, and the new public sphere of the boulevards and cafes. With references to contemporary writings and social histories, the result of this study is a more profound understanding of how Modernism affected women's lives and the way in which they were represented in art.

More information on Le Corbusier's early career as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret is gradually coming to light but little 18 yet known of him during his period of transition from being a minor architect in La Chaux-de-Fonds to a major one of great theoretical and practical influence in Paris. As one might expect he did not make this transition without considerable personal anguish and it was only because of the help afforded him by his friends and the influence of hi associates and mentors that it was made at all. These relationships and influences form the subject of this study which throws light on various unexpected sides of Le Corbusier's development. The research is primarily based on his records of the period, his personal documents including letters he sent to colleagues, relations and friends; interviews by the writer with his brother and contemporaries still living in Switzerland and Paris; together with published material on his life and work, including his own. As Le Corbusier did not become generally known by this name until 1925 his given name of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret is used throughout this thesis. The thesis has been divided 1ro two parts; the first covers the formative years of his life in La Chaux-de-Fonds from 1900 until 1917 when he left to live and work in Paris. The roots of many of his later convictions, activities and abilities lie in this period and the thesis traces the interconnecting links between, and the development of his four principal activities namely architecture, painting, writing and business. The second part pf the thesis covers Le Corbusier's first eight years in Paris (1917-1925) and examines the process by which he became, by the end of this period, established as one of the major innovators of the 'Modern Movement'.In the conclusion the writer draws together the major threads from the thesis to demonstrate how the transition from Charles-Edouard Jeanneret to Le Corbusier was achieved. The events and activities covered by this study have been placed within the context of the art1tic, economic and social life of the period in so far as Le Corbusier's development was affected.

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Édouard Glissant et Ernesto Sábato sont connus pour être a la fois des romanciers et des penseurs. Leur réflexion théorique qui porte principalement sur la langue, l’histoire et l’identité nourrit leur production romanesque et y trouve son lieu d’expression privilégie. Notre travail va porter essentiellement sur l’analyse des œuvres romanesques afin de mettre en relief les procèdes d’écriture tout en faisant référence aux écrits théoriques. En effet, le roman est l’un des lieux ou sont mis en œuvre les principes theoriques élaborés dans les essais, mais le roman constitue aussi un laboratoire d’écriture. Le questionnement sur la forme littéraire la plus apte a contenir l’idéologie des deux romanciers, qui sont a leur manière des écrivains engagés, est narrativise au sein de la fiction. L’analyse des stratégies discursives employées par les deux auteurs nous amènera vers des considérations sur le rôle de l’écrivain dans le processus de fondation d’une conscience nationale de son peuple. / Édouard Glissant and Ernesto Sábato are both well-known for their work as writers and philosophers. Their theoretical reflection, which analyses questions pertaining to language, history and identity, nourishes their novelistic production. In fact their novels mark the crossroads of theory and fiction. The latter are a forum for thought where the theoretical bases of their reflection are applied to reality. This perception of the novel as strictly related to their essay work leads us to consider the use of metafiction, a technique that encompasses both types of creation. The search for different metafiction strategies will allow us to analyze the construction of “guiding fictions”. At the same time, it will lead us to consider the role of a writer in the process of constructing a “national conscience” through literature.