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Memoirs of Hadrian. Memoirs of Hadrian (French: Mémoires d'Hadrien) is a French-language novel by the Belgian -born writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. First published in France in 1951, the book was a critical and commercial success. [1] It was translated into English by Grace Frick and published ...
Beigbeder wrote Mémoires d'un jeune homme dérangé when he was 24 years old, after Denis Tillinac, then CEO of Éditions de la Table ronde, asked if he had written any novel. According to Beigbeder, he quickly put together the notes that formed the basis for the largely autobiographical novel. Plot
Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac.It was serialized in the French newspaper La Presse in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume (Scènes de la vie privée, tome II or Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2) of Balzac's La Comédie humaine.
Marguerite Yourcenar ( UK: / ˈjʊərsənɑːr, ˈjʊkənɑːr /, [1] [2] US: / ˌjʊərsəˈnɑːr /, [3] French: [maʁɡ (ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ⓘ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947.
Lieu de mémoire. A lieu de mémoire (French for "site of memory" or memory space) is a physical place or object which acts as container of memory. [1] They are thus a form of memorialisation related to collective memory, stating that certain places, objects or events can have special significance related to group's remembrance. [2]
Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (English: Memoirs from Beyond the Grave) is the memoir of François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), collected and published posthumously in two volumes in 1849 and 1850, respectively. Chateaubriand, a writer, politician, diplomat and historian, remains widely regarded as the founder of ...
Antinous, also called Antinoös, ( / ænˈtɪnoʊʌs /; Greek: Ἀντίνοος; c.111 – c.130) [a] was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. [1] [2] [3] Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and ...
The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (or IFAO ), also known as the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, is a French research institute based in Cairo, Egypt, dedicated to the study of the archaeology, history and languages of the various periods of Egypt's civilisation. The IFAO is under the authority of the French ...