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1 day ago · A spiral staircase leads to the first floor, where the family’s former bedrooms are now arranged as the office of Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Verne’s publisher, with an array of his stylishly ...
5 days ago · Introduction: circulation and iconography. According to the political geographer Jean Gottmann, national territories are defined by two processes: on the one hand ‘circulation’, the movement of people and goods; and, on the other, ‘iconographie’, the symbolic systems that regulate and contain that movement. 1 In a French context, the most obvious element of iconography is the representation of the national territory as a hexagon, which has been a commonplace of French pedagogical and ...
4 days ago · Rire dans les galeries des peintures au Salon 2/2. Dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, les salons caricaturaux, ce genre satirique très populaire mêlant texte et dessin, prennent souvent pour cible le sujet des œuvres exposées au Salon, ainsi que les genres artistiques traditionnels de la peinture académique.
1 day ago · His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the “Voyages Extraordinaires,” a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels. Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft.
5 days ago · The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, the Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation. The deluxe illustrated edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.
2 days ago · Charles XIV John ( Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty.
4 days ago · That rings a bell! That’s right, before Laura Klaphake won the bronze medal for Germany at the World Championships in 2018, she successfully participated in the series of the German U25 Trophy of the Stiftung Deutscher Pferdesport and Holger Hetzel, Prize of Holger Hetzel.
