« Au bal masqué de l'amour,cavalier, cavalière,on danse toujours avec sa mère »: Ni toi ni moi de Camille Laurens,Adolphe de Benjamin Constant

Cet article étudie l'impossibilité de s'installer dans une relation amoureuse durable, sujet principal de ces deux romans du XIX^e et du XXI^e siècle: Adolphe (1816) de Benjamin Constant et Ni toi ni moi (2006) de Camille Laurens. Ni toi ni moi réfère massivement à la vie et à l'?uvre de Benjamin Constant, Adolphe étant son hypotexte déclaré. Dans l'« investigation » de la disparition mystérieuse de l'amour, pourquoi convoquer Benjamin Constant, et comment ? Dans cet article, je m'attache à examiner, dans une première partie, le « bricolage » dont relève toute forme d'hypertextualité (je me réfère aux travaux de Gérard Genette): sa part de jeu aussi bien que son caractère dysphorique. Je me propose d'étudier, dans une seconde partie, le thème de l'abandon, lié à la perte, à la séparation involontaire; je convoque, ce faisant, le concept de la « mère morte » théorisé par André Green.     

Mitigating defeat: Vidal de la Blache’s 1885 France Frontière Nord-Est et Alsace-Lorraine

One contributing factor to France’s devastating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War was a lack of geographic knowledge at all levels of the army. As a result, politicians proposed significant educational reforms in the 1880s, which included an enhanced role of geography in the national curriculum. In order to improve access to and understanding of that subject, French geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache published a series of Cartes murales that appeared in classrooms throughout the nation. Yet his Carte 10 France Frontière Nord-Est et Alsace-Lorraine, one such map, deviates from his primary mission of teaching pupils about the nation and focuses instead on the delicate topic of France’s new border with Germany. This article will examine Vidal’s map, on which he accurately presents the post-1871 political landscape. However, his cartographic discourse (colour, text, symbols), based on his geographic writings and national sentiment, differentiates Alsace-Lorraine from the new German Empire and helps his readers to question its authority over the two provinces.     

Partager et occuper l'espace public d'un quartier gentrifié : lecture de Jacques Rancière

This article attempts, based on the concepts and methods of the philosopher Jacques Rancière, to conceptualize the process of gentrification as a scene of sharing and disagreement, a scene in which the paradox of a limited access to housing and a shared occupation of public space occurs simultaneously. Three concepts of Jacques Rancière help us to encompass the scene of the disagreement of gentrification, as the partition of sensible, the equality of intelligence, and the dissensus.     

Temporal sickness,spiritual healing: Therapeutic remedies and itineraries in Margeride,Lozère

Situated in central southern France, the Margeride in the department of Lozère is a mountainous area which is essentially agricultural, relatively undeveloped economically and which defines itself, in opposition to the town, as devout Faced with the different curative systems on offer — doctors, healers, pilgrimages — the people there choose to segment and superimpose their respective uses within the same treatment in an economy which aims to destroy certain supposed bad effects of their accumulation, in order to reinforce the good effects. Each series of recourses to these three options forms a combination aimed at obtaining the greatest therapeutic efficiency, despite the social contradictions which this implies. Here, the peasant body believes itself to be ruled by two different ways of being: one, governed by God and his ends, the other, by Nature. In addition, a new factor has recently appeared: the imported image, from the town, of the .body. Now, on the symbolic level, taking these non‐homogeneous factors into consideration, it has been necessary for the peasants to negotiate a satisfactory “arrangement”; in order to apply the treatment required for each of these representations, and, on the social level, to satisfy the nonetheless opposed networks of clienteles.

The itineraries constructed by the patient for his cure (and this after the acceptance of the idea) depend on the place occupied within the family and in relation to fellow villagers. The treatment applied will then be more or less intensive, the essential being that certain phases of the montage will be shown, whereas others will remain concealed.

These different therapeutic montages and procedures, the construction of a coherence and the context of access to systems of treatment are described in this article.     

De la carte au territoire: Portée et usages des outils cartographiques au sein de la Première Nation des Pekuakamiulnuatsh Entrevue avec Michel Nepton,membre de la Première Nation des Pekuakamiulnuatsh et conseiller en aménagement du territoire

From map to territory: Scope and uses of mapping tools within the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation Interview with Michel Nepton, member of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation and land use and planning advisor While the mapping of Indigenous territories has long been at the heart of land-grabbing strategies orchestrated by the colonial powers, these tools are now largely mobilized by Indigenous communities through the processes of claiming, negotiation, and affirmation. The specific context of land claiming in Canada has also contributed in a significant way to the increasing use of these tools by communities seeking to demonstrate their historical occupation of land. In any case, the translation of Indigenous knowledge into exogenous geographical language remains subject to criticism and caution, particularly by the tenants of critical mapping. In order to shed new light on these issues, the following interview was conducted with the land use and planning advisor Michel Nepton, working in the Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan Land rights and protection board (Council of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation, Mashteuiatsh). Bringing forward his experience and use of mapping tools within his professional practice, his thoughts reveal the role and scope they have in the specific context of his community.     

Draperie urbaine et draperie rurale dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux au bas moyen ǎge: une mise au point des recherches après H. Pirenne

H. Pirenne's thesis has for a long time determined the orientation of the studies on the textile industries in the medieval Southern Netherlands. Since around 1950 however, historians have accumulated much new knowledge. In this article, we recapitulate their five main points. 1° the diversity of wool used in the textile production; 2° the modified notion of the ‘marchand-entrepreneur’ who was said to have organized and dominated totally the urban cloth industry; 3° the confirmation of the omnipresent rural industry during the Middle Ages and of its corporative aspects; 4° the re-evaluation of the activities of the urban industry during the late Middle Ages; 5° the new conception of the town/countryside relationship in the cloth industry.All these new studies permit us to underline the complementary relations between urban and rural cloth industries. The new view-point seems to be a part of a more general recent tendency freeing of students of the economic history of the Middle Ages from Pirenne's dichotomous conception town/countryside.