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XV.3. France.       XV.3.1. About France and the French. 1) I. Joliot-Curie.       XV.3.2. History of France. 1) Louis IX; 2) Joan of Arc.       XV.3.3. French philosophy. 1) C.-H. Saint-Simon; 2) Ch. Fourier.       XV.3.4. French art.       XV.3.5. French literature. 1) F. Villon 2) F.-A.-R. Chateaubriand 3) V. Hugo 4) Ch. Baudelaire Béranger P.-J. 5) Erckmann-Chatrian 6) J. Verne 7) S. Mallarmé 8) P. Verlaine 9) R. Rolland XV.4. Germany and adjoned states.             XV.4.0. German culture. Marx K. Planck M. XV.4.0.1 Einstein A. XV.4.0.2 XV.4.1. History of Germany.            XV.4.1.1. Pre-war history of Germany.            XV.4.1.2. Hitler.

XV.4.1.3. The Third Reich.            XV.4.1.4. Post-war history of Germany.       XV.4.2. German philosophy. Engels F. Hegel G.W.F. XV.4.2.2 Fichte J.G. XV.4.2.1 Schweitzer A. XV.4.2.4       XV.4.3. German art. Painter: 1) A. Dürer Composers: 2) J.S. Bach 3) Ch.W. Gluck 4) L. Beethoven 5) R. Wagner       XV.4.4. German literature. 1) Wolfram von Eschenbach 2) J.W. Goethe 3) F. Schiller 4) Novalis 5) G.J.R. Hauptmann 6) H. Mann 7) H. Hesse 8) E.M. Remarque

XV.3. France

17460–17609. Russian sources.

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          Catherine de Medicis (in Russian Екатерина Медичи; 1519--1589), French queen consort of Henry II of France (1519–1559, reigned 1547–1559) and subsequently regent of France (1560–1574). Bibliography: 1) Trollope, Adolphus. The girlhood of Catherine de Medici. – London, 1856.

          Danton, Georges-Jacques (in Russian Дантон, Жорж Жак; 1759–1794), activist of the Great French Revolution of 1789–1794, an orator, one of Jacobins’ leaders. His opposition to the Reign of Terror led to his own death at the guillotine.

          Commune of Paris (in Russian Парижская коммуна; March-May 1871), insurrection of Paris against the French government.

          Huguenots (in Russian гугеноты), the Protestants in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith. Bibliography: 1) Poole. Histtory of the Huguenots; 2) While. Massacre of St. Bartholomew, preceded by a narrative of the religious wars.

          Franks (in Russian франки; 3rd–9th centuries AD), a Germanic-speaking people who invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It occupied the territory that matchs modern northern France, Belgium, and western Germany. The Franks established the Christian state known as Frankish kingdom.

          French Revolution of 1789 (in Russian Великая Французская революция), the revolutionary movement in France between 1787 and 1799 reached its climax in 1789. About it [hist].

          Third Republic in France (in Russian Третья республика во Франции; 1870–1940), a republican period of the French history created in consequence of the Franco-German War (1870–1871).

          Montaigne, Michel Euquem de (по-англ. Монтень, Мишель Эйкем де; 1533–1592), French philosopher. Bibliography: 1) Bayle. Montaigne, the Essayist. – London, 1858; 2) Norton G. Montaigne and the introspective Mind. – R, 1975; 3) Screech M.A. Montaigne and melancholy: The Wisdom of the “Essais”. – London, 1983.

         

J.-K. Huysmans

Huysmans, Joris Karl (in Russian Гюисманс, Жорис Карл; original name Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans; 1848–1907), French writer. Bibliography: 1) Ridge, George Ross. Joris-Karl Huysmans / Bibliography p. 117-120. – N. Y., 1968.

          Maupassant, Guy de (full name Henry-Rene-Albert-Guy; in Russian Мопассан, Ги де; 1850–1893), French writter. About him http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/maupassa.htm , http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/
          Rimbaud, Arthur (full name Jean-Nicolas-Arthur; in Russian Рембо, Артюр; 1854–1891), French poet, a Simbolist. About him: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rimbaud.htm ; http://www.levity.com/corduroy/rimbaud.htm . R. was an innovator whose poetical technique infringed the habitual traditions of French poetry. Unexpected comparisons and metaphors, dissonances, prosaisms, and slang add peculiar verve and acuteness to his verses. His father, an infantry captain, was a reveller, а gadabout, and didn’t live at home even after his retirement. Platitude and meanness of the petit bourgeois atmosphere, created by Rimbaud’s tyrannical mother in the household, made revolt grown in his soul. He was a brilliant student in a college, improvized Latin verses with ease, and later started to write French ones. He had passed and completed his whole literary way in the short age period from 15 to 19 years. Строки стихотворения «Предчувствие» (1870) словно бы вышли из под пера Д. Андреева: «В сапфире сумерек пойду я вдоль межи, / Ступая по траве подошвою босою». Rimbaud’s youth coincided with the period of growing revolutionary spirits – R. dedicated “«Blacksmith” (1870), one of his first strong verses, to the French people. In the same time his anti-bourgeois verses expressing his aversion for Philistinism appeared. During the Commune of Paris R. fled his home, reached the capital to participate personnaly in the fight, but the victory of the Versailles government forced him to return home. In 1871 R. devoted to the Commune a few revolutionary verses, main of which is the full of revealing pathos piece “Paris is populating again”, where the genius loci of Paris is guessing under the image of Woman.
          Bibliogr.: 1) Rimbaud, А. Complete Works with Selected Letters. – 1966; 1987. 2) S.a. Poems. – 1994. 3) Arthur Rimbaud: portraits, dessins, manuscrits / Ed. by Hélène Dufour and André Guyaux. – 1991. 4) Frohock, Wilbur M.   Rimbaud’s Poetic Practice. – 1963. 5) Hackett, Cecil. Rimbaud: a Critical Introduction. – 1981. 6) Houston, J.P. The Design of Rimbaud’s Poetry. – 1963. 8) Ivry, Benjamin. Arthur Rimbaud. – 1998. 9) Le Carre, John. Season in Hell. – 1979. 10) Miller, Henry. The Time of the Assassin. – 1954. 11) Nicholl, Charles. Somebody Else: Rimbaud in Africa 1880–1891. – 1999. 12) Petitfils, Pierre. Rimbaud. – 1982; 1988. 13) St. Aubyn, Frederic Chase. Arthur Rimbaud / Rev. ed. – 1984. 14) Starkie, Enid. Arthur Rimbaud / 3rd ed. – 1962; repr. 1978.

“It can hardly be a coincidence that the erudition of the majority of this century's scientific geniuses did not prevent them from holding personal religious beliefs and from sharing and even creating bright, spiritual systems of philosophy. Einstein and Planck … – no matter what the field of their scientific inquiry, all remained, in their own way, people with a firm belief in God” (2: 30).

“It can hardly be a coincidence that the erudition of the majority of this century's scientific geniuses did not prevent them from holding personal religious beliefs and from sharing and even creating bright, spiritual systems of philosophy. Einstein and Planck … – no matter what the field of their scientific inquiry, all remained, in their own way, people with a firm belief in God” (2: 30).

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20050. Basset, Richard. Hitler's Spy Chief. – 2005. # About Canaris.

          Personalities of the Third Reich mentioned in the present bibliography:
          Canaris, Wilhelm Franz (in Russian Канарис, Вильгельм Франц; 1887–1945), a German admiral (since 1940) and head of the Abwehr (1935–1944). About him [20050]; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris ; http://www.canaris.dk/ ; http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/canaris.html . C. was the son of wealthy industrialist. In 1905 C. joined the German Imperial Navy. In 1916 he was given intelligence work and sent to Spain. С. ended the war as a celebrated U-boat commander. He gave Abwehr a chance to grow and become a considerable force. His personal style as a gentleman could not tolerate the gangsterish criminal attitude of most of the Nazi party members. In 1937 he was still a supporter of Hitler, considering him to be the only solution against communism and a hope for the revival of Germany as a nation. By 1938, however, he had realised Hitler's policies and plans would bring catastrophe to Germany and secretly began to work against the regime. In 1939, shocked by many incidents of mass murder throughout Poland, Canaris began working more actively, at increasing risk, to overthrow Hitler's regime, although he co-operated with the SD to create a decoy. This allowed him to pose as a trusted man for some time. C. intervened to save a number of victims of Nazi persecution, including hundreds of Jews. He took part in the July 20 Plot and was arrested by Schellenberg. SS leader Himmler kept him alive for some time because he planned to use him secretly as a future contact with the British in order to come to an agreement to end the war with himself as the leader of Germany. C. was humiliated and executed by slow strangulation at Flossenburg concentration camp, a few weeks before the end of the war.
          Himmler, Heinrich (in Russian Гиммлер, Генрих; 1900–1945). About him [Canaris; cruelty and women (2: 262)]; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler .
          Schellenberg,Walter (in Russian Шелленберг, Вальтер). About him [Canaris]; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schellenberg .

          Realities of the Third Reich mentioned in the present bibliography:
          Abwehr (in Russian абвер), the German military intelligence service. About it [Canaris]; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abwehr .
          July 20 Plot (in Russian заговор 20 июля 1944). About it [Canaris]; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20_Plot .

Pascal, R. German literature in the 16th and 17th centuries: Renaissance – Reformation – Baroque. – London, 1968.

Mann, Thomas (1875–1955). Three essays / Trans. from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. – New York: A.A. Knopf, 1929. – 261 p. # Contents: Goethe and Tolstoy; Friedrick the Great and the grand coalition; An experience in the occult.

S.a. Essays of Three Decades / Trans. from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter; < 1st American ed.>. – New York: A.A. Knopf, 1947. – VII, 472, <4> p. port. # Contents: Goethe's Faust. 1938; Goethe's career as a man of letters. 1932; Goethe as representative of the bourgeois age. 1932; Goethe and Tolstoy. 1922; Anna Karenina. 1939; Lessing. 1929; Kleist's Amphitryon. 1926; Chamisso, 1911; Platen. 1930; Theodor Storm. 1930; The old Fontane. 1910; Sufferings and greatness of Richard Wagner. 1933; Richard Wagner and the Ring. 1937; Schopenhauer. 1938; Freud and the future. 1936; Voyage with Don Quixote. 1934; The principal works of Thomas Mann (<4> p. at end).

S.a. Last essays / Trans. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston, and Tania and James Stern. – New York: Knoppf <c 1958> – 211 p. # Contents: On Schiller; Fantasy on Goethe; Nietzsche's philosophy in the light of recent history; Chekhov; Appendix: A weary hour, translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter.

Van Abbe, D. Drama in Renaissance Germany and Switzerland. – Melbourne, 1961.