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September 4, 2024
Check out the Cav Daily's French Playlist!
August 21, 2024
Congrats to Liz Hall on her appointment as Director of UVa's Institute of World Languages!
May 23, 2024
Congrats to Prof. Deborah McGrady on her Fellowship at Le Studium in Orléans
April 23, 2024
Undergraduates Gretel Brown and Talia Pirron at the Choix Goncourt USA Ceremony

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Reinventing Babel in Medieval French: Translation and Untranslatability (c. 1120–c. 1250). A lunch talk by Prof. Emma Campbell (GWU)

September 18, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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L'or des ruines: A Lunch Talk by French Photographer Geoffroy Mathieu

October 3, 2024

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

NCH 349

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Maya Boutaghou at New Dominion Books!

November 9, 2024

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

New Dominion Bookshop - Downtown Charlottesville

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La photographie: des pistes endogènes / A Talk by Senegalese Photographer Ibrahima Thiam

November 14, 2024

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

NCH 349

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Recent Publications

La Poesie Philosophique

La Poésie philosophique de Voltaire; Voltaire and the Temple of bad taste: a study of 'La Pucelle d’Orléans'

Liverpool University Presses (2003)

Roger Sade Revolutionary Texts

Adresse au Roi des Français et autres écrits révolutionnaires

Tous droits réservés © La Part Commune (2023)

Un siècle de deux cents ans ? - Les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles : continuités et discontinuités

Un siècle de deux cents ans ? - Les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles : continuités et discontinuités

Desjonquères (2004)