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Almost everything has been said and written about him and France is celebrating the bicentenary of his death in 2021. It is of course Napoleon , and the quote is from Victor Hugo . Isn't it a good time to look back at the results of his fifteen-year reign as one of the French people's favourite characters ? This is what Philippe Courroye invites us to do in his essay: Accused Napoleon, Stand Up ! The Emperor at the Bar of History. Imagining himself in the role of prosecutor before this tribunal of History , the attorney general Philippe Courroye,...

"Napoleon could exclaim: " What a novel my life is! ", but that was not enough for Patrick des Ylouses, who sometimes let himself be carried away by his imagination. But what he imagines is very plausible, and Napoleon often dreamed of what he would do in Turkey or America ... where he was never able to go. And that is the main thing!... So go with the Emperor . Wait for him in front of the Tuileries , Schoenbrünn or " Sans-Souci ". In addition to the cohort of general officers, members of the staff, aides-de-camp, equerries, orderly officers,...

It represents triumphant stupidity . It crushes morality, rules, laws, propriety, honors, values, feelings. It also crushes intelligence , art , beauty . This is Father Ubu . We all know him: cruel leader, stupid military man, narrow-minded state, smiling tyrant, impeccable bandit , wigged crook , all-round pathetic . That's why we like him. He is what we refuse , what we cannot say , and probably what we ultimately aspire to. To accompany the famous play by Alfred Jarry , where provocation competes with parody and satire , and where scatology goes well with the absurd, Laurent Tiesset...

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross describes five phases in this work, and the central phase is bargaining . Others describe more, others less, but in all cases it is unfortunately a work that we are all led to do in the course of our lives. This is the work of mourning . The five phases described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross are as follows: denial; anger; bargaining; depression; acceptance. Grief is at the heart of Sans intention de la tuer . It took Odile Botti more than thirty years to craft this tale of life and death, thirty years to successfully put words to a...

For over thirty years, Christoph Eberhard has divided his life between yoga , martial arts and... legal anthropology . His work is built around a simple, increasingly pressing question : in a world that has become a village, how can we reconcile the diversity of cultures and ways of thinking with the need to succeed in acting together on a global scale ? The challenge that Christoph Eberhard relentlessly pursues is nothing less than defining the terms of the debate that will allow all the inhabitants of planet Earth to live together in mutual respect and peace , but without...