Two Notes of Madame de Staël

Notes de lecture

Cet ouvrage de François Rastier présente une vue articulée de différents domaines de la linguistique – y compris le traitement automatique du langage – auxquels l’auteur a contribué. Par ses travaux antérieurs, la linguistique de corpus est l’angle d’attaque permettant des propositions, aussi bien épistémologiques qu’applicatives. François Rastier présente des cas concrets de méthodes applicati...

Scientific Verses: Subversion of Cartesian Theory and Practice in the "Discours a Madame de La Sabliere"

Verses: Subversion of Cartesian Theory and Practice in the "Discours a Madame de La Sabliere"" (1996).

Madame Magali DELMAS, Professeur à l’Université de California à Los Angeles (Rapporteur)

Notes on de Sitter space

The Lorentz n–group is the group of “isometries” (transformations preserving the inner product) of Minkowski space, fixing 0, and preserving the time direction. This implies that a Lorentz transformation is an linear isomorphism of Rn as a vector space. If, in addition to preserving the time direction, we also preserve space orientation then the group can be denoted SO(1, n − 1). Notice that a ...

Mirrors, Cross-dressing and Narcissism in Choisy’s Histoire de Madame la Comtesse des Barres

The Abbé de Choisy was one of the most intriguing figures in Louis XIII’s entourage and, most notably, Louis XIV’s court. A prolific author, he composed the Sun King’s memoirs, his own personal memoirs, and in his old age wrote an ambitious twelve volume-work entitled Histoire de l’Eglise. Although he led a ecclesiastic career, his writing and intellectual interests reached well beyond the Chur...