With the objective to identify previously unknown parental relationships among grapevine cultivars, 352 cultivars of Vitis vinifera L. were analyzed at 17 microsatellite loci. 29 were found to be duplicate genotypes of other cultivars. From the 323 unique genotypes, 89 possible pairs of parents were identified for 52 cultivars (i.e., each putative progeny cultivar shared at least one allele wit...

The paper is an attempt at showing how the mentions and quotations of contemporary geographic discourses inserted in Balzacian texts paratexts are there to outline features a new novelistic æsthetic. We will start from following observation: novel its encyclopedic ambition contemporaneous with first attempts some geographers found unified science diversified set knowledges practices. Therefore,...

Theodorides' survey of more recent rabies literature from 1800 onwards is also extensive. It includes a History of rabies published in 1810 and written not by a physician but by a hospital administrator who happened to be the father of Honore de Balzac. Balzac pere did well to distinguish between rabies and hydrophobia which could be caused by psychological factors unrelated to the disease prop...

El verdugo (1830) de Honoré Balzac es un relato corto cuya trama seudo-histórica no deja fascinar. Así, el ámbito la guerra Independencia española abarca una terrible historia cabezas cortadas, noble dinastía ejecutada por uno sus miembros, a fin salvar honra. Este encierra, manera más o menos solapada, íntima, y punto turbia, familia ficticia, cual parece sugerir algo acerca secreta e incluso ...

Truffaut avait une intense admiration pour Balzac, qu'il lu et relu. En se penchant sur Les Quatre Cent Coups, Baisers volés, La Peau douce Sirène du Mississipi, l'article de J. Anselmini montre que l'écrivain a inspiré au cinéaste non seulement des situations dispositifs romanesques, mais aussi un imaginaire la création. Peut-être même lui a-t-il proposé modèle ou style d’existence, celui d’un...