Tag: France
Spring bloom: new ebooks from OpenEdition
It’s that time of year when we choose new ebook titles from OpenEdition. Below you will find a few that have made it to the list. Please send other recommendations to the Librarian for Romance Languages by April 1.
Since 2014, the UC Berkeley Library has supported this initiative based at the Université d’Aix-Marseille to open scholarly content from Europe and France in particular to the world. The Freemium program allows the UC Berkeley community to participate in an acquisitions policy that both supports sustainable development of open access (OA) and that respects the needs of teaching, research and learning communities. With our participation, faculty, students, and other researchers can benefit from greater functionality while making it possible for anyone in the world to view in html and in open access 70% of the ebook catalog of more than 13,000 titles.
Through the Freemium model, UC Berkeley gains access to preferred formats (pdf, epub, etc.) with no DRM quotas and seamless access to the content with UC Library Search.
La Lune et L’Éclipse
Eight days after the fnal issue of La Lune was published, Polo launched the weekly L’Eclipse to replace it which long outlasted the Prussian siege of Paris in 1870-1871 and into the beginning of the Third Republic. While still harassed by government censors, the inexpensive four-page weekly magazine with signature colorful wood engravings on the cover resisted and circulated freely.
Both of the originals can be viewed in print in The Bancroft Library or online through the Bibliothèque nationale de France’s digital platform Gallica.
OpenEdition keeps growing
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Here are a few titles from the latest acquisition, all discoverable in UC Library Search:
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Doris Wieser & Jessica Falconi, orgs
Primary Sources: Photographs from Wartime Portugal, Spain, and France
News from James Eason at the Bancroft Library: “More than two thousand digital images have just been added to the Finding Aid to the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection at the Online Archive of California. These images are the negative files, in their entirety, resulting from a Carnegie-funded trip Bonney made in 1941 to Portugal, Spain, and southern France. Bonney was documenting the effect of war on civilian populations, particularly children. Many images are from Franco’s Spain, with the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War starkly visible. She also took her camera to refugee camps across the French border (Perpignan, Rivesaltes, and Argelès-sur-Mer), where Spanish Republican refugees were housed at the end of the civil war, and which were being repurposed when German border closures and advances threw Europe into chaos early in World War II.”
For more on Thérèse Bonney, see the 2018 blog posting by Marjory Bryer and Sara Ferguson “Thérèse Bonney: Art Collector, Photojournalist, Francophile, Cheese Lover”, and also Sara’s recent “Wrapping up Women’s History Month: Selections from the Thérèse Bonney photograph collection at The Bancroft Library.”
25 days left to check out RetroNews!
Il s’appelle Pierre Loutrel mais on le connaît sous le nom de « Pierrot-le-fou ». Ce criminel violent, passé de la « Gestapo française » à la Résistance, restera dans les mémoires comme le chef d’un redoutable gang français de l’après-Seconde Guerre, les Tractions Avant.
Écho de Presse le 19/05/2020 par Michele Pedinielli
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Since April 15, the UC Berkeley academic community has had access to a 60-day trial of RetroNews. While much of this historical French language news collection is freely available through Gallica, the advanced functionality and added content is only available to subscribers. An initiative of BnF-Partenariats, which is a subsidiary of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), RetroNews aims to increase the digitization of its paper press collections which are increasingly at risk of serious damage over time. To explore all of its features, it is necessary to create an account (s’inscrire) after authenticating with your CalNet ID.
RetroNews, a unique digital resource for research and education
RetroNews, which is the French national library’s platform dedicated to historical printed press, offers a vast online archive of French and francophone periodicals. The collection features over 600 newspapers, journals, magazines and reviews, published between 1631 and 1950: the most important titles of the daily press (Le Petit Parisien, Le Journal, Le Matin) but also periodicals of the political spectrum, regional publications and satirical magazines.
Please create a free account, experiment with the resource and send your feedback and comments before June 15, 2020 to Claude Potts [cpotts AT berkeley DOT edu].
60-day trial access to RetroNews
Beginning today, the UC Berkeley academic community will have access to a 60-day trial of RetroNews. While much of this historical French language news collection is freely available through Gallica, the advanced functionality and added content is only available to subscribers. An initiative of BnF-Partenariats, which is a subsidiary of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), RetroNews aims to increase the digitization of its paper press collections which are increasingly at risk of serious damage over time. To explore all of its features, it is necessary to create an account (s’inscrire) after authenticating with your CalNet ID.
RetroNews, a unique digital resource for research and education
RetroNews, which is the French national library’s platform dedicated to historical printed press, offers a vast online archive of French and francophone periodicals. The collection features over 600 newspapers, journals, magazines and reviews, published between 1631 and 1950: the most important titles of the daily press (Le Petit Parisien, Le Journal, Le Matin) but also periodicals of the political spectrum, regional publications and satirical magazines.
Every month, RetroNews enriches its archive with new exclusive titles in order to gather a large plurality of sources covering all of France, including its former territories, from the first newspapers up until the 20th century. In addition RetroNews offers introductory notes on its periodicals, daily editorial content and advanced research capabilities.
Leading-edge tools designed for academic research
All titles have been processed by optical character recognition (OCR) and semantic analysis, allowing highly targeted search queries. Search by date, typology, periodicity, word frequency or apply complex content filtering (topics, events, persons, organizations, locations) and watch your results pop up in the blink of an eye. The streamlined document viewer offers multiple features speeding up the research workflow, like highlighting of named entities, download, page annotation and more. The advanced features and tools are summarized in detail here.
An editorial offer by a team of journalists and scholars
Every day, articles, documentary series, video and audio content retrace historic events and their reception by the contemporary press. Embracing the methodology of public history, RetroNews offers not only a panoramic overview of the history of the press but also various starting points (by topics, by periods) that allow a large audience to discover the rich cultural heritage brought forth through the mediatization of historic periodicals.
Some reviews and further information:
- Qui sommes-nous? Basic questions about RetroNews
- The Press Collection of the French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
- RetroNews: History Witnessed Through the Press Collections of the BnF
Please create a free account, experiment with the resource and send your feedback and comments before June 15, 2020 to Claude Potts [cpotts AT berkeley DOT edu].
See also:
Wrapping up Women’s History Month: Selections from the Thérèse Bonney photograph collection at The Bancroft Library
The Thérèse Bonney photograph collection at The Bancroft Library consists chiefly of documentary photographs taken throughout Western Europe during World War II. Bonney (Berkeley class of 1916) photographed all aspects of the war, but focused on its effects on the civilian population.
An active humanitarian, Bonney frequently used universal symbols in her work, allowing her images to speak beyond language barriers and leading their viewers to see beyond cultural differences. Her photographs of children were exhibited and published widely, influencing audiences to contribute to relief efforts for innocent victims of war. But the images throughout her archive feature another prominent symbol — women. Old women, young women, mothers, sisters, friends, neighbors; always at work, usually together, forever the epitome of personal sacrifice for the greater good. In honor of Women’s History Month, the Bancroft Library’s Pictorial Unit presents this collection of newly digitized images from the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection. The Finding Aid to the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection circa 1850-circa 1955 is available through the Online Archive of California. The finding aid includes digital images for Series 6: France, Germany 1944-1946. Images for Series 3: Carnegie Corporation Trip: Portugal, Spain, France 1941-1942 are coming soon, with a preview offered here!
French Literary Prize Winners 2019
France’s array of literary prizes offer a glimpse of emerging French and francophone writers, and also award accolades to the well-known. The winning titles with hyperlinks on this list provided by Amalivre in Paris are now available for check-out in UC Berkeley’s collection. To view the most recent book purchases across disciplines within French studies, please consult the recent acquisitions list in OskiCat.
| Fall Awards | Author | Title | Publisher | ||
| Governor General’s Literary Award (roman français) | * | Céline Huyghebaert | Le drap blanc | Le Quartanier | |
| Grand prix de la littérature policière | * | Richard Morgiève | Le Cherokee | Joëlle Losfeld | |
| Grand prix du roman de l’Académie Française | * | Laurent Binet | Civilizations | Grasset | |
| Grand prix du roman métis | * | Laurent Gaudé | Salina: les trois exils | Actes sud | |
| Prix Décembre | * | Claudie Hunziger | Les grands cerfs | Grasset | |
| Prix de Flore | Sofia Aouine | Rhapsodie des oubliés | La Martinière | ||
| Prix de la langue française | * | Louis-Philippe Dalembert | Mur méditerranée | Sabine Wespieser | |
| Prix de la nouvelle de l’Académie française | * | Louis-Antoine Prat | Belle encore et autres nouvelles | Somogy | |
| Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie | * | Gilles Jobidon | Le tranquille affligé | Leméac | |
| Prix du roman FNAC | * | Bérengère Cournut | De pierre et d’os | Le Tripode | |
| Prix Femina | * | Sylvain Prudhomme | Par les routes | Gallimard | |
| Prix Femina essai | * | Emmanuelle Lambert | Giono, furioso | Stock | |
| Prix Goncourt | * | Jean-Paul Dubois | Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la même façon | L’Olivier | |
| Prix Goncourt des lycéens | * | Karine Tuil | Les choses humaines | Gallimard | |
| Prix Guillaume Apollinaire (Poetry) | * | Olivier Barbarant | Un grand instant | Champ Vallon | |
| Prix Interallié | * | Karine Tuil | Les choses humaines | Gallimard | |
| Prix Landernau | * | Sylvain Prudhomme | Par les routes | Gallimard | |
| Prix Médicis | * | Luc Lang | La tentation | Stock | |
| Prix Médicis essai | * | Bulle Ogier & Anne Diatkine | J’ai oublié | Seuil | |
| Prix Renaudot | * | Sylvain Tesson | La panthère des neiges | Gallimard | |
| Prix Renaudot des lycéens | * | Victoria Mas | Le bal des folles | Albin Michel | |
| Prix Renaudot essai | * | Eric Neuhoff | (Très) cher cinéma français | Albin Michel | |
| Prix Senghor du premier roman francophone | * |
Ester Mann & Levon Minassian
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Le fil des anges | Vents d’ailleurs | |
| Prix Wepler | * | Lucie Taïeb | Les échappées | Editions de l’Ogre | |
| Other General Literary Prizes | |||||
| Prix des Deux Magots (January) | * | Emmanuel de Waresquiel | Le temps de s’en apercevoir | L’Iconoclaste | |
| Prix des Libraires (June) | * | Franck Bouysse | Né d’aucune femme |
La Manufacture de Livres
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| Grand prix de la francophonie de l’Académie Française | * | ||||
| Grand prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire (May) | * | Armand Gauz | Camarade Papa | Nouvel Attila | |
| Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (May) | * | Marie Gauthier | Court vêtue | Gallimard | |
| Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle | * | Caroline Lamarche | Nous sommes à la lisière | Gallimard | |
| Prix Ahmadou Kourouma (May) | * | David Diop | Frère d’âme | ||
| Prix Goncourt de la poésie (May) | * | Yvon Le Men | awarded for the body of his work | ||
| Prix Goncourt de la biographie (June) | * | Frédéric Pajak | Manifeste incertain 7 | Noir sur blanc | |
| Prix Landernau Polar (May) | * | Thomas Canteloube | Réquiem pour une République | Gallimard | |
| European Union Prize for Literature (auteurs français) | * | Sophie Daull | awarded for the ensemble of her work | Ed. Philippe Rey | |
| Prix Mallarmé (Poetry) | * | Claudine Bohi | Naître, c’est longtemps | La tête à l’envers | |
| Prix Orange (June) | * | Jean-Baptiste Maudet | Matador Yankee | Le Passage | |
| Prix de l’Académie française Maurice Genevoix (June) | * | Jean-Marie Planes | Une vie de soleil | Arléa | |
| Prix Ouest France Etonnants Voyageurs (June) | * | Anaïs Llobet | Des hommes couleur de ciel | Ed. de l’Observatoire | |
| Prix des Lecteurs de L’Express (June) | * | Jean-Claude Grumberg | La plus précieuse des marchandises | Seuil | |
| Prix Jean d’Ormesson (new 2018 –not restricted to living authors or new titles) | * | Julian Barnes | La seule histoire (translated from the English) | Gallimard | |
| Grand Prix de Poésie de l’Académie française | * | Pierre Oster | For the ensemble of his work | ||
| Prix de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (June) | * | Virginie Despentes | For the ensemble of her work | ||
| Prix du livre Inter (June) | * | Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam | Arcadie | POL |
Primary Sources: Patriotes aux Armes! (Patriots to Arms!): The Underground Resistance in France, Belgium, Holland, and Italy, 1939-1945
The Library’s recent acquisition of Patriotes aux Armes! (Patriots to Arms!): The Underground Resistance in France, Belgium, Holland, and Italy, 1939-1945 includes newspapers and periodicals, broadsides, leaflets, books, pamphlets, and other documents produced by or relating to the underground resistance in France, Belgium, Holland, and Italy. The organization of the collection housed at McMaster University Library can be found on the landing page. Links to the finding aids at the Library provide access to more detailed PDF documents that describe the holdings.
A Shopping Guide to Paris
Here’s a midsummer post to divert your attention to a fun travel guide written by an extraordinary Cal alumna (Class of 1916) and her sister Louise. In case you haven’t heard, the Thérèse Bonney papers and photographic archive have been processed and are available for use in The Bancroft Library:
- Finding Aid to the Thérèse Bonney Papers
- Finding Aid to the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection, circa 1850-circa 1955 (bulk 1930-1945) (2177 photos online)
Other books by Bonney can be found in the Main Stacks, or online through the HathiTrust Digital Library:
- Bonney, Thérèse. Europe’s Children, 1939 to 1943. New York: Rhode Publishing Company, 1944.
- Bonney, Thérèse, and Louise Bonney. French Cooking for American Kitchens. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co, 1929.
- Bonney, Thérèse, and Louise Bonney. A Guide to the Restaurants of Paris. New York: R.M. McBride, 1929.