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978-2-84876-886-1. OCLC. 1269504870. The Most Secret Memory of Men (French: La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, lit. 'The Most Secret Memory of Men') is a 2021 novel by Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. It was co-published on 19 August 2021 by the French independent publisher Éditions Philippe Rey (Paris) with the Senegalese publishing ...
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (born 20 June 1990) [1][2] is a Senegalese writer. Raised in Diourbel, Senegal and later studying in France, Sarr is the author of four novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Most Secret Memory of Men, becoming the first Sub-Saharan ...
Tirailleurs Sénégalais under the command of Jean-Baptiste Marchand, 1898. The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army. They were initially recruited from Senegal, French West Africa and subsequently throughout Western, Central and Eastern Africa: the main sub-Saharan ...
Front page of Address to the National Assembly by the Société des amis des noirs, February 1790 Front page of Société des amis des noirs, March 1791. The Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des amis des Noirs or Amis des noirs) was a French abolitionist society founded by Jacques Pierre Brissot and Étienne Clavière and directly inspired by the Society for Effecting the ...
Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau (French: [miʁabo]; 5 October 1715 – 13 July 1789) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He was the father of Honoré, Comte de Mirabeau and André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau. He was, in distinction, often referred to as the elder Mirabeau as he had a younger brother, Jean-Antoine ...
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Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (English: Memoirs from Beyond the Grave) is the memoir of François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), collected and published posthumously in two volumes in 1849 and 1850, respectively. Chateaubriand, a writer, politician, diplomat and historian, remains widely regarded as the founder of French Romanticism.
The statue of A'a is a wooden anthropomorphic figure, 117 cm high and 36 cm wide. [ 2] It is, in the estimation of Alfred Gell, "arguably the finest extant piece of Polynesian sculpture". [ 3] The figure is hollow, and has a removable back panel allowing access to the interior. [ 4] The sculpture's arms are carved in high relief; its legs are ...