scholarly journals The Vernacular Panther: Encyclopedism, Citation, and French Authority in Nicole de Margival’s Dit de la panthère

2012 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-311
Author(s):  
Eliza Zingesser
Keyword(s):  
French Authority

Mandating the Mahjar

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-159
Author(s):  
Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Communities ◽  
French Mandate ◽  
French Authority

This chapter analyzes Lebanon’s census of 1921 and argues that the French Mandate counted emigrants to bolster the confessional system it was building in Greater Lebanon (Grand Liban). As the Mandate’s first point of contact with its colonial citizens, census-taking was a means of refracting French authority into the transnational Lebanese communities. The Mandate used census records in lieu of a formal Lebanese nationality, making optional registration a deeply politicized act among Lebanese and Syrian migrant communities in the Americas. For some, being counted was the first act of a new Lebanese citizenship; for others, it was intolerable sublimation beneath the colonial yoke. The French Mandate used the census to domesticate the diaspora, to parse friend from foe, and to cut ties with perceived troublemakers.

Phan Boi Chau: Asian Revolutionary in a Changing World

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Duiker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Communist Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World ◽  
French Authority ◽  
Country Today

One of the most striking facts about the history of modern Vietnam has been the persistent strength of the communist movement. In part, of course, this strength must be attributed to the organizational abilities of the communists themselves. But it might also be said that it is a testament to the weakness of the more moderate elements within the nationalist movement. Resistance to French control has a long history in Vietnam, dating back to the original conquest in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet only after the Second World War, when the communist-dominated Vietnam Independence League (Vietminh) led resistance to French authority, did a movement of truly national proportions arise in the country. By their leadership of the Vietminh, the communists became the most potent political force within the nationalist movement. By contrast, non-Marxist parties were consistently plagued by political factionalism and lack of unity, a reality that has been a major contributing factor to the contemporary tragedy in that country today.

Waters: American Law and French Authority

1919 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel C. Wiel
Keyword(s):  
American Law ◽  
French Authority

scholarly journals Considering Molière in Oyônô-Mbia's Three Suitors: One Husband

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-244
Author(s):  
Hélène Sanko
Keyword(s):  
Third Republic ◽  
Urban Families ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Theatrical Culture ◽  
French Authority

Juxtaposed these quotations, which are separated by three centuries and two continents, suggest that seventeenth-century classical French drama serves as a model for African theatre of the early post-colonial period. The first quotation is, of course, from Moliere, the Old Regime's brilliant comic writer. The second is taken from a play by Oyônô-Mbia, a contemporary dramatist from Cameroon. Given the powerful grip France held over its colonies, it is not surprising to find residual influence of France's theatrical culture on African drama. By the end of World War One, French authority in sub-Saharan Africa extended from Cape Verde to the Congo river. The Third Republic established French schools in the larger colonial towns which attracted the children of well-to-do urban families. France therefore held strong political and cultural sway over the development of African leaders and writers.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danna Agmon
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Governance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
French Authority

The book’s epilogue reflects on how Nayiniyappa’s role in the imperial project in Pondichéry and the conflict surrounding his arrest shaped his life and in turn shaped the politics of the colony and French authority in the region. In other words, it inquires into the effect of empire on individual lives and the impact of individuals on the development of empires and of colonial governance.

scholarly journals The League of Nations’ Report on the Unification of the Law of Negotiable Instruments

1924 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 787-789
Author(s):  
Arthur K. Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
International Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
French Authority

The Conference of Financial Experts held at Brussels in September,1920, recommended to the League of Nations as part of its scheme of financial rehabilitation “ that the activities of the League might usefully be directed towards promoting certain reforms,” the first of which was that progress should be made toward the unification of the laws of the various countries relating to bills of exchange and bills of lading. The International Chamber of Commerce and other trade bodies have likewise strongly supported a resumption of initiative in this direction, which was interrupted by the war. As a result, the Economic Committee of the League of Nations, acting in cooperation with the Government of the Netherlands,and with the approval of the Council and the Assembly, appointed four legal experts to report their opinions upon the attitude now prevailing in the various countries of the world toward the work of the two Hague Conferences on Negotiable Instruments and also as to whether further action toward unification was likely to meet with practical success. The following highly qualified experts were charged with the task: Sir Mackenzie Chalmers, well known as the author of the English Bills of Exchange Act of 1882; the late Professor David Josephus Jitta, formerly Councillor of State of the Netherlands; Professor Franz Klein, of Austria, and Professor Lyon-Caen, the well-known French authority on commercial law.

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