Le conservatisme de la langue, gage du caractere litteraire du texte et temoin d'une nouvelle conception de l'acte d'ecriture: le cas d'Ysaye le triste.
Dans la premiere moitie du XVIe siecle apparaissent successivement quatre editions imprimecs d'un imposant roman de chevalerie qui raconte l'histoire d'Ysaye, fils de Tristan et Yseut et porte le titre explicite d'Ysaye le Triste, filz de Tristan de Leonnois, jadis chevalier de la Table Ronde'. Le textc de ces...

Faith.
During evening prayer in August, Brother Roger Schutz, who founded the ecumenical Taize community in Burgundy, France in 1949, was stabbed to death in the Church of Reconciliation there. He wrote a letter titled "The Future of Peace" earlier in the year. In it he talks about faith amidst...

Retailer wine selections.
The Cheers National Wine Panel recommends a lineup of top value-oriented white wines. This year, Cheers will be presenting the selections of our wine panel organized not by varietal or region, but by price. At a time when sourcing good quality wines at value prices is increasingly...

Borgata Heart & Soul Foundation Raises $101,500 for Living Beyond Breast Cancer and Atlantic County Women's Center.
Borgata's 'Women in Wine' Charity Event Celebrates The Nation's Female Winemakers And Fine Cuisine In The Name Of Two Worthy Causes ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, November 11th, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa (866-MYBORGATA), the East Coast's leading hotel-casino and dining destination, was...

21st Century Spirits Announces Acquisition of U.S. Importing and Marketing Rights to Gabriel Boudier.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- 21st Century Spirits LLC, a Los Angeles based importer and producer of wine and spirits, announces its acquisition of the U.S. rights to import and market the Gabriel Boudier line of award-winning liqueurs and eaux-de-vies. 21st Century Spirits will begin its national campaign...

The wine we make reflects who we are: an interview with Jonathan Nossiter.
Jonathan Nossiter is the son of Bernard Nossiter, the famed foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and The New York Times. He grew up in France, Italy, Greece, India, and the United rates, and now resides in Brazil. He has directed eight films, including shorts and features, documentaries and...

Gaming Partners International to Showcase RFID Casino Currency at International Casino Exhibition in London.
Company to Unveil Electronic Chip Surveillance System LAS VEGAS, Dec. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gaming Partners International Corporation (GPI) , the gaming industry's leading manufacturer and supplier of casino chips and other table game supplies, today announced that the Company will present chips and plaques available in 125...

French connection: in Burgundy's wine country, young people peace and perspective on retreat at a monastery in Taize.
At first there is fidgeting. And clearing of throats. Legs crossed and uncrossed, positions shifted. But slowly the silence descends, and there is stillness. For 15 whole minutes, hundreds of teenagers and young adults are alone--together--with their thoughts and with their God. Then one of 70 monks...

"Illegitimacy, Inter-generational Conflict and Legal Practice in Eighteenth-century Northern Burgundy".
Jeremy Hayhoe, "Illegitimacy, Inter-generational Conflict and Legal Practice in Eighteenth-century Northern Burgundy" The early modern era in European history has come to be seen as a period marked by more or less successful attempts by elites to impose "civilized" behavioral norms on ordinary people, especially women. The...

The final take: music that Marie-Nicole Lemieux can't live without.
THIS HAS BEEN A WONDERFULLY BUSY year for contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux. She's been heard in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea in Berlin and Brussels, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Paris, Handel's Rodelinda in Beaune, Honneger's Jeanne d'Arc au bucher in Montpellier and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in Orange. This fall,...