The Death of Jaromír Czernin 1908 by Michal Jirman

“… This article evaluates the death and funeral culture in the high aristocratic society of the Habsburg monarchy at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on the illness and death of the mostly forgotten Count Jaromír Czernin (1818–1908). …”
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Prophétie féminine et autorité institutionnelle dans l’État de Savoie à l’époque moderne: hypothèses de recherche by Elisabetta Lurgo

“…The starting point, therefore, is the representation and definition of power, understood as a constant interpenetration between aristocratic and court rituals and local practices.…”
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El golpe de Estado de Focas (602) by Carlos Martínez Carrasco

“…This study places the accent on the social and economic context in which it occurred, anchoring it in the existing tensions between the aristocratic establishment and the rest of the Roman population. …”
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Les Français de Londres, pas tous expatriés by Diane Le Luyer

“…French emigration in London, once aristocratic or bourgeois, has become more democratic, and the social recomposition of expatriation, which reflects in professional careers, reveals the failure of institutional mechanisms to fulfill their mission of providing an inclusive support system for citizens.…”
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L’anticommunisme comme patrie chez les intellectuels péruviens José de la Riva-Agüero et Francisco García Calderón dans l’Europe de l’entre-deux-Guerres by Coralie Razous

“…Through the interwar trajectories of two Peruvian intellectuals, José de la Riva-Agüero (1885-1944) and Francisco García Calderón (1883-1953), this article analyses the different dimensions of anticommunism in Peruvian and European aristocratic and diplomatic circles. Whether in their analysis of Fascism in Italy, in their position in the controversy between Indigenism and Hispanism in Peru, or in their role as politicians and diplomats, anticommunism appears as a common point in their European exile, and as a way to define a Peruvian identity. …”
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La viande rouge : un critère de virilité dans la Rome antique ? IIe siècle-IIe siècle ap. J.-C.) by Christophe Badel

“…In terms of taste, Roman males preferred white meat, which was the delight of aristocratic banquets. According to doctors, red meat was more dangerous for women than for men, but they also advised men not to consume it. …”
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Sázka na nejistou kartu. Armádní služba a sociální úpadek Raduitů de Souches na přelomu 17. a 18. století by Vítězslav Prchal

“…They were not only the inherent part of aristocratic warrior careers, but they also, in the situation of yet undeveloped fiscal mechanisms of a premodern state that was still searching for ways how to finance its permanent army, represented a risk factor which, to a considerable extent, decided about success or failure not only of the particular individuals, but as well their families and other generations of the dynasty, in the strictly socially stratified society of the early modern period. …”
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Un grand domaine aristocratique de la cité des Viromanduens : la villa de La Mare aux Canards (Noyon, Oise) by Marjolaine de Muylder, Guillaume Aubazac, Frédéric Broes, Stéphane Dubois, Bastien Dubuis, Caroline Font, Alexia Morel

“…The pars rustica excavation yielded a very rich architecture and furniture that gives an aristocratic feature to the building. Its function don’t seem to be devoted to traditional farming, but could be closer to business and commercial trade.…”
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Breaking the Spell of Past Misdeeds: A Hauntological Reading of The House of the Seven Gables by Justyna Fruzińska

“…The book is also haunted by the Pyncheon nostalgia for the old aristocratic order, as well as by capitalist exploitation of racial and class others. …”
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Les femmes dans l’histoire du duché de Normandie by Elisabeth Van Houts

“…They acted as channels of historical knowledge between the generations. Aristocratic women, preoccupied with the past, the present and the future, stimulated the production of historical and prophetical narratives. …”
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Čechoslováci pod ochranou císaře: Strastiplná cesta Bedřicha Hildprandta a Ferdinanda Veverky do etiopského exilu by Jan Dvořáček

“…Bedřich Hildprandt, belonging to aristocratic family Hildprandt of Ottenhausen, served as an administrator of the imperial stud farm in Addis Ababa, while Ferdinand Veverka became a diplomatic counselor at the imperial court in Addis Ababa, where he was largely using his previous vast experience from the Czechoslovak diplomatic services. …”
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L’émoi des demoiselles en voyage. Du voyage dans quelques journaux intimes de jeunes filles du XIXe siècle by Martine Sonnet

“…Travelling Demoiselles’ Emotions : travel in girls’ diaries in the nineteenth centuryThe collection of nineteenth century’s girls’ private diaries studied by Philippe Lejeune (Le moi des demoiselles : enquête sur le journal de jeune fille, 1993) reveals the way travel interrupted the often dull routine of young bourgeois and aristocratic girls. About thirty diaries display the mixed feelings that travel generated for these girls who left home, most often with family members, to discover new places, attend family events, restore health, or acquire education, etc. …”
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Cohabitation sociale et ordre public aux Champs-Élysées :Gestion et appropriation du carré des jeux (1700-1830) by Véronique Laporte

“…Authorities had a will to offer playing spaces to visitors, but were at the same time concerned by the possibility of public overflowings. Whether they be aristocrats or schoolboys, the same apprehension comes out: the fear of gatherings. …”
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Autour d’un « tapis du Guergour » présenté à l’exposition universelle de Paris de 1889 by Gérard Boëly, Pierre Guichard, Mahmoud Ourabah

“…During the years 1870-1930 approximately, there was in this zone a flourishing type of carpets unique in Algeria, which is a close imitation of those known as “Kis-Ghiordes” from Anatolia. Some aristocratic families played an important role in their creation and distribution. …”
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Les dernières Amazones : réflexions sur la contestation de l’ordre politique masculin pendant la Fronde by Sophie Vergnes

“…But the failure of the Fronde was also the one of these female fighters, as women and as aristocrats. Nevertheless, the battle against patriarchal order didn’t end under the personal rule of Louis XIV. …”
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Strasti starého grófa. Autoreflexia choroby v osobnej korešpondencii aristokrata na sklonku 19. storočia by Daniel Hupko

“… References about diseases of the author or authors of diaries and correspondence appears in their content just rarely, more often are relations of health problems of family members, husband, wife, children, relatives and other aristocrats familiar with the writer. It is therefore all the more valuable to find and analyze a set of letters which include the author’s own reception of his illnesses. …”
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De quels ingénieurs parle-t-on ? Situation et trajectoires des ingénieurs des grandes écoles. Le cas du Maroc by Pierre Vermeren

“…They represent a minority compared to the rest of engineers who attended higher education schools in Morocco, yet their privileged positions have almost given them an aristocratic status. This is quite representative of the unequal social structure of Morocco and of the role played by its monarchic regime - the Makhzen - which tends to favor the technocratic and social elite. …”
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Diaristes et épistolières russes (fin XVIIIe ‑ début XIXe siècle) : reflets de l’histoire by Elena Gretchanaia, Catherine Viollet

“…The article examines the role of European and Russian history in the mostly unpublished diaries and correspondence of Russian women aristocrats in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century. …”
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Rezidencie oravských a liptovských stoličných úradníkov ako prostriedok vyjadrenia ich spoločenského statusu by Tomáš Janura

“…The administration of these units was in the hands of officers (vice-chair, notary, treasury, fiscal and serviceman), who recruited from the local aristocrats and landlords, i.e. the local elites. The functions in the administration meant a constant income of financial cash from the annual salary or the fees for the preparation of written deeds not related to the exercise of the office. …”
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La représentation du genre au XIXe siècle. Masculinités dans le couple royal et la biographie de François d’Assise de Bourbon by Félix Colás Loricera

“…With respect to external issues, the biography of Francis in his marriage is marked by the period of transition in 19th century notions of gender from traditional-aristocratic to Victorian-bourgeois society, a transition in which the couple was judged by various strata of society and from different points of view and canons of behaviour.…”
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