„Ultimii” critici, între geometrie și finite by Raluca Dună

“…This article is focused on major ideas of a book discussing the destiny of European XXth century criticism. „Geometry and Refinement”, by Mircea Martin follows the fundamental tensions of French criticism, mainly the intellectual versus the sensitive trend, the balance between the quest for the particular and individual element versus the opposite search for the generic form, a system of oppositions that may be resumed into one formula: ‟esprit de finesse” versus „esprit de géometrie”. …”
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La huella de los ausentes. Desaparición forzada en Guatemala by Silvia  Soriano Hernández

“…The enforced disappearance was planned by the state apparatus, and it’s a practice deeply damaged a sector of society which lives in uncertainty about the whereabouts of their loved ones which were taken alive but did not return and whose destiny is doubtful. That lack of certainty is the tragedy in which families of the disappeared persons lives. …”
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L’Étrange cas de Coleman Silk, le Jewbird de The Human Stain de Philip Roth by Frédéric Dumas

“…His decision to take his destiny into his own hands brought about his social success but also his disconnection from his family, his transformation into an eternal stranger and his eventual fall as the scapegoat of his New England campus. …”
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Die bemagtiging van die armes by P Verster

“…Although poverty is an all-inclusive problem, the possibility of helping the poor to realise that they are called to take possession of their own destiny is important. In Jesus Christ a new way of hope and change is offered. …”
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Un huis clos de papier. Du « Livret des Enfants-Assistés » à La Légende dorée. by Véronique Cnockaert

“…Angélique’s identity is thus strongly supported by an administrative order (a student booklet) which will slowly become a spiritual and fictional order, as the young girl will increasingly detach herself (literally and figuratively speaking) from her identity booklet and dream her destiny through that of Saint Agnès. We will unravel the esthetic and poetic tensions, both in the preparatory file and the novel, created by this passage from the administrative to the legendary, that pulls the Naturalist novel towards a hagiographic scenario.…”
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La méthode de l’évaluation des risques sanitaires en France : représentations, évolutions et lectures plurielles by Franck Boutaric

“…Sanitary risk assessment methodology in France: representations, mutations, and plurality of interpretationsAmong the scientific methodologies whose destiny accompanies the constancy and mutations in the expertise of French society, sanitary risk assessment has had success. …”
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Gaan Mawina, le Marouini (haut Maroni) au cœur de l’histoire des Noirs marrons Boni/Aluku et des Amérindiens Wayana by Marie Fleury

“…The purpose of this paper is to trace the history of the Marroons Boni also called Aluku and their journey across the Maroni (boundary river between French Guiana and Surinam) to escape Dutch soldiers sent on their trails. Their destiny crossed the Wayana’s path, from Brazil, who were trying to escape slaves' hunters, armed by the Portuguese, and had taken refuge at the sources of Maroni for more than one hundred years. …”
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L’art du portrait du traducteur dans l’espace francographe : deux recueils et une histoire des traductions by Marzena Chrobak

“…The main components of a good portrait are : an interesting model, an intelligent structure, an objective and well documented content, a concise and eloquent style, a multifunctional title, an explanation of connections between an individual destiny and historical determinations, arousing and satisfying curiosity in the reader.…”
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Eschatologie alchimique chez jâbir ibn Hayyân by Pierre Lory

“…At the end of times, a messianic divine and human person called the Bayân will manifest the hidden dimensions of being and fulfill the destiny of the whole of mankind.…”
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L’échappée belle d’élèves étiquetés vulnérables : des bacheliers professionnels en CPGE by Carine Érard, Christine Guégnard, Magali Danner

“…Aware of the obstacles but without seeing themselves as vulnerable, these vocational baccalauréat holders accept the risks of such an unusual orientation in higher education: the CPGE represents the hope of escaping the destiny associated with the vocational track that they have appreciated.…”
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The Land of the Future: British Accounts of the USA at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century by David Seed

“…Works examined here include those which attempt to yoke together the two nations in a common “Anglo-Saxon” destiny. The essay analyzes the expressive means used by writers to depict the USA as a culture of the future. …”
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La rivière Magpie-Mutehekau shipu en personne by Fabienne Joliet, Azou Joliet-Bidet

“…Reacting to the fate of its "big sister", the nearby Romaine River, which has just been harnessed by four large hydroelectric dams, the Magpie's destiny had other plans: it has been protected as a legal person since 2021. …”
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In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 by Claire Sorin

“…Its vivid and at times humorous descriptions of agrarian life, embryonic political institutions, social relations and violence, are permeated with the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Yet, the deep originality of Eliza Farnham’s account lies in its gendered perspective, which combines traditional and radical views of the female sex and disrupts dialectics of public and private spheres. …”
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De Paris à Padoue, le grand tour d’un universitaire proscrit par Louis XIV : Charles Patin, médecin, numismate (1633-1693) by Patrick Ferté

“…Escaped before imprisonment (1667), he saw his destiny started up again at the end of a Grand Tour throw the Republic of Letters, about which he kept a precious diary. …”
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Gustav Landauer : le devenir révolutionnaire comme alternative anarchiste by Anatole Lucet

“…His conception, which is as much based on experiments made by “life reformers” as it was an inspiration for them, relies on the action of creative individuals in charge of their destiny. In the shadow of the mainstream political systems of his time, Landauer’s work is full of concrete propositions for the implementing alternatives. …”
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L’invention du biome Cerrado by Catherine Aubertin, Florence Pinton

“…The authors consider that the two regions are inextricably united in their destiny. Specific geopolitical and scientific contexts and insertion in different stages in the history of sustainable development may explain the contrasting views of these areas. …”
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Photography and Archive Fever in Richard Kalinoski’s Beast on the Moon (1995) by Laurence Petit

“…The family portrait, which in the course of the play suffers both a decapitation and an indirect crucifixion but somehow manages to survive, becomes the repository not just of individual destinies – or of one individual’s destiny – but of the diasporic fate of a whole people, the Armenians.…”
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Migrations, transferts et réécritures :le destin des monuments publics d’Algérie après l’Indépendance by Claire Garcia

“…What is significance for Algerians of the installation of monuments commemorating the great men of the history of France? Faced with a destiny as diverse as destruction, concealment or “repatriation” from Algeria to France, what events do these monuments commemorate now? …”
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Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) by Luca Di Gregorio

“…Through a historical and comparative approach, the coureurs des bois’ adventure will be compared with the classical language of the Western (deciphering vs. settlement, walking vs. mounting, tracking vs. invasion and conquest) so as to insist on the alternative value brought by the adventurous “sauvagisme” (mainly European) in contrast with pioneers/settlers stories which were inspired, during the same period, by the rhetorics of the manifest destiny and the frontier.…”
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FILOSOFAVIMAS KAIP PASIRUOŠIMAS MIRČIAI by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…Greek philosophy in its turn looks for a positive solution of the conflict by the way of subordinating knowledge to destiny. This concern of the Greek philosophy is reflected by the idea of philosophizing as the way to approach death. …”
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