Welcome Daniel Vaugelage: scholar and author of several informative publications about France during its enlightened age and the during the tumultuous revolution that followed it.
(PRWEB) November 26, 2014
M. Vaugelade's first title with Commonwealth Books of Virginia will be an English edition of a book that was published in France in 2010: "Comments on The American Travels Journals of La Rochefoucault-Liancourt 1794-1798."
M. Vaugelade was born in 1952 and has always lived in Freneuse, one of the ancient parishes of the Duchy of La Roche-Guyon, very close to the ancestral home of the La Rochefoucauld family. After studying history at Paris X Nanterre, he taught history throughout his career in the secondary school Camille Claudel in Mantes la Ville. His taste for historical research led him first to become interested in the history of the village and the region and naturally that of the duchy of La Roche-Guyon and its famous owners: the Duchess of Enville (1716-1797), her son, Louis Alexandre, Duke de La Rochefoucauld (1743-1792), and her nephew Alexandre François, later Duke de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827). These accomplished French intellectuals were all friends of Thomas Jefferson, who frequently called on them at Duke Louis Alexandre’s townhome on rue de Seine in Paris.
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If you enjoyed reading Kay Thompson's tales about Eloise at the Plaza and Kenneth Grahame's childhood narrations in "Golden Age" and "Dream Days", you will love Barbara "Bobbie" Wallace's charming, sometimes hilarious memories of her childhood in far away, long ago China
(PRWEB) November 25, 2014
Barbara "Bobbie" Wallace has written "Small Footsteps in the Land of the Dragon" for grown-ups who are not too old to be swept away. Bobbie is a fabulous storyteller, which is good because her unusual childhood is impossible to imagine. Her American father abandoned a fledgling career in Hollywood in the 1920s to sell lamp oil in China. He eventually became an executive for Standard Oil of China. A few years after the Russian Revolution, at sixteen-years of age, her mother left her war-torn homeland and came to live with relatives in Shanghai. after earning a nursing degree at the Harvard Medical School of China, she rose to become the head of nursing at Shanghai’s only sanitarium. The success of her parents allowed Bobbie and her sister to grow up with “modern” comforts in a country where they were scarce. When you read her book, you will see what precocious little Bobbie saw and hear what she heard. While her memories are full of humor, they also convey a child's awareness of the darker side of life in pre-war China.
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On Monday October 6th, 2014
The 2014 Governor's Awards for the Arts of Delaware was presented to a grand audience of 800+. On that night Evelyn Swensson was nominated for the "lifetime achievement" in the arts and received the "Peggy Amsterdam Outstanding Achievement Award." She received a standing ovation for all of her successful work in the state of Delaware as a conductor, composer, fundraiser, educator, and general art advocate. Evelyn has spent 58 years of her life dedicated to the performing arts and she is happy to say,
"I am thankful for the honor and especially proud that the event took place at the Grand Opera House where the majority of my work with OperaDelaware,1974-2007, took place. To be honored at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE by Governor Markell and a host of longtime friends and colleagues was a tribute I never expected. Those 58 years of making music in Delaware were pure joy while they were happening." - Evelyn Swensson.
Evelyn's Book -
Notes: My Life with Music
Photography by Kathy Buckalew
Evelyn Swensson, 2014 Delaware Governor's Awards for the Arts Recipient.
Watch The Full Award Ceremony, Evelyn's award speech starts at 1:03:45
Welcome Daniel Vaugelage: scholar and author of several informative publications about France during its enlightened age and the during the tumultuous revolution that followed it.
