Charles-Philippe de PatinCharles-Philippe vicomte de Patin (Ypres, 19 April 1687 – Ghent, 17 July 1773), was a prominent figure in Austrian Belgium during the Age of Enlightenment. Born on April 19, 1687, in Ypres, he gained recognition as a Flemish writer, poet, magistrate, and legal and fiscal expert. His notable contributions include the publication of "Mare Liberum ex jure naturae, gentium & civili assertum, vindicatum, redevivum" in 1726. Additionally, he served as the President of the Council of Flanders from 1742 until his passing on July 17, 1773, in Ghent.
Georges PolitzerGeorges Politzer (pɔlidzɛʁ; 3 May 1903 - 23 May 1942) was a French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian Jewish origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" (philosophe roux). He was a native of Oradea, a city in present-day Romania (then Nagyvárad, Hungary). He was murdered in the Holocaust. Politzer had already been a militant by the time of his involvement in the Hungarian insurrection of 1919 when he was 17 during the Hungarian Soviet Republic, led by Béla Kun.
Morea expeditionThe Morea expedition (Expédition de Morée) is the name given to the land intervention of the French Army in the Peloponnese between 1828 and 1833, at the time of the Greek War of Independence, with the aim of expelling from the region the Ottoman-Egyptian occupation forces. It was also accompanied by a scientific expedition mandated by the French Academy. After the fall of Messolonghi in 1826, the Western European powers decided to intervene in favour of revolutionary Greece.
SatireSatire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
La marche à l'amour"La marche à l'amour" is a poem by Gaston Miron (1928–1996), one of the most studied and celebrated in Quebec poetry. It was originally published in Le nouveau journal in 1962, in a cycle of seven poems also entitled "La marche à l'amour". A slightly revised version was published in 1970 in the book L'homme rapaillé (the poem would again be revised in a later edition).
Enrique de la MoraEnrique de la Mora y Palomar (16 June 1907 – 9 May 1978) was a Mexican architect who designed prominent university buildings and Roman Catholic churches in which he experimented with hyperbolic-paraboloid roofs. He is generally regarded, along with the Spaniard Félix Candela, as one of the most famous structural expressionists in Mexico. De la Mora was distinguished with the National Prize for Architecture in 1947 and some of his works, particularly his Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Ciudad Universitaria, is now part of a UNESCO's World Heritage Site since 2007.
De La Salle Brothers Philippine DistrictThe De La Salle Brothers - Philippine District is part of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, the largest congregation of Roman Catholic religious Brothers who are exclusively dedicated to education. The Institute was founded in Reims, France in 1680, with over 75,000 De La Salle Christian Brothers together with lay colleagues established globally 1,500 Catholic, Lasallian educational institutions worldwide in 82 countries.
De GruyterWalter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (də ˈɡʁɔʏ̯tɐ), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Berlin the royal privilege to open a bookstore and "to publish good and useful books". In 1800, the store was taken over by Georg Reimer (1776–1842), operating as the Reimer'sche Buchhandlung from 1817, while the school's press eventually became the Georg Reimer Verlag.
Michel MaffesoliMichel Maffesoli (born 14 November 1944) is a French sociologist. He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and Julien Freund, and an emeritus professor at Paris Descartes University. His work touches upon the issue of community links and the prevalence of "the imaginary" in the everyday life of contemporary societies, through which he contributes to the postmodern paradigm. Maffesoli has been a member of the Institut Universitaire de France since September 2008, following a controversial nomination.
De La Salle–College of Saint BenildeDe La Salle–College of Saint Benilde (Filipino: Dalubhasaan ng De La Salle San Benildo; French: Collège De La Salle de Sainte Benilde), also known as Benilde and abbreviated DLS–CSB or simply CSB, is a private, Catholic research higher education institution established by De La Salle Brothers located in Malate district of Manila, Philippines. It operates four campuses all of which are located within the vicinity of Malate. The college is a member institution of De La Salle Philippines (DLSP), a network of 16 Catholic Lasallian institutions.
