Les parlements français à l’époque moderne : enjeux historiographiques et cas pratique

French Parliaments in the ancient regime France: historiographical issues and practical case studiesFor a long time, the French Parliaments have only been regarded by historiography as a political actor, and their assessment tended to be rather critical. A renewal occurred in the sixties, with a new approach that focuses on the social aspects. Nevertheless, a chronological imbalance still remains. Even though the parliaments of the 18th century have been studied extensively, the same is not true of the provincial courts under the reign of Louis XIV. Only the episode of the ‘Fronde’ and the institution of the parliament of Paris drew the attention of Anglo-Saxon historians. Furthermore, it was commonly believed that Louis XIV reduced the parliaments to obedience and brought them under his rule. The study of the parliament of Bordeaux as well as of its members, which encompasses the period from the beginning of the regency of Anne of Austria to the end of the regency of Philippe of Orléans, allows us to follow the growth of the absolute rule of Louis XIV via the concrete example of parliamentary life. Was parliament a victim of the king’s political ambitions or was the interaction between the kingdom and province of a more subtle nature? In the article we shall present the highlights of our research: chronology, methodology, issues, sources, approaches

Duguay-Trouin, armateur malouin, corsaire brestois

Alors même que paraissent le Dictionnaire des corsaires et pirates, dirigé par Gilbert Buti et Philippe Hrodej, et le Jean Bart de Patrick Villiers, Jean-Yves Nerzic s’attache à la personnalité de Duguay-Trouin, armateur malouin et corsaire brestois, ainsi que se plaît à le rappeler la seconde partie du titre de son livre. Né à Saint-Malo en 1673, René Trouin fait carrière sur mer à la faveur des guerres du règne de Louis XIV, tout particulièrement la guerre de la ligue d’Augsbourg et celle d..

Philippe Haudrère, Les Français dans l’océan Indien, XVIIe-XIXe siècle

Est-il besoin de présenter ici l’auteur du présent ouvrage, Philippe Haudrère, professeur émérite à l’université d’Angers et éminent spécialiste des compagnies des Indes depuis la soutenance puis la publication de sa thèse d’état sur La compagnie française des Indes au xviiie siècle (1719-1795), en 1989 ? Depuis, Philippe Haudrère n’a cessé de produire des articles et ouvrages sur des sujets connexes, et l’on citera plus particulièrement sa synthèse s..

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All of the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11 (DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12) adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previous data releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 deg2 of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocity measurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include the measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 5200 deg2 of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2) survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 deg2; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and 197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained over five million astronomical spectra. \ua9 2015. The American Astronomical Society

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio