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The languages of peace during the French religious wars
The desirability of peace was a common topos in sixteenth-century political rhetoric, and the duty of the king to uphold the peace for the benefit of his subjects was also a long-established tradition. However, the peculiar circumstances of the French religious wars, and the preferred royal policy of pacification, galvanized impassioned debate among both those who supported and those who opposed confessional coexistence. This article looks at the diverse ways in which peace was viewed during the religious wars through an exploration of language and context. It draws not only on the pronouncements of the crown and its officials, and of poets and jurists, but also on those of local communities and confessional groups. Opinion was not just divided along religious lines; political imperatives, philosophical positions and local conditions all came into play in the arguments deployed. The variegated languages of peace provide a social and cultural dimension for the contested nature of sixteenth-century French politics. However, they could not restore harmony to a war-torn and divided kingdom
Transferts de chaleur dans la zone non saturée
On propose une méthode d'élaboration de modèles
mathématiques permettant d'aborder les applications liées
à l'exploitation thermique du sous-sol. Cette méthode, basée
sur la thermodynamique des processus irréversibles, est
illustrée dans le cas du stockage de chaleur dans les sols non
saturés. On présente les résultats expérimentaux d'une aire
d'essai de stockage de chaleur ; ces résultats sont utilisés
pour : 1) Analyser les modifications provoquées par le stockage
dans la couche de sol non saturée. 2) Valider le modèle mathématique et proposer un modèle simplifié du site de stockage
Prediction of molecular crystal structures using a genetic algorithm: Validation by GenMol (TM) on energetic compounds
International audienceThis work deals with the problem of finding for a given industrial target the molecule conformation leading to the most efficient crystal polymorph and/or designing unknown crystal packing of new molecules. The originality of the method relies first on constraining the domain of the most probable crystals, before converging towards the predicted packing by a double genetic-refining optimization algorithm. Validation of this approach is discussed on the case study of 46 energetic crystal compounds, using the semi Ab Initio and Molecular Mechanics code GenMol™. This validation shows that all observed structures are retrieved in any circumstances with a relatively high number of good rankings
Coupling Computational Chemistry with Nano-Mechanics. Impact on Modelling a Clay Mineral.
Prediction of molecular crystal structures using genetic algorithm. Validation by *GenMol*TM on energitic compounds
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