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Studio d'Essai

In 1942 the French composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer, began his exploration of radiophony when he joined Jacques Copeau and his pupils in the foundation of the Studio d'Essai de la Radiodiffusion Nationale.

...à la Fumée

Both compositions form the title From Glass Into Smoke, inspired by Henri Atlan's 1979 essay Entre le cristal et la fumée: Essai sur l'organisation de vivant.

Anthropology of development

Olivier de Sardan J.-P. 1995, Anthropologie et développement : essai en socio-anthropologie du changement social.

Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe

He published two books on English history: Essai sur les causes qui, en 1649, amenérent en Angleterre l'établissement de la république (Paris, 1799), and Tableau politique des règnes de Charles II et Jacques II, derniers rois de la maison de Stuart (The Hague, 1818) which contained much indirect criticism of the Directory and the Restoration governments.

Joseph Séguy

A royal preacher, he wrote Panégyriques de saints, Sermons pour les principaux jours du carême, and a Nouvel essai de poésies sacrées, in which he made a French verse translation of Psalms and the songs of the Bible.

Mande languages

In 1901 Maurice Delafosse made a distinction of two groups in his Essai de manuel pratique de la langue mandé ou mandingue.

Marcel Mauss

While Mauss is known for several of his own works - most notably his masterpiece Essai sur le Don ('The Gift') - much of his best work was done in collaboration with members of the Année Sociologique, including Durkheim (Primitive Classification), Henri Hubert (Outline of a General Theory of Magic and Essay on the Nature and Function of Sacrifice), Paul Fauconnet (Sociology) and others.

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