Erreur sur la personne? Considérations liminaires pour une étude des écrits personnels en Suisse romande au XVIIIe siècle

The current tendency tu study personal testimonials of all kinds is useful when doing research into the period of Enlightenment in Europe. The prolific production of such documents in 18th-century Switzerland offers the opportunity to ask whether there was a specifically Swiss form of Enlightenment. The answer in undoubtedly complex. One must first look into received ideas that would permit establishing a coherent link between the prevailing intellectual atmospere in Switzerland and personal writings. Secondly, the originality of these abundant writings is not the primary concern. It is more important to try to understand the relationship between the historical implications of these writings and the conception of the human person that is conveyed therein. In studying the testimonials, the challenge lies in determining the contextual situation of the first person narrator - a rhetorical device that typifies the genre.

Registre des religieuses reçues à l'abbaye de Notre-Dame-de-Longchamp, depuis sa fondation, en 1260, par Isabelle de France, soeur de S. Louis, jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle.

Il est précédé d'un calendrier (fol. 1-13), de la traduction d'une bulle de Léon X, etc. (fol. 15-20), de la liste des « anniversaires » (fol. 22-30), d'un ordinaire (fol. 30-37), de la copie de la charte de fondation et de divers privilèges (fol. 37-43). On y trouve, en outre, des procès-verbaux d'assemblées capitulaires (fol. 75) pour les élections d'abbesses (1646-1703).

Modification de la composition des cigarettes durant te XXe siècle: rôle de l'industrie du tabac et effet sur la dépendance tabagique [Chemicals added to cigarettes and their effects on tobacco dependence]

This paper summarizes data on the factors involved in addiction and dependence to cigarettes. Nicotine has been intensively studied by the tobacco industry, for instance for its addictive effect at the lowest possible rates. The addition of diammonium phosphate and urea produces an alcalinization of the pH of cigarette smoke, and promotes the absorption and the trans-membrane passage of nicotine. The taste, the smell of smoke, and the visual aspect of the pack of cigarettes are also sensory components that promote addiction. Finally, menthol, sugar, cocoa and liquorice added to cigarettes also play a role in dependence and addiction to cigarettes by, for instance, making an anesthetic effect on the airways.

Campagne des Français, depuis le 8 septembre 1793, répondant au 22 fructidor de l'an 1er de la République française, jusqu'au 15 pluviôse an III

[Acte. 1795-02-03]