Esprit Futur : Le Corbusier and José Oubrerie at Saint-Pierre De Firminy, Firminy-Vert, France, 1968–2006

What is the secret mesmerism that death possesses and under the operation of which a modern architect – strident, confident, resolute – becomes rueful, pessimistic, or melancholic?1 Five years before Le Corbusier’s death at sea in 1965, the architect reluctantly agreed to adopt the project for L’Église Saint-Pierre de Firminy in Firminy-Vert (1960–2006), following the death of its original architect, André Sive, from leukemia in 1958.2 Le Corbusier had already developed, in 1956, the plan for an enclave in the new “green” Firminy town, which included his youth and culture center and a stadium and swimming pool; the church and a “boîte à miracles” near the youth center were inserted into the plan in the ’60s. (Le Corbusier was also invited, in 1962, to produce another plan for three Unités d’Habitation outside Firminy-Vert.) The Saint-Pierre church should have been the zenith of the quartet (the largest urban concentration of works by Le Corbusier in Europe, and what the architect Henri Ciriani termed Le Corbusier’s “acropolis”3) but in the early course of the project, Le Corbusier would suffer the diocese’s serial objections to his vision for the church – not unlike the difficulties he experienced with Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (1950–1954) and the resistance to his proposed monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette (1957–1960). In 1964, the bishop of Saint-Étienne requested that Le Corbusier relocate the church to a new site, but Le Corbusier refused and the diocese subsequently withdrew from the project. (With neither the approval, funds, nor the participation of the bishop, by then the cardinal archbishop of Lyon, the first stone of the church was finally laid on the site in 1970.) Le Corbusier’s ambivalence toward the project, even prior to his quarrels with the bishop, reveals...

L'Ane promeneur, ou Critès promené par son ane : Chef-d'oeuvre pour servir d'Apologie au Goût, aux Moeurs, à l'Esprit, et aux Découvertes du siècle

Première edition revue, corrigée, et précédée d'une Préface à la Mosaïque, dans le plus nouveau goût.

An ESPRIT-SAA-Based Detection Method for Broken Rotor Bar Fault in Induction Motors

This paper presents a novel detection method for broken rotor bar fault (BRB) in induction motors based on Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Technique (ESPRIT) and Simulated Annealing Algorithm (SAA). The performance of ESPRIT is tested with simulated stator current signal of an induction motor with BRB. It shows that even with a short-time measurement data, the technique is capable of correctly identifying the frequencies of the BRB characteristic components but with a low accuracy on the amplitudes and initial phases of those components. SAA is then used to determine their amplitudes and initial phases and shows satisfactory results. Finally, experiments on a 3kW, 380V, 50Hz induction motor are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ESPRIT-SAA-based method in detecting BRB with short-time measurement data. It proves that the proposed method is a promising choice for BRB detection in induction motors operating with small slip and fluctuant load.

L'Esprit français : hebdomadaire littéraire et artistique

1931/01/10 (A3,N55)-1931/06.

L'Esprit français : hebdomadaire littéraire et artistique

1933/01/10 (A5,T8,N78).

L'Esprit français : hebdomadaire littéraire et artistique

1933/10/10 (A5,T10,N85).

L'Esprit français (Paris. 1929)

Variante(s) de titre : L'Esprit français : encyclopédie mensuelle vivante ouverte et libre

L'Esprit français : hebdomadaire littéraire et artistique

1930/12/10 (A2,N54)-1931/06.

L'Esprit français : hebdomadaire littéraire et artistique

1931/07/10 (A3,T3,N61).

L'Esprit français : hebdomadaire littéraire et artistique

1932/01 (A4)-1932/06.

L'Esprit français : hebdomadaire littéraire et artistique

1930/11/10 (A2,N53)-1931/06.

Recueil de blasons coloriés des chevaliers de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit (1579-1581), par J. Bette, sieur d'Angreau.

Dédié au prince Charles, duc de Croy et d'Arschot, qui l'échangea « avecq le sieur de Brunsvic, le 14e en mars 1617. »