This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue wi...

The remarkable short stories presented in this book subtly sketch some of the surprising events that punctuated the author's long life. Macho Manuel is obsessed with unfulfilled desires. His wife reacts in an unorthodox way. Daniel Covillon, a professional gambler, steals from underground miners, but... Love saves him. Shy Pierre suffers martyrdom because, at 43, he's still a prisoner of involuntary chastity. He decides to take the bull by the horns... Life is a dramatic comedy in which hu...

This book is a critical edition of the French, English, and American's motivations during the American Revolution, because ''where there id no freedom of blaming,there can be no genuine praise'' (Beaumarchais). The American Revolution is in full swing. Deep in their hearts, the Canadians of the defunct New France will take advantage of the opportunity to free themselves from the English occupiers. But does France care about recovering this immense territory? For the first time without alli...

This book brings to life 14 Canadian women, victims of the gallows. They have the unique chance to proclaim their innocence beyond the tombstone, after centuries of silence. Some of them are entitled to convince us that they were victims of judicial errors. Their lives were unduly confiscated for the simple satisfaction of a vain Prosecutor who wished to build a prestigious career without the slightest failure. Others owe their execution to the carelessness of an inexperienced or inept law...

This Ebook brings to life 7 women with their strengths and weaknesses, their inexpiable crimes and their inhuman punishments, their guilt or their innocence. They are the only Canadian females who died by Court Order in what is now our great country. The motives for these crimes are particularly noteworthy compared to those of the 699 men who were sentenced to death: extramarital love was the main motives, theft and religious discrimination in two, and revenge in one. Among the men, the or...