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Seasonal nature tables are an invaluable way of making young children aware of the changing cycle of the year.

With simple materials and basic knitting and crocheting skills, a series of colorful and effective tableaux can be made at home or in school for depicting the seasons and major festivals.

Illustrated, with many in full color..
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This work offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sebastien Mercier's 12-volume "Le Tableau de Paris" (published from 1781 to 1788), an important and original work that helped shape many kinds of French writing. The text provides a portrait of everyday life in Paris on the eve of the French revolution, describing the interactions of workers, street peddlers, prostitutes, police spies, actresses, noblemen, parish priests, servants, and criminals. Based on Helen Simpson's 1933 abridged translation, this edition includes seven newly translated chapters and an introduction by Jeremy D. Popkin. Earlier authors had described Paris's monuments and the lives of its wealthy elites, but Mercier was the first to try to capture in words the texture of its everyday life. His text, contemporary with Rousseau's "Confessions", is the first attempt to write the autobiography of a unique urban community. His writing deeply influenced Balzac and other 19th century French novelists and continues to serve as a major source of social and cultural history for French historians. "Panorama of Paris" should be of interest to students of French literature and history, and to anyone interested in the origins of modern attitudes toward city life..
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The demonology Tableau de linconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612) is an important text in the history of the early modern European witch persecutions (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). It is a report of the authors four-month stay in the Labourd (Basque) region of France, which is situated in the extreme southwest corner bordering Spain and Navarre. De Lancre was there as a member of a royal commission empowered to cleanse the region of witches. This narrative is based on his own experiences and trial records now lost. This text contains one of the most detailed accounts of the witches Sabbath that survives. An ethnologist before his time, de Lancre gives an expert and meticulous account of the Basque people, their lives, their culture, and their alleged easy commerce with Satan and bad angels. The text was translated into German in a truncated version in 1630, but has never until now been rendered into English..
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