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She has translated a number of French philosophy and literature works, most notably Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
BBC: Man Booker International prize goes to Lydia Davis
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Much of this season's crop has the regulation French mix of philosophy and bleak chic.
ECONOMIST: The great French novel has all but vanished
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Albert Camus was an Algerian French writer linked with a philosophy known as absurdism.
FORBES: Goldman Sachs, Washington, and the Theater of the Absurd
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Under a bill now going through parliament, the government plans a break with the philosophy that has dominated French farming for 40 years.
ECONOMIST: Many French farmers still struggle to survive
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And apparently luxury shoppers are following this philosophy, as the French luxury conglomerate, LVMH (who own the likes of such brands as Louis Vuitton, Dom Perignon, and Christian Dior), reported a 15% gain in 3Q sales.
FORBES: It's Necessities I Can Do Without
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Camus was a first-rate philosophy student, and the French meritocratic system had purchase even in the distant province.
NEWYORKER: Facing History
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When embarking on the original, Knopf, thinking the book was about sexual reproduction, assigned the translation to a retired professor of Zoology, Howard Madison Parshley, who possessed no more than college-level French and much less in the way of philosophy.
FORBES: Satmars, Simone de Beauvoir And semicolons
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Even when the French revolution finally came, its self-appointed guardians had no place for the philosophy of the true radicals.
ECONOMIST: Atheism and the Enlightenment
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Pansieri, a fluent speaker of English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese, in addition to her native Italian, holds doctorate degrees in philosophy from Milan University and in Chinese language and literature from Venice University.
UN: Secretary-General
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He made it as fashionable as philosophy and poetry, both of which he wove through his ethnographical studies as perhaps only French intellectuals can.
ECONOMIST: Claude L��vi-Strauss
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He also wrote extensively about almost everything else: history, diplomacy, French literature, German literature (in this case, on the lack of it), religion, philosophy and the practical arts of government (in which he himself excelled).
ECONOMIST: Historical biography