My links page

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We can know a subject our selves, or we know where we can find information on it."
Samuel Johnson

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Ukraine

UA Responders

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Work-related

• UMR 7023, to which I belong
• UFR Sciences du Langage (the linguistics department of Université Paris 8)
• CNRS
• Université Paris 8

Cesare Borgia

• Short biography
• Luis A. Alcalde's Borgia page (in Spanish)
• Henk ten Napel's Borgia page (full bibliography)
• Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's site (in Italian)
• Descendants of Pope Alexander VI
• The Crime Library on the Borgia family
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt (and The Labyrinth - resources for Medieval studies)

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Richelieu

• Historical documents and Richelieu's letters from the University of Leicester
• A biography of Cardinal de Richelieu (in German)
• The town of Richelieu in Poitou
• Richelieu's niece
• The "Three Musketeers" - in English and in French
  The history of the "Three Musketeers"
  Look for Dumas' books (and many others) on the Project Gutenberg home site
  Visit Alexandre Dumas' homesite
  More on the real d'Artagnan
• Was the grille method of cryptography created by Cardinal de Richelieu (I doubt this)?
• Memoirs dealing with the period (of Cardinal de Retz and of Mademoiselle de Montpensier (la Grande Mademoiselle))
• The calendar of performances in France in the 17th century
• Neoclassical Nirvana (17th century France) and Le Poulet Gauche (16th century France, a SCA site)

Richelieu's memoirs (in French, in the PDF format) can be consulted at Gallica (online site of the BNF):
Mémoires du cardinal de Richelieu : sur le règne de Louis XIII, depuis 1610 jusqu’à 1638 / [publ.] par MM. Michaud et Poujoulat, Paris : Ed. du commentaire analytique du Code civil, 1838

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Art

Franciabigio

• Indirect references from Vasari
• Short biography from Euroweb

Edward Gorey

• Biography
• Gushlycrumb Tinies
• The Raging Tide

Photography

• Leni Riefenstahl - just died, use this link for the English version of the site
• Herb Ritts
• Helmut Newton: at OCAIW, Sumo and Autoerotic (in German)
• Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley

Other artists I like

• Elizabeth Vigée Lebrun
• J. M. W. Turner
• Georgia O'Keefe - the museum
• Frida Kahlo (from Artcypedia) - the museum

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