• highly polluted gasworks site in Lancashire; Jutta Ditfurth; Hans-Georg Peine of BASF AG, and the Sandoz chemical spill in November 1986 in Switzerland;...
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    called romans durs (hard novels). Among his literary admirers were Max Jacob, François Mauriac and André Gide. Gide wrote, “I consider Simenon a great...
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    Pauvre, car il était à peine moins pourvu que son frère Antoine." For the street number, see Hautecœur 1950, p. 161 The kitchen garden was north of the...
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    Nicolas (26 May 2021). "« Mort aux affameurs ! » La loi Farge de 1946 ou la peine capitale contre le marché noir" ["Death to the starvers!" The 1946 Farge...
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    maison ; Mais las ! sur quoi fonder la vanité mondaine ! L'ouvrage finissait à peine, Quand un sort barbare et cruel, Appelle le prélat au sein de l'Éternel ;...
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  • "Sud-Kivu : Le militaire auteur des tueries de 14 civils à Sange condamné à la peine de mort" [South Kivu: Military officer responsible for killing 14 civilians...
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    manner in 1701. Those who refused to plead in court were sentenced to suffer peine forte et dure- being crushed under heavy stones and starved to death. This...
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    working class poverty in ways not previously seen at the cinema, known as kitchen sink realism; Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole, a 1930s book also set...
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