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...Avenel began his career as secretary of the Departmental and Communal Administration in the Ministry of the Interior, but soon left public life to devote his attention to research work in economics. He is well known as the historian of the "Economic Life and Material Civilization of France from 1200 to the Present Day," in which he made elaborate tables showing the cost price of everything in the period treated. Some of these tables have been published in four large volumes by the French Ministry of Public Instruction, and have been twice awarded the Prix Rossi by the Academie...
...Avenel began his career as secretary of the Departmental and Communal Administration in the Ministry of the Interior, but he soon left public life to devote his attention to research work in economics. He is well known as the historian of the economics life and material civilization of France from 1200 to the present day, in which he made elaborate tables showing the cost price of everything in the period treated. Some of these tables have been published in four large volumes by the French Ministry of Public Instruction and have been twice awarded the Prix Rossi by the Academie...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Some Communal Ballads in the Making." Dr. P. A. Hutchison, Assembly Room, Harvard Union...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Some Communal Ballads in the Making." Dr. P. A. Hutchison, Assembly Room, Harvard Union...
...book is essentially one for reference, rather than for casual reading. In style it is broken and too full of extracts to be easily or pleasantly followed, a fault which is made worse by the scientific manner of treatment that pervades most of the chapters. The remarks on communal forms of poetry are, however, of considerable interest to the general public and should be of value to every student of verse in its primitive forms...