International audience; The Forbin family is one of the most prestigious family of Provence during the 17th and 18th centuries. Their castles, private mansions and other properties are remarkable and were imbued by their historical and social importance in France. Organ...

The period of the Wars of Religion has been widely used in cinema since 1897, with L’Assassinat du duc de Guise by Georges Hatot. In total, more than forty films were produced, between 1897 and 2014, representing a period of religious and political troubles in France an...

Abstract The Shahi ʿIdgah at Rapri (Uttar Pradesh), which dates to 1312, was built by Malik Kafur, the general of the Delhi sultan ʿAla⁠ʾuddin Khalji (1296–1316). The village of Rapri was part of Malik Kafur’s fief and an important station for the army, as it commanded ...

Abstract The Begumpuri or Jamiʿ (Friday) Masjid of Jahanpanah (Delhi) is an impressive monument built during the Tughluq period, circa 1343. Although often credited to Firuz Shah (1351–88), the mosque was probably ordered by Muhammad Shah Tughluq (1325–51), since it was...

Nous vivons au temps de tout et de son contraire. Un temps fait de rapidite et de lenteur, d’archaisme et de science-fiction, d’artisanat et de grandes series, d’Occident et d’Orient, de purete et de violence […]. Des objets d’usage quotidien s’entremelent aux objets th...