Jean-François Jaussaud, Louise Bourgeois, femme maison

Louise Bourgeois (1563-1636): royal midwife of France.

Louise Bourgeois was the first practicing midwife to write of her experience of childbirth and of women's problems. She did much to enhance the respect in which her craft was held. For 26 years she was midwife to the royal court.

M. Jean-François DELMAS directeur de thèse

In this thesis, we study continuum tree-valued processes. First, we define anabstract framework for these processes, by constructing a metric on the space of locally com-pact, complete R-trees, endowed with a locally finite Borel measure. This topology, calledGromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov topology, allows for the definition of tree-valued Markov pro-cesses. We then give a new const...

Midwifery and medicine in early modern France: Louise Bourgeois

Flanders and served that most Catholic of rulers, Charles V, is not mentioned, although Colombo is given counter-reformation Catholic beliefs because he served the Pope, and Fabricius' religious views are deduced from his friendship with Sarpi and his membership of the Venetian intellectual elite. To his credit, Cunningham is honest in his admission of the theory's weaknesses. He allows that Co...

[Jean François Marie Aicardi (1926-2015)].

Jean - François Laslier and M . Remzi

As the readers of this journal may not ignore, Approval Voting (AV) is a voting system where voters can “approve” as many candidates as they want and the winner is the candidate approved by the largest number of voters. Since the publication of the seminal book written by Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn in 1983, a very large number of studies have been devoted to various aspects of this voting ...