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La pérégrination vers l'Occident : de Pékin à Paris, le voyage de deux moines nestoriens au temps de Marco Polo : roman historique
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ISBN: 9782880864927 2880864925 Year: 2020 Publisher: Genève: Olizane,

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En 1275, alors que l’Empire mongol domine l’Asie, de la Chine à l’Euphrate, deux moines ouïghours chrétiens nestoriens vivant à Pékin, Çauma et son disciple Marcos, décident de se rendre en pèlerinage à Jérusalem, à l’époque même où Marco Polo effectue ce trajet en sens inverse.Parvenus en Mésopotamie, le catholicos nestorien – le pape de l’Eglise d’Orient – et l’empereur mongol de Perse leur font bon accueil. Cependant, il ne peuvent poursuivre leur périple à cause de la guerre entre les Mongols et les Mamelouks.Ils séjournent dans cette région depuis quatre ans quand le catholicos vient à mourir. Les évêques, qui doivent élire leur nouveau patriarche, sont désemparés face aux mœurs, aux coutumes et à la langue des maîtres du nouvel Empire mongol. Ils ont alors l’idée lumineuse de choisir Marcos, puisque les Ouïghours et les Mongols sont deux peuples très proches sortis des steppes d’Asie centrale.Bien que Marcos proteste, se sentant incapable de remplir cette tâche, il sera catholicos durant près de quarante ans, sous le nom de Jabalaha III. Çauma, grâce à sa maîtrise des langues, sera l’ambassadeur du khan auprès des puissances européennes pour tenter de sceller contre les Mamelouks une alliance qui aurait pu changer la face du monde. Çauma devient ainsi le premier homme connu à avoir parcouru l’Asie et l’Europe, du Pacifique à l’Atlantique.Jabalaha est le catholicos d’un véritable âge d’or de l’Eglise d’Orient, la plus vaste de l’époque. Cependant, à la fin de sa vie, il sera le témoin impuissant de son naufrage, victime de l’islamisation intolérante des Mongols.La biographie des deux moines fut écrite en syriaque au début du XIVe siècle, peu de temps après la mort de Jabalaha, par l’un de ses proches, et fut retrouvée en 1887 au Kurdistan.A travers ses voyages aussi bien réels que littéraires, Pierre Klein est tombé très jeune sous le charme de l’Asie. Cette passion l’a amené à la découverte de la chronique relatant le voyage des deux moines, qu’il présente de manière attrayante dans son ouvrage.

Diplomate : une sociologie des ambassadeurs
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ISBN: 2738471196 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan

L'invenzione della diplomazia nella Grecia antica
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ISBN: 9788882651978 8882651975 Year: 2002 Volume: 1 Publisher: Roma L'Erma di Bretschneider


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When the White House calls : from immigrant entrepreneur to U.S. ambassador
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ISBN: 1607813955 9781607813958 9781607811435 160781143X Year: 2011 Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : The University of Utah Press,


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The diplomat-scholar : a biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero
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ISBN: 9789814762434 9814762431 9789814762229 9814762229 Year: 2017 Publisher: Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute,

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Leon Ma. Guerrero (1915-82), a top-notch writer and diplomat, served six Philippine presidents, beginning with President Manuel L. Quezon and ending with President Ferdinand E. Marcos. In this first full-length biography, Guerrero's varied career as writer and diplomat is highlighted from an amateur student editor and associate editor of a prestigious magazine to ambassador to different countries that reflected then the exciting directions of Philippine foreign policy. But did you know that he served as public prosecutor in the notorious Nalundasan murder case, involving the future Philippine president? Did you also know that during his stint as ambassador to the Court of Saint James he wrote his prize-winning biography of Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal? Learn more about him in this fully documented biography recounting with much detail from his correspondence the genesis and evolution of his thinking about the First Filipino, which is the apposite title of his magnum opus.

Rolf Lahr : Zeuge von Fall und Aufstieg : private Briefe 1934-1974
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ISBN: 3813518310 Year: 1981 Publisher: Hamburg Knaus

Das kaiserliche Gesandtschaftswesen im Jahrhundert nach dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648 - 1740).
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ISBN: 3792803879 Year: 1976 Publisher: Bonn Röhrscheid

The ambassadors and America's Soviet policy
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ISBN: 1280525568 0195361792 1429410914 9780195361797 9781280525568 9786610525560 6610525560 0195068025 9780195068023 9781429410915 0197732755 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Mayers analyses the entire history of American foreign relations with Russia and then the Soviet Union, using the drama of the lives of the men and women who worked at the American embassy in Moscow to tell his story. Particular attention is paid to the critical events of the twentieth century.


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Georges and Pauline Vanier
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ISBN: 1283531550 9786613844002 0773585796 9780773585799 9780773538832 0773538836 0773586334 Year: 2011 Publisher: Montreal Ithaca [N.Y.] McGill-Queen's University Press

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The dramatic personal and professional story of Canada's most influential married couple.


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The fundamental things apply : a memoir
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ISBN: 1283529408 9786613841858 077358577X 9780773585775 9781283529402 9780773538436 0773538437 6613841854 077358644X Year: 2011 Publisher: Montréal [Qué.] : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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During the parliamentary years, from his first election in 1979 to his appointment to London in 1996, MacLaren draws on his diary to offer impressions - at times devastating, at others sympathetic - of those he encountered in his several ministerial capacities and global travels. Earlier, life in Saigon and Hanoi following the French Indo-China war, the oppressions of the Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia, the erection of the Berlin Wall, multilateral diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva and New York during the Cold War are recounted with both insight and humility. Of his business career, MacLaren offers, for example, an insider's perspective on the collapse of Massey-Ferguson and the successes of his business magazine company. A political memoir set in an autobiography, The Fundamental Things Apply ranges widely over Canadian economic and international affairs, including NAFTA and deficit elimination, during the latter decades of the twentieth century, offering a timely and personal account of how the public policies - both domestic and international - pursued then were formative in creating the country we live in today.

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