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  • Marion Bataille is a Parisian graphic and book designer who has never before been published in this country. via

    Archive 2008-05-01 The Nag 2008

  • The sublime would desire, as in Bataille's economy, what it renounced and secreted, the object of its iconoclastic scorn and pain.

    The Sorrows of Young Wieboldt 1997

  • The sublime would desire, as in Bataille's economy, what it renounced and secreted, the object of its iconoclastic scorn and pain.

    The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997

  • There was only one man in the district who made a specialty of heraldic designs, a painter of Bolbec, called Bataille, who was in demand at all the Norman castles in turn to make these precious designs on the doors of carriages.

    Une Vie 2003

  • There was only one man in the district who made a specialty of heraldic designs, a painter of Bolbec, called Bataille, who was in demand at all the Norman castles in turn to make these precious designs on the doors of carriages.

    Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • Like many in his own party Mr. Bataille is struggling with a new reality in France: the end of a 40-year political consensus on the merits of nuclear power.

    French Primary Reflects Shift on Nuclear Power Max Colchester 2011

  • "It's a bit contradictory," said Mr. Bataille, who has headed a French parliamentary commission on nuclear energy.

    French Primary Reflects Shift on Nuclear Power Max Colchester 2011

  • I was also inspired in this chapter by Rodrigo Betancourt and conversations with Mariana Botey, whose knowledge of, first, the cultures of violence in Mesoamerica and, second, Georges Bataille, gave me unmatched insights into intersections over distant philosophies.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • PARIS—When he goes to vote in Sunday's Socialist Party primaries, Christian Bataille will vote against one of his principles: the pro-nuclear Socialist lawmaker will support a French presidential hopeful who has vowed to phase out atomic power.

    French Primary Reflects Shift on Nuclear Power Max Colchester 2011

  • Mr. Bataille, the Socialist lawmaker who supports Ms. Aubry, said he hopes such political bargaining won't have negative consequences on France's nuclear program.

    French Primary Reflects Shift on Nuclear Power Max Colchester 2011

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