Bures

Long before the Civil War, the Pinckneys lived at a house called Bures in Legare Street.

The Ghost Girl 1907

In the June issue of Harper's Magazine, Frank Bures tells of his travels to Africa in search of the penis thieves.

Boing Boing 2008

His coronation took place in the next year at "Burna" (probably Bures St. Mary, Suffolk), which then functioned as the royal capital.

Archive 2007-05-13 2007

Maurice Bures, Le type saintongeais 1908, Paris, 1991, especially chapters 3 and 4, “La Saintonge dans le passé,” and “Le type social,” pp.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

One of the great classics of French sociology is a study by Maurice Bures called Le type saintongeois, first published in 1908 and still in print a century later.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Maurice Bures, Le type saintongeais 1908, Paris, 1991, especially chapters 3 and 4, “La Saintonge dans le passé,” and “Le type social,” pp.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Bures observed that a typical writer of the region tended to be an easygoing storyteller who “does not invent but recounts.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Bures observed that a typical writer of the region tended to be an easygoing storyteller who “does not invent but recounts.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Bures also found something else in the culture of Saintonge—an outlook essentially “positif,” by which he meant a way of thinking that was both positive in its English meaning and also practical.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Bures found among the inland people the same sunny temperament that he observed throughout the region.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008