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The Contrat Premi re Embauche, or CPE, was designed to make it easier for employers to hire and fire young workers.
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Champlain, “Contrat de Donation Mutuelle entre Champlain et Hélène Boullé,” Feb. 13, 1632.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Champlain, “Contrat de Donation Mutuelle entre Champlain et Hélène Boullé,” Feb. 13, 1632.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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By now, the whole world is familiar with France's controversial Premièr Contrat d'Embauche, or first-job contract, which allows employers to dismiss new hires under the age of 26 without notice or even explanation.
Seen on the Streets 2007
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“Contrat Social,” or “unsocial,” of the very unsociable Jean Jacques Rousseau.
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(States-General) — evoked in him a whole series of ideas he had long laid aside but which were deeply graven in his soul: thoughts of the Contrat social and the French Revolution.
War and Peace 2003
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It is possible to understand that Napoleon had power and so events occurred; with some effort one may even conceive that Napoleon together with other influences was the cause of an event; but how a book, Le Contrat social, had the effect of making Frenchmen begin to drown one another cannot be understood without an explanation of the causal nexus of this new force with the event.
War and Peace 2003
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The secondary material includes: F. Atger, Essai sur l'histoire des doctrines du Contrat Social (Nêmes, 1906);
SOCIAL CONTRACT MICHAEL LEVIN 1968
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Of these, perhaps the most attentive to these two authors and critical of them was Rousseau, whose Contrat social may be
DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968
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In the Contrat social, Rousseau resorts to his distinc - tion in the chapter called, “The Abuse of Government and its Tendency to Degenerate” (III, x):
DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968
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