Acknowledgements
This volume contains the expanded proceedings of a conference entitled Histoires de la Terre which took place at the University of Sheffield, 30 March to 1 April 2007. The editors would like to express
their sincere thanks to all who offered their support and assistance to
the venture. The conference was generously supported by the Society
for French Studies and the French Embassy in the United Kingdom, as
well as by various bodies within the University of Sheffield, notably
the Department of French, the Humanities Division and the Centre for
Nineteenth-Century Studies. We are also indebted to Dr Michael
Meredith of the University’s Humanities Research Institute for his invaluable help in preparing the manuscript for publication.
This volume contains the expanded proceedings of a conference entitled Histoires de la Terre which took place at the University of Sheffield, 30 March to 1 April 2007. The editors would like to express
their sincere thanks to all who offered their support and assistance to
the venture. The conference was generously supported by the Society
for French Studies and the French Embassy in the United Kingdom, as
well as by various bodies within the University of Sheffield, notably
the Department of French, the Humanities Division and the Centre for
Nineteenth-Century Studies. We are also indebted to Dr Michael
Meredith of the University’s Humanities Research Institute for his invaluable help in preparing the manuscript for publication.