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Communism and syndicalism: On the trade-union question
Title
Communism and syndicalism: On the trade-union question.
Creator
Trotsky, Leon, Communist league of America (opposition), Shachtman, Max
Date Issued
1931
Identifier
363419, CFDT363419, ucf:5314
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363419
VISIONING THE NATION: CLASSICAL IMAGES AS ALLEGORY DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Title
VISIONING THE NATION: CLASSICAL IMAGES AS ALLEGORY DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Creator
Reed, Kristopher, Lyons, Amelia, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
In the latter half of the Eighteenth Century, France experienced a seismic shift in the nature of political culture. The king gave way to the nation at the center of political life as the location of sovereignty transferred to the people. While the French Revolution changed the structure of France's government, it also changed the allegorical representations of the nation. At the Revolution's onset, the monarchy embodied both the state and nation as equated ideas. During the...
Show moreIn the latter half of the Eighteenth Century, France experienced a seismic shift in the nature of political culture. The king gave way to the nation at the center of political life as the location of sovereignty transferred to the people. While the French Revolution changed the structure of France's government, it also changed the allegorical representations of the nation. At the Revolution's onset, the monarchy embodied both the state and nation as equated ideas. During the Revolutionary Decade and through the reign of Napoleon different governments experienced the need to reorient these symbols away from the person of the king to the national community. Following the king's execution, the Committee government invented connections to the ancient past in order to build legitimacy for their rule in addition to extricating the monarchy's symbols from political life. During the rule of Napoleon, he used classical symbols to associate himself with Roman Emperors to embody the nation in his person. Through an examination of the different types of classical symbols that each government illustrates the different ways that attempted to symbolically document this important shift in the location of sovereignty away from the body of the king to the nation.
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Date Issued
2007
Identifier
CFE0001901, ucf:47496
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001901
Stopping a war: The fight of the French workers against the Moroccan campaign of 1925
Title
Stopping a war: The fight of the French workers against the Moroccan campaign of 1925.
Creator
Nearing, Scott
Date Issued
1926
Identifier
370368, CFDT370368, ucf:5481
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370368
DISPLAYS OF MEDICI WEALTH AND AUTHORITY: THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES AND VALOIS FETES TAPESTRY CYCLES
Title
DISPLAYS OF MEDICI WEALTH AND AUTHORITY: THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES AND VALOIS FETES TAPESTRY CYCLES.
Creator
Clyburn, Madison L, Zaho, Margaret Ann, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The objective of my research is to explore Medici extravagance, power, and wealth through the multifaceted artistic form of tapestries vis-a-vis two particular tapestry cycles; the Acts of the Apostles and the Valois Fetes. The cycles were commissioned by Pope Leo X (1475-1521), the first Medici pope, and Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589), queen, queen regent, and queen mother of France. The motivation for such a project lies in analyzing what is traditionally considered as two independent...
Show moreThe objective of my research is to explore Medici extravagance, power, and wealth through the multifaceted artistic form of tapestries vis-a-vis two particular tapestry cycles; the Acts of the Apostles and the Valois Fetes. The cycles were commissioned by Pope Leo X (1475-1521), the first Medici pope, and Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589), queen, queen regent, and queen mother of France. The motivation for such a project lies in analyzing what is traditionally considered as two independent tapestry cycles by revealing their social, religious, political, and artistic significance through the powerful dynastic influence of the Medici. As Leo and Catherine were both aware of the contemporary social environment, their commission of the Acts of the Apostles and the Valois Fetes exemplify the Medici streak for ambition, familial dependence, and triumphalism. As Leo X (r. 1513-1521) governed from Rome, Catherine de' Medici (r. 1547-1559) presided over the French throne for nearly fifty years in some capacity. Both Medici enjoyed access to the wealth associated with the Papal Curia and Valois royal household accounts, respectively, investing an enormous sum on the tapestry cycles, only one of the numerous artistic commissions procured during the sixteenth century. Heedless of their iconography and embellishment, the Acts of the Apostles and Valois F�testestify to the wealth and power wielded through their patron's accessibility and resourcefulness to procure an estimable and luxurious commission.
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Date Issued
2019
Identifier
CFH2000523, ucf:45696
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000523
FEMALE COLLABORATORS AND RESISTERS IN VICHY FRANCE: INDIVIDUAL MEMORY, COLLECTIVE IMAGE
Title
FEMALE COLLABORATORS AND RESISTERS IN VICHY FRANCE: INDIVIDUAL MEMORY, COLLECTIVE IMAGE.
Creator
Thurlow, Katherine, Lyons, Amelia, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Women in Vichy and Nazi Occupied France often found themselves facing situations in which their societal gender roles greatly influenced not only the choices that they made but also how their actions were perceived within society. Many women acted as either collaborators, resisters, or both to maintain their livelihood. How they were perceived was based in large part by how they fit into their prescribed social roles, in particular that of the self-sacrificing mother. Women who participated...
Show moreWomen in Vichy and Nazi Occupied France often found themselves facing situations in which their societal gender roles greatly influenced not only the choices that they made but also how their actions were perceived within society. Many women acted as either collaborators, resisters, or both to maintain their livelihood. How they were perceived was based in large part by how they fit into their prescribed social roles, in particular that of the self-sacrificing mother. Women who participated on both sides were often following their social expectations and obligations. Following the decline of Vichy and the end of the Occupation, however, there was an immense shift in perception that determined what a good mother was. During the Vichy regime, collaboration with both the regime was highly encouraged and expected. Thus, women collaborating during the Vichy regime were praised, only to be condemned after the occupation. Women who resisted Vichy and the Nazis were scorned, only to be glorified after. It is clear that women in both of these categories had similar motivations, but a drastic shift in public opinion made these women appear in a different light. There were only slight differences that separated many of the women who were judged based on how they adhered to their female roles within society, whether that society be under Vichy or after its decline, often without considering the difficult situations that women lived in.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFH0004482, ucf:45061
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004482
CIVILIZING THE METROPOLE: THE ROLE OF COLONIAL EXHIBITIONS IN UNIVERSAL AND COLONIAL EXPOSITIONS IN CREATING GREATER FRANCE, 1889-1922
Title
CIVILIZING THE METROPOLE: THE ROLE OF COLONIAL EXHIBITIONS IN UNIVERSAL AND COLONIAL EXPOSITIONS IN CREATING GREATER FRANCE, 1889-1922.
Creator
Brooks, Michael, Lyons, Amelia, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
During the era of New Imperialism, the French state had the daunting task of convincing the French public of the need to support and to sustain an overseas empire. Stemming from its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and hoping to regain its erstwhile global position, the French state set out to demonstrate the importance of maintaining an empire. Since the vast majority of the French people were apathetic towards colonial ventures, the French state used the 1889 Parisian Universal Exposition...
Show moreDuring the era of New Imperialism, the French state had the daunting task of convincing the French public of the need to support and to sustain an overseas empire. Stemming from its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and hoping to regain its erstwhile global position, the French state set out to demonstrate the importance of maintaining an empire. Since the vast majority of the French people were apathetic towards colonial ventures, the French state used the 1889 Parisian Universal Exposition and the 1906 and 1922 Colonial Expositions in Marseille not only to educate the French about the economic benefits of the empire, but to entertain them simultaneously so that they unwittingly began to accept the notion of an interconnected Greater France. Each of these expositions contained a group of colonial exhibits in which indigenous colonial subjects, whom the expositions' organizers handpicked to come to France, displayed their daily routines and interacted with the visiting public. Visitors witnessed the lifestyles of indigenous cultures and took away from the exhibits a greater understanding of those who lived in the colonies. However, the vast majority of the French public who visited the expositions did not experience a shift in their mindset favoring the continuance of a colonial empire until after World War One. Until they could personally see an impact of the colonies onto their daily lives, the French public remained indifferent toward the French state's colonial ventures.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFH0004154, ucf:44816
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004154
road for revolutionary socialists
Title
The road for revolutionary socialists.
Creator
Zeller,Fred, Trotsky, Leon
Date Issued
1935
Identifier
369341, CFDT369341, ucf:5424
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369341
The Paris Commune, a story in pictures
Title
The Paris Commune, a story in pictures.
Creator
Siegel, William, Trachtenberg, Alexander
Date Issued
1932
Identifier
890961, CFDT890961, ucf:5614
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/890961
The bourgeois revolution: Its attainments and its limitations
Title
The bourgeois revolution: Its attainments and its limitations.
Creator
Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich, Kuhn, Henry, Socialist Labor Party
Date Issued
1926
Identifier
671399, CFDT671399, ucf:5566
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671399
METAMORPHOSIS OF LOVE: EROS AS AGENT IN REVOLUTIONARY AND POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
Title
METAMORPHOSIS OF LOVE: EROS AS AGENT IN REVOLUTIONARY AND POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE.
Creator
Laffick, Jennifer N, Zaho, Margaret, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis chronicles the god of love, Eros, and the shifts of function and imagery associated with him. Between the French Revolution and the fall of Napoleon, Eros's portrayals shift from the Rococo's mischievous infant revealer of love to a beautiful adolescent in love, more specifically, in love with Psyche. In the 1790s, with Neoclassicism in full force, the literature of antiquity was widely read by the upper class. Ancient Greek texts reveal an important facet of the god of desire;...
Show moreThis thesis chronicles the god of love, Eros, and the shifts of function and imagery associated with him. Between the French Revolution and the fall of Napoleon, Eros's portrayals shift from the Rococo's mischievous infant revealer of love to a beautiful adolescent in love, more specifically, in love with Psyche. In the 1790s, with Neoclassicism in full force, the literature of antiquity was widely read by the upper class. Ancient Greek texts reveal an important facet of the god of desire; the fact that he is an agent, if not the patron, for homosexual, homoerotic love. This aspect of Eros directly collided with the heteronormative principles that existed in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary France, leaving French Neoclassicists with the challenge to reconcile the ancient role of Eros with the moralizing, rational ideals of society. Thus, the popularization of Eros and Psyche in French Neoclassical art exemplifies this attempt to create a heteronormative ideal couple to epitomize patriarchal France. Throughout my thesis I pose the question: How do depictions of Eros and Psyche produced in the years surrounding the French Revolution reflect the antique tastes of Neoclassical artists and the heteronormative society within which these pieces were produced?
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Date Issued
2017
Identifier
CFH2000195, ucf:46037
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000195
A DIPLOMAT'S PORTRAIT: THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE'S VIEW ON FRENCH IMPERIAL POLICY REGARDING SYRIAN RELIGIOUS MINORITIES OF 1918-1922
Title
A DIPLOMAT'S PORTRAIT: THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE'S VIEW ON FRENCH IMPERIAL POLICY REGARDING SYRIAN RELIGIOUS MINORITIES OF 1918-1922.
Creator
Charles, Dominic, Ozoglu, Hakan, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis examines documents from the US department of State relating to the Internal Affairs of Turkey in the years of 1918-1922, to answer questions pertaining to French imperial policy directed toward minority groups in French Mandate Syria, which included present-day nations of Lebanon and Syria. Of the many minority groups present in French Mandate Syria, I chose to examine the Maronite, Druze, Alawi, Eastern Christian, and Armenian communities because of their significant role in the...
Show moreThis thesis examines documents from the US department of State relating to the Internal Affairs of Turkey in the years of 1918-1922, to answer questions pertaining to French imperial policy directed toward minority groups in French Mandate Syria, which included present-day nations of Lebanon and Syria. Of the many minority groups present in French Mandate Syria, I chose to examine the Maronite, Druze, Alawi, Eastern Christian, and Armenian communities because of their significant role in the state-building of Syria and Lebanon. By using documents originating from US diplomats, this thesis attempts to present the United States' view on these imperial policies. In the formation of this perspective, the thesis asks some of the following questions: What were the effects of French imperial policies on Syrian minorities? And how did French imperial policy regarding minorities shape French Syrian society as a whole? To answer these questions as completely as possible, I supplemented the archival sources with material from significant scholars in Levantine and broader Mid-East history, like Albert Hourani and Yaron Friedman. My research suggests that policies pursued had a negative impact on all of the minorities but to a lesser extent for the Maronites, and other Christians. It also suggests that French imperial policy led to the creation of a violent society but steps could have been taken to produce a more peaceful outcome. The final goal of this thesis is to provide the historical narratives of the minority groups with an additional perspective, that of the US diplomats throughout the region.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFH0004830, ucf:45485
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004830
DIRECT DISCOURSE AND FEMALE ARCHETYPES IN CHRETIEN DE TROYES'S ROMANCES
Title
DIRECT DISCOURSE AND FEMALE ARCHETYPES IN CHRETIEN DE TROYES'S ROMANCES.
Creator
Crotty, Raquelle A, Smith, Geri, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of the female messenger archetype in Chretien de Troyes's romances within the context of the rising courtly literature written in France throughout the early twelfth century. The romances by Chretien that will serve as cases in point for this thesis are Erec et Enide, Lancelot, and Yvain. I analyze the various courtly ladies of the lower nobility to whom Chretien attributes direct discourse and study how their verbal influence over the plot...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of the female messenger archetype in Chretien de Troyes's romances within the context of the rising courtly literature written in France throughout the early twelfth century. The romances by Chretien that will serve as cases in point for this thesis are Erec et Enide, Lancelot, and Yvain. I analyze the various courtly ladies of the lower nobility to whom Chretien attributes direct discourse and study how their verbal influence over the plot and the extent to which they are directly involved in the action of that plot correlate to one another. This, as a counterpoint to the queen's traditional role as seemingly powerful, but ultimately passive object in the chivalric paradigm, demonstrates how Chretien uses the female messenger archetype within his romances. While this study focuses on examining the existence of the female messenger archetype, it also acknowledges the variation amongst the different female characters, even as they fit into the role of the female messenger archetype within Chretien's individual works. Lastly, the ambiguity of enide's character, as the oldest example of the female messenger archetype, in comparison with the examples from Chretien's later works, suggests a possible development in Chretien's use of the female messenger archetypes, specifically a crystallization of the literary function of both the queen and the female messenger figures in his corpus.
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Date Issued
2019
Identifier
CFH2000569, ucf:45693
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000569
UNTIL THE MEAT FALLS OFF THE BONE
Title
UNTIL THE MEAT FALLS OFF THE BONE.
Creator
Kapherr, Holly, Roney, Lisa, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Though this work started as a formal academic cultural study, it stretched and squirmed and became not only an examination of the cultures themselves, but how I came to fit within those cultures. By combining my experiences travelling as a child and young adult as well as learning the craft of professional cooking, the essays in this work are highly centered around food and what food means both to me and to cultures throughout the world. The structure and tone of these essays varies greatly...
Show moreThough this work started as a formal academic cultural study, it stretched and squirmed and became not only an examination of the cultures themselves, but how I came to fit within those cultures. By combining my experiences travelling as a child and young adult as well as learning the craft of professional cooking, the essays in this work are highly centered around food and what food means both to me and to cultures throughout the world. The structure and tone of these essays varies greatly from one to the other, all at once casual, almost conversational in one, and pedantic and formal in another. This thesis was designed to grant readers a broad scope of my ability as a writer and cook. The six recipes contained in the collection are meant to move the work along as a meal would, leisurely and savoring moments, but at the same time, there should always be a sense of anticipation about what will appear next. The characters in this thesis came from near and far – from France to Lima – and each carries a cultural and culinary significance in the work. Each essay ties food to emotion – love, distress, bewilderment, intrigue and zeal. The main themes in this work stem from the ingrained nature of values taught at childhood – whether we like them or not, the role of food in shaping the cultural clash of peoples and the inherent connective nature of food as common ground.
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Date Issued
2009
Identifier
CFE0002935, ucf:47957
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002935
Visions of Race and Gender: Press Coverage of the French Colonial Expositions of 1922 and 1931
Title
Visions of Race and Gender: Press Coverage of the French Colonial Expositions of 1922 and 1931.
Creator
Morgan, Zachary, Lyons, Amelia, Solonari, Vladimir, Gannon, Barbara, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
During the interwar period, France attempted to reinvigorate interest in the empire amongst the public via elaborate colonial expositions. The colonial expositions of Marseille (1922) and Paris (1931) served as a means to celebrate the empire and to educate the French about the benefits of living within Greater France, an entity that included the metropole and the colonies. This thesis examines how press coverage of both expositions worked alongside these events to counteract anxieties...
Show moreDuring the interwar period, France attempted to reinvigorate interest in the empire amongst the public via elaborate colonial expositions. The colonial expositions of Marseille (1922) and Paris (1931) served as a means to celebrate the empire and to educate the French about the benefits of living within Greater France, an entity that included the metropole and the colonies. This thesis examines how press coverage of both expositions worked alongside these events to counteract anxieties regarding France's economic recovery after the war, continuing world presence, demographic losses, and most importantly the relationship between France and its colonies. It explores how the press attempted to mitigate these fears by creating, reinforcing, and reproducing an economically positive, dynamic, vibrant and ultimately sanitized vision of the colonies. This thesis argues that the press actively supported the goals of the expositions and championed the success of the civilizing mission, and demonstrates the media's role in perpetuating visions of French universalism. Their vision reveals contradictions found within French universalism that helps form a basis for analysis. This study scrutinizes the dominant discourses regarding the colonies during the interwar period and how the press used contemporary concepts of race and gender in their coverage of the expositions. This thesis argues that the press used the figure of the colonial soldier/worker and the erotic and patriarchal relationship between France and its colonies to reinforce colonial hierarchies regarding race and gender. The press attempted to shape the public's view of the empire through reconstructions of the imperial project and its people that idealized France's mission. Only the communist press sought to highlight the ferocity of French colonization.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFE0005672, ucf:50177
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005672
Paris on the barricades: A story of the immortal struggle of the Communards of 1871 for the first workers government, heroically reared by the working class,
Title
Paris on the barricades: A story of the immortal struggle of the Communards of 1871 for the first workers government, heroically reared by the working class,: and crushed by the bloody hand of the bourgeoisie.
Creator
Spiro, George
Date Issued
1929
Identifier
671345, CFDT671345, ucf:5560
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671345
Who betrayed France ?
Title
Who betrayed France ?.
Creator
Marty, André Pierre, Parti Communiste
Date Issued
1940
Identifier
1927062, CFDT1927062, ucf:4815
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927062
The trial of the communist deputies in France
Title
The trial of the communist deputies in France.
Creator
Richard, Gaston
Date Issued
1940
Identifier
2683091, CFDT2683091, ucf:5030
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683091
The bourgeois revolution: The political birth of capitalism
Title
The bourgeois revolution: The political birth of capitalism.
Creator
Plekhanov, Georgiĭ Valentinovich, Kahn, Henry, Aveling, Eleanor Marx
Date Issued
1955
Identifier
2683396, CFDT2683396, ucf:5075
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683396
The unity of the French nation
Title
The unity of the French nation.
Creator
Thorez,Maurice
Date Issued
1936
Identifier
369224, CFDT369224, ucf:5393
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369224
THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR ON THE SOCIETIES OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE
Title
THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR ON THE SOCIETIES OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
Creator
Whittington, Kody E, Larson, Peter, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The Hundred Years War was a series of conflicts from 1337 to 1453 waged between the House of Plantagenet of England and the House of Valois of France. This thesis will analyze the affect that the Hundred Years War had on the societies of both England and France, and in doing so will show that the war was a catalyst for bringing England and France out of what is recognized as the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance and Early Modern Period. The thesis will do this by looking at three sections...
Show moreThe Hundred Years War was a series of conflicts from 1337 to 1453 waged between the House of Plantagenet of England and the House of Valois of France. This thesis will analyze the affect that the Hundred Years War had on the societies of both England and France, and in doing so will show that the war was a catalyst for bringing England and France out of what is recognized as the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance and Early Modern Period. The thesis will do this by looking at three sections of English and French society: the royalty and nobility who commanded and who arguably started the war, the soldiers and mercenary companies who fought the war, and the non-combatants who either contributed to the war or were affected by it in positive or negative ways. The evolution in the power and role of the monarchs will be analyzed, while the nobility will be analyzed in their capacity as the leaders during the war and how their station in society was affected by the war. Analysis of those that served and fought in the war are of equal importance, as the Hundred Years War saw the rise of paid professional armies comprised mostly of the peasantry. Mercenary companies will also be looked at, especially in France where they contributed much to pillaging and acts of violence against the people. While the experiences of the combatants are important to understanding the history of the war, the experiences of those that did not directly engage in the war is important to understanding how the war affected society as a whole. Those peasants whose farms were destroyed by raiding armies, mercenaries, or bandits suffered greatly because of the war. Yet some, such as merchants, profited from the war and became greatly enriched. The church and its role in attempting to mediate and bring peace, while others of the cloth served as outlets of propaganda in support of their kingdom, will also be looked at in this thesis.
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Date Issued
2016
Identifier
CFH2000115, ucf:45989
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000115

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