Title : Constance D. - Christian Combaz - book Summary : "If ten young writers took on the same task as Christian Combaz, we would restore readers' taste for stories." Claude Prévost, Révolution: "I'm told that this type of nervous and thrilling story is "not fashionable." I'm happy to do so. I'm told about Lampedusa, Stendhal. Well, I'm happy to do that too." EAN: 9782020089029 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Deceits of Scapin - Molière - book Summary : Disobedient sons, distraught young girls, uncompromising fathers, complex situations, a helpful servant—it doesn't take much for Molière to resurrect the powerful scent of Commedia dell'arte one last time. Laughter bursts forth, farce triumphs unchallenged. Between two deceits, and before the stretcher carries Scapin offstage, the moralist's bitter gaze slips in, denouncing a society where youth is in danger... EAN: 9782038716658 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Philosophers, Volume 3 - Kant - Karl Jaspers - book Summary : Kant: one of "those who found philosophy and never cease to generate it." A comprehensive synthesis of Kant's work, in which Jaspers shows how Kant crowns the philosophical tradition whose origin is in the work of Plato, while in turn being the basis of the philosophy of modern times. With Jaspers—and like Jaspers, himself an original thinker—Kant is understood as a fundamental articulation of Western thought. Please note that some pages have been highlighted with highlighter or pencil, but this does not interfere with reading. EAN: 9782266027779 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Song of the World - Jean Giono - book Summary : "The morning blossomed like an elderberry. Antonio was fresh and larger than life, a new youth swelled him with foliage. - Now he has passed the green period, he said to himself. He heard in his hand the trout dying. Without knowing exactly, he saw himself on his island, standing, raising his arms, his fists lit up with joys attached to the world, snapping and golden like captive trout. Clara, sitting at his feet, held his legs in her tender arms. EAN: 9782070368723 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hope - André Malraux - book Summary : "Malraux's book faithfully reflects the disarray, the promiscuities and the atrocities of a revolution; but it also expresses its conscience, its meaning, its subterranean movement. And it is because it hides nothing of the horrors and the silliness of civil war that it charges its title with a singular value. Here are the faults, here are the fools, the mercenaries, the warriors, here is the doubt that takes hold of the most resolute when, at the moment of dying, he feels that his body was beautiful; but here is this expectation, this call, this search, one does not know exactly for what, for something that erases the past, for a more intimate communion in danger, struggle, suffering, for a homeland, for a gestation, for a justification through sacrifice; - hope." EAN: 9782070360208 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Name of the Son - Hervé Bazin - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jean Le Bleu - Passage Du Vent - Giono Jean - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Brûlebois - Marcel Aymé - book Summary : For what is said to be the nobility of the human species, I would see it better appear as a sign of the honest concern for some true perfection for which nature has constructed each one." Thus, according to the master, human nature is never so deprived that it does not find in itself some honest passion by which it can claim a particular perfection. It remains to distinguish between honest passions and bad passions. Many of these have not deserved their reputation, but none has suffered from the rigors of opinion more unjustly than the passion for wine. The moralists, with incredible levity, on purely external appearances, such as a bulging nose, a dilated stomach, delirium tremens, agree to condemn the abuse of strong drinks and, limited to immediate conclusions, preach in ignorance of the sensible paths, haunted by sun and dreams, and inhuman geometries, which lead from cause to the effect. This is why Marcel Aymé undertakes to restore to us in nobility and beauty the magnificent ambition to drink to one's thirst. Brûlebois, the tender alcoholic he tells us about, pursues in full awareness of "the true perfection for which nature built him", and even to the point of martyrdom, his extraordinary vocation as a drunkard. And, to the desolate sermons carried by the dry American wind, Brûlebois candidly opposes his breath incomparably perfumed with strong wine. EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bibliolycée - Learned Women - Molière - book Summary : Philaminte loves above all “beautiful language and high sciences.” She runs her household with an iron fist, supported by her eldest daughter, the prudish Armande, and her half-mad sister-in-law, Bélise, convinced that everyone loves her. This trio is ecstatic over Trissotin, the pedant who is thrice foolish. This new Tartuffe covets the dowry of Henriette, the youngest, who prefers the amiable Clitandre. In his last comedy in verse, Molière mocks the "snobberies" of his time without misogyny. The fault of learned women is not their infatuation with philosophy, but their ridiculous preciosity and affected mannerism which, even today, continue to make us laugh because it is true that these faults persist. Library high school propose : • the full annotated text, • a first reading assessment questionnaire, • work analysis questionnaires, • five corpora accompanied by observation questions, writing tasks and image readings, • a presentation of Molière and his era, • an overview of the genre of the work and its place in literary history. EAN: 9782011691187 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : False Confidences - Marivaux, Anne Révert - book Summary : Summary of the work The seductive and penniless Dorante loves Araminte, a young and wealthy widow. But everything separates them. How can love be born in the heart of the beautiful woman? Dubois, Araminte's valet and former servant of Dorante, a master of intrigue and stratagem, sees to it. Read and understand the work • All the information on Marivaux and the context of the work • Cultural inserts and insights throughout the text • Text explanations with a language question to prepare for the oral exam Prepare for the Baccalaureate 90 pages to prepare your students for the written and oral Baccalaureate exams! The work • The structure of the work at a glance • The keys to understanding the work: Marivaux's writing, the characters, the dramaturgy of objects, the theatrical effects in the theater... The route • Everything you need to understand the journey: key themes (the valet's tricks, the pretenses of language, objects or hidden confidences, etc.), groups of complementary texts, quotes, artistic extensions, etc. • Towards the Baccalaureate: dissertation topics covered, method points and tools to prepare for the oral part of the Baccalaureate EAN: 9782091512181 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : False Confidences - Hubert Curial, Pierre de Marivaux - book Summary : Marivaux's play is on the 1st year general curriculum, followed by the literary course "Theater and Stratagem." In an edition specially designed to facilitate preparation for the new French baccalaureate. The room Will the ingenious Dubois's scheme lead Araminte to admit that she has fallen in love with her steward? In this elegant comedy, Marivaux shows how love can surprise a heart and triumph over the rules of the social universe.  The route "Theater and stratagem" • A set of problematized texts to analyze the role of stratagem in theater. • Artistic and cultural extensions: 5 visual works, reproduced in color, and tools to analyze them. The file All the resources useful to high school students to study the work within the framework of the new programs: • a preface to place the work in its context • throughout the text, the section “Keys to linear reading” • after the text: – summary sheets on the work – guided topics for the written and oral parts of the French baccalaureate – summary method sheets EAN: 9782401063587 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Medea - Followed by a journey on the myth of Medea - Pierre Corneille - book Summary : Corneille's first tragedy, followed by an anthology on the myth of Medea, from Euripides to Anouilh. Annotated edition, with a file for high school students. The tragedy of Corneille Abandoned and deceived by Jason, whom she still loves, Medea discovers that the father of her children is going to marry Creusa. Beside herself, the repudiated woman decides to take revenge by killing her own children. This first tragedy by Corneille takes up the story of Medea, emphasizing the fate of a woman destroyed by passion and overcome by murderous madness. ...followed by an anthology on the myth of Medea The anthology traces the history of rewritings of the myth of Medea from Antiquity to the present day. It focuses on highlighting the different variations that have occurred since the ancient Medea and presents successively: the Gothic and lyrical Medea, the Medea of ​​symbolist theater and the contemporary Medea. With a critical file Including all the resources useful to high school students to study the work: - historical and biographical references; - files on the main reading axes of the work; - two groups of thematic texts; - color iconographic documents and image readings; - baccalaureate-type subjects for written and oral examinations. EAN: 9782218966644 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Theater volume 2 - Jean Racine - book Summary : The Romantics were offended by this theater without images. To prefer the narrative to the stage exhibition of great murders and great miracles, they believed that this was to flee from difficulty: on the contrary, it was to seek it out, since it was to refuse the help of the physical and the sensitive, of the director and the stagehand, of the lights, the colors, the agitation, of the actor and the spectator himself. The author assumes the entire burden of the drama." Thierry Maulnier, Racine. EAN: 9782080700377 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Germinal - Emile Zola - book Summary : Here, in modern, industrial France, is Zola's "Les Misérables." This novel about miners is also Hell, in a Dantesque world, where one "travels to the end of the night." But at the end of the prodigious journey to the center of the earth, from the depths of the underground where he has lived crushed for so long, man finally stands up and emerges in a revolt full of hope. It is Zola's most beautiful and greatest work, the poem of brotherhood in misery, and the novel of the human condition. EAN: 9782253004226 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zadig - Followed by Micromégas - Voltaire - book Summary : Adorned with all human perfections, the young, rich, and virtuous Zadig is preparing to marry the most beautiful girl in Babylon. But "how difficult it is to be happy in this life!" His fiancée betrays him, scoundrels drag him to court, religious fanatics threaten him, an angel disguised as a hermit comes to his rescue... Destiny and Voltaire's admirable malice will not give him any favors. This sulphurous Zadig contains all the genius and all the philosophy of Voltaire, his cruelty, his wit, his gaiety and his hatred of human stupidity. EAN: 9782266289986 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fables - Alain-Marie Bassy - book Summary : La Fontaine says it again and again: Fables are not what they seem. A curious teacher, no doubt, this poet who dedicates his work to the Dauphin, and who claims to use, to educate this young man, the weapon of "lies." For Fables hide, disguise, simulate, and dissimulate at the same time. We must learn to read them. To do this, we must dismantle their mechanisms and their subtle codes, rediscover the secret architecture that orders them. Fables are a trap, a lure, the reverse of appearances; to appreciate them, it is necessary to turn the evidence inside out. Jean-Jacques Rousseau understood this well, writing in Émile: "We make all the children learn La Fontaine's fables, and there is not a single one who understands them. Even if they did, it would be even worse; because morality is so mixed up and so disproportionate to their age, that it would lead them more to vice than to virtue." EAN: 9782081207172 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Point Nemo Island - Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès - book Summary : A total, whirlwind, conquering adventure novel, a true machinery of the imagination where all the codes of romance and popular literature intertwine and collide, between the historical past and projection into the future, our programmed obsessions and our dreams of irrepressible escapes. Martial Canterel, a wealthy opium addict, allows his reconstruction of the famous Battle of Gaugamela to be interrupted by his old friend Holmes (John Shylock...). A fabulous diamond, the Anankè, has been stolen from Lady MacRae, while three right feet wearing Anankè sneakers washed up on the Scottish coast, very close to her castle... So here are Holmes, his butler and the aristocratic dandy, soon flanked by Lady MacRae and her daughter Verity, swept away - to begin with - on the Trans-Siberian in pursuit of the elusive Noh Straddle. Through a jubilant mise en abyme, this bouncy plot is set in the vagaries of a cigar factory in the Périgord Noir where, as in the Caribbean, the tradition of reading aloud the adventures of Jean Valjean or Monte Cristo is perpetuated. Soon taken over by Monsieur Wang, a high-tech voyeur and founder of B@bil Books, an e-reader assembly plant... With abrasive irony, this tsunami-novel sweeps away all the usual realistic constructions and opens extraordinary horizons of fiction. This wild novelistic escapade is also the most piquant reflection on literary art, coupled with a radical critique of ideologies and anonymous, sprawling governance, which alienates us even in our intimacy. Born in 1954 in Sidi-Bel-Abbès, he is the author, published by Zulma, of the monumental Là où les tigres sont chez eux (Fnac Novel Prize, Giono Prize and Médicis Prize 2008), of La Montagne de minuit and of the collection of short stories La Mémoire de riz. EAN: 9782843046971 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo - book Summary : Paris, 1482: three men covet Esmeralda, a bohemian with fatal beauty - Claude Frollo, the gloomy archdeacon of Notre-Dame; Quasimodo, the monstrous bell ringer; and Phoebus de Châteaupers, the handsome officer. But Phoebus is stabbed and Esmeralda is condemned to be hanged in Place de Grève for this crime she did not commit... The file offers exercises to study the key themes of the novel: love and its sometimes paradoxical manifestations; the figure of the hero and that of the monstrous character; social categories and Paris at the time of Notre-Dame. EAN : 9782080722928 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : La Fontaine A Truant School - Erik Orsenna - book Summary : “Since childhood, he has been our friend. And the animals in his Fables, our family. Lamb, crow, wolf, fly, frog, crayfish have never left us again. Mischievous and wise company! But what do we know about La Fontaine, undoubtedly the greatest poet of our French language? Here is a stroll through the true land of a certain little Jean, born on July 8, 1621, in the good town of Château-Thierry, just at the entrance to Champagne. Soon here is Paris, joyful Latin Quarter and good comrades: Boileau, Molière, Racine. Here is a protector, a too brilliant superintendent of Finances, soon to be imprisoned. One cannot overshadow the Sun King without risk. Here is a very consistent husband: quickly cuckolded and at ease about it, provided that he is allowed to run as he pleases. Here is poverty, despite the immense success of the Fables. And, perhaps for the best, here are some Tales. The National Education system, which doesn't like to blush, forbade us from teaching them. We meet too many "nice-bodiced" ladies. You will see how La Fontaine resembles life: half fable, half tale. Seriously naughty. EAN : 9782234082489 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Plague - Albert Camus - book Summary : Naturally, you know what it is, Rieux? - I'm waiting for the results of the tests. - I know. And I don't need tests. I spent part of my career in China, and I saw a few cases in Paris, about twenty years ago. Only, no one dared to give them a name at the time... And then, as a colleague said: "It's impossible, everyone knows that it has disappeared from the West." Yes, everyone knew, except the dead. Come on, Rieux, you know as well as I do what it is... - Yes, Castel, he said, it's hardly believable. But it certainly seems to be the plague." EAN : 9782070360420 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What Young Girls Dream Of - Alfred De Musset - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pot-Bouille - Emile Zola - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782266036740 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Strong Souls - Jean Giono - book Summary : "She was at that time, by far and away, the most beautiful woman in Châtillon, and certainly even elsewhere. Someone who knew her well at that time said to me: "She was as beautiful as that hammer, you see!" And he showed me the hammer he had been using for twenty years (he was a shoemaker), a hammer whose handle was made of a wood as soft as satin from the time he had wielded it, whose iron, struck so often, sparkled like white gold. And with that she was always affable and kind." EAN : 9782070362493 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One from Baumugnes - Jean Giono - book Summary : At the Buvette du Piémont, an old day laborer is attracted to a tall guy who seems terribly sad; he provokes his confidences: Albin comes from the mountains, from Baumugnes. Three years earlier, he had fallen madly in love with a girl who let herself be seduced by Louis, "a guy from Marseille, a young man as hollow as a bad radish." Louis had not hidden from him that his intention was to put the girl on the street. Since then, Albin has been inconsolable, wandering from farm to farm, unable to bring himself to go back to Baumugnes. So the old man, who is nothing but kindness, decides to help Albin... Filled with love, tenderness and freshness, Un de Baumugnes is the second novel in the Pan trilogy, the other two being Colline and Regain . EAN : 9782253010845 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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