Title : The Wyvern - Marcel Aymé - book Summary : Behind the viper appeared a young girl, with a robust body and a proud gait. Dressed in a white linen dress that stopped below the knee, she walked barefoot and bare-armed, her waist arched, with long strides. Her bronzed profile had a relief and a beauty that was a little masculine. On her very black hair, tied back in a crown, was placed a double silver twist, representing a thin serpent whose head, raised, held in its jaw a large oval stone, a limpid red. From the portraits that had been drawn for him and which he had until then believed to be fanciful, Arsène recognized the Vouivre. EAN: 9782070361670 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Heartbeats of History - André Castelot - book Summary : A for Alfred de Musset, B for Benjamin Constant, C for Christine of Sweden, D for Diane de Poitiers... This alphabet is that of the famous loves that André Castelot tells us about. Passing cheerfully from one century to another, crossing borders, we take an indiscreet look deep into alcoves and secret drawers, we listen at doors, we leaf through personal diaries. Legitimate or clandestine loves, star-crossed lovers, faithful spouses, princely marriages that make and unmake Europe, disgraces and intrigues behind these fifty-one comical or tragic stories, we discover that Love is the sinews of war and the fabric of History. EAN: 9782277216209 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Decameron - Boccaccio - book Summary : If, once again, storytellers are in fashion, the time has come to rediscover the first of them, Giovanni Boccaccio, who perhaps owes to the year of his birth – 1313! – one of the most brilliant literary fortunes of all time. Composed around 1350, translated throughout Europe, imitated, even plundered, for centuries, his Decameron had a posterity as prestigious as it was innumerable, from Chaucer to La Fontaine, from Molière to Potocki. Fleeing the plague that decimated Florence in 1348, seven young women and three young men found refuge in a sumptuous Tuscan villa. For ten days, punctuated by concerts, parties, and banquets, each will strive to entertain the others daily by inventing a tale. Neither emotion nor tragedy are absent from these hundred stories, but the overall tone, as we know, is rather gallantry, a gallantry that is prompt, natural, expeditious, and in any case not given to long sighs. "Anyone who wanted to reduce Boccaccio to the same modesty as Virgil would certainly do nothing worthwhile and would be sinning against decorum by taking it upon himself to observe it," remarks La Fontaine. Complete, faithful, precise, this translation has conformed to this wise advice. EAN: 9782253907022 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rousseau's Confessions. Complete Text of Books 1 to 4 - Marc Robert - book Summary : I am forming an enterprise which has never had an example and whose execution will have no imitators,” Rousseau proudly proclaims in his preamble, thereby showing the novelty and audacity of his autobiographical approach. For the writer, cornered by his detractors, feels obliged to justify himself: he will therefore say everything, even “the most shameful”! In search of coherence, of meaning, he starts from childhood to unravel the thread of his life, constantly trying to explain himself. The reader thus gains access to the secrets of his heart, to his misfortunes of course, but also to many moments of happiness, tender moments, sometimes funny moments. In a remarkably clear style, Jean-Jacques Rousseau recounts his life and his feelings. By telling the unvarnished story of his existence, he holds up a mirror to the reader in which it will not always be pleasant to recognize himself. This book offers: • the full text of books I to IV, • explanatory notes, • questionnaires throughout the text, • an educational tool including reports, documents on the work and its author, as well as a thematic route. EAN: 9782011672384 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Colomba - And Ten Other Stories - Prosper Mérimée - book Summary : Reading Mérimée's short stories is like seeing an author reveal himself over the pages, identifying autobiographical elements, appreciating his erudition and the diversity of his sources of inspiration. This first volume brings together eleven short stories, arranged in chronological order of their writing. Some are well-known; others deserve to be better known. We find here a taste for travel and exoticism (Corsica, the Orient, Spain), meticulous psychological descriptions, a commitment against slavery, stories of honor and revenge, an attraction to mystery and fantasy. While the themes are varied, the writing always retains a great precision, which allows Mérimée to exercise a biting irony. EAN: 9782070368198 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Contemplations. Books IV-V - Victor Hugo - book Summary : "What are Les Contemplations? It is what one could call, if the word had no pretension, the Memoirs of a Soul" (Preface). Few poetic works refer more openly to their historical and biographical context than this one. Published in 1856, Les Contemplations bears the mark of a double mourning: the loss of the poet's daughter, Léopoldine, and the symbolic death represented by exile. But what is at stake touches on the power of poetic speech: through contemplation, plunged into the depths of oneself from which poetry must emerge, Hugo makes heartbreak a creative act and the lyrical word the instrument of a search for the absolute. Dossier 1. Les Contemplations and their reception 2. Mourning, poetry and the strength to live 3. Writing to resist 4. Post-apocalyptic literature EAN: 9782081510845 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Game of Love and Chance - Marivaux - book Summary : Marivaux's charm lies in a unique combination of cruelty and grace, sadness and gaiety. But marivaudage, which evokes banter, a love duel for laughs, a sentimental ballet, does not exist in any of his plays. Nothing is more precise, realistic, than his view of the intermittencies of the human heart and of love, of which he knows all the paths, all the mistakes, all the ruses. In truth, chance plays little role in this comedy where Silvia, to test the sincerity of her fiancé Dorante, pretends to be his servant Lisette, while Dorante does the same with his valet Harlequin. And here is love put to the test by mistrust, social prejudice, timidity, hesitation, smiles and tears. EAN: 9782266163774 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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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 : Cry of the Owl - Hervé Bazin - book Summary : See photos EAN: 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 : Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant - book Summary : Driven by a fierce desire for success, Georges Duroy, this Bel-Ami beloved by women, stops at nothing and uses seduction as a weapon. A "celebrity" journalist before his time, he makes and unmakes politicians by revealing their shady "deals" or their private lives. For Maupassant, the opportunity was too good to miss to use the particular destiny of this antihero to denounce the corruption of the circles of power and the cynicism of society in the second half of the 19th century ... EAN: 9782035839138 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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