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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Title : Claude Gueux - Victor Hugo - book Summary : A man named Claude Gueux, a poor worker, lived in Paris in 1831. He had with him a girl who was his mistress and a child by this girl... He was capable, skillful, intelligent, very badly treated by education, very well treated by nature, not knowing how to read but knowing how to think. One winter, work was lacking. The man, the girl, and the child were cold and hungry. The man stole. The result was three days of bread and fire for the woman and the child and five years in prison for the man. He was sent to do his time at the Clairvaux Prison. We will see what the Society did with him. An allegorical account of an individual tragedy, this ardent plea against the death penalty and against prison lays bare the mechanism of social brutality which can only respond to distress through repression. With Claude Gueux , Victor Hugo is no longer simply a novelist or poet. He has achieved a prominent place among the greatest orators of Liberty. EAN : 9782253136538 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo pencil annotations

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Title : Lorenzaccio - Alfred de Musset - book Summary : Lorenzo de Medici, the eponymous hero, lacks neither grandeur nor complexity. A notorious debauchee and purveyor of pleasure to Alexander, the perverse tyrant who rules Florence, the young man gradually reveals another side of himself. No, he is not entirely contaminated by the surrounding evil, but he has retained a true purity deep within him, to the point of killing Alexander in the name of a personal and political ideal. If Lorenzaccio takes place in 16th century Italy century, this drama nevertheless finds an echo in the political news of the years after 1830, when the power of Louis-Philippe, which had raised great hopes, hardened and harshly repressed republican initiatives. And if it is one of the most performed romantic dramas, it is because it presents the individual facing himself and society, essential and timeless problems. EAN : 9782040160647 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One day I will leave without having said everything - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : A hike in the beauty of the world. Not a sequel but perhaps a complement to the previous novel, this book is divided into three parts, each of which corresponds to a question or an observation that any somewhat sharp mind asks. A social novel: "Everything passes." We live in a time of transition: books, family, morals, borders, currencies, even religion. Everything is known because, through the Web, everyone is immediately informed of everyone else's fate. To illustrate this point, a contemporary romantic story unfolds where a Buddhist billionaire and communist bursts into a traditional family. A love novel: "Nothing changes." A writer seeks his path and only finds it through the love of a woman, Marie. He gives himself to her, who gives him back to himself. Love is more important than literature and everything else. It does not consist of looking into each other's eyes but of looking at the world together. The spectacle of the world brings about their astonishment and admiration, which are at the root of all knowledge. The social novel has changed into a love novel, which itself will change into a novel of the universe. A novel of the universe: "There is something sacred above us." To the author's now classic grandfather, to Pama the Buddhist, to Mary, God is added as one of the book's main characters. For how can one speak of anything other than God? What follows is a brief history of humanity by those who thought it and made it: philosophers and scientists. A battle has begun between God and science. The position of the author, a Catholic and agnostic, is to give God a chance. This book is easy and profound. It reflects what made previous works so successful: faith in literature, the importance of feelings, the absence of illusions, the taste for happiness, the search for truth. All of this is lifted by the grace of a winged style and writing. EAN : 9782221138335 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Five Weeks in a Balloon. Voyage of Discovery in Africa by Three EnglishmenFive Weeks in a Balloon. Voyage of Discovery in Africa by Three Englishmen - Jules Verne - book Summary : Attempting to cross Africa from east to west by air, claiming to fly over the dangerous black continent in its greatest breadth aboard a fragile gondola exposed to all the whims of the winds, was, in Jules Verne's time, an incredibly audacious undertaking. As one might expect, the five weeks it will take Dr. Fergusson and his two companions to achieve this will be full of unforeseen events and adventures. This novel will fascinate those interested in the early days of aeronautics and, in general, all those who enjoy the humor and verve of "Extraordinary Voyages," including Five Weeks. in a balloon opened the series. Published in December 1862, it was a resounding success first in France, then throughout the world. EAN : 9782859220716 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voltaire - Text studied, "Candide" - Jean Maurice - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782070579273 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Correspondence - Volume 1 - Paul Léautaud - book Summary : "To write is to live twice," said Paul Léautaud. But reading Léautaud is perhaps to live twice, too. What other literary work could claim such frenzied, obsessive egotism? "I am devilishly selfish," Léautaud confessed in his famous radio interviews with Robert Mallet. But beyond moral judgment, it is the word egotist that best suits this lifelong Stendhalian. Whether it is the Literary Journal, the Correspondence, the Dramatic Chronicles, whether it is The Little Friend, Loves, Passe-Temps, or In Memoriam, Léautaud is always at the center of his work. EAN : 9782264032263 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voltaire leads the investigation - Volume 3 - The devil wears Voltaire - Frédéric Lenormand - book Summary : Voltaire has finally found a worthy opponent: the devil himself! Beelzebub sows corpses throughout Paris, to the point that the Church, anxious to avoid any scandal, calls on the famous philosopher to conduct a discreet investigation behind the police's back. In a Paris of the Enlightenment still very much imbued with irrational beliefs, where vampires, demons and the living dead seem to wander at will, who else to send on their trail but a philosopher known for believing in nothing? In exchange, Cardinal Fleury, who governs France, will authorize the publication of the Philosophical Letters , this sulphurous firebrand. All that remains for Voltaire is to show what philosophy can do against superstition. And also to discover who is sowing pieces of human bodies into the writer's bath, to uncover the secret of a mysterious petticoat coveted by an assassin, without forgetting to have his new tragedy performed at the Comédie-Française, in order to revolutionize a dusty theatrical art! Both a historical detective novel and a Voltairean tale, The Devil Wears Voltaire is written in a jubilant style as finely crafted as the language of the Enlightenment. EAN : 9782709642903 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jules Verne - The Dream of Progress - Jean-Paul Dekiss - book Summary : Since the beginning of the 19th century, the bourgeoisie, through finance and industry, has been forging the weapons of a new power. Starting in 1851, a writer set out to immortalize this march of progress by revealing new myths. The discovery of the Earth, the recognition of other peoples, the role of science, education for all, and the moral education of children are the values ​​of the advancing republic. Supported by Hetzel, the greatest publisher of the century, Jules Verne calmly elevates the figure of a modern hero and draws the universe to the new measure of men. It is a lonely man, in the midst of a ferment of ideas, that Jean-Paul Dekiss brings to life here. EAN : 9782070531684 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782218943225 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : THE FANTASTIC DIMENSION - THIRTEEN SHORT STORIES FROM ETA HOFFMANN TO CLAUDE SEIGNOLLE - BARBARA SADOUL - book Summary : Ghosts, ghosts, monsters, creaking automatons, threatening objects, characters with supernatural powers... They're all here! They're approaching! It's our fears that are awakening and taking shape, swarming and crawling at our feet... Do you hear the wolves? Emerging from the imagination of the greatest classic and modern writers, these characters are eternal. They revive, for the duration of a reading, the magic but also the terrors of childhood. Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Edgar Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Howard P. Lovecraft, Jean Ray, Richard Matheson, among others, remember them and invite us to savor these forbidden fruits of dreams, to explore the other side... At our own risk! The opportunity to discover the founders and metamorphoses of a literary genre in perpetual rebirth... EAN : 9782290314180 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fantastic Dimension 1 13 short stories from Hoffmann to Seignolle - Collectives - book Summary : Is Nathanaël mad, or did he really see Coppelius using human eyes to create a new being? Is this a dream, or is the attractive young woman at the ball really just a common coffee maker? Is Bob's inner turmoil causing him to lose his mind, or has everything, even his own identity, disappeared? The characters in these stories brush against the limits of the known rational world: doubt, illusion, madness? In this anthology, discover ETA Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier, Edgar Allan Poe, Gérard de Nerval, Erckmann-Chatrian, Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, HP Lovecraft, Jean Ray, Claude Seignolle, and Richard Matheson. Subject of study: Fiction to question reality. Special educational file for new programs. Extensions: Fantastic cinema; the art of Odilon Redon, fourth grade. EAN : 9782290335321 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Musgrave Ritual, followed by three other stories - Arthur Conan Doyle - book Summary : The Musgrave maid and sommelier have disappeared. This old English aristocratic family has a ritual that each of its descendants must perform upon reaching adulthood: a formula to decipher, which would grant access to a secret place... Shortly before his disappearance, the sommelier was surprised, in the middle of the night, carefully examining this document. Is it a kidnapping? A murder? Could the Musgrave ritual be the key to the mystery? Sherlock Holmes's unstoppable logic will be needed to solve the enigma... EAN : 9782290341124 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Time of Hope - Joseph Kessel - book Summary : From the Champs-Élysées, where a victorious French army marches, to the shores of Palestine, where Israel is gradually awakening, via insurgent Ireland, White Russia taking refuge in Paris and a memorable flight on the Aéropostale, Joseph Kessel transports us to a world (1919-1929) that still believes in a better tomorrow. Joseph Kessel (1898-1979), journalist, pilot in 1914-1918, resistance fighter from 1940, novelist, was one of the greatest reporters of the interwar period, working for Paris-Soir, Le Figaro, Le Mercure… A friend of Malraux, Saint-Exupéry, Monfreid, he covered the Irish Civil War, the trans-Saharan flights of Aéropostale and the slave trade in the Red Sea. EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tellier House - Guy De Maupassant - book Summary : A brothel where the regulars live a regulated life, a place of debauchery full of bourgeois decorum, the Tellier house is like a second home. One day, it closes "because of a first communion"... In the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec, Maupassant paints a joyful picture of prostitutes. But his story caused controversy: the scene of prostitutes taking communion in the Church shocked. Yet it sums up Maupassant's opinion, who, against moralizing hypocrisy, prefers to celebrate impulses and passions. EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Twenty Years Later Volume 3 - Alexandre Dumas - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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