Title : Queen Margot in 2 volumes - Alexandre Dumas - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ascanio or the King's Goldsmith - Alexandre Dumas - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Olympe de Clèves volume 1 - Alexandre Dumas - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Theater volume 2 - Corneille - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 50,000 Dollars - Ernest Hemingway - book Summary : "Walcott walked up to Jack, looking at him. Jack touched him with his left fist. Walcott simply shook his head and backed Jack against the ropes. He sized him up, sent a very light left hook to the side of Jack's head, and jabbed him with his right to the body, as hard as he could hit. He must have hit Jack five inches below the belt. I thought Jack's eyes were going to pop out. They were popping out. His mouth opened. The referee held Walcott. Jack took a step forward. If he fell, fifty thousand dollars would fall with him. He walked as if all his guts were going to come out of his stomach. 'It wasn't too low,' he said. 'It was an accident.' EAN : 9782070362806 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prisoner Volume 1 - Marcel Proust - book Summary : See photos EAN : Marcel Proust Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rebels - CHABROL Jean-Pierre - book Summary : After a youth in the Cévennes that should have been crowned by brilliant studies, Jean-Pierre Chabrol finds himself gripped by History. A resistance fighter, a communist by circumstance then by conviction, a cartoonist and journalist before becoming a writer, Jean-Pierre Chabrol takes us on a thrilling, colorful, and also tragic life. This "novelist in History," whose life is shaped by the 20th century, is above all a champion of revolt. He says it himself: to outrage, to outrage, to go beyond, beyond, beyond measure... words that I love and that could sum me up entirely. Through the reading of the entirety of a work that remains largely unknown, Michel Boissard achieves the feat of restoring a life through its four seasons: that of the resistance fighter, founding; that of the Communard, a communist commitment that will clash with Stalinist crimes; that of the Camisard, which will cause Jean-Pierre Chabrol to miss out on the Goncourt prize due to a historical misunderstanding. The Cévnol season, encompassing all the others, reminds us, in the words of André Chamson, that the universal finds its source in the roots of each one. Jean-Pierre Chabrol defined his "country" thus: The Cévennes is a confidence. EAN : 9782917743362 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : La Petite Fadette - George Sand - book Summary : In the country, she was called Little Fadette, because she was the size of a leprechaun and had the powers of a fairy. Like her grandmother, she healed men and animals. Landry, one of the twins from the neighboring farm, falls in love with her. But the love of a witch is frowned upon in this family, and it makes Sylvinet, the other "besson," sick with jealousy. After La Mare au diable and François le Champi , this is George Sand's third country novel. In it, she expresses everything that life has taught her. The appearance of people doesn't matter; you have to pierce the shell. The wealth of girls doesn't make them happy, and love is difficult to build. Her unfulfilled desire is there, too, for a love that would last forever. Little Fadette illustrates George Sand's grand design: to teach respect for God, nature, wisdom, and love. EAN : 9782253003748 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zadig Memnon - Voltaire - book Summary : Young and rich, handsome and intelligent, courted and respected, learned and brave, Zadig embodied the fullness of human happiness in Babylon when the whims of fortune tested the strength of his character and the resources of his mind. Betrayed by the beautiful Semira, and the target of the fierce jealousy of King Moabdar, he was soon reduced to the miserable state of a vagabond. But is misfortune truly without remedy for someone who possesses, like Zadig, "the talent to unravel the truth that all men seek to obscure"? In Zadig, one can discern the meditation of a wise man on the unpredictable interplay of freedom and necessity. One can reread Newton, Leibniz, and Spinoza between his lines. One can also discover impertinent allusions to court life, a pleasant romanticized transposition of Voltaire's misadventures at Versailles and his sentimental disappointments in the years 1745-1747. Above all, one must allow oneself to be ravished by the charm of this pure narrative fantasy where the spirit of Ariosto rubs shoulders with that of the Arabian Nights . EAN : 9782040160937 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men - Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - book Summary : Four years after the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts (1750), which made him famous, Rousseau found the opportunity to develop his principles with the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men. In it, he revealed himself to be the spokesperson for the humiliated and the offended, the interpreter of all those whom the social order, in Geneva as in France, condemned to live as strangers. Not only did he address all men, but he was determined to offer them, through his writings, the image of the integral man. He would designate the universal, indicating it both in the order of facts and in that of duty. At the same time, he discovered his grand manner, a haughty eloquence, which placed his stakes at the highest level. Polemic, reasoning, erudition, imagination, all came together in an unequaled intellectual fervor. The Discourse on Inequality incorporates multiple materials, but the work itself is a source work, from which one can begin all modern reflection on the nature of society. The obscure maneuvers of vice nor the modesty of virtue could have escaped the gaze and judgment of the public, and where this sweet habit of seeing and knowing one another made love of the fatherland the love of citizens rather than that of the land. EAN : 9782080702432 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire - book Summary : "To extract beauty from evil" and, on a poetic level, to transform ugliness into beauty. This is the project that the poet, in the grip of spleen, implements here in a surprisingly modern and moving form. This edition of Les Fleurs du mal brings together the hundred poems from the 1857 collection, arranged in the order desired by Baudelaire and followed by the successive additions of 1861, 1866, and 1868. EAN : 9782401063600 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Swann's Way - Marcel Proust - book Summary : The Narrator remembers the child he once was. The wait for his mother's goodnight kiss, Sunday lunches at Aunt Léonie's, his grandmother's gifts. He is fascinated by Mr. Swann, a friend of his parents, madly in love with a woman who loves everyone except him. He falls in love with her daughter, Gilberte, who will not make him any happier. Through these scenes of life—intimate or mundane, tragic or comic—pass impressions, scents, visions. Water lilies on the surface of a river, a madeleine forgotten in a cup of tea, catleyas in the hair of a beloved woman, an agate marble offered as a token of friendship... But, once an adult, how can one remain that child filled with wonder in a world one no longer recognizes, where love is suffering, where desire is jealousy, where "the memory of a certain image is only the regret of a certain moment"? Reminiscences of lost childhood, a novel of impossible love, a satire of high society imprisoned in the ephemeral nature of fashion, but also a philosophical study on involuntary memory: Swann's Way is all of these things at once. What is a masterpiece? A palace of memory, with a thousand entrances, where each reader experiences a singular emotion, always renewed. EAN : 9782070379248 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Day of a Condemned Man, preceded by Bug-Jargal - Victor Hugo, Roger Borderie - book Summary : "Suddenly, one of the servants took off my jacket, and the other took my two dangling hands, brought them behind my back, and I felt the knots of a rope slowly winding around my close wrists. At the same time, the other was untying my tie. My cambric shirt, the only shred left of my former self, made him hesitate for a moment; then he began to cut the collar. At this horrible precaution, at the grip of the steel touching my neck, my elbows trembled, and I let out a stifled roar. The executioner's hand trembled. "Sir," he said to me, "pardon me! Did I hurt you? These executioners are very gentle men." EAN : 9782070369195 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Punishments - Victor Hugo - book Summary : History does not move backward. A bourgeois empire is not founded on the ruins of a republic. For having proclaimed this, Victor Hugo was exiled by the man he called Napoleon the Little, a caricature of the other, the one from Austerlitz. The Republic, he believed, was moral progress, individual virtue, legitimacy, the people justly represented. "Ten million, one hundred million votes voting en masse do not count before this atom, before this particle of God, the soul of the just." Victor Hugo would be the just man who stood up to Prince Louis-Napoleon's coup d'état. "Sound, sound always, trumpets of thought." They still resonate in these grandiose and passionate verses, full of a dream of justice and equality. EAN : 9782253016861 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Carmen and Thirteen Other Stories - Prosper Mérimée - book Summary : Carmen, a gypsy, a girl of no means... What does she possess but her name? For many, that's already too much. Hoping to seize the six letters of this first name, Don José abandons his career. She will shamelessly use the passion she inspires to unleash the brutality that lies dormant within Don José. The simplicity of her attire conceals the soul of a queen: lacking a throne, she will exercise a loving tyranny that spares nothing for her slaves. In collusion with death, Carmen will accomplish her work at the risk of paying the price herself. Carmen: beneath these two syllables, traced by Mérimée, sung in Bizet's opera, a world of images and melodies surfaces, which resonate in the thirteen other stories in this collection. Surly hidalgos and bullfighting scenes in Spain, ancient ghosts in Rome... In the heat of the South, the same sun broods over the marriage of madness and grace. EAN : 9782070365609 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Heart-Ripper - Boris Vian - book Summary : Here's a corner of the countryside where people have strange ways... The old people's fair, for example. A curious institution! We also know that all children can fly like birds as soon as they stretch out their arms - but is that a sufficient reason to lock them up behind ever higher, ever more closed walls? The psychiatrist Jacquemort wonders - then no longer wonders, because he has too much to do with the shame of others, which flows into a very dirty stream. But we, who remain on the shore, see that Boris Vian is simply describing our world. By taking each of our usual words literally, he reveals to us the monstrous country that surrounds us, that of our most implacable desires, where every love hides a hatred, where men dream of ships, and women of walls. EAN : 9782253006626 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Works - Georges Navel - book Summary : One of the most beautiful books inspired by the working class, Travaux, published just after the war in 1945, immediately became a classic. Critics have compared Georges Navel to Gorky, Panaït Istrati, Eugène Dabit, and Charles-Louis Philippe. But Navel makes a voice heard that is uniquely his. As Jean Giono wrote: "This patient search for happiness that is ours, we see it expressed here with quiet good faith." EAN : 9782070371563 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Condottiere's Journey - Towards Venice, Fiorenza, Beloved Siena - André Suarès - book Summary : Although he summons the tutelary shadow of Stendhal, the Condottiere has shed all authority. His journey is unique in that it treats cities as characters: Rimini is "gloomy like a successful assassination attempt," Genoa is banal "like the thoughts of an American shopkeeper." Each city not only has its painting, its musical piece, its church, its great man, it also has its own face, its warts, its wrinkles, its bad breath, its smile (the ardent Siena is a "kiss in a mystical smile"). Each corner visited gives birth to a prose poem, where sometimes the vision of a couple united in beatitude emerges. Clare, the patrician of Assisi, seeing Saint Francis booed, reviled, wants no other fiancé than this "mad Little Poor." Catherine of Siena consoles a man condemned to death, promises him eternal marriage, leads him to the scaffold and receives his head in her hands. EAN : 9782253932598 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Land of Men - Antoine de Saint Exupéry - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Begum's 500 Million - Jules Verne - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lighthouse at the End of the World - Jules Verne - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : History of the Wandering Jew - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : In Venice, at the foot of the Sea Customs House, opposite the Doge's Palace and San Giorgio Maggiore with its high bell tower, two young people who love each other go to listen, in the evening, to a surprising character who goes by many names. His stories carry them away, through space and time, in a whirlwind of adventures where Stendhal and Christopher Columbus, Chinese and Arabs, the procurator of Judea and Viking warriors, the Israeli raid on Entebbe and the invention of zero, the loves of Pauline Borghese and The Arabian Nights, all the passions of the world and also its miseries pass by at full speed, under unexpected lights, quite unfamiliar to schoolchildren. The man in the raincoat, who recounts, before disappearing as he appeared, these memories or fables that merge with life, claims to be condemned to immortality for having refused, on the road to Calvary, a glass of water to Jesus staggering under his cross. His story of eternity brings to life a myth as universal as Don Juan or Doctor Faust: the Wandering Jew. In the stories of the Sea Customs, he is unlike anything known: halfway between the Bible and comics, Hegel and Arsène Lupin, he embodies the history of men, necessary and useless, always cursed and yet irresistibly cheerful and happy. EAN : 9782724253702 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Merry Christmas! Stories to read under the tree - Collectives - book Summary : Tonight is Christmas: forget the bad weather and worries, make way for the festivities! Celebrate New Year's Eve in Rio with Blaise Cendrars, believe in the impossible with FS Fitzgerald, see it come true with Sylvain Tesson: from Apollinaire to Truman Capote, including Marcel Aymé and Maupassant, the greatest authors remind us, each in their own way: at Christmas, everything is possible, everything is different, so... Merry Christmas! To celebrate the magic of Christmas and remember that life is a beautiful gift! EAN : 9782070466382 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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