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Title : The Word That Hits the Mark - A Fun and Instructive Dictionary of History's Most Famous Phrases - Gilles Henry - Book
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"Paris is well worth a mass.", Henry IV "Reform, yes, chaos, no!", General de Gaulle "The State is me." Louis XIV "Whoever loves me, follow me!", Philippe de Valois Wasn't the meaning of the phrase Napoleon's strength: "Impossible is not French."? Would we remember the Battle of Fontenoy without the famous: "Gentlemen of England, shoot first!"? From the history of France to the history of language, there is only one word! This small dictionary deciphers hundreds of episodes that a well-chosen word has immortalized. Three times winner of the French Academy, Gilles Henry is the author of around fifty works, including L'habit ne fait pas le moine , available in Points.
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Title : Three Tales - Gustave Flaubert - book
Summary : A triple unity - both Trinity and triptych - Flaubert's "Three Tales" evoke a world where the divine presence is as if absent. Foreboding, but mysterious in "Hérodias"; scandalous and incomprehensible in "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller"; confused with superstition and reduced to simulacra in "A Simple Heart." An ironic epic of faith and holiness through the ages, the "Three Tales" question the divine Word and speak of its power, but also its degradation. They affirm, at the end of Flaubert's life, the strength of writing and literature - of the Word.
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Title : The Dangerous Pass - Somerset Maugham - book
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Title : Diary of a Jester - Jean Amadou - book
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With this new anthology of his humorous pieces on Europe 1, Jean Amadou treats us to a particularly delicious selection. A ticklish and incisive pen, sometimes amused indulgence, always elegant: no comical element of our national political folklore, no extravagance of our technocrats, no absurdity of current events escapes his biting irony. Jester, Jean Amadou? "Well yes, I claim that title. The jester addressed the king informally, interrupted him, told him his home truths, and made him laugh.
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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.
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Title : Fields of Honor - Jean Rouaud - book
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They died within a few weeks of each other: first the father, then his old aunt, and finally the maternal grandfather. But this series of deaths seems to have resulted in only one missing person: the narrator, whose emptiness occupies the center of the story. It is on the periphery and from tiny clues (a set of dentures, a few photos, a holy picture) that a story gradually takes shape, which will eventually reach, through successive layers, the horizon of capital History with its Great War, the cradle of all mysteries. Goncourt Prize in 1990, Fields of Honor is the first part of a novel series which continues with Illustrious men, The World Roughly And For your gifts, and closes with On stage as in heaven.
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Title : English Time - Julie Wolkenstein - book
Summary : July 1911, a summer morning in the English countryside. Edward Sanders is walking along the river. He's going home, but no one is waiting for him. Not Susan, not the children. Everyone thinks he's in town, sitting quietly at his desk. Susan Sanders walks the streets of London. No one knows she's there. Not Edward, anyway. She's going to surprise him, pick him up from his study, enter the unknown building where he spends his days. Today, she has a secret to tell him. For both of them, it's a special day. As they walk, as they reminisce, the ghosts of a bygone era return in droves: debutantes doomed to drowning or madness, suffragette duchesses, hushed-up scandals, sacrificed eccentrics. It's English time, the time when the splendor of the Riviera and solitary childhoods, Victorian trinkets and their cracks, awaken.
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Title : The Glass House - Jayne Ann Krentz - book
Summary : As chief curator of the Leabrook Museum, the young and brilliant Eugenia Swift must travel to the small island of Frog Cove to inventory the precious collection bequeathed by Adam Daventry, a billionaire who recently died under mysterious circumstances. So mysterious that, for security reasons, she is required to hire a private detective... A guardian angel the young woman could do without since she wants to discreetly conduct her own investigation into the disappearance of her friend Nellie, one of Daventry's last mistresses. Between Eugenia and Cyrus, it is the clash of two strong personalities. After a stormy start to their relationship and despite persistent mistrust, they are finally forced to collaborate.
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Title : The Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima - book
Summary : Without changing her perfectly formal pose, the woman suddenly opened the collar of her kimono. My ears could almost hear the rustling of the silk rubbed against the stiff underside of the belt. Two snow-white breasts appeared. I held my breath. She took one of the white and opulent breasts in her hands and I thought I saw her begin to knead it. The officer, still kneeling before his companion, held out the deep black cup. Without claiming to have literally seen it, I at least had the clear sensation, as if it had taken place before my eyes, of the warm white milk spurting into the tea whose greenish foam filled the dark cup - soon settling there, leaving only small spots on the surface -, of the tranquil face of the beverage troubled by the milky foam
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Title : Gaspard of the Night - Elisabeth de Fontenay - book
Summary : He doesn't look at himself in the mirror. He rarely smiles, doesn't laugh, doesn't cry. He never says: this is mine, but only sometimes asks: is it for me? He rarely says "I" and ignores the "you." He doesn't say my first name. Yet, the surprise, when I see myself by chance in a mirror, of discovering his eyes in my eyes forces me to presume a kinship in our secret lives, to conjecture in him a story that will have continued elsewhere and whose too rare messages I seek to decipher, like an incompetent, impatient and inconsolable investigator." Through this moving story, fragments of memories and philosophical reflections, Élisabeth de Fontenay pays homage to her brother, whose presence continues to influence her own existence.
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Title : Farewell to the Angel - Francis Roe - book
Summary : When their 12-year-old son Edward dies, Greg and Liz Hopkins withdraw into their grief, devastated. Until the day a terrible doubt seizes Greg's mind: what if a medical error had been made? An error that his friend and colleague, the brilliant surgeon Willie Stringer, in charge of little Edward's health, had tried to hide from him to protect his career. From then on, overwhelmed by suspicions that grow heavier every day, Greg feels ready to do anything to establish the true circumstances of his child's death and try to ease his wife's pain. A pain mixed with an irrepressible desire for revenge. Because if he fails to discover the truth, he knows, he will forever lose the woman he loves. About the author: Francis Roe draws his inspiration as a novelist from his own experience as a surgeon and professor of medicine. His intimate knowledge of the hospital environment where he has had a brilliant career is expressed through a fine, precise and realistic portrayal of the medical environment of which he knows all the workings, combined with this particular talent which allows him to associate, with an uncompromising psychological analysis, a plot constructed like implacable suspense.
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Title : Tocqueville and Democracy in America - HATIER SCOLAIRE - book
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Title : Bad Jews - Gerald Shapiro - book
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Descendants of the Holocaust generation seeking to sketch out a new philosophy of existence, Gerald Shapiro's Bad Jews drink, smoke, cheat on their wives, and behave like goyim. In the pure tradition of American literature by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Bernard Malamud, these stories paint a compelling and explosive portrait of the human condition.
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Title : Hell - René Belletto - book
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Sometimes, you feel far away from your life. So far away that you even think about... Michel Soler, alone in a deserted city, devastated by summer, is at this point of distance. Desperately available, and ready for anything... And suddenly EVERYTHING happens to him. He is thrown into a machination of terrors, violence, deaths, and loves that are of this world, and that are not. But his indifference and his tenderness, his madness and his humor that would die in sniggers, allow him to escape the infernal traps. Unless they throw him into them.
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Title : Mandolins and Barbouzes - Charles Exbrayat - book
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Title : Have you ever seen Jeanne? - Charles Exbrayat - book
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Title : The Heartbeats of History - André Castelot - book
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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.
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Title : The Silence of Men - Christine Orban - book
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Her name is Idylle, his name is Jean. One day, their eyes meet. Only three years later, they begin to experience an intoxicating passion, but one that finds its limit in the man's silence. Like many others, he prefers actions to words, evasion to confrontation, flight to commitment. Idylle, madly in love, will experience as a growing suffering this refusal to speak of love, to speak of their love, in which he persists, and which is perhaps only an incapacity... And what if the charm, however, was in silence? What if lightness were preferable to the weight of words? After I Was the Origin of the World and Clothes , Christine Orban continues a tender and true questioning of female solitude, desire, and the struggle for love.
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Title : The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak - book
Summary : Torn between her American and Armenian roots, young Amy secretly arrives in Istanbul. Little does she know that her arrival and budding friendship with Asya, the "bastard," threaten to unleash terrible revelations... Through four generations of women, Elif Shafak paints a vivid portrait of a divided, torn, yet vigorously modern Türkiye. "The greatest Turkish novelist of the last ten years." Orhan Pamuk
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Title : The Riddle of Catiline - Steven Saylor - book
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Political intrigue and murder in ancient Rome
At the request of Cicero, who has become consul, Gordian is tasked with monitoring Catiline, a corrupt senator, populist, and demagogue suspected of plotting against the Republic, plotting assassinations, and dreaming of dictatorship. Plunged into a murky world, Gordian falls under Catiline's spell. And murders multiply. As in every Gordian investigation, the historical reconstruction is full of lessons—funeral rites, gastronomy, sexual mores—that cleverly spice up the story. For Pierre Hebey (Elle), "the pleasure this author provides is constant and, what's more, is of no less constant quality. A healthy recreation."
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