Title : Zadkine No. 142 - Masterpieces of Art - Great Sculptors - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Toulouse Lautrec No. 13 - Masterpieces of Art - Great Painters - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Accursed Kings, Volume 1 - The Iron King - Maurice Druon - Book Summary : The Accursed Kings , a famous historical fresco in seven volumes: 1. The Iron King. 2. The Strangled Queen . 3. The Poisons of the Crown. 4. The Law of Males . 5. The She-Wolf of France . 6. The Lily and the Lion. 7. When a King Loses France , bring to life the 14th century, between the trial of the Templars and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Translated throughout the world, The Accursed Kings has achieved exceptional success and is considered one of the contemporary models of the historical novel. The Iron King , the first volume of the cycle, has as its central figure Philip IV the Fair, a king of legendary beauty who ruled France as absolute master. Everything had to bow, yield, or break before royal authority. But the national idea resided in the head of this calm and cruel prince for whom reasons of state dominated all others. Under his reign, France was great and the French were unhappy. EAN: 9782253011019 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Accursed Kings, Volume 2 - The Strangled Queen - Maurice Druon - Book Summary : The Accursed Kings, a famous historical epic in seven volumes : 1. The Iron King. 2. The Strangled Queen. 3. The Poisons of the Crown. 4. The Law of Males. 5. The She-Wolf of France. 6. The Lily and the Lion. 7. When a king loses France, bring back to life the 14th century, between the trial of the Templars and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Translated worldwide, The Accursed Kings has achieved exceptional success and is considered one of the contemporary models of the historical novel. Following The Iron King , The Strangled Queen begins the day after the death of Philip the Fair. A weak-willed prince, Louis X the Quarrelsome, whose wife, Margaret of Burgundy, is imprisoned for adultery, succeeds an exceptional monarch. While Christianity awaits a pope and the people are dying of hunger, rivalries, intrigues, and plots will tear the French court apart and lead barons, prelates, bankers, and the king himself, to the bottom of an impasse from which they can only escape through crime. EAN: 9782253003069 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Accursed Kings, volume 3 - The Poisons of the Crown - Maurice Druon - Book Summary : The Accursed Kings, a famous historical epic in seven volumes : 1. The Iron King. 2. The Strangled Queen. 3. The Poisons of the Crown. 4. The Law of Males. 5. The She-Wolf of France. 6. The Lily and the Lion. 7. When a king loses France, bring back to life the 14th century, between the trial of the Templars and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Translated worldwide, The Accursed Kings has achieved exceptional success and is considered one of the contemporary models of the historical novel. The Poisons of the Crown resurrects, almost day by day, the conflicts, intrigues, hatreds, and crimes of the reign of Louis X the Quarrelsome, which lasted only eighteen months, but whose consequences were to be momentous for the French monarchy. When he died of poisoning in June 1316, it was the first time in more than three centuries that a king of France had died without leaving a male heir. EAN: 9782253004042 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Accursed Kings, volume 5 - The She-Wolf of France - Maurice Druon - Book Summary : The Accursed Kings , a famous historical fresco in seven volumes: 1. The Iron King. 2. The Strangled Queen. 3. The Poisons of the Crown. 4. The Law of Males. 5. The She-Wolf of France. 6. The Lily and the Lion. 7. When a king loses France, brings the 14th century back to life, between the trial of the Templars and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Translated throughout the world, The Accursed Kings have achieved exceptional success and are considered one of the contemporary models of the historical novel. Philip V the Long has just died before reaching the age of thirty and, like his brother Louis X the Quarrelsome, without male descendants. The third son of the Iron King, the weak Charles IV the Fair, succeeds Philip V. An escape from the Tower of London; the cruel ride led by a French queen of England to drive her husband from the throne; an atrocious assassination perpetrated on a sovereign... The revival of History comes from England. The "She-Wolf of France" is the tragic nickname that chroniclers gave to Queen Isabella, daughter of Philip the Fair, who seemed to have transported the curse of the Templars across the Channel. EAN: 9782253004066 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Accursed Kings, volume 7 - When a king loses France - Maurice Druon - Book Summary : The Accursed Kings , a famous historical fresco in seven volumes: 1. The Iron King. 2. The Strangled Queen . 3. The Poisons of the Crown. 4. The Law of Males . 5. The She-Wolf of France . 6. The Lily and the Lion. 7. When a King Loses France , brings the 14th century back to life, between the trial of the Templars and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Translated throughout the world, The Accursed Kings has achieved exceptional success and is considered one of the contemporary models of the historical novel. In this seventh and final volume of The Accursed Kings , the reign of John II is recounted. History has nicknamed this king John the Good, but this monarch was, in fact, as vain and cruel as he was indecisive and incapable. France was, at the time, in crisis: clans and factions were fighting over the country, England was claiming the kingdom, taxes were crushing, the plague was wreaking havoc, and the king was making a series of mistakes. We follow, through the story of a high-ranking figure of the time, the evolution of the reign. An unfortunate and bloody epic that would lead the king to the disaster of the Battle of Poitiers where he was taken prisoner by the English. EAN: 9782253021971 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Three Lives a Week - Michel Bussi - Book Summary : One dead. Two missing. Three women in love. A dead man Two missing Three women in love A body is found in the Meuse Valley, in the heart of the Ardennes. Accident, suicide, murder? The revelation of the victim's identity plunges Captain Katel Marelle into shock. Did Renaud Duval lead... three lives a week? Three women await his return. Each claims to be his only love. Together, they will try to solve the enigma of an impossible triple life... But like in a theater of illusions, shadows lurk, ready to take revenge. Who knows the truth? Who is manipulating? Who is pulling the strings? "Bussi the enchanter." SHE "Machiavellian!" Benefits "Bussi is an illusionist who waits to be unmasked and has the delightful slyness to roast us from the prologue." The Point EAN: 9782266339001 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Famous Five and the Circus of the Star Library Green - Enid Blyton - Book Summary : A circus has just set up shop in the Kernach region! It's decided: François, Claude, Mick, and Annie are going to camp near the big top. They soon meet Pancho, a young horse trainer. But the children soon realize that Carlos, the clown, and Dan, the acrobat, are engaged in mysterious activities... EAN: 9782017072188 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Désideria - Alberto Moravia - Book Summary : Desideria, a daughter of the people, integrated into the Italian upper middle class, seeks support. She finds it in the mysterious Voice that incites her to take the Revolution as her god and to transgress all values ​​- family, religion, love, money... It is to a true descent into hell - hell of violence, perversion, crime - that the Italian novelist, author of Contempt, invites us in this novel in the form of an interview, which questions our values, our secret violence, our century. EAN: 9782253056379 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Who Killed Palomino Molero? - Mario Vargas Llosa - Book Summary : The body of a horribly mutilated young man, hanging from a tree, was discovered by a young goatherd. The investigation leads Lieutenant Silva and Sergeant Lituma into the unspoiled world of a military base run by Colonel Mindreau, and into the labyrinth of the small town of Talara, organized around Doña Adriana's diner. On one side, the secret world of the army; on the other, a whole colorful, pitiful, petty, and truculent population. Who, in all this, killed Palomino Molero? To the unfailing suspense of a true detective novel, Mario Vargas Llosa grafts a rigorous analysis of Peru's social problems and an ironic, implicit denunciation of the mechanisms of power. EAN: 9782070381234 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Wedding in Lyon - Stefan Zweig - Book Summary : Returned to solitude, the one who was mistress of France discovers that she no longer exists without others and without the looks – of love, fear or hatred – that they cast upon her. In 14th-century Germany, where hordes of fanatical "flagellants" are rampant, Jews flee in the heart of winter. A starving soldier walks alone in enemy territory, stumbling at every step against the martyred corpses of his companions... The incisive author of Amok , the powerful and lucid essayist of Combat with the Demon , focuses on certain historical episodes. The violence of men, the tragedy of destinies needlessly crushed are inscribed in fiery strokes in each of these sober and powerful stories, reduced to the essential, in the most demanding sense of the word. EAN: 9782253138938 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Corpse Reader - Antonio Garrido - Book Summary : Ci Song is a young boy of modest origins living in 13th-century China. After the death of his parents, the burning of their house, and the arrest of his brother, he leaves his village with his sick little sister. It is in Lin'an, the capital of the empire, that he becomes a gravedigger of the "killing fields" before entering the prestigious Ming Academy. His talent for explaining the causes of death makes him famous. When news of his exploits reaches the emperor, he is summoned to investigate a series of assassinations. If he succeeds, he will be admitted to the Council of Punishments; if he fails, it is death. Thus, Ci Song, the reader of corpses, becomes the first forensic pathologist of all time. A novel inspired by the life of a real character, captivating and richly documented where, in exotic medieval China, hatred rubs shoulders with ambition, as love does with death. EAN: 9782253184195 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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