Title : Wings of the Morning - Mireille Lesage - book Summary : Louis XIII, through his all-powerful minister, Cardinal Richelieu, rules France. But the unchallenged authority of his feared advisor stirs up hatred and greed, and a determined group of high-ranking conspirators rises up to bring down the "red man." In this feverish atmosphere of conspiracy, the very young and ardent Floriane de Saint-Évy arrives in Paris. Presented at Court, adored, she arouses passions and provokes, despite herself, conflicts that end in bloodshed. Duels, traps, kidnappings, escapes, rides, romances, twists and turns follow one another at a frenzied pace, until the day when, in the shadow of a sinister scaffold, his destiny seems to change definitively. In the superbly reconstructed setting of 17th century France, following the precise scenario of dramatic events that really took place, the author portrays, with the same vigor and the same meticulousness, authentic characters and heroes born of his sparkling and fertile imagination. Painting a romantic fresco in the colors of a prestigious past, Mireille Lesage brilliantly combines the picturesque and the emotional, the panache and the joy of living, the history of France and fiction. EAN: 9782253052609 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Louison or the Exquisite Hour - Fanny Deschamps - book Summary : This is a novel that perfectly lives up to its title: everything about it is exquisite, sparkling, light, and gracefully frivolous. In a language as delicate as the stature of its heroine, Fanny Deschamps reveals the first emotions of Louison, the bastard of the Duke of Conti, her first steps in life, and her missteps too, a few years before the French Revolution, in the rustle of silk and the sparkle of pearls. Those who loved La Bougainvillée will adore this suave and witty Louison. Claude Méheust, Marie-Claire This book can also be savored like a treat, as the author knows how to capture the sensuality of things (...). A colorful style, whose tone and elegance seem to come straight from the Age of Enlightenment. Françoise de Comberousse, France-Soir We meet Fragonard, Beaumarchais, and the great minds who, at the time, met in Paris (...). Louison's story is nothing but a collection of dazzling moments. And since Fanny Deschamps has not forgotten the primary requirement of journalism, one piece of information per line, she has also made it the most lively of reports on Paris in the 18th century. Danièle Mazingarbe, Madame Figaro EAN: 9782253052562 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memories and Regrets Too - Catherine Allégret - book Summary : I must be four years old. I'm alone with my mother in the living room, we're waiting for Montand, who's due back from his trip. Suddenly, I hear the front door close. I hide behind an armchair. Montand enters. He's holding something behind his back. Is it a present for me? I'm getting ready to come out of my hiding place to surprise him with my presence, but I don't have time. He's already embracing my mother. They're kissing. And that kiss lasts... lasts so long that it still lingers in my memory today. And I don't dare go out anymore, I'm afraid of disturbing someone. "I think that all my life, I've felt trapped behind that armchair, with, planted in the pit of my stomach, this fear of disturbing something or someone. EAN: 9782277240006 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red Sweater - Gilles Perrault - book Summary : Twenty-two-year-old Christian Ranucci was guillotined on July 28, 1976, at 4:13 a.m. in the courtyard of Baumettes Prison. Was he guilty or innocent? In The Red Sweater , which provides an important piece to the case for the death penalty, we find the remarkable qualities of Gilles Perrault's famous works: The Gardens of the Observatory, The Boy with Grey Eyes, and Oberleutnant von La Rochelle's Holiday. EAN: 9782253025436 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Combustion - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : A Machiavellian killer who uses fire to cover his crimes: in Kay Scarpetta's eyes, this could be just another investigation. But she becomes convinced that her mortal enemy, Carrie Grethen, who has escaped from her New York prison, is involved in these murders. When Carrie targets her niece, Lucy, the investigation takes on a personal dimension, and tragedy catches up with her... With this tenth novel, which has sold more than a million copies in the United States, Patricia Cornwell offers her countless fans a new masterpiece, as powerful as Postmortem Or A death without a name. A thriller in which Kay Scarpetta, by turns strong and fragile, helpless and implacable, proves more endearing than ever. In the unlikely event that you are not yet familiar with the Cornwellian universe, here is something to introduce you and get you hooked. Didier Decoin, from the Goncourt Academy. EAN: 9782253171348 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Revenge of Saint Michael - The Adventures of Alain Bivelin - Laurent Guérineau - book Summary : It's Christmas Eve aboard Sir John Petegale's yacht, cruising in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. Suddenly, there's a shock: the boat has just struck something. The sea is rough, and the cold is biting around the Rohein Reef. The evening wear, so radiant for the party, will be like rich shrouds for the occupants of the sinking ship. There will be no survivors... What are the causes of this mysterious shipwreck? A simple breakdown, a tragic human error, a heinous act of sabotage? Investigators are not short of accusations and leads. Alain Bivelin knows boats inside and out; it's his job! It was no less necessary for him to be called upon in such circumstances... The final outcome of a trilogy on the actions of an indestructible criminal who operates between Val-André, Erquy and Saint-Malo, this story makes intelligence and opportunism the pillars of good and evil; love, like death, find their place there. EAN: 9782845831117 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Tahir Shah - book Summary : India is a land of miracles, where "holy men" and mystics mesmerize their audiences with astonishing magic tricks. In major cities and remote villages alike, these earthly incarnations of the deity transform wands into snakes, drink acid, eat glass, hibernate, and even practice levitation. Born in 1966, Tahir Shah is an ethnologist already well-known for his work on the Near East, Central Asia, South America, and Africa. As a child in the English countryside, he learned the first secrets of illusionism from an Indian magician. More than twenty years later, he set out in search of this magician, the traditional guardian of the tomb of his great-grandfather, a renowned Afghan warlord. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the story of this quest and the author's initiation into the world of India's "holy men," sadhus , magi, and sages, throughout a journey that took him from Calcutta to Madras, and from Bangalore to Bombay, in search of the magical, unusual, and secret world that lies behind modern India. EAN: 9782253155195 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Flower of Time - 1983-1987 - Claude Roy - book Summary : Residence Permit ended "well." The Flower of Time picks up the thread of Claude Roy's days where the previous journal left off. What use did the writer make of his visa extension? He continued to cast a gaze on life that artificializes the distinction between personal diary and things seen, between "inner life" and "outer views." Whether he recounts a marvelous trip to Japan or a new and banal stay in the hospital, whether he subtly analyzes the pleasures of nature, his work as a poet, or experiences of pain, whether he recounts a walk in the Île-de-France forest or a stroll on the Bosphorus, it is always that rare blend of compassionate insight and midnight-blue humor. EAN: 9782070385256 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ubu roi - Ubu cocu - Ubu enchaîné - Ubu sur la Butte by Alfred Jarry - Barbara Pascarel - book Summary : A century after Alfred Jarry's death, Ubu Roi remains one of the most performed French-language plays in the world. How can we define the specificity of such a text in literary history, and how does it relate to the other works in the cycle in which Ubu is the protagonist? Its singular genesis provides one of the keys, as will be shown in the first part of this essay, "Genèse de la geste ubique," which highlights its kinship with other plays in the cycle, in the high school melting pot." Barbara Pascarel. EAN: 9782070337613 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Venetian Queen - Sylvia Mazzeri de Alberti - book Summary : Catherine Cornaro, daughter of a noble merchant belonging to one of the oldest and most illustrious families of Venice, becomes queen when the King of Cyprus, having fallen in love with her portrait, asks for her hand in marriage. She soon discovers that, even in the "land of Venus," the purest loves cannot withstand the villainy of the court. Widowed after a year of marriage, proclaimed regent, she finds herself at the heart of a dangerous political game: the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Venice want to seize the island to fight against the Turks... Sylvia Mazzeri de Alberti restores in all its splendor the story of an incredible destiny. EAN: 9782290055434 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Little Girl of Shadows - Sabine Thierry - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782952490917 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memoirs, volume 1 - Saint-Simon, Yves Coirault - book Summary : This Princess of Harcourt was a kind of character that it is good to make known, to make known more particularly a court that did not cease to receive such. She had been very beautiful and gallant; although she was not old, the graces and beauty had turned into arse-scratching. She was then a tall, fat, very lively creature, the color of milk soup, with large, ugly lips and hair of string always sticking out and trailing like all her dirty, unclean clothing; always scheming, pretending, enterprising; always quarreling, and always as low as the grass, or on the rainbow, according to those with whom she had to deal. She was a blond fury, and a harpy to boot..." EAN: 9782070382347 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Banker - Francis Dick - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277221494 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hello My Sweet Life - Sibylle Claudel - book Summary : Sometimes I feel like fate is holding a gun to my head and ordering me to stay alive..." Such is, over the course of a long season of hardship, the state of mind of the author of this book-testimony who is, as they say, "suffering from a nasty illness." But Sibylle Claudel knows how to fight. Normal: she has already experienced misfortune and is not unaware that you can, with a smile, put death to flight. A lesson in life? Courage? No, because Sybille does not like to give lessons. She is content, with her so true voice, to take the blows and offer us a hand. EAN: 9782298026016 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Poppy Woman - Noëlle Châtelet - book Summary : Marthe is seventy years old. One might think that this is no longer the age for passion. Yet, she will allow herself to live it with Félix, the man with the multicolored scarves, ten years her senior... A passion made of the wonder of souls and also of bodies. Everything that a long life as a wife and mother has not given her. Children and grandchildren, who had quickly put her in the "third age" and "grandmother doting" category, will have to witness Marthe's metamorphosis into this poppy woman , radiant and fragile, full of the joy of loving and being loved. It's a taboo subject that the novelist of The Woman in Blue lifts the veil on here, in an era where old age is ordered to be shamed or defeated. She handles it with a grace, an emotion, and a humor too, which have earned her an enthusiastic reception from critics and the public. EAN: 9782253146100 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wings of the Morning Volume 3 The Paths of Hope - Mireille Lesage - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253137412 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Indian Venus - Charles Devereux - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277238072 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : All Lives Lead to Rome - Jacqueline Monsigny - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277226253 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Three couples in search of storms - Lionel Duroy - book Summary : Characters on the threshold of maturity who suddenly dream of improbable storms... A major novel in the work of Lionel Duroy. They are three ordinary couples: Olivier is a doctor in Senlis and Claire, his wife, a part-time librarian, they have a son. Rémi is a teacher and his partner, Estelle, a sculptor. They suffer from not having children. Pascale, for her part, makes documentaries for television and Jean-Xavier, her husband, has been working for many years on a monumental book while working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They have two children. Everything is going well for these three couples. They want for nothing. They are in good health and time passes with the serenity of a Normandy river. Olivier, Rémi and Pascale have been friends since adolescence and nothing seems able to alter the strength of the affection that unites them. And yet, it only takes a harmless comment from Rémi, asking his friends if they don't find their lives deadly boring, for this harmony to crack and burst the bubble of well-being in which they were unwittingly sleeping. "Happy people don't have stories," says popular wisdom. "But they miss it," adds Lionel Duroy. Today, if mutual desire is lacking, the couple loses all foundation and ends the relationship, suddenly deemed too dull. Better (or worse), the one who breaks up is no longer the bad guy. He or she is the hero who takes the risk of sowing disaster to reconquer the only thing worth having: desire. And the one who stays is the culprit, accused of having transformed an adventure that was meant to be unique into all-risk insurance. As always in his work, Lionel Duroy delves into the heart of the contradictions of people's intimate lives. With cheerful lucidity, he reveals the harshness of those ordinary moments when our seemingly tranquil lives collide head-on with the inescapable difficulty of being. EAN: 9782290035535 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Star Destinies - Frédéric Mitterrand - book Summary : Some time ago, on television, these stars who light up our daily lives and occupy a place of honor in our hearts amazed and overwhelmed us. Here is a unique opportunity to meet them again. A bit like meeting an old friend you haven't seen for years but feel like you haven't left. They are the heroes of our time! Luchino Visconti, Grace Kelly, Liz Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Aristotle Onassis... These extraordinary beings who keep their share of mystery but allow us to glimpse their flaws, their fragility, their pain, their wounds... EAN: 9782266082570 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Memoirs of Giorgione - Claude Chevreuil - book Summary : In September 1510, struck down at the height of his glory by the plague that was ravaging Venice, Giorgio da Castelfranco, known as Gorgione, returned to die in his native village. To his favorite student, he wrote a long letter in which he told everything about his life and his art. A solitary childhood on his parents' farm; entry into Bellini's Venetian studio; years of initiation into pictorial techniques, but also into music, books, love... And then he took flight, creating his own studio, and entering high society. We meet Dürer, Leonardo, Titian, his future rival. Venice, its splendors, its great families, its people, its courtesans form the backdrop for these abundant Memoirs, which shed light on artistic creation from the inside, and take us through new avenues into one of the most mysterious works of the Italian Renaissance. EAN: 9782253147848 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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