Title : Dancing - Hugo Marchand - book Summary : Hugo Marchand woke up one morning with a dream. He was nine years old. This virtuoso, one of the new generation of stars at the Paris Opera, clung to this dream of dance. Four years after entering the Nantes Conservatory, having won a gold medal at thirteen, he was admitted to the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite his atypical profile, Hugo Marchand joined the Paris Opera's corps de ballet at seventeen. He climbed the ranks, competing against others, as well as himself, in international competitions, and reached the ultimate rank of principal dancer in March 2017. By sharing his apprenticeship, Hugo Marchand takes a look at dance as a school of acceptance. That of the immensity of the work required to make a dream come true. From the quest for excellence to the shaping of self-confidence to achieve it. The tug-of-war between doubt and determination. From solitude to overexposure, from the possibility of friendship despite competition. The perpetual confrontation with the mirror, a reflection of imperfections to be overcome. The experience of a metamorphosis. EAN: 9782081445581 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : If we loved each other? Short stories - Jean Vautrin - book Summary : Keep the trunk, throw away the branches! Obeying this single watchword, to resist the viciousness of the times that is going crazy and to make up for the dearth of souls, I scraped these ten short stories to the bone. In my head, they hummed from one continent to another the sad and hilarious song of people of all skin types, of all faiths and of all countries - guys, women or kids - agitated by the worries of their personal itches, by the turpitudes of the moment, by unemployment, by childhood, obesity, alcoholism, war, the dramas of married life, or quite simply tormented by a strong desire to fuck. I kept the tempo of the characters, I preserved the rhythm of their inner madness. I wanted them to swing and sway to the rhythm of their obsessions. They were, so to speak, greedy for my energy. No doubt because they burst into the imagination of a writer at a moment in the winter of his existence when the inability to love like a young man, his roaring desire to bite into life again, and the approach of death sharpened the acuity of his gaze. In a word, I awakened what is still stirring within me. If we loved each other? EAN: 9782213612287 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Butterfly Ball - Hervé Vilard - book Summary : Being nineteen and at the top of the hit parade. Shouting "Capri, it's over" in the frenzy of the sixties. And, one evening on tour, in Verdun, for a journalist's scoop, finding his mother under the photographers' lens. A painful reunion, on Rue Nollet, in the closed confines of a furnished apartment: Blanche is feeling down, and, under the sink, the bottles of wine are piling up. Hervé chooses to flee. From the Peloponnese to Mexico, from the Shabanou Palace to Franco's Spain... success is no longer there. His mother is losing her mind. Damage, trials, ruins. With a lively pen, Hervé Vilard evokes his years of success, scratching some idols along the way, but also his failures and disappointments, with modesty and dignity. A moving story. In In The Butterfly Ball, you sometimes get burned. But with style, which changes everything. Nicolas Rey, VSD. The unsentimental tale of a life that was a little too heavy. Stéphanie Gatignol, Pleine vie. EAN: 9782253125907 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Public - Antoine Vauchez - book Summary : After three decades in which we thought we could do without them, everything indicates that we need the public's words more than ever. Faced with the risks of a State being diverted from its public framework, they are the key words of social and political mobilizations (...) and the best thermometer of our collective life and our democracies." A. Vauchez At the risk of an unprecedented crisis of confidence among citizens in the State, whose "public" legitimacy they are now questioning, that is to say, the capacity, or even the will, to act as a relay for collective interests and to protect citizens. The general state of unpreparedness in which the State found itself at the start of the pandemic will have served as a revelation here; shedding a harsh light on the actions of previous governments which had followed a policy of cost reduction and managerial efficiency at the risk of depriving hospital services of the necessary masks and hospital beds. Since the government no longer appears to be acting as a "public authority", nothing seems to justify the state exception which confers on this political organization a derogatory status and exorbitant powers. It is this tension that the Yellow Vest movement has revealed, marked both by high expectations of the State in terms of public services (in terms of quality and equality of access to hospitals, public transport, etc.), and an unprecedented distrust of governments held responsible for the State's failure to keep its "public" promises. This crisis of confidence could not have come at a worse time, given that we collectively need a State and a European Union capable of leading, on behalf of all, the ecological conversion of our societies and economies, and at a time when we must face the profound health, but also economic and social, consequences of the Covid pandemic. A way of saying, in short, that reflection on the "public" and the links it maintains with the State is today a prerequisite for all our discussions on changing the direction of public policies. New democratic theories sometimes forget this, busy as they are with bringing out new mobilizing horizons - whether it be the ecological transition or new forms of participatory democracy. But, without reflecting on what the State has become over the last three decades, nor on the chains of dependency in which its action is now inscribed, they expose themselves to the gap by acting as if the State were this simple "lever" available and mobilizable provided that we are willing to give it the desired political meaning. But there is precisely reason to doubt this. This is why we must pick up the thread of the "public" and put back on the table a notion that we had lazily abandoned like an old relic. We must take stock of the landslides that have occurred over the past thirty years and have weakened the public foundations of the State, describe their political and democratic effects, and explore the possible paths of a new public spirit of government. EAN: 9782381910468 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Song of Ice and Fire - The Complete Collection, Volume 1 - George RR Martin - book Summary : After killing the mad monarch Aerys II Targaryen, Robert Baratheon has become the new ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. Meanwhile, in his domain of Winterfell, his faithful friend Duke Eddard Stark peacefully dispenses justice. But one day, King Robert visits him with grim news: the throne is in peril. Stark, who has always kept his distance from matters of power, must then abandon the northern lands to join the court and its intrigues. The situation is grave, especially since beyond the Wall that has protected the kingdom for centuries, strange creatures prowl. EAN: 9782290019436 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Little Painter of Florence - Pilar Molina Llorente - book Summary : Arduino lives in Florence and has only one dream: to become a painter, like the greats of the Renaissance. What joy when his father agrees to place him as an apprentice to Master Cosimo! But the disappointment is great when he reaps nothing but chores and insults. And he has no idea what he will discover in the attic of this mysterious man. EAN: 9782013225007 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Medea - Followed by a journey on the myth of Medea - Pierre Corneille - book Summary : Corneille's first tragedy, followed by an anthology on the myth of Medea, from Euripides to Anouilh. Annotated edition, with a file for high school students. The tragedy of Corneille Abandoned and deceived by Jason, whom she still loves, Medea discovers that the father of her children is going to marry Creusa. Beside herself, the repudiated woman decides to take revenge by killing her own children. This first tragedy by Corneille takes up the story of Medea, emphasizing the fate of a woman destroyed by passion and overcome by murderous madness. ...followed by an anthology on the myth of Medea The anthology traces the history of rewritings of the myth of Medea from Antiquity to the present day. It focuses on highlighting the different variations that have occurred since the ancient Medea and presents successively: the Gothic and lyrical Medea, the Medea of ​​symbolist theater and the contemporary Medea. With a critical file Including all the resources useful to high school students to study the work: - historical and biographical references; - files on the main reading axes of the work; - two groups of thematic texts; - color iconographic documents and image readings; - baccalaureate-type subjects for written and oral examinations. EAN: 9782218966644 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : There Was a Captain - Bertrand Solet - book Summary : October 1894. Maxime Dumas writes an article for his newspaper about the scandal of the day: a French officer is accused of treason. Is Captain Dreyfus guilty? Yes, since he is Jewish, cry the anti-Semites. But where is the evidence? reply those who suspect corruption and bias. The "Dreyfus Affair" then sets France ablaze. EAN: 9782010023491 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Karlsson cousins ​​Volume 1 - Spies and ghosts - Katarina Mazetti - book Summary : Julia and her little sister Bourdon are spending their holidays with their two cousins ​​at Frida's, their artist aunt who lives alone on a wild island off the coast of Sweden. But this island is more mysterious than it seems, and the four cousins, launched into a fascinating first investigation, won't have time to be bored. EAN: 9782364742574 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Indiana Jones Jr and the Runaway Princess - Bibliothèque Verte - Les Martin - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782010188381 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Michel Fait Surface - Green Library - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782010162459 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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