Title : The Paths of Adventure - Juliette Benzoni - book Summary : Adventure with a capital A and in every sense of the word: glorious, desperate, sordid, or ambitious. Spartacus, the rebellious slave, who breaks his chains and briefly threatens all-powerful Rome, chooses to live dangerously. Gilles de Rais, Marshal of France at twenty-five and companion of Joan of Arc, loses his life on the scaffold. Stenka Razine, the rebellious Cossack, is quartered. However, Jeanne de Clisson, who, out of despair for love, scours the seas with incredible ferocity and stands up to King Philip VI of France, peacefully breathes her last in her bed, just like the Duke of Guise at the royal Château de Blois or the brave Bussy d'Amboise in an Angevin manor. As for the fanatical loyalty of a Cadoudal, it elevates Adventure to its highest peaks while it sinks with Brinvilliers and Jeanne de La Motte-Valois. Adventurers possess in their hearts, perhaps more than other mortals, the violence of human passions. Their ghosts, soberly evoked, despite the blood and tears - or perhaps because of them - emit a moving light that the centuries have not weakened and that Juliette Benzoni, with her talents as a storyteller, knows so well how to recreate. EAN : 9782841005437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Paths of Bourges - Solange Fasquelle - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253036715 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Keys to Power Are in the Glove Compartment - San Antonio - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782265017801 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Five Girls of Grand-Barrail - Geneviève Callerot - book Summary : The Minauds have been sharecroppers in Grand-Barrail for generations. Juanna moved there in 1911, after her marriage to Alexandre. She gave him five daughters: Lucile, Valentine, Renée, Yvette, and Yolande. Gassed during the war, Alexandre died in 1927, the morning of the birth of Guynemer, the long-awaited son... The family broke up. Five stories, each related to one of the daughters, retrace the life of this family. These chronicles can be read as independent short stories, however, Geneviève Callerot knows how to gradually distill new information, and each story reveals a little more about the others, skillfully weaving together the Minauds' destiny. She thus provides us with a true document on the country, the work, and the days, through the destiny of each of the five daughters and traps her reader in a star-shaped plot, establishing herself as a true novelist. "Around five o'clock, Lucile would kiss her world goodbye and go back up to her home, which was, for the young woman, more beautiful than all the palaces of kings. She would rekindle the fire and make her little supper while looking after her rabbits, bringing in her laundry, inspecting her garden, watering it if necessary. At nightfall, Emile would come home. [...] They would both have supper, happy as anyone." EAN : 9782844944818 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Roads Traveled - Edith Wharton - book Summary : Her sharp and - even more so than that of her dear Henry James - critical eye on her country and her compatriots earned Edith Wharton the admiration of the severe Edmund Wilson. In this self-portrait, in which the author of The Wedding Planner and The New Yorkers casts, at the end of his life, "a look back on the paths traveled", we find the woman James had christened "the angel of devastation", her ferocious art dressed in chic, this impression of strength and mixed reflections which has struck all readers of her work. Here is a great "portrait of a woman," that of one of the great ladies of American literature, in whom irony and humor have always been able to combine with panache and elegance.9782253155225 EAN : 9782264031891 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Golden Oaks - Christian Signol - 2003 - book EAN: 9782253150725 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Paths Invent Us - Philippe Delerm - 1999 - book EAN: 9782253145844 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Paths of Baroque in Savoy - Parot, Richard - 1999 - book EAN: 9782911739026 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Civilized - Select Collection No. 92 - Claude Farrère - 1936 - book EAN: Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Spiritual Keys to Wealth - Your First Steps to Fortune - Deepak Chopra - 2006 - book EAN: 9782290338872 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Paths to Freedom 2 The Reprieve - Jean-Paul Sartre - 1967 - book EAN: Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Christians Volume 1 - The Soldier's Coat - Max Gallo - 2005 - book EAN: 9782253066880 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Chronicles of Camelot Volume 1 The Skystone - Jack Whyte - 2022 - book EAN: 9791028119003 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Keys to Contemporary History - Max Gallo - 2005 - book EAN: 9782253115021 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Five Kingdoms - Peter Tremayne - 2004 - book EAN: 9782264033505 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Paths of Glory, Volume 1 The Time of the Innocents - Daniel Hulet - 1985 - book - comics EAN: 9782723405751 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Rags of Dreams - Madeleine Chapsal - 2003 - book EAN: 9782253155539 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Knights of the Cabin - Gillian Cross - 2004 - book EAN: 9782011167842 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Cicadas and Ants. Borrowings between Sciences - André Delessert - 1996 - book EAN: 9782606004576 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Chouans - Honoré De Balzac - book EAN: 9782904310799 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Horses of the Sun - Roy, Jules - book EAN: 2724208242 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Scribe's Five Dreams - Bahiyyih Nakhjavani - book EAN: 9782742769353 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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