Title : Baudolino - Umberto Eco - book Summary Born in Piedmont in 1932, Umberto Eco holds the chair of semiotics at the University of Bologna. He taught in Paris at the Collège de France and at the École Normale Supérieure on rue d'Ulm. He is the author of numerous essays, including How to Travel with a Salmon, and three novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before. A truly great book... Baudolino, a whimsical and lying young peasant, conquers Frederick Barbarossa and becomes his adopted son. Baudolino fantasizes, invents, and, as if by magic, everything he imagines becomes history. Thus, among other things, he wrote the mythical letter from Prester John, which promised the West a fabulous kingdom in the Far East ruled by a Christian king, which has inspired many travelers, including Marco Polo. Baudolino grows up. Alexandria was born around 1168, and years later, driven by Baudolino's inventive genius, Frederick set out, using a crusade as a pretext, to return to Prester John the most precious relic of Christianity, which some call the Grasal. He died during this long journey, in mysterious circumstances that only Baudolino could uncover. But his son continued the fabulous expedition to this distant kingdom populated by monsters that haunted the bestiary of the Middle Ages. He experienced extraordinary adventures, including a love story with one of the most singular creatures of Eve's descendants... Told to the Byzantine historian Niceta Coniates, while Constantinople was burning after the sack, the story still held a few surprises. Speaking with Niceta, Baudolino understood things he hadn't yet understood, hence the unexpected ending. EAN : 9782246615019 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I, François Villon - Jean Teulé - book Summary After Rimbaud and Verlaine, Jean Teulé could not have better concluded his journey into poetry than by proudly and humbly donning the magnificent rags of François Villon. Human brothers who live after us, Do not harden your hearts against us. He may have been born on the day Joan of Arc died. His father was hanged and his mother tortured. He learned Greek and Latin at the University of Paris. He enjoyed himself, lied, and stole from a very young age. He associated with the poor and the wealthy, students, priests, prostitutes, assassins, poets, and kings. No human feeling was foreign to him. From the most sublime to the most atrocious, he committed all the acts a man can commit. He crossed like a meteor thirty years of the history of his time and disappeared one morning on the road to Orléans. He gave the world powerful and mysterious poems and opened the magnificent path that all other poets would follow after him: absolute freedom. After Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, Jean Teulé slips into the shoes of François Villon to restore the existence of the first of the modern French poets, master of the ballad, a genius flayed like no other, but also a bad boy who assiduously frequented the world of dungeons. EAN : 9782260016830 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Women's Hour - Adèle Bréau - book Summary 2023 Press House Prize Paris, 1967. On the cusp of her fifties, Menie, a middle-class mother, is recruited by RTL radio, which has decided to update its programming. Her role? To get listeners talking. In just a few weeks, it's a tidal wave. Women from all over France confide in "the lady of the heart." Soon, at nap time, millions will be following the show with passion. Among them, Mireille and her sister Suzanne, who discover that they too can control their destiny. As for Menie's life, torn between the whirlwind of a society liberated by May 68 and the torments inflicted on her, it is completely turned upside down. Fifty years later, Esther, a documentary filmmaker struggling to rebuild her life, will delve back into those not-so-distant years when the fate of French women seems like another age. With this new novel, driven by the figure of Menie Grégoire, her grandmother, Adèle Bréau unites the destinies of women who, despite their differences, reach out to one another. Love, motherhood, rights, sisterhood... the author explores the advances, paradoxes, and regressions of the female condition over five decades, bringing them into resonance in a resolutely romantic fresco. Finalist for the 2023 Maison de la Presse Prize "We at RTL obviously couldn't miss Adèle Bréau's book, which I insist on, is much more than a biography, a portrait of her grandmother Menie Grégoire, it's a novel in the full sense of the term with a beautiful gallery of characters and narrative bridges between the Menie years and today." Bernant Lehut, RTL "Through four inspiring heroines from yesterday and today, the author, granddaughter of Menie Grégoire, continues to explore the bonds of sisterhood in this beautiful novel about women's struggles. Fascinating from start to finish." Femina Version “Amazing.” The Parisian “The portrait of a journalist and a liberating era.” Point of View “A touching and topical novel.” SHE “A gripping novel.” Gala “A captivating fiction that questions the place of women in society.” Marie Claire “Vibrant with passion and sensitivity.” Paris Match “A wonderful novel to read and have others read!” TV Z “ A novel that gives pride of place to intergenerational solidarity. » Books Weekly "Adèle Bréau sheds new light on the struggle our mothers and grandmothers had to wage to win their freedom, sometimes not without pain. It is extremely eloquent." France 3 “A story full of love and admiration” The Obs EAN : 9782709669450 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Christmas Fires - Marie-Bernadette Dupuy - book Summary Colmar, November 1924. Twenty-two-year-old Lisel Schmitt is a first-hand worker in a ladies' clothing workshop. After spending a year in Paris working for a prestigious fashion house, she dreams of creating her own designs and making a career. Her fate, until then peaceful and promising, changes the day a fire breaks out in the store where she works. Trapped in the burning building, with burns on her hands, she is narrowly saved by Heinrich Keller, a firefighter. The attraction between the two young people is immediate, but soon Lisel is the victim of a mysterious plot and confronted with a terrible secret, which could shatter all her dreams. EAN : 9782702182253 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - book Summary Faced with the drastic drop in fertility, the Republic of Gilead, recently founded by religious fanatics, has reduced the few remaining fertile women to the rank of sex slaves. Dressed in red, Offred, a "scarlet handmaid" among others, whose very name has been stripped, places her body at the service of her Commander and his wife. In the evening, returning to her austere monastic room, she thinks of the time when women had the right to read, to work... By joining a secret network, she will do everything to regain her freedom. First published in 1985, The Handmaid's Tale has sold millions of copies worldwide. A classic of English-language literature, this novel, reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984, describes a chilling daily life that has never seemed so close, reminding us how fragile our freedoms are. The series adaptation of Margaret Atwood's masterpiece, starring Elisabeth Moss, has received unanimous critical acclaim. EAN : 9782221203323 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blood of the Forest - Serge Tachon - book Summary In the Landes department in 1950, rural life is difficult. Gisèle, a young widow accompanied by her stepdaughter Hélène, arrives. While Gisèle is accepted by the community of Ygos-Saint-Saturnin, a small village in the heart of the forest, the same cannot be said for Hélène, almost a teenager. People find her strange. The kindest say she's backward, because of her atypical appearance. Others see it as a harbinger of impending misfortune. A disturbing coincidence: since her arrival, a series of strange murders have rocked this otherwise peaceful village. The Mont-de-Marsan police station takes charge of the case. Will the investigator, a pragmatic man, be able to understand what motivates this merciless murderer? What if the answer lies in the often painful past of these seemingly uneventful villagers? EAN : 9782350682105 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : White Fear - Ken Follett - book Summary Panic sweeps Britain as a sample of the Madoba-2 virus has disappeared from the Oxenford Medical laboratory. Madoba-2, against which Oxenford was seeking a vaccine, could become a deadly biological weapon capable of infecting an entire city within hours. As former cop turned security chief Antonia tries to control the situation and contain the media, a group of hostage-takers kidnaps CEO Stanley Oxenford and his family... What do they want? Who gave them the confidential information that enabled this offensive? Equally at home in scientific thrillers, spy novels and historical epics, the author of The Corneille Network and The Pillars of the Earth once again hits the nail on the head with this terrifyingly realistic suspense thriller. EAN : 9782253113041 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Erotic Potential of My Wife - David Foenkinos - book Summary French Literature - It is often said that there are women's men, but Hector can be considered a man of objects. Far from comparing women to objects, we note obvious similarities, and the anxieties of our hero can be reflected in the anxieties of the unfaithful, and of all men pierced by feminine scarcity. After collecting, among other things, cocktail picks, election campaign badges, paintings of boats at the dock, rabbit's feet, soap bells, noises at five o'clock in the morning, Croatian sayings, banister balls, the first pages of novels, melon labels, birds' eggs, moments with you, hangman's nooses, Hector fell in love and got married. So, he started collecting his wife. EAN : 9782070309771 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Himmler's Cook - Franz-Olivier Giesbert - book Summary This is the comical epic of a cook who was never afraid of anything. A zany and colorful character, Rose survived the abjections of the dreadful 20th century, which she lived through without losing any of her sensuality or her joie de vivre. Between two loves, she suffered everything: the Armenian genocide, the horrors of Nazism, the delusions of Maoism. But, each time, she was resurrected to move forward. Scathing and picaresque, this book tells the extraordinary adventures of a scandalous centenarian who has a credo: "If Hell is History, Heaven is life." EAN : 9782070459704 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Under the Winds of Neptune - Fred Vargas - book Summary Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg welcomes this training in Quebec on genetic fingerprinting with relief. Two weeks without enduring the inexplicable hostility of his assistant Danglard, heaven! But a press clipping revives heavy memories of a murder committed during his youth, which implicated his brother Raphaël, who has since disappeared. Could the Trident killer be back? A fainting spell and an alcoholic coma later, Adamsberg is losing control. Only the leniency of Danglard and the ingenuity of his collaborator Violette Retancourt will be able to rescue him, almost unscathed, from the horrors of the past. EAN : 9782290357248 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Judaism - Marabout - book EAN: 9782501015189 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Marsupilami - Volume 34 - Marsu club - Colman - 2025 - new comic book EAN: 9791034766314 New Book The book matches the photo

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