Title : The Insoumise - Martine Desevre - book Summary : In France, during the reign of Francis I, Raphaëlle Aslet, an orphan violently dispossessed of her possessions, is initiated at a very young age into the art of goldsmithing. At eighteen, she excels in creating highly original jewels. Determined to make a living from her art, she goes to Paris to practice her talents. But she must immediately confront misogyny and rejection from a guild whose art is exclusively practiced by men. Nevertheless, managing to get noticed by the king, Raphaëlle attempts to establish herself among her colleagues. A passionate love unites her with the knight Guillaume de Valras, unfortunately married. But ambitions, rivalries, and desires for revenge tear them apart and separate them as the goldsmiths seek to oust her by the most vile means. Added to this malevolence is the destructive jealousy of Margaux, Guillaume's wife, and the awakening of a terrible past that reveals Raphaëlle's true identity. A gripping story, full of love and drama in the glittering atmosphere of the Renaissance, among the brilliance of precious stones, the shaping of gold, and the artistic abundance of the Pont-au-Change, the luxuriant center of Parisian goldsmithing. EAN : 9782298079951 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Legacy of the Past - Julie Garwood - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782744195914 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Battle - The Last Battle, May 2, 1945 - Cornelius Ryan - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782221080887 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When You Weren't There - Laura Bloom - book Summary : Summer Hill, a suburb of Sydney, in the 1940s. For the women who remained at home, the war was also a trial. With no news of her husband, who was mobilized in the Pacific, Catherine was convinced he was dead. Unable to bear the solitude any longer, she finally found comfort with an American soldier. But in February 1946, her husband returned. Haunted by the memory of the fighting, he was no longer the same man. Catherine, for her part, was consumed by guilt. For adultery was not the only one of his secrets. With this remarkable novel of psychological accuracy, Laura Bloom subtly evokes the intimate dramas caused by war and offers a magnificent portrait of a woman who takes responsibility for her choices against all odds. EAN : 9782258085169 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Plea for a few obscure Jews, victims of Monsieur Papon - Preface by Pierre Vidal-Naquet - Gérard Boulanger - book Please note that some pages may have been highlighted with highlighter or pencil, but this will not interfere with reading. Summary : On April 2, 1998, the verdict of one of the most important French trials of the 20th century was delivered: Maurice Papon was sentenced by the Bordeaux Assize Court to ten years of criminal imprisonment for complicity in crimes against humanity. Secretary General of the Bordeaux Prefecture from 1942 to 1944, he had contributed to the deportation of 1,600 Jewish men, women, and children. A month earlier, on March 9, 1998, Mr. Gérard Boulanger began the pleadings as representative of the first individual plaintiffs and the majority of the civil parties. This Bordeaux lawyer had been actively fighting for this trial to take place since December 8, 1981. It took seventeen years of a twisty investigation for him to finally be able to plead. This book is a faithful transcription of his plea. Gérard Boulanger gives the history of this seventeen-year investigation, of the fierce battle of the civil parties to ensure that the trial took place despite attempts at destabilization. Then he describes the role played by Maurice Papon during the Collaboration. Arriving in Bordeaux in 1942, he was given responsibility for "Jewish questions" and, de facto , significant police powers that would lead to requisitions and several roundups, starting with that of the night of July 15-16, 1942, then to the establishment of a formidable file of Jews. From 1944, Papon tried to cover his tracks, but Gérard Boulanger shattered the pseudo-resistance of the senior official. This book, illustrated throughout with courtroom drawings by Edith Gorren, is an indispensable document that contributes to the national duty of remembrance, an essential text for generations who did not experience the war. It is a plea against forgetting and for the truth to come out: Papon was not a cog in the Vichy bureaucratic machine, but rather an active and merciless executor of its policy of collaboration. EAN : 9782702135518 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wind of the City - Roucarie Philippe - book Summary : They lived in a world that was closing in on their horizon. They were neither better nor worse. They were simply the heirs of a tradition that bristled at the unknown. In the country, everything was bitter and nothing was generously offered. They were peasants, born of the land, nourished harshly by it, and so viscerally attached to this origin that any intrusion was a frustration for them. So, a newcomer, even one "entered as a son-in-law" and helped by a respected and esteemed Grandmother, seemed to them as undesirable as rain on haymaking day. Only his wife, born in the country, raised among everyone and as such entitled to indulgence, could have him admitted after infinite patience. EAN : 9782909797304 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Black Line - Jean-Christophe Grangé - book Summary : There exists, somewhere in Southeast Asia, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator, another line. A black line marked by bodies and fear... EAN : 9782226151094 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Little Girls - Elizabeth Bowen - book Summary : Three former classmates reunite after losing touch some fifty years earlier. They parted lightly the summer of their tenth birthday, vowing to achieve the moon and stars in the face of life's promise. Half a century later, everything points to their having "made it." Dicey, a widow and seemingly fulfilled mother, has become a strange, undignified old lady, haunted by the passage of time. Sheikie is a university professor. Mumbo runs a chain of stores. But, looking back and rediscovering the lack of complacency that is characteristic of children, they realize that they have indeed failed in life... Do we ever leave childhood? And if we think we will one day leave it, is it to go somewhere? Elizabeth Bowen, undoubtedly in her century the surest heir to Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, raises these questions... and of course takes care not to answer them, because our certainties are the greatest enemies of our emotions. EAN : 9782752902641 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Without Family - Malot - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782845950382 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The ABCs of Delacroix and the Orient - Alain Daguerre de Hureaux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782080117601 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : For Love - Valérie Tong Cuong - book Summary : Through love, any human being can surpass themselves. We stand tall, for the other even more than for ourselves. VTC Valérie Tong Cuong has published ten novels, including the highly acclaimed Workshop of Miracles . With this captivating fresco that takes us from Le Havre under the Occupation to Algeria, she traces the heroic destinies of ordinary people, whose secret lives invite us into the great History. EAN : 9782709656047 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Libyan Desert - Théodore Monod - book Summary : The Libyan Desert, the driest of all deserts, located on both sides of the Egyptian-Libyan border, is also the most mysterious. Its secrets, buried beneath the sands, have captivated scientists since the late 19th century. The unknown origin of glass fragments scattered in the Great Sand Sea, the search for the lost oasis, and the discovery of vast deposits of jars are all enigmas that drive Théodore Monod to explore this eastern part of the Sahara. This work, under his direction, describes the landscape, fauna, flora, prehistoric settlement, and the history of exploration of this magical place. EAN : 9782700301595 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : New Yorkers - Edith Wharton - book Summary : Pauline Manford is a seemingly exemplary wife, mother, and homemaker, determined to see only success and harmony around her. But in the New York of the Roaring Twenties, the opulent Manford family is caught up in the whirlwind of pleasure and money. The conflict between a tenacious puritanism and cynical behavior causes dramas from which Pauline turns away by pursuing frenetic activity. Her days are filled with domestic rituals, marital tactics, spiritualist meditations, social gatherings, and charitable organizations in a total leveling of values. She stuns herself with positive principles, as categorical as they are artificial, in order to distract herself from a reality she would find wrong to face. Yet those close to her are painfully aware of the blindness, lies, and betrayals surrounding her. The intimate wounds of her daughter Nona are those of an entire generation victimized by the negligence of their elders. A strikingly timely satire on the ravages of complacency, Women of New York is Edith Wharton's fiercest, funniest, and most modern novel. EAN : 9782080677853 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mysterious Doctor Martin - 1895-1969 - Pean Pierre - book Summary : Henri Martin is certainly the greatest conspirator of the century. Born in the midst of the Dreyfus affair, he joined the Action Française at the age of fourteen, fascinated by the anti-republican rhetoric and activism of Charles Maurras's followers. But Martin was a fierce independent and quickly left the monarchist organization, which he deemed too timid. In the 1930s, Jews, Freemasons, international finance, and the Bolsheviks fueled his excitement and his determination to wage war against the adversaries of the values ​​of eternal France in whose name he fought. Then, with a few extremists, he founded the famous Cagoule, whose avowed objective was to overthrow the Republic, fight the Spanish Republicans, and eradicate communism... Martin, who spent his entire life working in political intelligence, put his fierce energy at the service of Pétain. But soon the passion for intrigue took over, first against Laval (deemed too favorable to the occupier), then against part of the Vichy government (which, he thought, was obstructing the National Revolution). Exasperated, the Vichy authorities had him interned in 1942. And Martin would end the war as an agent of the Americans! After the war, he resumed his fight against the communists, and soon his career as a conspirator. His plots against the Fourth Republic were finally diverted by the Gaullists in May 58: Martin was thus a key player in the return of General de Gaulle, whom he nevertheless loathed. Then, of course, it was the OAS Tranquille est la République when Martin rested at... La Santé. Here is an extraordinary journey through the century, the life of a magnificent conspirator, told from an investigation among the last witnesses of this epic, a dive into the archives and the family papers of the mysterious Doctor. EAN : 9782213027845 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Complete News - Marcel Aymé - book Summary : It happens that the most ordinary, banal existences embrace the fantastic with such happiness that, far from being offended, we slip into it with delight. If animals speak, or become a little snobbish because they have learned to read, in the tales of the Perched Cat, what could be more natural? And if certain beings have received gifts that they have not asked for: walking through walls, wearing a halo that turns out to be cumbersome, possessing the gift of ubiquity... well, we follow in their footsteps and follow with passion and tenderness the inevitable avatars that such situations bring about in individuals who could not be more normal. Marcel Aymé wrote tales and short stories throughout his life, 105 in total, brought together here for the first time. The 17 Tales of the Perched Cat were published in illustrated albums between 1934 and 1946; The stories were written and published between 1927 and 1967. There is nothing impromptu in this work, which is as abundant as it is caustic, but on the contrary, a host of characters - men and animals - who inhabited their creator. EAN : 9782070763733 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bilal on the road of illegal immigrants - Fabrizio Gatti - book Summary : A fake name, a small tube with a few dollars rolled up in it, glue to hide his fingerprints, a life jacket, three cans of sardines, a large bottle of water—that's all it takes for Fabrizio Gatti, a journalist at L'Espresso, to transform himself into Bilal, an imaginary immigrant. From Dakar, he will travel to Tripoli, infiltrating the emigration route, in order to enter Europe through the Lampedusa gate, as hundreds of illegal immigrants do every day. In doing so, he crosses the Sahara on trucks, meets members of Al-Qaeda, unscrupulous smugglers, new-style slave traders, and, in Lampedusa, he experiences the daily life of these asylum seekers who will be released with an expulsion notice. A sheet that they hasten to tear into a thousand pieces to try their luck in Italy, France, Germany... Lucid and merciless, Bilal is the chronicle of the greatest adventure of the third millennium experienced in the first person by the author and told as a story. This exceptional book had provoked, upon its release in Italy in November 2007, a huge debate on the situation of immigrants and Fabrizio Gatti won the 2008 Terzani Prize (the biggest Italian non-fiction prize). "A book where the obsession to bear witness is as strong as the hope of the illegal immigrants." Le Monde "Gatti magnifies the great report." Télérama "A moving literary force." La Croix " EAN : 9782867464799 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Search of King Solomon's Mines - Tahir Shah - book Summary : After having us explore, in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the most secret backstage of Indian magic, the tireless globetrotter Tahir Shah invites us on an equally unusual and eventful journey to Ethiopia. The object of this unorthodox wandering in one of the least known countries in the world today? The search for the legendary mines of King Solomon, which, for centuries, haunted the dreams of adventurers and fired the imagination of novelists. "Ethiopia," Tahir Shah is careful to point out in the foreword to his book, "is a country surrounded by mountains and prejudices." But these will soon be shattered by the realities that he and his two companions, a Christian and an alcoholic chauffeur, discover from town to village, from green countryside to deadly deserts, and from gold deposits to cursed mountains. For the search for Solomon's mines is above all the occasion for a fabulous journey, with often irresistibly comical twists and turns, and a thorough exploration of an Ethiopia that remains unknown to the rare tourists who venture there like diplomats and politicians naively trying to influence its destiny. And here, Tahir Shah's insatiable curiosity and his taste for the unusual work wonders, as do his frenzied verve and his rare talent as a storyteller. EAN : 9782877064620 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sorcerer's Apprentice - In the Heart of Mysterious India - 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. It was as a child in the English countryside that 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, an illustrious 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 : 9782877064118 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Origins of Man, Origins of a Man - Yves Coppens - book Summary : Eighty years of memories, encounters, travels, initiatives, results, successes, joys, lots of little pleasures and tiny misfortunes, great dazzlements. Paleoanthropology and archaeology have the scientific and philosophical duty to reconstruct the history of man; they have demonstrated that our roots were animal, proven our kinship with the great apes, declared our unique, tropical and African origin, shown the logic of our progressive deployment throughout the world, and explained how consciousness and knowledge have little by little given to this strange little mammal that we are behavioral traits that had not yet emerged throughout the 4 billion years of life history and which are free will and freedom, responsibility and dignity. » YC Through his own Memoirs, and in the light of the most fundamental discoveries that punctuated his life, Yves Coppens presents us here with the Memoirs of Humanity, combining the knowledge of the scientist, his humanity and the talent of the writer. EAN : 9782738136053 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Music - Michel Serres - book Summary : Where does Music spring from? From the sounds of the world? From the clamour of assemblies? From our emotions? And how can we define it? Nothing is more difficult than answering these questions. I preferred to describe it in three tales. Legendary, the first follows the life of Orpheus, his initiation with the Bacchantes and the Muses, then his plunge into the Underworld in search of Eurydice, his lover. How can we love in Music? Autobiographical, the second invades the Great Narrative of knowledge, which here becomes a Great Symphony. Can we think in Music? Finally, biblical, the last psalmody, from Genesis to the Nativity. Should we pray in Music? EAN : 9782746505452 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : World News - Michel Serres - book Summary : Another of my friends lived with his family in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto Zoo; only a fence separated the cages from his house. Arriving before the sun rose, the earthquake, therefore, made its usual chthonic noise, comparable to the lowest notes of a great organ, accompanied by the banging sounds resulting from the collapses, falls, and destruction of all things, but above all, there, by the hubbub or confused hubbub of animals panicked by the shock: lions, gorillas, tigers, camels, reptiles, ibexes, vertebrates of all kinds and birds of all feathers roared, hissed, howled, bellowed, blatered, whistled, chirped, bellowed like a strange jungle returned to the natural anxieties of the earth. Will anyone believe it? Accustomed to their slavery and as if drugged with immobility, the animals did not leave the pit, cage, or aviary, even when the barriers were dismantled. They howled without moving, as if waiting for the gates to return, blind to their presence and therefore to their disappearance." In these News from the World, landscapes play as central a role as stories and people. Each story is born from the shared life of women and men with a country that amazes them, and which in return they enchant. Thus, believing he is writing a landscape, the storyteller tells the universe, and, in giving news of such a person, he tells of everyone. EAN : 9782080355430 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Bed of Hawthorn - Jean Anglade - book Summary : At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother's love for her three boys with very different destinies: one becomes a priest, another an officer, the third a pimp. Viverols, a mountain commune surrounded by woods and pastures, on the borders of four provinces: Auvergne, Forez, Velay, Vivarais. In 1902, a Corsican gendarme, Pancrace Cervoni, was appointed brigade chief there. He married a young, almost illiterate peasant woman, Tiennette Farigoule, whose mother claimed to be a descendant of the Dauphin Louis XVII, who had escaped from the Temple and taken refuge in the region. They had three sons together. The first would become a priest, the second an officer, and the third a pimp. But, unconcerned by these dissimilar careers, Tiennette harbored an equal and passionate love for them, ready for any indulgence. With In A Bed of Hawthorn, Jean Anglade tells us the captivating and multi-coloured, burlesque and moving story of this 'Mother Goriot' and her three sons. EAN : 9782258091559 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Such a Great Love - Danielle Steel - book Summary : Edwina Winfield, the eldest daughter of a wealthy American family, embarks with her parents, five siblings, and fiancé aboard the largest ocean liner ever built. An unsinkable building, a masterpiece of modern technology, christened the Titanic ... The gigantic ship prepares to make its first Atlantic crossing in a festive atmosphere, and the young engaged couple are overjoyed by the voyage. But fate has decided otherwise, and what was supposed to be a cruise of happiness descends into horror and despair. The Titanic sinks... In a single fatal and tragic night, somewhere in the middle of the ocean, all of Edwina's dreams are reduced to nothing. Overnight, the carefree young girl becomes at once a woman mourning her lost love, a second mother to her younger brothers and sisters, and the owner of the newspaper founded by her father in San Francisco. Edwina rises to the challenge with exceptional courage and strength of mind. Twelve long years later, an encounter with a man will mark a new turning point in her life. EAN : 9782744115042 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Country Reinvented - Isabel Allende - book Summary : In this story published on the thirtieth anniversary of Allende's fall, Isabel Allende tells us about Chile—her Chile, an invented country, imagined in exile. The author interweaves her country's geography, history, culture, and mentalities with memories and personal thoughts, retracing her entire life. Her extravagant family, childhood, encounters, and travels are all windows that open onto the reality of a country and a people, as well as the origins of a novel. Some dates in the author's life: 1942: Born in Lima. Her father, Salvador Allende's first cousin, a cultured, dandy, and bohemian man, was an embassy secretary there. 1945: Her mother annulled her marriage and returned to Chile with her three children. 1953: Her mother remarried a diplomat. They were posted to Bolivia and then Lebanon. 1962: Isabel marries Miguel Frias; they have a daughter, Paula, and travel to Europe. 1966: Returns to Chile and the birth of her son, Nicolas. 1970: Salvador Allende is elected president of the republic. Isabel works for television in Santiago. 1973: September 11, coup d'état; officially, the President has committed suicide. 1975: Threats weigh on the family. They leave for Venezuela, where they will live for thirteen years. 1982: Publication of The House of the Spirits. 1987: Divorce, then meet her current husband, they settle in California. 1990: Democracy is restored in Chile; Isabel receives the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the President. EAN : 9782246654414 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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