Title : A Passing Hero - Patrick Poivre d'Arvor - book
Summary :
At nine years old, a small peasant from Auvergne born to an unknown father, intoxicated by images of the Napoleonic epic, Alexandre swore to conquer glory. Having amassed a small nest egg in the region's factories, he arrived in the Paris of Louis-Philippe... Lively, audacious, and seductive, he managed to slip into the world of journalism, ruled by Emile de Girardin, the magnate of the popular, high-circulation press. He rubbed shoulders with celebrities, Hugo, Liszt, Gautier, and Nerval, and seduced the most prominent women of Parisian society and demi-mondaine. With the revolution of 1848, a political career opened up to his ambition. Yet it is a shattered destiny, a story of tragically lost illusions, that these feverish, romantic pages tell us, buzzing with balls, duels, intrigues, riots. Pages where the star journalist, author of Les Enfants de l'aube and Lettres à l'absente, seems to speak to us in a low voice about his own wounds.
- EAN: 9782253144021
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- Book in good condition
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