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by ANDRÉ BAILLON, GILBERT TEROL
Language: French
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Marie était douillette des reins et de cœur sensible. Elle avait vingt-deux ans, une jolie taille svelte, une peau soyeuse d’un blanc lumineux. Elle s’aimait dans son corps, parce que son corps était doux. Elle coiffait ses cheveux en bandeaux, comme on les coiffe au pays, mais eût préféré...
by André-Ferdinand Herold
Language: French
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Extrait : La ville où jadis avait vécu le grand ascète Kapila était d’une sereine magnificence. Ses murailles semblaient des nuages de lumière, et, de ses maisons comme de ses jardins, émanait une splendeur divine : on l’eût dite bâtie sur un morceau du ciel. Partout...
by André Maurois
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Edition enrichie (Note liminaire et bibliographie)
Elle inspira Chopin et Musset ; Delacroix avait chez elle un atelier ; Balzac venait demander à « la camarade George Sand » le sujet d’un de ses plus beaux livres : Béatrix ; Flaubert l’appelait : « Ma chère maître » et pleura quand...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 11–20
William Lyon Mackenzie King / René Lévesque / Samuel de Champlain / John Grierson / Lucille Teasdale / Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential politicians Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and Premiers René Lévesque and Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorers Samuel...
Canadian Literary Bundle
Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy / Robertson Davies / Mazo de la Roche
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s literary heritage. Canadian letters have a prominent place in world literature, and its renown can be traced to authors such as these. Profiled are: pioneer...
by Claude Saint-André, Pierre de Nolhac
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2016
BnF collection ebooks - "La légende ordurière de Mme Du Barry est l'œuvre concertée des partisans du Parlement et de M. de Choiseul. Elle a été popularisée par des écrivains, de tout temps applaudis, qui se plaisent à conter des ignominies sous l'hypocrite excuse de venger la morale....
by André Kukla
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Presenting a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion. The author distinguishes different senses in which it might be said...
by André Clot
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean and established his court in Baghdad. Faced with this redoubtable champion, who regarded...
The Man Who Lost Himself
A Symbolist Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF tells the story of Michel Bedée, a brilliant scientist whose work on the new element that he's discovered--sirium--has alienated him from his mother, his sister, and his wife. He cannot bear the fact that, although he loves his wife dearly, he cannot make her happy. Unfortunately,...
The Constitution of Freedom
An Introduction to Legal Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Constitutional democracy is more fragile and less 'natural' than autocracy. While this may sound surprising to complacent democrats, more and more people find autocracy attractive, because they were never forced to understand or imagine what despotism is. Generations who have lived in stable democracies...
by André Authier
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The year 2012 marked the centenary of one of the most significant discoveries of the early twentieth century, the discovery of X-ray diffraction (March 1912, by Laue, Friedrich and Knipping) and of Bragg's law (November 1912). The discovery of X-ray diffraction confirmed the wave nature of X-rays...
Bains-les-Bains - Le Clerjus La gare a 150 ans
Ou Histoire d'une ligne de chemin de fer en Val de Vôge
Language: French
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Laissez-nous vous conter l'histoire de notre gare. Le jeudi 24 septembre 1863 est inaugurée la ligne ferroviaire d'Épinal à Aillevillers. La France trouve à cette liaison ferrée un intérêt stratégique mais les habitants de notre canton en attendent...
by Patrick Modiano, André de Leones
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Dora Bruder foi inspirado por um anúncio publicado na edição de 31 de dezembro de 1941 do jornal Paris Soir, em que os pais da jovem Dora Bruder solicitavam notícias da filha desaparecida a quem pudesse ajudá-los. Comovido pelo drama daqueles pais condenados a passar a virada de ano em angustiosa...
by André Scala
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Roger Federer tennista dal palmarès unico, riunisce tutte le caratteristiche della celebrità sportiva globale alla pari di Mohammed Ali, Maradona o Michael Jordan. Il suo modo di giocare, il suo atteggiamento in campo e fuori conducono il tennis in un'altra direzione rispetto a quella tracciata...