En 1830, Madame G.M. de Rochmondet publie à compte d'auteur les Études sur la traduction de l'anglais, un ouvrage qui se distingue des ouvrages antérieurs sur la question de la traduction de l'anglais vers le français....
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Author:de Rochmondet, G.M., Léger, BenoitSummary: -
Author:Hasni, Abdelkrim, Lebeaume, JoëlSummary:Au cours de la dernière décennie, l'nseignement scolaire au Québec et en France a été profondément renouvelé et reconfiguré par des actions publiques en matière d'éducation et par les missions affectées à l'enseignement...
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Author:Rips, Paul-HenriSummary:The son of an Antwerp diamond merchant, Paul-Henri Rips was ten when the Nazis invaded Belgium and ended his “golden childhood” forever. Guided by his father’s admonition to “Sei a mensch” (Be a decent person), Rips managed to hold onto...
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Author:May, PeterSummary:What happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher at the École Nationale d'Administration, who trained some of France's best and brightest as future prime ministers and presidents, vanished ten years ago, presumably...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
The first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the...
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Author:Bourdieu, PierreSummary:In 'Distinction', Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world. Focusing on the French bourgeoisie - its tastes and preferences - 'Distinction' is at once a vast ethnography of...
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Author:Ambrose, Stephen E.Summary:Chronicles the events, politics, and personalities of that pivotal day in World War II, shedding light on the strategies of commanders on both sides as well as the ramifications of the battle.
- Author:Annie DubreuilSummary:
Six mois se sont écoulés depuis la fête de Noël riche en émotions de l'usine Jobin crèmes glacées. Bien que les rayons du soleil réchauffent les coeurs et que les délices à la vanille, à la fraise et au chocolat riment...
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Author:Balzac, Honoré deSummary:Lisbeth Fischer feels she's been wronged--though much of what she perceives may only reside in her imagination. Seeking vengeance against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline, she leverages the uncontrollable sexual appetites of...
- Author:Lemaitre, PierreSummary:
Février 1927. Le Tout-Paris assiste aux obsèques de Marcel Péricourt. Sa fille, Madeleine, doit prendre la tête de l'empire financier dont elle est l'héritière, mais le destin en décide autrement. Son fils, Paul, d'un geste...
- Author:Aubray, CamilleSummary:
The French Riviera, spring 1936: It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Café Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's...
- Author:Leipciger, SarahSummary:
A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time. On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does...
- Author:LaHaye, Tim F., Dinallo, Gregory S.Summary:
While desperately seeking income as a photographer, Dylan Cooper befriends art gallery assistant Grace MacVicar. So well do the two get along that Dylan begins to harbor hopes for the future. But at the premier of his photographic...
- Author:Lubrin, CanisiaSummary:
Eagerly awaited debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired young writers. A daring and inventive reimagining of the infamous set of laws, the "Code Noir," that once governed Black lives. Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction...
- Author:Diliberto, GioiaSummary:
Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France.
- Author:Colette, Sidonie GabrielleSummary:
Claudine is the prettiest, smartest and wildest girl in her class. A mischievous 15-year-old who delights in rollicking through the dusty corridors of a parochial school in provincial France, Claudine manipulates her less-astute...
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Author:Bret, DavidSummary:1940s, Paris. The German occupation is in full swing. Marcel, a famous singer at Levalle’s, grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and now leads a complicated life. Juggling his common-law wife and his mistress keeps him as busy as his...
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Author:Hubbard, JanetSummary:Twenty-nine-year-old NYPD detective Max Maguire flies to France to attend her friend Chloe Marceau’s wedding at a grand estate in the Valley of the Marne in Champagne, an hour and a half east of Paris. She meets the older and more...
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Author:Fleming, IanSummary:For James Bond and the British Secret Service, the stakes couldn't be higher. The MI6 agent's mission is to neutralize the Russian operative Le Chiffre by ruining him at the baccarat table and forcing his Soviet masters to "retire" him...
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Author:Delaney, Douglas E., Durflinger, Serge MarcSummary:In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and in three harrowing days defeated twenty-one German counterattacks. This...
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