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France
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Author:Macaulay, DavidSummary: -
Author:de Guyloué, BouchardSummary:Ce que je propose à mes lecteurs est un grand voyage dans le temps. Un retour sur notre histoire collective. De l'Empire romain, en passant par Charlemagne, Napoléon, la naissance des grandes couronnes d'Europe, et ce, jusqu...
- Author:Paranque, EstelleSummary:
Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures, and yet against all odds, two women rose to power: Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a young Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom...
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Author:O'Brien, CharlesSummary:The setting is Bath, England’s most fashionable spa, during the spring season of 1787. Haughty aristocrats, wealthy upstart businessmen, social climbers, adventurers, courtesans, sharpers, addicted gamblers, and a representative sample...
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- Author:Watkins, Daniel J.Summary:
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieuwas an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French...
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Author:McKinley, RobinSummary:Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
- Author:Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La MotteSummary:
Madam Guyon is a heretic to some, but a saint to others. Living at a time when being charged as heretic was a matter of civil law, Madam Guyon was imprisoned and persecuted for her unyielding stance against the religious authorities in...
- Author:Valognes, AurélieSummary:
1968. Jean a six ans quand il est confié du jour au lendemain à sa grand-mère. Pour l'été. Pour toujours. Il n'a pas prévu ça. Elle non plus.Mémé Lucette n'est pas commode, mais dissimule un coeur tendre. Jean,...
- Author:Blondeau, SoniaSummary:
Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Catherine Maranzana, infirmière diplômée qui a initié l'entrée de l'aromathérapie dans les structures médicales des Hôpitaux Civils de Colmar, en France, et ce, sur des bases...
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Author:Struthers, Joel AdamSummary:Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion is the first-hand account of the author's six years as a professional soldier during the 1990s, and his experience in the Legion's elite Group Commando Parachutistes (GCP). Joel Struthers...
- Author:Houellebecq, MichelSummary:
En 2027, Paul Raison soutient le candidat de la majorité pour l'élection présidentielle. Une description du monde qui nous entoure abordant des sujets aussi divers que l'amour, la mort, la société contemporaine...
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Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:In the spring of 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic kills millions of soldiers and civilians across the globe. Overwhelmed by the constant flow of wounded soldiers coming from the French front, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford must now...
- Author:LaFevers, RobinSummary:
Sybella arrive au couvent à demi folle de chagrin et de désespoir. Les servantes de la Mort ne sont que trop heureuses de lui donner refuge, mais il y aura un prix à payer. Sybella est naturellement douée dans l’art de tuer et dans...
- Author:De Blasi, MarlenaSummary:
Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing pieces of her identity,...
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Author:Doerr, AnthonySummary:From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of...
- Author:Doerr, AnthonySummary:
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES-from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant...
- Author:Hibbert, ChristopherSummary:
The victory of Henry V of England over a larger force of the French, demonstrating the effectiveness of warfare by archers against a heavily armed feudal array on October 25, 1415.
- Author:MORROW, ChristineSummary:
An account of a journey across France in 1940-41.
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Author:Ernaux, AnnieSummary:Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town,...
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