Biografier

Part of Correspondance de Pierre Bayle.

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Part of Correspondance generale de La Beaumelle.

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'A personal, impassioned account of a crime committed against the Lebanese people' - New York Review of Books In August 2020, Lebanon was in the midst of the global pandemic and a devastating economic crisis. People protested in the stre...

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Winner of the Prix littraire France-Liban 'A stunningly stylish, breathtakingly evocative tribute in words and art to the cosmopolitan Levant that exists in defiance of war and empire. I treasure my copy' Molly Crabapple, artist My Great...

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Between becoming king of Macedonia in 336 BC and his death in 323, Alexander the Great conquered not only the Greek city states but also Persia and as far east as the Punjab in India, as far south as Egypt. Claude Mosse describes the progress of A...

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Between becoming king of Macedonia in 336 BC and his death in 323, Alexander the Great conquered not only the Greek city states but also Persia and as far east as the Punjab in India, as far south as Egypt. Claude Mosse describes the progress of A...

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Born and raised in Troyes, France, in 1653 Marguerite Bourgeoys came as a new recruit to de Maisonneuve's tiny and beleaguered settlement of Ville-Marie, founded in 1642 as a Christian missionary society. These early years in New France marked a s...

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This sequel to the early biography charts the establishment of a radically innovative religious community of uncloistered women - the first in the New World.

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What goes into making a life successful and what does success mean? If you think about a life as a chemical equation, then the elements are obvious: family, work, purpose. The key is discovering how to get the balance just right. In Cultiver la di...

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Pour la majorite des Canadiens, le nom de la famille Molson fait partie de l'essence meme du Canada. Depuis 1786, annee ou John Molson fonda sa premiere brasserie a Montreal, il rime avec biere, hockey et philanthropie. Rares sont cependant ceux q...

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Pour la majorité des Canadiens, le nom de la famille Molson fait partie de l''essence même du Canada. Depuis 1786, année où John Molson fonda sa premiäre brasserie ÿ Montréal, il rime avec biäre, hockey et philanthropie. Rares sont cependa...

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Pour la majorité des Canadiens, le nom de la famille Molson fait partie de l''essence même du Canada. Depuis 1786, année où John Molson fonda sa premiäre brasserie ÿ Montréal, il rime avec biäre, hockey et philanthropie. Rares sont cependa...

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What goes into making a life successful and what does success mean? If you think about a life as a chemical equation, then the elements are obvious: family, work, purpose. The key is discovering how to get the balance just right. In Cultiver la di...

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What goes into making a life successful and what does success mean? If you think about a life as a chemical equation, then the elements are obvious: family, work, purpose. The key is discovering how to get the balance just right. In Cultiver la di...

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Born and raised in Troyes, France, in 1653 Marguerite Bourgeoys came as a new recruit to de Maisonneuve''s tiny and beleaguered settlement of Ville-Marie, founded in 1642 as a Christian missionary society. These early years in New France marked a ...

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To chart the inspiring journey of Pierre Jeanniot is to trace the remarkable development of the air transport industry. In his youth, Jeanniot survived the bombing of Rome, the occupation of France, and was a witness to the Resistance in the Jura ...

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Explore the challenges and triumphs of Canada's first two female Supreme Court judges. Of contrasting backgrounds and personalities, they adopted distinct strategies to obtain the top posts. Interlopers in a male world, they vanquished the edict t...

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Diaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. Although such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the a...

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In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the death of his grandmother, he is sent to a seminary-but is soon expelled. He is briefly imprisoned in the fortress of Sant' Andrea. Af...

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Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his liaison with the nun M. M., and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison-each in its own way a feat of singular dash and d...

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In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start ...

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In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now close to forty. His various manipulations of the credulous rich have made him rich in turn. His travels take him to France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In Rome he charms the Pope; in Naples, he nearly marri...

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Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster ...

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The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with Dona Ignacia, his journey to Barcelona and his detention in the Tower, his encou...

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This fifth and final volume completes the critical edition of the letters of French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771), author of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758), and of his wife, nee Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), who...

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A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time. Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on h...

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Max Jacob: Lettres a Nino Frank, edited by Anne S. Kimball, contains 85 lettres written by the French poet to author-journalist Nino Frank. The correspondence began in 1923 when the young Italo-Swiss from Naples wrote Jacob, praising the poet's Le...

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Ce livre est une etude de la biographie et de l'oeuvre de Neagoe, ecrivain americain d'origine roumaine, decede en 1960. Neagoe a fait partie de la Lost generation a Paris en 1926. Peintre de talent, il s'est ensuite consacre a la litterature et a...

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Pour avoir neglige de prendre en consideration la correspondance echangee par de Sade et son epouse entre 1777 et 1789 (quelque cinq cents lettres), les biographes du Marquis ont occulte durant deux siecles le climat intellectuel et sensible qui l...

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Cet ouvrage propose une nouvelle approche de la poesie visuelle depuis la periode alexandrine jusqu'aux Calligrammes d'Apollinaire. La relation entre le contenu et le dessin visuel est etudiee sur la base du modele des Calligrammes d'Apollinaire. ...

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