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Some of the most beautiful English written here by a French national. Written by a man with an extraordinary breadth of experience for his time, an epic romantic fantasy, and a stark portrayal of the commoner struggling for independence from the morass of religious and governmental autocracy. Written in the dawning of French revolution, and full of interesting historical anthropological tidbits.
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En une semaine la vierge guerrière, inspirée par le saint amour de la patrie, a vaincu les Anglais, triomphants depuis la bataille de Poitiers! En une semaine la vaillante fille du peuple accomplit ce que navaient pu accomplir, depuis plus dun demi-siècle, tant de nobles et illustres capitaines! Voici, jour par jour, le récit de la SEMAINE DE JEANNE DARC.
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Eugène Sues Die Geheimnisse von Paris entführt den Leser in die elenden Arbeiterviertel von Paris in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: in die schicken Salons der adligen Oberschicht, wo sich familiäre Dramen abspielen, während um jeden Preis die Fassade gewahrt werden muss, und in die schmutzigen Spelunken, wo sich die Verbrecher der Stadt treffen, um finstere Pläne zu schmieden. Dem Autor war daran gelegen, seinen Lesern die Barbarei direkt vor...
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It was on a cold and rainy night, towards the end of October, 1838, that a tall and powerful man, with an old broad-brimmed straw hat upon his head, and clad in a blue cotton carter's frock, which hung loosely over trousers of the same material, crossed the Pont au Change, and darted with a hasty step into the Cité, that labyrinth of obscure, narrow, and winding streets which extends from the Palais de Justice to Notre Dame.
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On the shores of Provence, this intriguing story of the Des Anbiez Family will surprise you with every page. Among the descriptions of the Provence Traditions and religious meanings of different holidays, as observed by Provencal nobility and peasantry in the middle of the 1600's, you will find a story of Pirates, Murders, Deceptions, Love.
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A dandy story for all horse lovers and worthy rival to Marguerite Henry's enormously successful King of the Wind . Ms. Henry based her story on this very book, written in 1846 by French author and sportsman Eugene Sue. Here now is Alex de Jonge's immensely readable translation of the original tale-an imaginative mixture of fact and legend recreating the life of the Godolphin Arabian and his constant companion, Grimalkin the cat.
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Toward the latter part of May 1690, the three-masted schooner the Unicorn sailed from Rochelle for the island of Martinique. A Captain Daniel commanded this vessel, which was armed with a dozen pieces of medium-sized ordnance, a defensive precaution necessary at that period. France was at that time at war with England, and the Spanish pirates would often cross to the windward of the Antilles, in spite of the frequent pursuit of filibusters. Among...
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The Mysteries of the People, or History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages, original in French "Les Mystères du peuple" (1849–1856), was suppressed by the censor in 1857, and several others, all on a very large scale, though the number of volumes gives an exaggerated idea of their length. Some of his books, among them The Wandering Jew and The Mysteries of Paris, were dramatized by himself, usually in collaboration with others. His period...
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Eugène Sue inmortaliza la leyenda del judío errante con una larga novela, convertida en un relato folletinesco y publicado por entregas en un periódico de su época, en la que deja entrever una denuncia tanto de la cruda realidad de la incipiente clase obrera parisina como de la Iglesia y, en concreto, de la Compañía de Jesús.
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Extrait : "Mathieu Guichard était fils de Jean Guichard, serrurier dans la rue Saint-Benoît. Mathieu Guichard avait environ dix-sept ans, était d'une taille moyenne, maigre, nerveux et pâle; ses yeux étaient gris; ses cheveux châtains, clair et soyeux; sa figure annonçait un singulier mélange d'astuce et de niaiserie, d'indolence et de vivacité; son teint plombé, hâve, avait cette couleur étiolée, maladive, flétrie, particulière aux...
