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Rennes - 1826 - le jardin du Thabor - deux étudiants en droit se rencontrent, se prennent d'amitié, rêvent de poésie et de célébrité parisienne, se séparent, s'écrivent, se perdent enfin de vue, non sans, au préalable, à travers leurs lettres échangées, s'être confié leurs drames d'amour...

Nombreux étaient celles et ceux qui souhaitaient en retrouver les interventions du printemps 2005 et les voir rassemblées, et précisément à Tours, ville natale d'Yves Bonnefoy. C'est en souvenir de belles circonstances que nous avons souhaité mettre en avant cette nécessaire relation entre...

L'ombre de Stendhal "Je mets un billet de loterie dont le gros lot se résume à ceci : être lu en 1935." Stendhal, au sujet de chacun de ses livres. (Un essai pour comprendre les véritables enjeux du livre numérique...) Que retiendra-t-on de l’arrivée du Kindle...

Un livre engagé, nécessaire... Une vraie librairie, c’est un endroit où tous les livres sont disponibles, et pas seulement ceux de l’oligarchie. Point final, quand tombe le 18 septembre 2013 une dépêche de l’AFP : la guerre contre Amazon entre dans une nouvelle phase législative. «...

Engels founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx)...

As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racine’s last play, is “perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit.” Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly struggle for dominion: she, fiercely determined...

This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English:...

Green eggs were popular once, and long before Dr. Seuss, in France. Poached eggs were served with orange juice and spices. Easter eggs inspired not egg hunts, but loud, raucous processions.Cheese might be eaten with sugar and even cinnamon. Brie and Parmesan cheese were popular long before modern...

A mechanical horse... A mountain flowing with rose-water... A lake with a boat in full sail.. These were a few of the details of the complex entertainments presented with elegant Medieval meals. Meanwhile, table decoration, which began with abundant flowers and piles of fruit, evolved into complex...

A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre’s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their...

 Although it was printed anonymously in 1885, Lafcadio Hearn is generally accepted as the author of La Cuisine Creole. In his introduction, Hearn describes the intriguing origin of this unique cuisine, explaining that, “it partakes of the nature of its birthplace—New Orleans—which is cosmopolitan...

Clotilde Dusoulier, a native Parisian and passionate explorer of the city’s food scene, has won a tremendous following online with her insider reports and wonderful recipes on her blog, www.chocolateandzucchini.com. Her book, Chocolate and Zucchini, introduced her to a wider, equally enthusiastic...

If you’re passionate about eating well, you couldn’t ask for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobrano’s charming, friendly, and authoritative Hungry for Paris, the fully revised and updated guide to this renowned culinary scene. Having written about Paris for almost every major food...

This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine’s death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in...