Balzac: 1669 books

Moins Paillarde et moins obscène que dans le premier volume, cette suite des Contes drolatiques permet au lecteur de retrouver des figures apparues dans le premier dixain. Mais ces figures sont devenues des personnages. La tonalité a changé: le rire est toujours présent, de même que les savoureuses...

L’image d’un couple modeste mais idéal : Veuf, il avait accepté de l’épouser alors qu’elle était mère. Mais la réalité est toute autre : la marâtre a pris en grippe son beau-fils et n’a d’égards que pour sa fille. Le pauvre garçon de l’homme bien aveugle, doit subir remontrances et coups de sa belle-mère.

Le roman, écrit à la première personne, décrit la rencontre du narrateur avec un jeune homme surdoué, étudiant au collège des oratoriens de Vendôme grâce à la protection de madame de Staël. Absorbé par ses études personnelles, Louis reste à l’écart des autres. Il est souvent l’objet...

La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours. At this point the river, broad as a lake, and covered with scattered green islands, flows between two lines of cliff, where country houses built uniformly of white stone stand...

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

A heartbroken cavalry officer, Auguste de Maulincour, is strolling through a rather seedy section of Paris when he happens to spot the object of his unrequited love, a married young woman named Clemence. Even more remarkable is the fact that he sees her furtively entering a house of ill repute. Aghast...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame. The first man who was so bold as to build on this strand, then liable to frequent floods, was a constable of the watch of the City of Paris,...