Francois: 336 books

 «  Tout était au mieux dans le bon vieux temps, s’écriait naguère un vieillard morose en considérant les tombeaux du cimetière du P. La Chaise  ; maintenant tout est détestable dans cette nation, jusqu’à ses lieux funéraires. Quel ordre autrefois dans la hiérarchie sociale ...

Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French government ordered the letters burned and Voltaire persecuted.

Something between a tale and a polemic, these "fables of reason" are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to conversations between cosmic travellers, the stories in this collection pose moral, philosophical...

Wikipedia: "François-Xavier Garneau (Québec 15 juin 1809 - 3 février 1866) était un historien canadien-français. Il était un autodidacte et ce grâce à sa rencontre avec un éducateur du nom de Joseph-François Perrault. À 16 ans il entre comme clerc dans l'étude d'Archibal Campbell...

To this very day God continues to inspire the hearts of His children through the powerful writings of these dearly beloved Christian mystics from the 17th century. Their words, stemming from their own personal spiritual journeys with God, beckon our hearts onward into a deeper, more intimate relationship...

A collection of five inspiring essays by three closely linked mystical thinkers of the seventeenth century—François Fénelon, Madame Jeanne Guyon, and Père Lacombe—whose focus on the availability of intimacy with God made them scandalous in their day. "Christian Counsel" and "Spiritual...

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity...

All five volumes. Illustrated with engravings by Gustave Dore. According to Wikipedia: "The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua...

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels composed in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity,...

First published in four volumes between 1532 and 1552, Rabelais' comic masterpiece chronicles the adventures of a giant, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel. More than four centuries later, the terms "gargantuan" and "Rabelaisian" are synonymous with earthy humor, a surfeit of good food and drink, and pleasures of the flesh.

An absolute goldmine, this book contains a collection of brief biographies of the 17 greatest preachers of the Reformation Era; and includes a sermon written by each of them. Modern readers will be deeply moved and inspired by the words of these humble giants of the faith who were used powerfully...

Just as small streams make big rivers, Divide and Conquer Book 1 explains a myriad of details on how to address each of the horse's body parts for training purposes. *Divide and Conquer Book 2* regroups these details to show how to accomplish all of the upper level movements and provides several...

***    Calm, Forward and Straight***must always serve as a guideline during the training and the order should not be interchanged. On this subject, all Riding Schools worldwide agree. These schools diverge only in their style due to the culture of their own country.     In these volumes,...

On ne sait guère de la vie de François Villon que ce qu'il en dit lui-même, et l'on en sait trop. J'aurais voulu me dispenser de décrire, après tant d'autres, cette existence peu édifiante, mais je n'ai pas cru pouvoir le faire. le sujet des poésies...