Pierre Michon: 7 books
by Pierre Michon
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted works by the internationally acclaimed French author Pierre Michon. Populated by distant and little-known figures-Irish and French monks, saints, and scientists in Winter Mythologies; Benedictine monks in the Vendée region...
by Pierre Michon
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Small Lives (Vies minuscules), Pierre Michon’s first novel, won the Prix France Culture. Michon explains that he wrote it "to save my own skin. I felt in my body that my life was turning around. This book born in an aura of inexpressible joy and catharsis rescued me more effectively than my...
by Pierre Michon
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In The Eleven, Michon lets us into the world of Corentin, a painter shaped by—and who eventually shapes—history. Brought up among provincial aristocracy to become a favorite of Parisian society—his paintings are commissioned by Louis XV’s mistress—Corentin’s career rides the Tides of the...
by Pierre Michon, Roger Shattuck
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
by Christian Péchenard, François Bon, Jean-Philippe Domecq
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1992
« C’était, dimanche dernier, 7 juillet 1907, grande fête à Cabourg, dans ce décor charmant que connaissent bien tous les Parisiens, et qui fait, depuis longtemps, surnommer cette coquette petite ville la Reine des Plages. On inaugurait le Grand Hôtel... » C’est après avoir lu cet article...