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LE goût de bien des lecteurs pour les choses frivoles, l’envie de faire un volume de ce qui ne devrait remplir que peu de pages, font cause que l’histoire des hommes célèbres est presque toujours gâtée par des détails inutiles, & des contes populaires aussi faux qu’insipides. On y...

e possède et j’habite, à Saint-Gervais, près Blois, une demeure dans laquelle j’ai organisé des agencements, je dirais presque des trucs, qui, sans être aussi prestigieux que ceux de mes séances, ne m’en ont pas moins donné dans le pays, à certaine époque, la dangereuse réputation...

Avec 24 reproductions hors-texte des œuvres de LAUTREC Descendant des comtes souverains de Toulouse, qui bataillèrent contre le pape Innocent III, contre le roi Louis VIII de France, mieux encore contre le rude sanglier Simon de Montfort, le comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, aujourd'hui...

Après Mes Souvenirs dans lesquels Marie d’Agoult (1805-1876, elle écrivit sous le pseudonyme de Daniel Stern), née de Flavigny, évoque son enfance et le début de sa vie conjugale avec le comte Charles d’Agoult, ces Mémoires retracent, pour l’essentiel, les cinq ans de sa liaison passionnée...

Il Times non ha la pretesa di governare e volgere a sua posta la pubblica opinione ma si contenta di esserne specchio. Quel giornale, annunziando la morte di Carlo Darwin, ha queste parole: «....Non è ancora deliberato dove debbano essere sepolti i suoi avanzi mortali, ma il posto...

Peter Abélard was born towards the close of the eleventh century. No other personality that we may choose to study leads to so clear and true an insight into those strange days as does that of the luckless Breton philosopher. It was the time of transition from the darkest hour of mediæval Europe...

History is our Heaven-appointed instructor. It is the guide for the future. The calamities of yesterday are the protectors of to-day. The sea of time we navigate is full of perils. But it is not an unknown sea. It has been traversed for ages, and there is not a sunken rock or a treacherous...

The history of Russia has attracted many writers and inspired many volumes during the last twenty years, yet its most romantic and most interesting feature has not been fully appreciated. Thirteen years ago, when the long struggle of the Russian democrats culminated in a bloody revolution,...

The arrival of rebellious, red-headed young Percival Blake at Billabong immediately puts the whole household on edge. How does Percival find his name changed to ‘Bill’? And how does he become drawn into perilous adventure in the rocky ranges? His escapades fill a few memorable weeks of summer,...

Le 5 août 1652, le comte Louis d’Yville et sa jeune femme, dont la beauté attirante était fort admirée à la cour de Versailles, causaient avec abandon dans le boudoir de leur luxueux hôtel du faubourg Saint-Germain. Gaston, leur unique enfant, âgé de cinq ans, était à cheval sur...

Locke's new book takes its title from the chief character, Monsieur Alcide Tombarel, a gentleman, wine-grower, man of culture, mayor and acknowledged grand seigneur of Creille, a tiny little town, perched on the top of a hill, not far from Nice. Here, in search of his favourite French wines, travels...

Carlo Goldoni, who lived from 1707 until 1793, is the author of many classic Italian plays, some of which remain popular to this day; the play Servant of Two Masters being his best known work. The biography opens with a chronological summary of Goldoni’s life. From there, the book launches into a detailed discussion with chapters representing distinct time periods of his life.

One wet Saturday evening in May I found myself at Castelvetrano consulting Angelo, the guide, about the weather. His opinion was that it would clear up during the night; I said that if it did we would go to Selinunte, and this confirmed his view; so, on the understanding that there was to be no rain,...

Fin de Juillet 1914. Marseille. Dans toute la Cannebière, un brouhaha de cris. Le soleil embrase le vieux Port;—les bateaux, alourdis, pèsent de toute leur carêne. L’eau est pourrie et pue. Les cafés regorgent. On attise la flamme patriotique à grandes rasades de vermouth et de bitter. Les...