Alexandre Dumas
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A true sequel to "La Dame de Monsoreau", English "Chicot the Jester". It concerns the revenge of Diane de Méridor upon the Duc d'Anjou for his base betrayal of Bussy d'Amboise. Historically it commences with the execution of Salcède and the arrival of the Forty-Five at Paris, and deals with the Guise intrigues, the campaign of Anjou in Flanders and his death. Period 1584-85. Maquet was again the collaborator. During the fête held at Villers-Cotterets...
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Towards the end of the year 1665, on a fine autumn evening, there was a considerable crowd assembled on the Pont-Neuf where it makes a turn down to the rue Dauphine. The object of this crowd and the centre of attraction was a closely shut, carriage. A police official was trying to force open the door, and two out of the four sergeants who were with him were holding the horses back and the other two stopping the driver, who paid no attention to their...
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Chevalier Gaston de Chanley loves Helene de Chaverny, raised in a convent as an orphan but in reality the daughter of somebody very highly placed in early 18th century France. They long to be married, but Gaston has sworn an oath to a cabal of plotting Bretons to murder their enemy, the prince regent Philippe Duc D'Orleans.
67) Die Medici
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Die Familie der Medici aus Florenz bildete vom 13. bis 18. Jahrhundert eine einflussreiche italienische Dynastie, aus der Großherzöge der Toskana, drei Päpste und zwei Königinnen von Frankreich hervorgingen. Sie erwarben ihren Reichtum im Textilhandel, der von der Gilde Arte della Lana betrieben wurde. Auf dieser Basis begründeten sie ein modernes Bankwesen und dominierten – auch durch ihre Beziehungen zum Papsttum – die europäische Finanzwelt...
68) The Cenci
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Should you ever go to Rome and visit the villa Pamphili, no doubt, after having sought under its tall pines and along its canals the shade and freshness so rare in the capital of the Christian world, you will descend towards the Janiculum Hill by a charming road, in the middle of which you will find the Pauline fountain.
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Le 15 août 1769, naquit à Ajaccio un enfant qui reçut de ses parents le nom de Buonaparte, et du ciel celui de Napoléon. Les premiers jours de sa jeunesse s'écoulèrent au milieu de cette agitation fiévreuse qui suit les révolutions; la Corse, qui depuis un demi-siècle rêvait l'indépendance, venait d'être moitié conquise, moitié vendue, et n'était sortie de l'esclavage de Gênes que pour tomber au pouvoir de la France. Paoli, vaincu...
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Un apprentissage du désert.
Un apprentissage du désert par un voyageur dont le sens de l'observation est aiguisé par la rudesse des lieux. Les hyènes et les chacals sont à l'affût non seulement des dromadaires, mais aussi des hommes qui s'égarent ; la ligne suivie par la caravane est tracée avec des ossements. Malgré tout, jamais l'auteur ne se départit de son humour dont le chapitre " Les bains du Caire " nous donne toute la mesure.
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71) La Constantin
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It was about seven o'clock. Three gentlemen were seated at one of the tables in a low, smoky room. They had already emptied several bottles, and one of them seemed to have just suggested some madcap scheme to the others, the thought of which sent them off into shouts of laughter.
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In the great political and religious convulsions of the South, the earthquake-like throes of which were felt even in the capital, Nimes has always taken the central place; Nimes will therefore be the pivot round which our story will revolve, and though we may sometimes leave it for a moment, we shall always return thither without fail.
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Dr. Ivans, unable to make a living in London, migrates with his two daughters to Australia, where he hopes to make his fortune; one of his girls, Melida, is forced to leave her suitor, Williams, behind. Arriving in Australia, Ivans finds himself unable to improve his fortune-he's too willing to help the poor, and has a good reputation for charitable works. Then a group of gold miners, a motley crew of Frenchmen, send for him to heal a young miner...
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Dans le pays nantais et vendéen, deux jumelles se retrouvent mêlées à un complot...Les Louves de Machecoul font partie des nombreux romans méconnus d'Alexandre Dumas. Écrit en 1858 (quatorze ans après Les Trois Mousquetaires), ce roman fut imaginé par l'un des nègres de Dumas, Gaspard de Cherville. L'intrigue des Louves de Machecoul se déroule entre 1831 et 1832, au confluent du Pays de Retz, du Pays Nantais et du Marais breton. Mary et...
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CONTENTS:
The d'Artagnan Romances
- The Three Musketeers
- Twenty Years After
- The Vicomte of Bragelonne
Cycle des Valois
- Marguerite de Valois
- Chicot the Jester
- The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Cycle Memoires d'un Medecin
- Joseph Balsamo
- The Queen's Necklace
- Ange Pitou
- The Countess de Charny
The Novels
THE FENCING MASTER
THE CONSPIRATORS
GEORGES
AMAURY
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS
THE CHEVALIER...
76) A Tulipa Negra
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Em 1672, Guilherme de Orange toma o poder na Holanda. Cornélio Van Baerle, um promissor botânico cujo único desejo é criar uma tulipa negra perfeita, irá envolver-se inadvertidamente nas intrigas políticas da época. Depois do assassínio do seu padrinho, é acusado de traição e condenado à morte. Todas as suas esperanças repousam em Rosa, a bela filha do carcereiro. Os dois jovens verão o seu amor desenvolver-se ao ritmo do crescimento...
77) Ascanio
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Telling the story of famous 16th-century Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, Dumas' historical novel Ascanio was adapted into an opera of the same name by famous composer Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns.
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About the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at the noise, and found it to proceed from the provost of the mounted police and his men. The heat was excessive, the horses were bathed in sweat, the horsemen covered with dust, and the party seemed on its return from an important expedition....
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"Os Três Mosqueteiros" conta as aventuras de um jovem de dezoito anos chamado D'Artagnan. Esse jovem de sangue quente deixa a terra natal para se apresentar em Paris com a recomendação do pai ao fidalgo de Tréville, capitão da Companhia dos Mosqueteiros. Segue-se uma série de acontecimentos que fazem com que D'Artagnan tenha de duelar com os três mosqueteiros - Athos, Portos e Aramis - e os guardas do cardeal Richelieu...
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Excerpt: "If you ever chanced, dear reader, to go from Nantes to Bourgneuf you must, before reaching Saint-Philbert, have skirted the southern corner of the lake of Grand-Lieu, and then, continuing your way, you arrived, at the end of one hour or two hours, according to whether you were on foot or in a carriage, at the first trees of the forest of Machecoul."
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