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(0)Honoré De Balzac
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English
Description
Brothers Philippe and Joseph Bridau are completely unlike each other: Philippe, a once courageous soldier and Napoleon's former aide-de-camp, is their mother's favourite, while Joseph, a poor and aspiring artist, is the less favoured of the two. When their mother, Agathe, is reduced to poverty and Philippe amounts gambling debts following unemployment, the family joins together to focus their attentions on Agathe's brother, Jean-Jacques Rouget, the...
202) Beatrix
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
A handsome young man named Calyste du Guénic is in love with the older woman, Félicité des Touches, a famous writer who uses the pen name of Camille Maupin. Félicité at first does not reciprocate Calyste’s feelings, and Calyste falls in love with the blonde marchioness Béatrix de Rochefide. Béatrix is a beautiful but selfish woman; one critic remarked in 1897 in regards to Béatrix that “for cold-blooded cruelty and vulgarity she is
...203) Contes bruns
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Les Contes bruns sont un recueil collectif et anonyme de contes publié à partir de 1832 chez Adalphe Guyot et Urbain Canel.
Author
Language
Français
Description
Extrait : "En mettant sous presse cette seconde partie de notre histoire nationale, nous pensions pouvoir féliciter d'avoir posé les bases sur lesquelles s'élèvera un jour notre constitution, quand des signes qui n'annoncent, hélàs ! rien de bon, vinrent nous effrayer pour les destinées de notre société animale."
Author
Language
Français
Description
Extrait : " À l'insu de toutes les grandes puissances, il vient de se passer un fait don’t personne ne devra s'étonner dans un gouvernement représentatif, mais qu'il est bon de signaler à la presse tout entière, pour qu'elle ait à le discuter et qu'elle en puisse peser les conséquences."
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A New York Review Books Original One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius--or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art." Published here...
212) Cousin Bette
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Compelled to live under the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives, the Huot family, Cousin Bette's energies are directed towards their destruction.
213) Cousin Bette
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A spinster gets revenge on her cousin's family by enlisting the help of a beautiful woman, after they take away the only man that mattered to her.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
An artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. A famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside, at the age of 60, considers his career as a painter to be over. He no longer feels inspired to create, and his last attempt at a major work, a nude study of his wife Liza, has sat unfinished for ten years. His protégé suggests a more inspiring subject, who exchanges ideas and...
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