Alexandre Dumas
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Trece años después de la sangrienta Noche de San Bartolomé, cuarenta y cinco hombres son llamados por el duque de Epernon para formar la guardia del rey, destinados a cumplir una misión que ninguno conoce a ciencia cierta. El monarca, Enrique III, que no ha podido calmar los enfrentamientos políticos y religiosos que perturban el reino de Francia, ha perdido a sus mignons más queridos y languidece de tristeza y de aburrimiento en su corte, mas...
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Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre of the French Huguenots-and the subsequent death of King Charles IX. The playwright focuses on the people inadvertently caught up in the slaughter-which, once started, cannot be repressed. By following the fate of two nobles, the Catholic Count Coconnas and the Huguenot Count de la Mole, and linking their stories...
63) Derues
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One September afternoon in 1751, towards half-past five, about a score of small boys, chattering, pushing, and tumbling over one another like a covey of partridges, issued from one of the religious schools of Chartres. The joy of the little troop just escaped from a long and wearisome captivity was doubly great: a slight accident to one of the teachers had caused the class to be dismissed half an hour earlier than usual, and in consequence of the...
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The most famous works by the outstanding French writer Alexandre Dumas became the part of this illustrated collection of works «the Three Musketeers», «twenty Years After», «the Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later», «the Count of Monte Cristo », «queen Margot», «la Dame de Monsoreau», «the Black Tulip », «the Teacher of Fencing» and others.
65) Murat
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On the 18th June, 1815, at the very moment when the destiny of Europe was being decided at Waterloo, a man dressed like a beggar was silently following the road from Toulon to Marseilles. Arrived at the entrance of the Gorge of Ollioulles, he halted on a little eminence from which he could see all the surrounding country; then either because he had reached the end of his journey, or because, before attempting that forbidding, sombre pass which is...
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Toward the close of the year 1657, a very plain carriage, with no arms painted on it, stopped, about eight o'clock one evening, before the door of a house in the rue Hautefeuille, at which two other coaches were already standing. A lackey at once got down to open the carriage door; but a sweet, though rather tremulous voice stopped him, saying, 'Wait, while I see whether this is the place.'
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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."
68) 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...
69) 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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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...
73) 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...
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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.
75) 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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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...
77) 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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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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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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Extrait : "RICHARD, se levant : Ohé ! maître Orsini, notre hte, tavernier du diable, double empoisonneur ! il paraît qu'il faut te donner tous tes noms avant que tu répondes. ORSINI : Que voulez-vous ? du vin ? SIMON, se levant : Merci, nous en avons encore ; c'est Richard le savetier qui veut savoir combien ton patron Satan a reçu d'âmes ce matin."
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