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Résurrection

Memento Mori

By: Samuel Beaulac,Shan Leduc,Olivier Thauvette

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Résurrection

Memento Mori

By: Samuel Beaulac,Shan Leduc,Olivier Thauvette

Après une série de meurtres, le calme de la petite ville de Blackwood fut rompu à jamais. Des victimes disparaissent, mais personne ne semble être au courant de la situation. C’est après avoir sauvé une camarade de classe que Damien Walker devient à son tour la cible du tueur aux pouvoirs surnaturels et devra se battre afin de protéger ceux qu’il aime. C’est au cours de son périple qu’il réalise que le monde est inhabité par des créatures, fantômes et phénomènes étranges, mais c’est une mystérieuse organisation nommée Aether qui influencera son destin. Damien décide de devenir un chasseur de monstres avec l’aide de deux jeunes hommes a fin de retrouver le tueur: le début d’une longue chasse entre la vie et la mort ne fait que commencer. Chaque mystère ne fait qu’ouvrir de nombreuses portes conduisant à plus de questions que de réponses, car la vérité existe dans une mince ligne entre le réel et l’inexplicable. Il est du devoir des chasseurs de trouver les réponses afin de découvrir ce qui se cache derrière toutes ces morts. Qui est le tueur? Que veut-il? Et pourquoi Damien devient celui qui doit mettre fin à une histoire qui persiste depuis bien trop longtemps? Chaque contrat accomplit le rapprochera de la vérité pour lui faire découvrir la face cachée de ce travail infernal. Qui sera le chasseur et qui serra le chassé?

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FriesenPress

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1038305969

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The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

By: Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

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The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

By: Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, theheroic battles fought in its defence, and the bloody massacre that ended the uprising. Its author, Lissagaray, was a young journalist who not only saw the events recounted here first-hand, but fought for the Commune on the barricades. He spent the next twenty-five years researching and writing this history, which refutes the slanders levelled at the Communards by the ruling classes and is a vivid and valuable study in urban political revolution, one that retains its power to inspire to this day. This revised edition, translated by Eleanor Marx, includes a foreword by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan.

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Verso Books

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1789601274

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History of the Paris Commune of 1871

By: Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

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History of the Paris Commune of 1871

By: Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

The classic history of the Paris Commune In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of beingexploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, theheroic battles fought in its defence, and the bloody massacre that ended the uprising. Its author,Lissagaray, was a young journalist who not only saw the events recounted here first-hand, butfought for the Commune on the barricades. He spent the next twenty-five years researching andwriting this history, which refutes the slanders levelled at the Communards by the ruling classesand is a vivid and valuable study in urban political revolution, one that retains its power to inspireto this day. This revised edition includes a foreword by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan.

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1844677761

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Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady

By: Edith Olivier

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Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady

By: Edith Olivier

When the War drove her to fill the house with strange guests, it also drove her to fill her diary with strange thoughts... This broadened hospitality, and these unaccustomed contacts, completely changed for the time the character of English country life." In Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady, Edith Olivier explores the diaries left to her by her friend and neighbour, Miss Emma Nightingale. The account explores the arrival of both evacuees and soldiers to Miss Nightingale's village after the outbreak of World War II. Her musings on acting as a boarding house during this time are vivid and appealing chronicles of both rural life in World War II, and the varied and engaging individuals who were involved in this great struggle. This fascinating work is a record of the war as told through the people left behind in England to live their lives against its all-encompassing backdrop, and who did so with quiet contemplation and an overwhelming sense of hospitality.

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Pan Macmillan

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1447266269

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The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

By: Olivier Delers

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The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

By: Olivier Delers

The rise of the novel paradigm—and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genre—continues to influence the way we analyze economic discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel. Characters are often seen as portraying bourgeois values, even when historiographical evidence points to the virtual absence of a self-conscious and coherent bourgeoisie in France in the early modern period. Likewise, the fact that the nobility was a dynamic and diverse group whose members had learned to think in individualistic and meritocratic terms as a result of courtly politics is often ignored. The Other Rise of the Novel calls for a radical revision of how realism, the language of self-interest and commercial exchanges, and idealized noble values interact in the early modern novel. It focuses on two novels from the seventeenth century, Furetière’s Roman bourgeois and Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves and four novels from the eighteenth century, Prévost’s Manon Lescaut, Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne, Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse and Sade’s Les infortunes de la vertu. It argues that eighteenth-century French fiction does not reflect material culture mimetically and that character action is best analyzed by focusing on the social and discursive exchanges staged by the text, rather than by trying to create parallels between specific behavior and actual historical changes. The novel produces its own reality by transforming characters and their stories into alternative social models, different articulations of how individuals should define their economic relations to others. The representation of interpersonal relations often highlights personal conceptions of private interest that cannot be easily reconciled with the traditional narrative of a transition towards economic modernity. Realism, then, is not only about verisimilar storytelling and psychological depth: it is an epistemological questioning about the type of access to reality that a particular genre can give its readers.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611495822

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The Restaurant, A Geographical Approach

From Invention to Gourmet Tourist Destinations

By: Olivier Etcheverria

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The Restaurant, A Geographical Approach

From Invention to Gourmet Tourist Destinations

By: Olivier Etcheverria

This book analyzes the way in which restaurants are geographical objects that reveal locational logics and strategies, and how restaurants weave close relationships with the space in which they are located. Originating from cities, restaurants feed off the urban environment as much as they feed it ? participating in the qualification, differentiation and hierarchy of cities. Indeed, restaurants in both the city and the countryside maintain a dialogical relationship with tourism. They can be vital players in the establishment of emerging types of gourmet tourism, sometimes even constituting as gourmet tourist destinations in their own right. They participate in the establishment of necessary conditions for local development. Some restaurants are even praised as historic sites, recognized as part of the local heritage, which reinforces their localization and their identity as a gourmet tourist destination.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119721350

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Soulève ta Cornette !

By: Myriam FERVILLE,Nathalie OLIVIER

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Soulève ta Cornette !

By: Myriam FERVILLE,Nathalie OLIVIER

Comédie satirique, « Soulève ta Cornette », est une pièce caustique, explosive et tendre, un mélange vivant de textes et de musiques. Voulue à la fois drôle, brute et légère, elle tente de se saisir des aberrations que provoquent certaines traditions religieuses dans la vie de tous les jours. La pièce trace les histoires mêlées de deux couples d'amis, catholiques, musulmans et juifs, dirigés par une conscience suprême qui les mènent à exposer, avec acidité, humour, intelligence et amour, ce qu'est leur vie. Un Trublion, libre penseur et cabot, et une Rosière, croyante habitée et frondeuse, invitent, en parallèle, le spectateur - tenté de s'en remettre à Dieu - à s'interroger sur les mécanismes qui conduisent les hommes à se mentir, se détourner, et à développer une dépendance morale.Entre le bien et le mal, ça râpe, ça grince, ça couine, ça chouine, mais ça vit !

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Lulu.com

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129146753X

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9781291467536

Lumière blanche

By: Olivier DEPAIX

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Lumière blanche

By: Olivier DEPAIX

Le printemps revient. L'aubépine fleurit. La chaleur du soleil balaie la place. L'enfant joue au pied de la stèle sous le regard de sa mère et de son père. Il lève de temps à autre la tête vers le graveur qui s'affaire patiemment. L'enfant ne sait pas encore lire. Quelle importance pour lui ? Les noms ne sont rien. Ils finiront par disparaître eux aussi. Ils finiront par ne plus rien signifier pour personne et l'on détruira la stèle pour faire passer une route à la place. L'enfant ne sait pas ce qui a été et ce qui sera. Cette pierre ne signifie rien pour lui mais la souffrance reste. La souffrance des combattants, celle des victimes, est éternelle.

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1291270566

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Georges Gilles de la Tourette

Beyond the Eponym

By: Olivier Walusinski

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Georges Gilles de la Tourette

Beyond the Eponym

By: Olivier Walusinski

This biography is the first comprehensive volume to delve into the life, scholarship, writing, and hobbies of the famed doctor, for whom Tourette's Syndrome is named. In Part One, we learn Georges' family history, follow his schooling and mentorship under Charcot, travel to the World's Fair of 1900, and evade an attempted assassination, all before succumbing to death by syphilis. Part Two provides an in-depth analysis of his neurological and psychiatric works, notably the eponymous neurological disorder that will forever remain "Tourette's Syndrome." Part Three looks at the lighter side of Georges, inspecting his favorite past-times as poet, historian, and art critic. Part Four brings an extensive bibliography of Georges' complete body of work.

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0190636033

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D'ombres et de lumières

By: Olivier Postel

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D'ombres et de lumières

By: Olivier Postel

D'ombres et de lumières - Le temps de l'innocence" est le premier volet du récit de la vie d'Antoni Nowak, acteur torturé à la recherche de sa vérité.Antoni débarque à Paris à l'orée de ses vingt ans avec des rêves de célébrité en tête. Se prenant à rêver qu'une vie unique l'attend, notre héros démarre une quête frénétique et désorganisée de l'amour. Convaincu d'être la victime d'un destin injuste, il choisit de devenir l'acteur d'une vie fantasmée, l'amenant sur le chemin de ses propres errements. Bientôt apprenti comédien, son obsession pour l'amour va l'emmener dans des sphères oniriques, avant que la réalité ne le rattrape et ne le conduise à se remettre en question pour enfin comprendre qui il est vraiment : le nouveau Messie venu souffler un vent d'amour sur Terre ou juste un homme cherchant à prendre sa revanche sur la vie ?

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1470968673

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9781470968670

Hastenbeck 1757

The French Army and the Opening Campaign of the Seven Years War

By: Olivier Lapray

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Hastenbeck 1757

The French Army and the Opening Campaign of the Seven Years War

By: Olivier Lapray

The outbreak of the Seven Years War saw the formation of new alliances and led to the conduct of military operations in several theaters simultaneously. The campaign of 1757 saw large-scale maneuvers, with their necessary operational corollaries of supply and logistics, as France put an army of 100,000 men into the field. The conduct of the campaign also testifies to the difficulty of exercising command in the face of a court and a government for which short-term results took precedence over means. Notwithstanding such difficulties, the campaign of the French armies in Westphalia saw its climax play out around the village of Hastenbeck on 26 July 1757, where the forces of Maréchal d'Estrées gained a victory that came close to knocking Hanover out of the war. The story of the campaign can be told from the human perspective thanks to the large body of memoirs and letters from officers, both general and subordinate, of cavalry and infantry regiments. Having left their garrisons four months earlier, they had come to battle at the gates of Hanover after having traveled more than 600 kilometers through the Low Countries and into Germany.

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Helion and Company

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1804515981

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9781804515983

Olivier Messiaen

Journalism 1935-1939

By: Olivier Messiaen,Stephen Broad

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Olivier Messiaen

Journalism 1935-1939

By: Olivier Messiaen,Stephen Broad

Olivier Messiaen wrote widely on his music and on his beliefs. This is the first edition of his early journalism and provides both the original French text and an English translation. The writing in this volume dates from the 1930s, before the composer gained the international reputation that he and his music now enjoy. The pieces he wrote range from reviews of individual performances to essays on particular works or composers and articles that discuss more general themes such as sincerity of expression in music. Many of the articles included in this collection are new to the Messiaen bibliography, and others are available here for the first time in English. A number are, as Broad describes them, 'quietly shocking' in that they force us to reappraise certain aspects of the composer such as his role in La Jeune France, and his wider participation in the debates of his time." -- Dust cover.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409444775

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Résurrection

Résurrection

The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

History of the Paris Commune of 1871

History of the Paris Commune of 1871

Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady

Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady

The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

The Restaurant, A Geographical Approach

The Restaurant, A Geographical Approach

Soulève ta Cornette !

Soulève ta Cornette !

Lumière blanche

Lumière blanche

Georges Gilles de la Tourette

Georges Gilles de la Tourette

D'ombres et de lumières

D'ombres et de lumières

Hastenbeck 1757

Hastenbeck 1757

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

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