2447 results for '"Jean Jacques Du Plessis'

The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her...

With a historian's thoroughness and a novelist's skill, Jean-Denis Bredin presents here the most comprehensive, sensitive, and balanced account to date of the Dreyfus Affair, the celebrated scandal...

L'antiquite grecque a connu aussi bien des ouvrages destines a la publication que des poemes de circonstance - une ode destinee a celebrer une victoire aux Jeux olympiques, une tragedie ou une...

Nietzsche, le philosophe briseur d'idoles, reste à découvrir, car il se trouve comme enseveli sous des altérations, des mensonges et des falsifications. En fondant à Weimar, en 1897, le Nietzsche...

Jean de Saintré is the intriguing story of a young knight's training, his first love, and his disillusionment. It teems with details of armor, jousting and tournaments, heraldry and crusading—and...

Professor Piaget discusses a set of investigations he and a team of co-workers carried out on the genesis of the notion of number in the child's mind. By asking questions freely, they were able to...

Examines the processes through which a child develops the ability to reason

« À l'origine une prouesse technique, la photographie s'est peu à peu affirmée comme un art et un moyen d'expression avec ses propres codes. A l'heure des smartphones, les photos - multiples et...

Book by McNeill, William H., Sedlar, Jean W.

Cette bibliographie, résultat de plusieurs années de recherche sur l'oeuvre d'André Malraux, comporte environ 1.500 notices commentées et organisées de manière chronologique.

Seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life.The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in...

First published in France in 1949, The Thief’s Journal is Jean Genet’s iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legendary genius to future generations of readers, with an...

"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver—possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is...

Impréparation de l'armée, insuffisance du matériel, lâcheté du pouvoir politique et démoralisation des soldats face à l'organisation sans faille et la supériorité tactique des Allemands... Autant de...

Originally published in 1961, this study of the indigenous system of government in Ruanda-Urundi until the beginning of the 20th century, describes the complex relationship between the Tutsi and the...

" Les Martiennes " - c'est ainsi qu'on les appelait : ces mannequins aux allures libres et loufoques qui débarquaient de Paris (France !). Et c'est en 1947, qu'elles se lancèrent à la conquête de...

The classic story of literature’s most beloved elephant. After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by the kindly Old Lady. Later,...