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September 1996Die menschliche Komödie. Die großen Romane und Erzählungen
Vetter Pons. Roman
by Honoré Balzac, Eberhard Wesemann, Franz Franzius
Die künstlerische Geschlossenheit, die dramatische Intensität und die meisterhafte Schilderung menschlicher Leidenschaften sowie des Pariser Milieus machen den Roman »Vetter Pons« zu einem der bedeutendsten Werke von Honoré de Balzacs »Menschlicher Komödie«. Der verarmte Musiker Sylvain Pons ist von zwei Leidenschaften besessen: dem Sammeln von Kunstgegenständen, deren materiellen Wert er übrigens nicht kennt, und der Feinschmeckerei. Der Feinschmeckerei darf er als ›armer‹ Vetter manchmal am Tisch seiner reichen Verwandten Camusot de Marville frönen, durch die er jedoch manche Demütigung einstecken muß. Als er versucht, für deren Tochter Cécile einen reichen Freier zu vermitteln, und dies zu einem die Familie kompromittierenden Fehlschlag wird, zieht er deren dauernden Zorn auf sich. Nachdem er daraufhin tödlich erkrankt und der Wert seiner Kunstsammlung ruchbar wird, werden er und sein Freund Schmücke, ein naiver deutscher Musiker, den er zum Alleinerben bestimmt hatte, Opfer skrupelloser Erbschleicher, zu denen außer der Familie die Concierge Cibot, der Kunsthändler Rèmonencq und der Arzt Poulain gehören.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024Agents of European overseas empires
Private colonisers, 1450-1800
by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L. H. Roper, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Agnès Delahaye
Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives and transport the reader to colonial America, the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, or Ceylon, through the Dutch, English, French and Spanish empires. Agents of European overseas empires offers crucial insight on how these actors acquired profits and power and, in turn, laid the platforms for European global empires.
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Animal stories (Children's/YA)October 2019Panthera Tigris
by Sylvain Alzial, Hélène Rajcak
Once upon a time there was a scientist. The scientist knew everything: the history of the Earth and the sky, of men and women. One day, he realized that he knew nothing about Bengal tigers! The scientist will venture into the remote jungle of India in search of the fearsome Panthera Tigris, accompanied by a local guide. Along the way, life will give hime an important wisdom message.
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December 2010Ces chers voisins
L'Allemagne, la Belgique et la France en Europe du XIXe au XXIe siècles
by Herausgegeben von Elvert, Jürgen; Herausgegeben von Elvert, Jürgen; Herausgegeben von Schirmann, Sylvain
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November 2014
Encore ces chers voisins
Le Benelux, l'Allemagne et la France aux XIXe et XXe siècles
by Herausgegeben von Dumoulin, Michel; Herausgegeben von Elvert, Jürgen; Herausgegeben von Schirmann, Sylvain
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Children's & YA2021Farm Animals
by Sylvaine Peyrols, Sylvaine Peyrols
The cock crows at dawn, the hen looks after her chicks, the ducklings paddle and learn to swim, cows graze, lambs frisk, and pigs roll in the mud. Visit the farmyard and find out about each of the farn animals. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of highly illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them.
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2016La légende de Lezardo da Vinci
Les Abysses de Morkër
by Daniel L. Moisan
Moisan’s world of fantasy combines legends, adventure, and magic in an accurate historical setting where fictional characters rub elbows with Luther, Machiavelli, the Knights Templar, and other major figures of the time. In this extraordinary epic that bends fiction and history, readers must decide what is real and what is not. From these adventures of an Italian man-reptile come existential questions about the meaning of life itself.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/32NJiJV
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Bible des Nœuds
Nautisme, alpinisme, peche, équitation, plein-air
by Sylvain CAQUINEAU
: The essential knots to discover, know and use during all your activities.
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September 2021THE BEAST WITHIN HER
Marie has left her native countryside, and has taken a summer job in a Parisian brasserie. Staying with her parents’ friends, the husband regularly abuses her. So, she silences her shame and her pain, which leads the beast inside her to grow...
by Camille Lysière
Marie has just graduated from high school. She leaves her hometown and takes a summer job in a Parisian brasserie. During her stay, she is hosted by a couple, her parents’ friends. He is a shadowy journalist. She is a frustrated housewife. Marie, who dreams of a future in literature, is honored to have Olivier take an interest in her. He enjoys chatting with her, he takes her seriously. Marie feels important when he invites her to his office for a private chat. But this beautiful relationship gradually goes off track. There is that one time by the library when he holds onto her a little longer than necessary. Should she have said or done something?Since then, Olivier comes to her room to talk. The first time he sits on the bed, imploring. The next time, she struggles, but it is not enough. And every other night he comes back. Marie is devastated. Had she seduced Olivier in spite of herself? So she silences her shame and her pain, which leads the beast inside her to grow. Marie is not alone. In 2009, she is experiencing what other 17-year-old women like her have experienced in another times. Claudine in 1937, Isabelle in 1973 and Amandine in 1990. Travelling through time, this striking novel gives us the same story: the tragedy and the arbitrary nature of rape that shatters destinies.
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September 2020La chanson de Martin
Martin's song
by Jane Méry / Chantal Jean / Sylvain Robin / Camille Claris / Laure Guillebon
Rose comes back from a trip to New York. On the way, she meets Woody, a guitarist. He sings her a ballad, Martin’s song, which in the tradition of protest songs, tells the story of a black boy in the racist and segregationist United States of the 1930s. When the plane reaches Paris, Woody disappears. Rose can’t stop thinking about him and the story of Martin. A journey in folk music (banjo, guitar, double bass) between New York and Paris, between the 1930s and today, to discover Martin Luther King, racism and the Civil rights movement, for children from 8 years old onwards. https://soundcloud.com/trois-petits-points/sets/la-chanson-de-martin-martins-song
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October 2022La chanson de Rose
Christmas in New York
by Jane Méry / Chantal Jean / Sylvain Robin / Camille Claris / Laure Guillebon
After « Martin’s song » and its folk music dive into the fights of the Civil Right movement in the United States, Jane Méry brings us on a journey to discover feminist movements that shaped US history. In her small Ménilmontant (Paris) school, Rose watches boys playing football and taking up all of the playground space… Girls ? They are left out on the pitch side. How unfair ! Why those differences ? Whether it is girl or boy, why does it matter ? We are all children after all ! Anger is brewing. Fortunately, it is Christmas. During a trip to New York (which is so unexpected that it flirts with fantasy), Rose experiences an inclusive, quirky and musical party… but also very enlightening ! She is preparing her own revolution. https://soundcloud.com/trois-petits-points/la-chanson-de-rose-christmas-in-new-york
