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Sexomonarchie: ces obsédés qui gouvernaient la France
Par Henri De Romèges. 2013
''Henri IV, bon vivant, priapique et violeur : a levé une armée de 300 000 hommes pour les beaux yeux…
d'une blonde de 42 ans sa cadette. Louis XIV : ses folies amoureuses ont achevé de ruiner le royaume. Le Régent : ce partouzard a couché avec tout le monde, même avec sa fille. Louis XV : après des années de sagesse, est devenu pédophile. Napoléon Ier : 60 maîtresses officielles et des filles de toutes conditions livrées à chaque bivouac. Napoléon III : le meilleur client des maisons closes de Paris, et pourvu en actrices par le surintendant des spectacles. Traits communs ? Ils n'étaient pas nécessairement obsédés sexuels au départ, à croire que la fonction crée le besoin... Ils prennent, parfois de force, mais ils paient. Très cher. Les maîtresses de Louis XIV ont coûté à l'État presque autant que le château de Versailles ! Tôt ou tard, ils sont rongés par les maladies vénériennes... et les remords dévots. Et bien sûr, ils ont fait des enfants partout. On pourrait avancer sans grands risques que nous sommes tous, ou presque, de souche impériale ou royale. Tout dans ce livre est vrai ! Henri de Romèges, écrivain rigoureux, n'a gardé de ses sources que les faits incontestables. Il n'empêche que l'ouvrage fourmille de scènes irrésistibles, où l'amour côtoie le cynisme, le raffinement le sordide, et le ridicule le tragique. Et qu'à la lecture de cette chronique sexuelle débridée, nos dirigeants actuels font figure d'enfants de choeur ! '' -- 4e de couv.Sept ans d'aventures au Tibet
Par Heinrich Harrer. 1983
L'auteur raconte comment il s'est évadé de prison, pendant la guerre de 1939-1945, pour gagner le Tibet où il a…
séjourné cinq années au cours desquelles il a conseillé le jeune dalaï-lama, et s'est trouvé témoin impuissant de l'invasion chinoise. Paru en 1952, le récit a été traduit en cinquante langues. 1983.Sissi, ou, La fatalité (Présence de l'histoire)
Par Jean Des Cars. 1997
Suleiman the elephant
Par Margret Rettich, Elizabeth D Crawford. 1986
In 1551, Prince Max of Austria married Princess Maria of Spain. One of their wedding presents was an Indian elephant.…
As the procession went from Spain to Vienna, the people came to watch the gigantic beast pass by. Grades K-3. c1986. Uniform title: Soliman der Elefant.Scottish enlightenment: the Scots inventions of the modern world
Par Arthur Herman. 2001
Harsh economic reality compelled Scotland into the Act of Union with England in 1707; within decades, a remarkable circle of…
Scottish thinkers gave birth to the key assumptions that underlie modern politics, economics, morals and cultural life. The Scots went on to become the mainstays of the British Empire. 2001.Stranger in the forest: on foot across Borneo (Abacus Bks.)
Par Eric Hansen. 1990
Eric Hansen bought the best map of Borneo he could find. Then, with the minimum of baggage, he headed for…
the places marked "unknown". He spent seven months and travelled 2,400 miles in one of the least visited spots on earth. This resulting book is both an adventure story and a look at a vanishing way of life. 1990.Smart medicine for your eyes: a guide to natural, effective, and safe relief of common eye disorders
Par Jeffrey Anshel. 2011
Information about the eyes; sections on nutrition, herbal therapies, and homeopathic remedies. Discusses disorders of the eye and visual system,…
conventional treatments and self-treatments, eye care techniques, and refractive surgeries and vision therapies. c2011.Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar
Par Simon Sebag-Montefiore. 2004
There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore has…
unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. 2004.Sinai: the great and terrible wilderness
Par Burton Bernstein. 1979
An account of four trips the author took through Sinai reporting on its past and present. Offers a look into…
Bedouin habits, customs, culture, and a description of the beautiful and forbidding land. 1979.Sidney Reilly: the true story of the world's greatest spy
Par Michael Kettle. 1983
The legendary exploits of the daring, enigmatic Russian-Polish Jew born Sigmund Rosenblum, who called himself Sidney Reilly. The author shows…
that Reilly failed in his major mission for the British Secret Service of overturning the Bolshevik government and that his disclosures upon capture by the Russians facilitated Soviet infiltration of the British Secret Service. 1983.Searching for Sofia: a tale of murder, obsession and war
Par John Nadler. 2003
When Gjorg returns to his home in Kosovo, he finds that many people are missing and rumoured to be murdered.…
His girlfriend is also torn away from him because he is Albanian and she is Serbian. When Gjorg meets John Nadler, he asks for help in finding his lost love. Some descriptions for violence. 2003.Saving Italy: the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis
Par Robert M Edsel. 2013
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and…
art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture. Companion to "The Monuments Men". 2013.Same-sex unions in premodern Europe
Par John Boswell. 1994
Boswell claims that in ancient and medieval times there were official ceremonies for couples of the same sex that were…
similar to the marriage ceremony. He analyzes the concepts and vocabulary of love and marriage in the context of different societies, from the Greco-Roman world to sixteenth-century Europe, and compares the rituals for conventional marriage with the ceremonies in the texts he has discovered. 1994.Saved by beauty: adventures of an American romantic in Iran
Par Roger Housden. 2011
Housden traveled to Iran to meet with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition…
of humanism, the belief in scholarship and artistry that began with the reign of Cyrus the Great. From the bustle of modern Tehran to the paradise gardens of Shiraz, Housden met Iranians who were welcoming and intellectually curious. He was brought face to face with the reality that beauty and truth, deceit and violence, are inextricably mingled in the affairs of human life. 2011.Robespierre
Par Pierre Klossowski, Friedrich Sieburg, Michel Vovelle. 2003
Une évocation puissante d'une des grandes figures de la Révolution française, dans un style direct, haletant, quasi romanesque. Michel Vovelle,…
dans une remarquable préface, le situant parmi les nombreuses études consacrées à Robespierre, souligne l'originalité de ce livre de 1935, rédigé par un Allemand hanté par la figure de la dictature, qu'il n'hésite pas à comparer à "La mort de Danton" de Buchner. 2003. Titre uniforme: Robespierre, eine Biographie.Saint-Simon, ou, L'encre de la subversion (L'infini)
Par Cécile Guilbert. 1994
Bien plus qu'un historien, Saint-Simon a été un écrivain qui a fait l'histoire. C'est ce qu'affirme l'auteure dans cet essai…
inspiré d'un de ses écrits intitulé "Mémoires." Elle montre que Saint-Simon convoquait la littérature comme stratégie de subversion. 1994.Sailing through China
Par Paul Theroux. 1983
American novelist and travel writer sails down the Yangtze River in China along with thirty-three Americans, mostly millionaires, on an…
exclusive Lindblad tour. Theroux offers prose pictures of the river's industry-fouled cities and villages, the countless junks and sampans, the spectacular gorges, the endless views of Chinese people tilling the half-dead fields, plus acerbic sketches of his rich companions. Some strong language. 1984, c1983.Russia against Napoleon: the battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
Par D. C. B Lieven. 2009
In the summer of 1812 after years of uneasy peace, Napoleon, the master of almost the whole continent, marched into…
Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Less than two years later the Russian army was itself marching into Paris and Napoleon's empire lay in ruins. Using an array of new, rare and surprising sources, Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe. 2009.Russia: people and empire, 1552-1917
Par Geoffrey A Hosking. 1997
Traces the history of Russia as a nation and an empire up to the year 1917. Asserts that the economic…
and political processes of state building impeded the development of a sense of national identity and cohesiveness among the Russian people. 1997.Rome, Inc: the rise and fall of the first multinational corporation
Par Stanley Bing. 2006
Bing chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting and…
general mismanagement. "Rome, Inc." then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don'ts of a successful corporation. 2006.