Francis - Libros y biografía

Depuis le rejet des négociations ouvertes avec la cour de Hué, en juillet 1864, la colonie se trouve replacée dans les conditions territoriales que lui avait assignées le traité du 6 juin 1862. Si le...

La voyante n'a pas vu venir la mort, titrait France-Soir. Dame Bérénice avait été étranglée. Ex-charcutière à Barbès, elle exerçait dans un appartement tendu de noir, artistiquement éclairé dans le style...

One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and...

"Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages." At an early age he was carried away from the boudoir of his Italian mistress...

POURQUOI, depuis la mort de ma mère en janvier, le mois blanc des Bretons, pourquoi ce sentiment de chaque jour vers la Vierge ? Et aussi mai, où elle est née, me devait peut-être déjà prédisposer à la...

Bird-watching - and photographing - of a particular eyrie during the span of 3 years, where we see the female falcon hunting for food, while the tiercel - the male falcon - stays behind to feed and brood...

Courbé sous le fardeau du crime que j’expie, Poussé par l’invincible et formidable main Qui relève le juste et s’abat sur l’impie,Je suis le voyageur étrange et surhumain Qui, chaque trois mille ans,...

Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one fact is certainly true when dealing with Sir Francis Bacon.The...

As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Methodism, Francis Asbury kept a journal of his travels and activities....

In 1857, Lady Jane Franklin, the wife of Sir John Franklin, who went missing with his entire crew during his 1845 expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, commissioned Captain Francis McClintock...

The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki . It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comus Bassington, is a charming young man about town. His perversity...

Gertrude Barrows Bennett was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly...

This is not a love story, but the story of love, a love which every man and woman was created to experience, a love so intense and fulfilling that it scarcely seems possible to grasp, yet one that is...

At two years old, Timmy was an imbecile, incapable of talking or controlling his own body. At four years old, he abruptly stood up and began speaking in full sentences. Within a few years, he was a...

Nous vivions heureux, Laure et moi ; et pourtant, comme nous avions tous deux le cœur droit et comme nous étions bons, il nous arrivait parfois de nous regarder avec des yeux inquiets ; puis nous nous...

The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic...

Le principe de la dernière guerre remonte jusqu’au congrès de Vienne qui, en rectifiant contre nous les frontières du Rhin, a légué à la France de Louis XIV et de la Révolution un ressentiment ineffaçable,...

L’Orient méditerranéen, de la mort d’Alexandre le Grand aux campagnes de Pompée (323-63 av. J.-C.), forme un ensemble géographique en pleine mutation, où se constituent de puissants royaumes et s’épanouissent...

The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age story full of angst, boys, and questions.

De 1739 à 2002, la BNF s'est enrichie d'une collection de plus de deux mille volumes manuscrits en persan, dont beaucoup sont enluminés, anciens ou contiennent des copies uniques de textes rares. La longue...

Il est des noms remplis de terreur, des noms qu’on murmure à voix basse en cherchant des souvenirs qu’on ose à peine retrouver. L’horreur dont ils sont enveloppés survit même à la mémoire des faits, et...

From Frank Sinatra to Sun Ra, from the jazz age to middle age, with thoughts on everything in-between, Francis Davis has been writing about American music and American culture for more than twenty years....

The Glass Castle meets The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in this dazzlingly honest and provocative family memoir by former child actress and current Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis. When...

"Lessons from the Prairie delivers one belly laugh after another as Melissa tees up an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to tackling life's toughest challenges, and making your life happier." -- Megyn...

L’histoire intime et secrète du crash du mont Sainte-Odile.Le 20 janvier 1992, le vol Lyon-Strasbourg d’Air Inter s’écrase au mont Sainte-Odile en Alsace. Bilan : 87 morts et 9 survivants. Cela reste...

Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a...

The Novum Organum, full original title Novum Organum Scientiarum, is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin and published in 1620. The title is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon,...

The full title of this 1605 book is Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human. It is written in the form of a letter to King James. Divided into two books, Bacon starts by giving...

Peut-on en finir avec cinquante ans de paresse d'invention et de mièvreries dans l'art contemporain ? L'académisme artistique d'aujourd'hui ressemble à s'y méprendre à celui du Second Empire, et pour...

Angleterre, XVIe siècle— Eh bien, Jane  ? J'ai besoin de votre réponse maintenant.Devant l’insistance de  Nicholas, Jane ne sait que dire. Cette demande en mariage, qu’elle a pourtant espérée, lui laisse...