The Presses Universitaires de France and Frémeaux & Associés offer this biography of Alexandre Dumas, by Isabelle Safa, associate professor of modern literature and doctor of French literature. If we all share the stories of Dumas, through their book and film adaptations, the life of the writer and his inscription in history are not always familiar to us. Serial novels, theatrical creations, romantic adventure, republican commitment, dramatic criticism, travelogues, his relationship to the black question, are all aspects of the itinerary of the man of letters that Isabelle Safa gives us. His developed and contextualized biography highlights the one whose name “is more than French, it is European; he is more than European, he is universal”, says his faithful friend and nevertheless literary rival, Victor Hugo.

The Presses Universitaires de France and Frémeaux & Associés offer this biography of Louis XVI, analyzed and explained by Aurore Chéry, modernist historian and researcher associated with LARHRA. A specialist in representations of Louis XV and Louis XVI, she is interested in the role played by Louis XVI, the last monarch of the Ancien Régime, and in the political upheavals experienced in the last quarter of the 18th century in France but also beyond. Long underestimated by historians who represented the King of France as an absolutist monarch overwhelmed by events and incapable of taking the measure of them, Louis XVI is presented by Aurore Chéry as a monarch adept at republican ideas and also determined to fight against the aristocracy. Throughout the historian's innovative thesis, we discover a Louis XVI close to the ideas of American patriots, eager to break away from the influence of the court and, in this, projected into our political modernity.

An emasculated corpse who opens his eyes on the autopsy table. A cell phone that starts ringing in the body of a young drug addict who died of unexplained burns. Despite fifteen years of duty in Seine-Saint-Denis, Victor Coste, police captain, is preparing for the worst. And what about these anonymous letters that reference a mysterious file: the "Code 93?" Coste will cross the limits of the job, and of reason. Author Olivier Norek is also a lieutenant of the Criminal Investigation department of Seine-Saint-Denis. Code 93, his first novel, meets the success of the public and critics with an astounding and ultra-realistic introduction to the world of crime and the police of today. The Express writes: "A story that holds in suspense until the last page. Great art of crime."

This new release is a biography on the life and work of Louis Pasteur, written by French bestselling author Erik Orsenna. He writes of this work: "For thirteen years, every Thursday afternoon, the French Academy has given me the privilege of having as a neighbor the Nobel Prize for Medicine, François Jacob. Like two schoolboys, we chatted. My abysmal ignorance in biology overwhelmed him. It is he who gave me the idea of ​​this book: "Since, by some unknown painful chance, you occupy the chair of Pasteur, immerse yourself in his life, you will be obliged to learn a little! Here are some of the main mechanisms of life, told by an ignorant who cares. Here are updates the shenanigans of microbes, here are unveiled the spells of fermentation, here is the adventure of vaccinations. Here, of course, is the victorious war against rabies. Here is Marie: more than a wife, an accomplice, an organizer, an ally in all fights. Here is a father who saw three of his daughters swept away by the disease at two, nine, and twelve years of age. Death will never have forgiven him for making so much progress in life. In this nineteenth century hungry for knowledge, here is the scientist.”

Henri Gougaud is one the most prominent French tale-teller, in this 3 CD audio book he gathered Love tales from all over the world. From Ancient Greece to Amazonia, Love is an universal question since the birth of humanity.

The place given to the animal in a society reveals how the people of that society want to live in the world. Animal experimentation, anti-specism or bullfighting are the subjects of complex debates for the definition of man as a species and as a gifted race. In this third volume of Cosmos, Michel Onfray tackles the profound philosophical stakes that our approach of the animal kingdom poses, and in particular of animals' suffering. In a civilization where the physical and moral pain of earth has been played by Christianity as both ineluctable and holy, Michel Onfray's work of reflection and outpouring has been liberated to reestablish himself within the dynamics of life in a harmonious cosmos.

Chilean guitarist Alvaro Bello's mission is to create a bridge between jazz and Latin American music. His music incorporates Chilean and South-American elements such as the trutruka (a traditional mapuche instrument), Indian Mapuch songs and rhythms such as the Lando and the Cueca. It's a unique and personal style of jazz, rich and spicy and clearly influenced by Pat Metheny and John Scofield. - Y Que Paso? follows on the critical success of Bello's 2006 album Melaolegria (Night & Day). It's 14 tracks explore new ground and continue Bello's quest to create a unique blend of Latin jazz for the new century.

Five destinies, one choice. Tris lives in a post-apocalyptic world where society is divided into five factions: the Dauntless, the Amity, the Erudite, the Abnegation, the Candor. At 16, she must choose her membership for the rest of her life. Very rare case, his aptitude test is inconclusive. It is divergent. This secret can save her... Or kill her. This saga of dystopian novels for young adults written by Veronica Roth has sold 35 million copies and has been fully adapted to the cinema. Marine Royer, the narrator, fits perfectly in the skin of Tris. With this audiobook, you are transported to the heart of the action wherever you are.

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"“Colomba” is Prosper Merimee’s most famous novel, first published in year 1840. It tells the story of a “vendetta” in Corsica, these wars between two families – where Prosper Merimee had made a travel a year earlier. Read in French by famous actor and singer Serge Reggiani for the National Broadcasts in 1956" Patrick Fremeaux

(2-CD set) The history of World Music has enable Fremeaux to discover a most unlikely genre - "Country Quebec"! This 50 track set portrays all the typical aspects of country music, but the titles are sung in French. This fusion of the mythical herds led by cowboys and the patrimony of French-speaking lands adds to Quebec's strong identity. Features Willie Lamothe, Marcel Mantel, Paul Brunelle, Suzanne Gadbois, Jean Lalonde, Lionel Parent, Rene Brisson, Roger Turgeon, Hector Pellerin and others.

Olivier Norek pushes his characters to their breaking points in his novel ‘Surtensions.’ Will this sister accept the risky deal that is proposed to her to break her brother out from the most dangerous prison in France? What will this father be able to do to save his family from the four predators who have burst into his house and intend to stay there? How do five criminals (a pedophile, a murderer, a former Serbian legionnaire, a kidnapper and a robber) find themselves in the same story and why does Coste enter the nest of vipers, endangering those who count on him for everything? Lost souls, murder for love, redemption through revenge… this audiobook, read in French, will have listeners on the edge of their seats.

May 1565. Malta. The conflict between Islam and Christianity is in full swing. Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottomans, declared holy war on his sworn enemies, the Knights of the Order of Malta. Seasoned soldiers, close to the Knights Templar, these designate their community under the term "religion." While an inquisitor arrives in Malta to restore papal control over the order, the Ottoman armada approaches the archipelago. It's the beginning of one of the most spectacular and hardest seats in military history. In this turbulent context, Mattias Tanhauser, mercenary and arms dealer, agrees to help a French countess, Carla La Penautier, in a perilous quest. To bring it to fruition, they will have to face fundamentalism on all sides, unravel political and religious intrigues, and break through well-kept secrets. Against a backdrop of conflict and religious mystery, this madly romantic book, with it's flawless erudition, shows a remarkable sense of intrigue. While exploring the mysterious history of the Knights of the Order of Malta, Tim Willocks, carried by language as intense as realistic, evokes Alexandre Dumas. An instant classic.

Julie has not believed in fairy tales for a long time. A cashier in a supermarket, the only sunshine in her life is raising her little Lulu. Yet, on a particularly dark day, fate reaches out to her. Moved by their situation, a generous man invites them to his seaside house in Brittany. Could luck be changing for Julie? Agnes Ledig, author of this work, and Coup de Coeur of the women's magazine, has a singular talent: that of mixing the most dramatic episodes with optimism, humor, and tenderness. In this novel where emotion is present on every page, she makes us laugh until we cry and reconciles us to life. This is one of those rare novels that we want to start again just because they are so good!

Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associ�s offer this biography of Julius Caesar, analyzed and explained by Christophe Badel, professor of Roman history and specialist in social history of the Roman nobility. March 15, 44 BC BC, Julius Caesar is assassinated, suspected of wanting to restore the royalty in Rome. A hint of mystery, even today, the life of the great man. As a chronicler, Christophe Babel leads the investigation and retraces the journey of a personality with many facets, patrician close to the people, successively imperator and dictator for life. From the secret alliance with Pompey and Crassus to the sumptuous games given in Rome to the military campaigns of Gaul, Spain and Egypt, the historian tells us of the rise of a political figure, both man and woman. Action and writer, whose posterity has little equal in the Western imagination.