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A Daughter of the Seine

Author : Jeanette Eaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Daughter of the Seine written by Jeanette Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fictionalized biography of the French Revolutionary patriot and writer Jeanne Manon Roland de la Platiere (1754-1793), who became known simply by Madame Roland. She was the daughter of a Paris engraver who encouraged his daughter's interest in music, painting, and literature. As a young girl, she told to her grand-mother: "I'll call myself daughter of the Seine," and as an adult she often said that the river was part of her soul. As a young woman she became interested in the radical ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau and the movement for equality. She shared these enthusiasms with her husband, whom she married in 1780. After the outbreak of the Revolution, she formed a salon of followers, who late became known as the Girondists. Under the constitutional monarchy, her husband became minister of the interior, a post he held after the monarchy was overthrown. Madame Roland both directed her husband's career and influenced the important politicians of the period.(

The Seine: The River that Made Paris

Author : Elaine Sciolino
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609367
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Seine: The River that Made Paris written by Elaine Sciolino and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best-selling author Elaine Sciolino. Elaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea, and the cities, tributaries, islands, ports, and bridges in between. Sciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana—the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name—and follows the river through Paris, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art, literature, music, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. A “storyteller at heart” (June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune) with a “sumptuous eye for detail” (Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph), Sciolino braids memoir, travelogue, and history through the Seine’s winding route. The Seine offers a love letter to Paris and the most romantic river in the world, and invites readers to explore its magic for themselves.

Houseboat on the Seine

Author : William Wharton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007458185
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Houseboat on the Seine written by William Wharton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming memoir from one of America’s best-loved novelists, William Wharton, author of war-time classic ‘Birdy’.

A Daughter of Pan

Author : Cornelia Stratton Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Daughter of Pan written by Cornelia Stratton Parker and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Unknown Woman of the Seine

Author : Brooks Hansen
Publisher : Delphinium
ISBN 13 : 9781953002051
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Woman of the Seine written by Brooks Hansen and published by Delphinium. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late autumn of 1889, the body of an unknown woman appeared on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It was taken to the city morgue behind Notre Dame and put on display for a month, according to protocol. The eerie beauty of the young woman's expression attracted crowds but no claimant, and so, before the body was dispatched, a mold was taken of the face, yielding a mask which was to become one of the most celebrated cult objets/curios of the 20th century. Set during the final days of the Paris expo of 1889, Brooks Hansen's The Unknown Woman of the Seine sets out to solve the mystery of who the woman was behind the mask. In charge of that investigation is a former Gendarme and recent prisoner of war just returned from Tonkin, China. Henri Brassard is on his way to Paris, determined to reclaim his place in La Force when he crosses paths with a mysterious and unnamed young maiden and her gypsy wagon. Detecting villainy, and bent on proving himself to his former superiors, Brassard tracks her into the city and observes from the shadows as, with evident but inscrutable purpose, she wends her way into the orbit of several savory and unsavory characters--an Artist, an Impresario, a Madame, a Countess, and one Disciple even--each of whom sees in her some opportunity, a chance for profit or redemption; any one of whom may therefore be responsible for her sudden and unexplained disappearance. On that account, Brassard's chase will lead him on a grand tour of the city's lushest and seamiest venues, from its highest spires down into its darkest, dankest catacombs and past a gallery of equally diverse crimes--the moral, the political, the maniacal. By the end, he will, in fact, learn the stunning truth of the unknown woman's true identity, her past and present, but not before unearthing the equally disturbing truth about himself, who he has been, and who he must become.

Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life

Author : Sarah H. Killikelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life written by Sarah H. Killikelly and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Out of My Father's Shadow

Author : Tanya Constantine
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1627310886
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Out of My Father's Shadow written by Tanya Constantine and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though born in America, Eddie Constantine is perhaps best remembered as a film actor in France and Germany, playing the role of a hardboiled detective named "Lemmy Caution" and appearing in films by Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Lars von Trier. In the process of transitioning Constantine from the star of B-movies to the epicenter of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Luc Godard reconsecrated him as the solemn and impassive star of his extraordinary film, Alphaville. Eddie's unruffled charm, winning smile, and American credentials made him virtually untouchable. Europeans liked Constantine because he wasn't a pretty face-he had savoir faire. Constantine's daughter Tanya traveled with him throughout much of his career, and this book comes from her perspective of their troubled familial relationship. It is a testament to his legend that Constantine emerges from the candor of his daughter's autobiography somehow strengthened by her revelations of the compulsions and insecurities he made those closest to him suffer. This book presents us with universal truths about the difficulties experienced within family relationships and takes us behind the curtain of celebrity and the fixed smiles of publicity photos in a way few books ever do. I had a most unusual upbringing being the child of a celebrity. My childhood was a unique situation that only people who had experienced it could comprehend. My father was a superstar and singer in Europe in the 1950s and '60s. He and I recorded a song called "The Man and The Child" that sold over a million records in France alone, when I was just eleven years old, thus making me a celebrity too. When superstardom set in, a crazy atmosphere had overtaken our household, as fame creates pressure, fear of loss, and resentment. My father's estate became an open house to international celebrities who came to visit. Despite the fame and fortune that became part of my life, I ran away from home before the age of sixteen with the man who later became my first husband. I have spent my entire life attempting to release the pain of my upbringing.

A Whale in Paris

Author : Daniel Presley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534419179
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book A Whale in Paris written by Daniel Presley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perfect for readers who love a touch of the fantastic and the impossible.” —Booklist A hopeful and heroic girl befriends a small, lost whale during World War II and together they embark on a journey to liberate France and find their families in this charming debut novel. Ever since the Germans became the unwelcome “guests” of Paris in the early days of World War II, Papa and Chantal have gone out in the evenings to fish in the Seine. Tonight Chantal is hoping for a salmon, but instead she spies something much more special: a whale! Though small (for a whale) and lost, he seems friendly. Chantal soon opens her heart to the loveable creature and names him Franklin, after the American president who must surely be sending troops to rescue her country. Yet Franklin is in danger: The Parisians are starving and would love to eat him, and the Nazis want to capture him as a gift to Hitler. In a desperate bid to liberate themselves and their city, Chantal and Franklin embark on a dangerous voyage. But can one small girl manage to return a whale to the ocean and reunite him with his parents? And will she ever see her own family again?

Mullyon

Author : Edmund George Harvey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385397529
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Mullyon written by Edmund George Harvey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

A daughter of Eve. A commission in lunacy. The rural ball

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A daughter of Eve. A commission in lunacy. The rural ball written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's Who in the World, 1912

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1160 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's Who in the World, 1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The International Blue Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The International Blue Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cassell's concise cyclopædia, ed. by W. Heaton [and others].

Author : Cassell, ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cassell's concise cyclopædia, ed. by W. Heaton [and others]. written by Cassell, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Wit and Humor

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Wit and Humor written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eliza Cook's journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Eliza Cook's journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Southwestern Reporter

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 2444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islanderers of the South

Author : Paul van der Grijp
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900443352X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Islanderers of the South written by Paul van der Grijp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islanders of the South is an ethnography of the kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. This is the first book to examine the interplay of Polynesian and Western ideas within contemporary social and economic practices, not from the point of view of Tongan aristocracy, but from that of the common people. The first describes contemporary Tongan society and the main means of subsistence: agriculture, fishing, and manufacturing. An analysis of the kinship system, with its economic, political, and ideological dimensions, is intertwined with a discussion of Tongan attitudes on life and death, marriage and divorce, social rights and obligations, migration and remittances. Later chapters deal with the crucial questions of land ownership and the circulation of gifts. A large number of genealogies, biographies, and case studies help convey how Tongans live together and how they experience their relationship to nature. Effects on Tonga of global developments—predominantly capitalist in nature—are expressed in the commercialization of the means of subsistence, bringing about changes often regarded as progress. The author raises doubts about this ideology of progress by referring to aspects of nature and culture in Tonga which are disappearing. Up to now Tongans have largely been able to preserve the circulation of gifts and economic self-sufficiency.