Exquisite French Cuisine. The ABC to turn French in 60 recipes
Extraits
Monographies
The Gregory Gift
Presenting for the first time the Alexis Gregory Gift to The Frick Collection, this exquisite publication provides illuminating insights into Gregory's magnificently eclectic collection, cataloging his fine and decorative works of art in detail. Twenty-eight works of art bequeathed to the Frick by Alexis Gregory range from Limoges enamels to Saint-Porchaire ware to pastels by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera. This remarkable gift has introduced new types of objects to the Frick : works in ivory and rhinoceros horn are the first of their kind to be held in the collection. Gregory's gift includes fifteen Limoges enamels, one of them produced in the workshop of Suzanne de Court, the only woman known to have led an enamel workshop in Limoges. Also part of the gift are a gilt-bronze sculpture, an ivory hilt, a pomander, ewers, saltcellars, and two clocks. Many of Gregory's objects came from such prestigious owners as the French royal collections and the Rothschilds. Included in the publication are commentaries on each gift. This lavishly illustrated publication accompanies an exhibition that will be on view at The Frick Collection February 16 through May 14, 2023.
02/2023
Bibles
Bibliography of French Bibles. Supplement. Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century French-Language Editions of the Scriptures
Quarante ans ont passé depuis la publication de Bibliography of French Bibles. Fifteenth- and Sixteenth- Century French-Language Editions of the Scriptures. Ce Supplement conserve le format du premier ouvrage – transcription de la page de titre (parfois illustrée), description bibliographique, références, localisations et commentaire bref à propos de l'édition, surtout de la version du texte qu'elle représente. Ce Supplement augmente du double le nombre d'exemplaires et de localisations, révèle plus de cinquante nouvelles éditions ou émissions, identifie plus de vingt fantômes et ajoute trois nouveaux index.
02/2023
Ethnologie et anthropologie
The Wolves Rise Again. New elites born out of chaos
The successive shocks that strike our time have acted as an indicator of men : the bland elites of yesteryear, suddenly rejected by the masses, went back silently into the void where they had first come from. This opportunist plutarchy, that maintained itself so far, thanks to the industry of lying, the targeted elimination of creative people, will soon be engulfed. Around these illusionists with no audience, the hidden alphas will begin to rise. Within a few months, alphas, forged in a new metal, invaded public space. How can it be explained ? In troubled times, the hierarchies of peacetime had left, suddenly, a place to the atomisation of individuals. Chaos then allows the individual alphas to rise to power. Like a pack of wolves, these alphas quickly take the lead of small human groups organising themselves into rival packs. The French Revolution is a striking example of this evolution : the masters of yesterday were relegated because of their unsuitability.
06/2022
Sciences de la terre et de la
Les Serpents de la Guyane française
Ce travail est une mise à jour de la systématique des ophidiens de Guyane française. 91 formes, toutes récoltées en Guyane française, appartenant à 90 espèces, 49 genres et 7 familles sont décrites. La tête de la plupart de ces espèces . est dessinée ainsi que le maxillaire de bon nombre d'entre elles.
Pour chaque forme, il est précisé l'ensemble des caractères confirmant son identification. Les variations morphologiques rencontrées sont signalées, et les particularités proprement guyanaises soulignées.
Plus de 20 espèces guyano-amazoniennes, susceptibles d'être rencontrées en Guyane française sont également mentionnées.
25 clés, toutes traduites en anglais, permettent de reconnaître les serpents non seulement de Guyane française, mais aussi des territoires limitrophes.
Une étude écologique succincte, essentiellement sous forme de figures et de tableaux synoptiques, rassemble nos connaissances actuelles sur les espèces guyanaises.
Un index de 3 pages et une bibliographie de 178 références sélectionnées complètent cette étude.
This work is an up to date study on the taxonomy of Ophidians from French Guiana.
Ninety one forms, all collected in French Guiana, belonging to 90 species, 49 genera and 7 families are described. The head for most of
species has been drawn as well as the jaw for Many of them. For each form, the characters necessary for their identification are given.
Morphological variations are noted and those pertaining to specimens from French Guiana listed.
More than 20 species from the Amazon basin, which could also be collected in French Guiana, are described.
Twenty five keys, both in French and English, enable snakes to be recognized not only from French Guiana but also from neighbouring territories.
A brief ecological study, mainly in the form of figures and tables, gather together our knowledge of the guianese species.
A 3 pages index and a bibliography with 178 selected references complete this study.
01/1987
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Dictionary of SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TERMS ENGLISH - FRENCH FRENCH-ENGLISH
Ivres pensées est un cheminement introspectif que l'auteur offre à tout lecteur, passionné ou non de poésie. A l'image d'un tableau, il existe toujours une trame de fond sur laquelle se dessine les mots, instruments immortels au travers desquels l'on saisit la force de l'idée qui jaillit. Amour, passions, colères, joies, douceurs et tourments, chaque page traite dans un style à la fois simple et souvent incompréhensible de thèmes universels auxquels chacun de nous a du souvent faire face. Cette oeuvre est un regard à travers nous même par le biais de l'autre.
08/2013
Ecrits sur l'art
Daring French Explorations. Traiblazing Adventures around the World : 1714-1854
Daring French Explorations is an exceptional homage to adventure. Intrepid French mariners-including legendary explorers Lapérouse, Bougainville, and Dumont d'Urville, and unsung sailors La Barbinais, Pagès, and Roquefeuil-embark readers on sixteen voyages around the world from 1714 to 1854. A selection of firsthand accounts culled from their maritime travelogues recounts the trials and tribulations the explorers encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories. Their unfiltered observations on wide-ranging themes-from geopolitics and commerce to climate change and global cultures-resonate with contemporary issues. This handsome volume-featuring many previously unpublished illustrations, engravings, and maps-traces their extraordinary scientific, diplomatic, or commercial expeditions, which significantly marked the history of world exploration. Driven by a spirit of adventure and a passion for expeditions, inveterate collector Hubert Sagnières has drawn from his extensive library to curate this unprecedented introduction to the glory days of French naval history. Award-winning author Edward Duyker is a fellow at the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
02/2024
Thèmes photo
Stable Vices. Edition bilingue français-anglais
French-language supplement to the acclaimed book Stable Vices by Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska, accompanying a major solo show opening at Le Bal, Paris in February 2023 Includes a new series entitled Tata and French translations of essays by Sara De Chiara, Joanna Bednarek, and Dorota Maslowska Piotrowska's work explores themes between protection, oppression, shelter, and self- defence in visceral photographic series and short films Themes of protection, freedom and oppression resonate across Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska's oeuvre. Bringing together all her primary photographic series and short films of to date, Stable Vices crystallises and explores this spectrum of concerns. This supplementary booklet is published to coincide with a solo exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, and expands the original publication with a further series, entitled Tata. It also includes French language translations of the book's texts, by Sara De Chiara, Joanna Bednarek, and Dorota Maslowska, between them unpicking the complex tensions between domesticity and danger, aggression and tenderness that emanate from Piotrowska's celebrated work. Co-published with Le Bal, Paris
02/2023
Sciences historiques
Doura-Europos French; English
Ce volume réunit tous les articles de Franz Cumont (1868-1947) sur les fouilles de Doura-Europos : 49 textes en tout, avec plus de 90 photos et dessins. Nous publions ici, pour la première fois, le texte français que Cumont avait envoyé à son ami Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff, de l'université de Yale pour le "final report" sur le mithrée de Doura, un rapport qui ne fut jamais publié. Ce volume fait partie des Scripta Minora, sous-série de la Bibliotheca Cumontiana qui regroupe l'édition ou la réédition des oeuvres choisies du fameux antiquisant et historien belge des religions. Il contient, en anglais, une introduction historiographique et critique par le spécialiste de l'histoire sociale et religieuse du Proche-Orient, Ted Kaizer, qui analyse la méthodologie utilisée par Cumont dans le contexte scientifique de son temps et l'importance des fouilles de Doura pour notre connaissance de la Syrie antique. En outre, cette introduction fournit une mise à jour bibliographique en signalant les publications les plus importantes qui complètent ou renouvellent le travail de Cumont. Le volume contient également un index thématique, ainsi qu'un index auteurs anciens et modernes.
11/2020
Méthodes FLE
Listen, play & learn french
Want to have fun while learning French ? Meet Ludivine and Antoine. She's a soccer fan and he's a guitarist. You'll discover their daily lives as children living in France - their friends, their school, their hobbies - and you'll pick up the language as you follow their adventures. As you advance through the book, you'll meet Zouzou le hibou, a wily owl who'll provide instructions and explanations, give you challenges to solve, and introduce you to classic French poems and songs. You'll also meet Léon le dragon, who'll give you some great games to play. Last but not least, Kiki la chauve-souris is a brainy bat who'll translate the dialogues for you and give you the answers to our puzzles. With the help of this tip-top trio, you'll progress without difficulty - and, above all, without getting bored.
09/2023
Sciences politiques
Narratives of French Modernity
Inspired by the work of their colleague David Gascoigne, a group of scholars from the UK and France examine in this book the narrative strategies of some of the most interesting and important French writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Stretching chronologically from 1905 to 2005, the volume examines a wide variety of prose genres, from pornography to Bildungsroman to magic realism, as well as poetry. Michel Tournier figures in several of the contributions, emerging as something of a touchstone for many of the thematic preoccupations that are common throughout the period : values and authority, self and other, identity, spirituality, migration and exile, sexuality, the body, violence and war, and language. The authors also examine the flourishing of intertextuality, as well as the use of traditional forms, such as mythical structures and the ‘robinsonade', to undermine authoritative ‘métarécits'. Probing these themes and forms, and their metamorphoses across 100 years, the essays demonstrate a striking degree of continuity, linking writers as different as Apollinaire and Houellebecq or Valéry and Fleutiaux, and highlight the difficulty of dividing the period neatly into chronologically ordered categories labelled ‘modern' or ‘postmodern'.
03/2011
Littérature française
Au véritable french tacos
Deux amis, Ganymède et Calixte, partent à la découverte de pays inconnus, l'un la Phéraizie, l'autre, la Zapockie. Durant leurs séjours respectifs, ces arrière-petits-cousins des Persans de Montesquieu, ces lointains descendants du Huron de Voltaire se font part de leurs observations. Ils échangent leurs impressions, les sentiments que leur inspirent les moeurs, les coutumes, les façons de vivre de leurs hôtes. Leur étonnement, surtout, devant le constat que leur propre patrie accumule en maints domaines un retard considérable. Ainsi leur correspondance dessine-t-elle, mais en creux, le portrait d'une France dont l'image, pour surprenante qu'elle paraisse parfois, ressemble, en définitive, trait pour trait à celle que nous connaissons aujourd'hui. C'est dire que l'amertume se mêle à l'ironie. Que la satire, souvent hilarante, débouche sur une réflexion on ne peut plus sérieuse. Et le véritable french tacos du titre ? Celui qui en chercherait la recette dans ces pages irait au devant d'une cruelle désillusion : il est métaphorique et symbolise, à lui seul, l'état de notre civilisation, comme le lecteur pourra s'en apercevoir au fil du texte..
10/2020
Histoire internationale
Charge of the Bull
Few will deny that 11th Bristish Armoured Division, the "Charging Bulls" of this story, was the finest armoured division on any side in the Normandy campaign in 1944. Soon after the end of the war, the history of the Division, Taurus Pursuant, was published in England in 1946. About 30 years later, Jean Brisset published his French-language book, La Charge du Taureau, about the same Division. It quickly went through two editions in France. What ensured its success was that it enlivened and humanized the well-know official accounts of the Division's battles in Operations EPSOM, GOODWOOD, BLUECOAT and others with the personal stories of participants in those battles who were often soldiers of humble but honourable rank. In addition, he paralleled the British military story with accounts of the experiences of French civilians caught up in the terror of thoses same battles, the anguish of theur tragedies and losses and the joy of their liberation. It is a history unique of its kind and deserves to be presented in this English translation. In addition to the story about 11th Armoured Division an Appendix telles about the battles in the Normandy bocage fought alongside the "Charging Bulls" by the hard-fighting 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division and how the local civilians and Resistance fighters helped them. Another Appendix recounts, among other adventures, how a little 5-year-old French girl saved an Australian Spitfire pilot from recapture by the Germans after he had been shot clown in the bocage. Finally, an Epilogue brings the story up to date. It pays homage to those, both British and French, who strove to keep alive the flames of remembrance, mutual gratitude and friendship. Containing over 100 photographs and illustrated by 9 maps, specially draw for this edition, The Charge of the Bull is a nostalgic trip back for those who fought in Normandy in 1944 and an important addition to the litterature about that campaign.
06/2012
Non classé
Métissage in New France and Canada 1508 to 1886
This book deals with métissage in New France and Canada in the period 1508 to 1886. Métissage is understood as a syncretistic process of cultural, social and political encounter and mixture of ethnic groups that resulted from mixed marriages and relationships. Those led to the rise of the Métis people in North America, which were distinguished as French-speaking Métis and English-speaking Halfbreeds. The process of mixture began in 1508, when first Indians were shipped to France with the intention to use them as multipliers of French culture on their return to the colony. In 1886, the Act of Savages legally distinguished between "Indians" and "Metis", thus marking the beginning of a mixed-blood identity in Canada that was differentiated from neighbouring Whites, Indians and Inuit. The theoretical approach of the history of concepts is employed in the longue durée to show the variance throughout four centuries.
08/2009
Design
A Year in the French Style. Interiors & Entertaining by Antoinette Poisson
Maison Lescop, a historic residence in Port-Louis, Brittany, has conserved its original eighteenth-century decor that was conceived for a French importer for the East Indian trading company. Today, it is the home and restoration project for the creative duo behind the Parisian design team Antoinette Poisson. Enchanted by the poetic beauty of hand-painted domino paper prints-from floral and fauna to geometric and ikat-they have appointed their new home with elegant decorative touches : handcrafted lampshades, wallpaper-lined cupboards, assorted table settings, and luxurious textiles. Celebrating a French lifestyle inspired by the charm of the eighteenth century-through its objects, gastronomy, and traditional savoir faire-the authors invite readers to share their art de vivre throughout the seasons- from gathering shellfish on the beach to shopping at the local market, from antiquing to foraging, and from indigo textile dyeing to block-printing on artisanal paper. This book is an ode to timeless pleasures and a life well-lived... à la française.
10/2023
Monographies
Antique French Jewelry : 1800-1950
This indispensable reference to antique French jewelry gives amateur and professional jewelry enthusiasts the knowledge and confidence to : - recognize and date a piece of antique jewelry - identify the principal gemstones - distinguish the major French jewelry designers - buy and sell antique pieces - have works appraised Charting the evolution of French jewelry created between the Consulate period (established by general Napoleon Bonaparte on the cusp of the nineteenth century) and the 1950s, this practical guide defines each era by identifying its hallmark trends, materials, gemstones, main types of jewelry, and historic jewelry houses. Richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and archival documents, and featuring iconic designs such as the "tank" bracelet, "you-and-me" ring, "négligé" pendant, and Zip necklace, this essential book covers antique French jewelry in all of its scintillating facets.
03/2024
Littérature française
France US UK
The new French anticorruption law on transparency, fight against corruption and the modernisation of the economy ("Sapin II") promises to bring significant changes in French domestic law and imposes new obligations on large French and foreign businesses. Sapin II clearly follows an international trend towards tougher and more transparent anticorruption laws and a large part of Sapin II provisions have obviously been influenced by other anticorruption standards such as notably the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act. This publication describes these three regulations allowing the reader to understand the major factors and provisions within these laws that are now governing the fight against corruption in the world of globalisation.
06/2017
Non classé
Oaths, Vows and Promises in the first Part of the French Prose Lancelot Romance
This book examines the narrative use made of oaths, vows and promises in a thirteenth-century work of fictional literature, reviewing the textual prominence accorded them by the writer in the light of legal texts of the Middle Ages that deal with the same subject. Medieval society had to deal with highly complex problems that arose out of the central importance accorded the given word. Jurists wrestled with the problems in an attempt to solve them ; the writer of a work of narrative fiction can explore such problems in terms of human drama. The writer of the prose Lancelot was clearly aware of the legal debate, and he used both the characters and plot of his fictional text to construct narrative sequences that allowed him to depict the moral and psychological perplexities that faced both society and individuals over these matters.
02/1993
Histoire internationale
From Revolutionary Theater to Reactionary Litanies
Gustave Hervé (1871–1944) seemed to have traditional Breton roots and a typical republican education. As a young socialist journalist and professor, he gained notoriety following a 1901 article which appeared to plant the tricolor in a dung pile. When French socialists unified in 1905, the Hervéistes were an influential minority. The antimilitarist movement called Hervéism gradually emerged as a quixotic crusade to unite revolutionaries against war and for socialism. Hervé soon founded a weekly newspaper, La Guerre Sociale. Over the next six years, press campaigns, trials, prison, demonstrations, strikes, and conspiratorial organizations maintained Hervé's profile and sold newspapers. Ironically, Hervé advertised conspiracies, which suggests revolutionary theater more than practical politics. Among Hervé's rivals, such theatrics often generated resentment. While Hervé's movement succeeded as a media experience, his leftist competitors became jealous and skeptical. As revolutionary theater Hervéism might have been entertaining, but the actors and some of the audience often confused revolutionary art with political reality. By 1911 the ingenuous Hervé felt betrayed. His failure to unite revolutionaries began an evolution toward the nation and its traditional Catholic faith. Besides the international situation, one crucial determinant in Hervé's evolution toward French national socialism sympathetic to fascism involved ongoing rivalries within the French Left. Hervé's marginal interwar national socialist parties sought to employ patriotism and religion to solve French problems. By 1935 he attempted to draft Pétain to lead an authoritarian republic. Gradually losing hope in Pétain after the fall of France, the aging Hervé put his faith in Christian socialism.
07/2016
Sociologie
A Handbook of Global Citizenship Education. The Belgian perspective
Presented as a response to contemporary global issues (such as sustainable development, interculturality or democracy), Global Citizenship Education (GCE) aims to "open people's eyes and minds to the realities of the world and awaken them to bring about a world of greater justice, equity and human rights for all". Given that GCE is now perceived as a means of bringing contemporary world issues into classrooms, teachers and school principals are increasingly encouraged to adopt it. Indeed, new skills frameworks require students to develop knowledge on global issues, while students themselves are demanding this education because they seek the means to play a greater role in the world. Often addressed in the form of social or environmental issues perceived as being of serious concern, GCE is expected to feature increasingly in the curricula of schools and universities in the future. But in Belgium and around the world, Global Citizenship Education (GCE) has been the subject of debate in recent years. This handbook reflects these various debates. Initially published in French, it is, above all, an attempt to compensate for the absence of texts on the subject from the French-speaking world, notably from the Belgian research and practice world. This English version enhances the international visibility of the vital academic, institutional, and professional sectors addressing GCE in Belgium, and highlights the specific features of GCE in this country. It will be particularly useful for students, teachers and practitioners, and everyone who wants to understand the challenges of Global Citizenship Education today.
01/2023
BD tout public
Pin-up. La French Touch
En toute simplicité... La seule ambition de la Pin-up semble être d'apporter un peu de joie de vivre, comme une chansonnette populaire, légère et pétillante, un peu bastringue ou rengaine peut-être mais qui nous touche parfois suffisamment pour nous revenir à l'esprit pendant longtemps. La Pin-up, c'est une gourmandise. C'est quand je vois le visage des gens s'éclairer d'un sourire en découvrant mon travail que celui-ci prend tout son sens. La Pin-up fait du bien. Pendant la 2ème Guerre mondiale, les aviateurs américains peignaient des Pin-up sur le nez de leur bombardier. Une compagnie pour l'aventure, une fée pour exhausser les souhaits, Figure de proue moderne, lui accordaient-ils une fonction de protectrice, de porte-bonheur ? Ce coté magique me plait bien. Laissons le charme agir...
01/2019
Beaux arts
French english A day longer
Dans cet ouvrage l'artiste Jim Dine mêle poésie et acte pictural en dessinant ses poèmes à même les murs. Ce livre retrace sous forme photographique toutes ses interventions poétiques partout dans le monde : Centre Pompidou à Paris, Moscou, Rome etc... Jim Dine dont nous avons déjà publié deux recueils de poésie, Nantes et La Coupole et autres poèmes poursuit sa collaboration avec Joca Seria.
01/2021
Histoire du cinéma
French Cancan de Jean Renoir
Après l'exil américain et quinze ans d'absence des plateaux français depuis "La Règle du jeu" , Renoir tourne "French Cancan" et renoue ainsi avec le monde de son enfance : le Montmartre de la Belle Epoque. Il y célèbre les jalons de la culture nationale populaire : le cancan, le café-concert, la "joie de vivre" et permet les retrouvailles avec Gabin après le succès de "La Grande Illusion" . Certes, Renoir est en quête de beauté et de plaisir, filmant la danse et la chanson, jouant sur les couleurs et les décors qui reconstituent le Paris 1900 mais souligne également l'arrière-plan du spectacle. On remarque, sous l'harmonie apparente, la persistance des différences sociales et une image teintée de noirceur de la société de la fin du XIX e siècle, dans laquelle la culture s'industrialise progressivement. L'ouvrage étudie en particulier la mise en scène du film. Si la caméra reste souvent statique, c'est pour mieux saisir la profusion de mouvements des acteurs et offrir des cadrages influencés par la peinture.
06/2023
Desserts, pâtisseries
French bastards. Boulangerie ; Pâtisserie ; Bastarderie
Les French Bastards débarquent dans votre cuisine !
Et vous n'allez pas y résister très longtemps. Ne vous fiez pas seulement au nom, la boulange ici, c'est du sérieux ! Car les French Bastards, c'est un trio de copains qui ont fondé leur boulangerie avec la ferme ambition de régaler les gourmands les plus exigeants. Et c'est le best-of de leurs recettes que l'on retrouve ici dans le livre. Des désormais classiques, beignets, babka, kougloff, pains perdus aux très traditionnels croissants, Saint-Honoré et pavé tradition, en passant par les créations tiramisu caramel tonka ou pain charbon sésame, toutes les recettes de boulangerie passent par le filtre foodporn pour vous régaler.
Des recettes qui sentent bon le pain chaud, avec des produits gourmands, généreux et impeccablement sourcés.
Et si vous ne savez pas encore ce que c'est qu'un browkie (contraction de brownies et de cookie) ou un cruffin (contraction de croissant et de muffin), soyez prêts pour un plaisir dnt vos papilles ne pourront plus se lasser.
10/2022
Guides pratiques
Fast Talk French 5ed -anglais
Although you can get by in France without speaking the language, knowing just a few essential phrases can help you make friends, enjoy service with a smile, and discover richer, more rewarding travel experiences. Fast Talk French is the concise language guide that is guaranteed to get you talking with confidence. Taste your way around the cellars of Champagne, explore the sights of Paris, or grab that great shopping bargain. Essential phrases to meet all your travel needs How to get local recommendations Easy-to-use pronunciation guides Expert tips to boost your confidence
09/2023
BD tout public
Michel Tome 1 : French Lover
Michel est un loser, un vaccin contre l'amour, un anonyme voué à la solitude. Mais un jour, subitement et sans raison apparente, il devient irrésistible et sa vie bascule. Michel se retrouve pris dans un tourbillon de plaisirs... et d'emmerdes. Ce n'est pas tous les jours facile d'être un tombeur...
05/2018
BD tout public
Lincoln Tome 6 : French Lover
"- C'est pas croyable...J'ai toujours voulu que les hommes vivent heureux, motivés dans leurs actions par l'amour et la fraternité et toi tu réussis toujours à faire en sorte qu'ils ne se mobilisent que pour la guerre ou le cul ! - Ca s'appelle le talent mon pote ! "
09/2009
Sciences politiques
An International Bibliography of Computer-Assisted Language Learning with Annotations in German
This bibliography is a sequel to volume I of the International Bibliography of Computer Assisted Language Learning compiled by the Senior Editor and published in 1988. The roughly 2000 entries mainly cover the period from 1987 to 1991. Together, the 3051 entries in volumes I and II constitute a fairly comprehensive picture of CALL around the world. This bibliography is not restricted to English as a first, second or foreign language. The articles indexed - some 600 of them have annotations in German - report on the teaching of Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Thai as target languages. A German and an English subject index help to locate entries.
09/1993
Documentaires jeunesse
Quentin Blake and the Demoiselles des Bords de Seine
Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of our time. He was Roald Dahl's regular illustrator, and their books have enjoyed world popularity with generations of children. Blake has collaborated with many other well-known authors and also created his own picture-books such as Clown and Zagazoo. Quentin Blake was born in England in 1932. For more than 20 years he taught in and then led the illustration department of the Royal College of Art. In 1999 he became the first Children's Laureate and in 2005 was appointed CBE for his services to children's literature. In France, where he spends a great deal of his time and where he has been published by Gallimard for the past 30 years, Quentin Blake has the same huge reputation as in Great Britain. His work has been exhibited there, and he has produced several books especially for French readers. In 2002 he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. It was on account of this reputation that he was invited by the Petit Palais to select and present the exhibition Quentin Blake et les Demoiselles des Bords de Seine, and in the exhibition and this book he displays his enthusiasm for 19th century French art with a perceptiveness and liveliness which will speak to readers of all ages.
12/2005
Géographie
HUAHINE : Une île en polynésie / An island in french Polynesia
Située à 175 km de Tahiti, 45 km de Raiatea l'île voisine, et 82 km de Bora Bora l'île chère à Paul-Emile Victor, Huahine est qualifiée de rebelle, sauvage, authentique, autant par les touristes qui y séjournent que par le peuple polynésien lui-même. Autour de légendes du temps passé et de photographies d'aujourd'hui, découvrez au fil de ces pages une perle de la Polynésie. Located 175 km North from Tahiti, 45 km East from the neighbouring island Raiatea, and 82 km from Bora Bora the island cherished by Paul-Emile Victor, Huahine is qualified as rebel, wild and authentic, bot from the polynesian people and the tourists who come to visit it. In this book through legends from the past and photographs from nowadays, you will discover this gem from french Polynesia.
04/2013
Monographies
Loire's castle
Discover their history, the technical feats that went into their construction and all their secrets. From Amboise to Clos Lucé, from Chambord to Chenonceau, from Blois to Villandry, each of these sublime castles conceals unsuspected treasures ! Discover them off the beaten track, with cultural, historical and sometimes even unusual information... Explore the history, big and small, of these landmarks of French history. Discover their secrets and mysteries, and follow our guide to admire their most unusual and sumptuous corners.
03/2024
