L’action se déroule, en 1558, à la cour du roi Henri II. Mademoiselle de Chartres, jeune orpheline de seize ans élevée par sa mère selon de rigoureuses règles de morale, parait pour la première fois au Louvre. Le prince de Clèves, ébloui par sa beauté, la demande en mariage. Mademoiselle de Chartres accepte ce mariage de raison. Trop tard, la Princesse de Clèves rencontre le du...(展开全部)

L’action se déroule, en 1558, à la cour du roi Henri II. Mademoiselle de Chartres, jeune orpheline de seize ans élevée par sa mère selon de rigoureuses règles de morale, parait pour la première fois au Louvre. Le prince de Clèves, ébloui par sa beauté, la demande en mariage. Mademoiselle de Chartres accepte ce mariage de raison. Trop tard, la Princesse de Clèves rencontre le du...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry returns with an irresistible novel about finding love and second chances in the most unlikely of places. Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry returns with an irresistible novel about finding love and second chances in the most unlikely of places. Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that...(展开全部)

Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to ...(展开全部)

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" in 1842, it subtitled a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It first appeared in Snowden's Ladies' Companion in three installments, November and December 1842 and February 1843.Detective C. Auguste Dupin uses his superior deductive skills to discover the identity of the murderer when the body of Marie Rogêt is found in the Seine River. "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" is based in part on the actual murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and is believed to be the first example of real-life crime used as a foundation for fictional narrative. Poe is pioneer of the short story genre, his stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

Elles sont cousines. Elles sont reines. Élisabeth Tudor est reine d'Angleterre. Marie Stuart, reine de France et d'Écosse. Elles prétendent toutes les deux au trône d'Angleterre. Élisabeth la frigide, l'éternelle vierge, fille illégitime et reniée par le Pape, peut compter sur son nom. Marie Stuart la sublime, la brillante, sur son charme et le soutien des catholiques. Mais deu...(展开全部)

Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber s...(展开全部)