Resultados para "Margot" en Literatura de género

Cela commence comme du Balzac, avec les affaires d'une riche dame de la bourgeoisie parisienne qui voit son capital détourné par sa favorite. Mais le sujet de cette nouvelle de Musset, c'est en fait la jeune Margot, 16 ans, débarquée de sa Beauce natale et qui découvre Paris, et l'amour. Aveuglée par ses sentiments, il lui faut beaucoup de temps et des épreuves difficiles pour découvrir que celui-ci n'est pas forcément synonyme de bonheur, et que la vie peut être plus heureuse avec ceux qui s'accordent mieux avec soi.

La Reine Margot is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder, and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action, and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made him one of the world’s greatest and best-loved storytellers.

The last years of King Charles IX's reign in France were dominated by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. Queen Margot begins in 1572 with the marriage of Marguerite de Valois to Henri de Navarre. Marguerite is King Charles' sister and the daughter of Henri II and Catherine de Medici, all firm Catholics. Henri de Navarre is a Protestant who later will become the beloved King Henri IV. Several important political events have led up to this marriage including the mysterious murder of Henri de Navarre's mother, cleverly plotted by Catherine de Medici. The wedding brings noblemen from all over the world to Paris resulting in the notorious Saint Bartholomew Massacre, where thousands of Protestants are killed. In this inventive and compelling novel, Dumas brings an extraordinary period of history vividly to life with much excitement and romance. The lively prose and wonderfully constructed plot tell of court intrigues and forbidden love, of beautiful queens, duchesses, and noblemen, suspense, conspiracies, betrayals, assassinations, superstitions, poisonings, and sumptuous feasts. With well-known historical figures as main characters in a dangerous and breathtaking game for power, Queen Margot tells of conspiracies, clandestine trysts, and daring escapes. There is the infamous Catherine de Medici, deliciously evil, constantly plotting and poisoning; Le Mole, a dashing and irresistable young Protestant who becomes Marguerite's lover; the noble Coconnos who provides a great source of comic relief; and at the center of all this intrigue are the good-hearted Marguerite and Henri who are perfect political allies with complicated and fascinating love lives.

Moti was a big strong boy but he was also so clumsy and broke so much things at home that his father gave him money to leave. Horse traders stole his money, so he stole their horse and that started the fortunes of Moti, a wise, brave and loyal servant to the king.

A few simple words and a tricky mind made big changes for this tailor.

"Tu ne laisses rien affleurer à la surface. Quand on vit avec un volcan, on sait que les profondeurs bouillonnent de lave incandescente. Tu sais, Hekla, tu projettes d'énormes blocs de pierre dans toutes les directions... ils détruisent tout sur leur passage... tu es un rocher imprenable, un buisson de ronces..." La jeune Hekla, par un beau jour de l'année 1963, débarque de sa campagne à Reykjavik. Elle veut devenir écrivaine.