Author: FrancePublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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Lettres patentes du Roy, portant defenses à tous ses subjets, de quelque qualité & condition qu'ils soient de faire levees de gens de guerre soit de cheval ou de pied, sans commission de sa Majesté
Author: FranceEconomic Fallacies
Author: Frederic BastiatPublisher: Simon Publications
ISBN: 9781931541022
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book, written by the celebrated nineteenth century French economist propagating free trade, reads as it was written yesterday.
Lettres patentes du Roy. Portant inhibitions & deffenses à toutes personnes de quelque qualité & condition qu'ils soient, de faire aucunes levées de gens de guerre sans commission expresse de sa Majesté
Author: Louis XIII ((roi de France ;)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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The Wars of Religion in France, 1559-1576
Author: James Westfall ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Torture Garden
Author: Octave MirbeauPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465606947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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One evening some friends were gathered at the home of one of our most celebrated writers. Having dined sumptuously, they were discussing murder—apropos of what, I no longer remember probably apropos of nothing. Only men were present: moralists, poets, philosophers and doctors—thus everyone could speak freely, according to his whim, his hobby or his idiosyncrasies, without fear of suddenly seeing that expression of horror and fear which the least startling idea traces upon the horrified face of a notary. I—say notary, much as I might have said lawyer or porter, not disdainfully, of course, but in order to define the average French mind. With a calmness of spirit as perfect as though he were expressing an opinion upon the merits of the cigar he was smoking, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences said: “Really—I honestly believe that murder is the greatest human preoccupation, and that all our acts stem from it... “ We awaited the pronouncement of an involved theory, but he remained silent. “Absolutely!” said a Darwinian scientist, “and, my friend, you are voicing one of those eternal truths such as the legendary Monsieur de La Palisse discovered every day: since murder is the very bedrock of our social institutions, and consequently the most imperious necessity of civilized life. If it no longer existed, there would be no governments of any kind, by virtue of the admirable fact that crime in general and murder in particular are not only their excuse, but their only reason for being. We should then live in complete anarchy, which is inconceivable. So, instead of seeking to eliminate murder, it is imperative that it be cultivated with intelligence and perseverance. I know no better culture medium than law.” Someone protested. “Here, here!” asked the savant, “aren't we alone, and speaking frankly?” “Please!” said the host, “let us profit thoroughly by the only occasion when we are free to express our personal ideas, for both I, in my books, and you in your turn, may present only lies to the public.” The scientist settled himself once more among the cushions of his armchair, stretched his legs, which were numb from being crossed too long and, his head thrown back, his arms hanging and his stomach soothed by good digestion, puffed smoke−rings at the ceiling: “Besides,” he continued, “murder is largely self−propagating. Actually, it is not the result of this or that passion, nor is it a pathological form of degeneracy. It is a vital instinct which is in us all—which is in all organized beings and dominates them, just as the genetic instinct. And most of the time it is especially true that these two instincts fuse so well, and are so totally interchangeable, that in some way or other they form a single and identical instinct, so that we no longer may tell which of the two urges us to give life, and which to take it—which is murder, and which love. I have been the confidant of an honorable assassin who killed women, not to rob them, but to ravish them. His trick was to manage things so that his sexual climax coincided exactly with the death−spasm of the woman: 'At those moments,' he told me, 'I imagined I was a God, creating a world!”
A New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages in Two Parts
Author: Thomas NugentLettres patentes du roy [Henri III], contenans les defenses & prohibitions à tous ses subjects, de quelque qualité qu'ils soient, de faire aucunes levées par amas de gens de guerre, tant de cheval que de pied, sur peine de crime de lèze majesté
![Lettres patentes du roy [Henri III], contenans les defenses & prohibitions à tous ses subjects, de quelque qualité qu'ils soient, de faire aucunes levées par amas de gens de guerre, tant de cheval que de pied, sur peine de crime de lèze majesté PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/bLglzQEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Lettres patentes du Roy portant défenses de faire aucunes levées de gens de guerre sous quelque prétexte que se puisse être sans commission expresse de sa majesté..
Author: Louis XIII ((roi de France ;)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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