Download or read book Charles de Bernard written by Armand De Pontmartin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Si la première place, en littérature comme en toutes choses, appartient aux hommes dont le talent ou le génie a rendu tout ce qu'il pouvait rendre, un intérêt, sinon plus vif, au moins plus affectueux et plus tendre, s'attache à ceux qui, par leur fin prématurée, la disposition particulière de leur esprit ou la faute des circonstances, offrent, dans l'ensemble de leur vie et de leurs ouvrages, ce je ne sais quoi d'inachevé qui ne s'accorde, hélas ! que trop bien avec la destinée de l'homme et les tristes conditions de son passage ici-bas. Ceux-là, on les aime à la fois pour ce qu'ils ont fait et pour ce qu'ils auraient pu faire ; si l'on regrette qu'ils n'aient pas laissé une trace plus profonde, ce n'est pas à eux qu'on s'en prend ; c'est à leur temps, à l'absence de ces convictions vigoureuses qui sont la sève des âmes, à ce sentiment de lassitude préventive qui arrête en chemin certains esprits très fins et très justes, faute d'être assez sûrs de leur force, de leur marche et de leur but. Il nous semble alors que nous sommes tous complices de leurs défaillances, qu'elles établissent entre eux et nous un lien de plus, et que c'est pour avoir partagé nos ennuis et nos mécomptes qu'ils ont ainsi disparu sans avoir dit leur dernier mot. Toutefois, comme il ne manque pas, pendant ce temps, de noms sonores et de vanités bruyantes pour occuper le devant de la scène et absorber l'attention, il n'est pas rare que ces sobres et discrets amans de la renommée vivent et meurent dans une sorte de demi-silence et de demi-jour, dont ils ne paraissent ni s'effrayer, ni se plaindre. On dirait que leur mort ne laisse pas de vide parce que leur existence ne fait pas de bruit..."

Download or read book Mac Mahon written by Gabriel de Broglie and published by Librairie Académique Perrin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mac Mahon, souvent brocardé de son vivant et par la postérité, ne fut pourtant pas n'importe qui. De 1808 à 1893, sa vie s'inscrit tout entière dans le XIXe siècle. Militaire glorieux, il sert en Algérie trente ans durant, de lieutenant à gouverneur général, développant une conception aussi humaine que possible de la colonisation. La prise de Sébastopol en 1855, les victoires de Magenta et de Solferino en 1859 l'imposent comme l'un des grands chefs militaires du Second Empire, dont il reçoit la dignité de maréchal et le titre de duc de Magenta. Blessé en 1870 à Sedan, il évite ainsi d'avoir à signer la capitulation. En 1871, il reprend Paris aux insurgés de la Commune. Puis, il succède à Thiers en 1873 comme président du gouvernement de la République, en attendant le rétablissement d'une monarchie qui ne viendra jamais. Lui, le royaliste conservateur, après avoir, en 1877, tenté d'imposer un gouvernement selon son cœur à une majorité parlementaire qui n'en voulait pas, doit s'incliner et finit par démissionner en 1879, après avoir présidé aux fastes de l'Exposition universelle. Improbable président de la République, Mac Mahon, populaire par sa prestance, sa loyauté et sa franchise, a assisté ou participé à la mise en place de beaucoup d'institutions qui existent toujours : le septennat, la présidence du Conseil des ministres, le domaine réservé du chef de l'Etat, la qualité de chef des années, les difficultés de la cohabitation, les risques de la dissolution... Au total, Mac Mahon aura fait autant et plus pour l'établissement de la République que Thiers, Gambetta ou Grévy, ses contemporains et adversaires respectueux.

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Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis written by Antoninus Liberalis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These forty-one tales written in the second century AD by Greek author Antoninus Liberalis and translated from the Greek for the first time, offer an unusual insight into the preoccupations and legends of antiquity. These tales are quirky, exciting and sometimes disturbing. Many have relevance for modern as well as classical understanding of psychology and the imagination. Each story is usefully provided with full annotation and commentary.

Download or read book Mademoiselle Giraud written by Adolphe Belot and published by Mint Editions. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (1870) is a novel by Adolphe Belot. Written at the height of his career as a popular playwright, the novel proved immensely popular and caused a stir with its depiction of homosexuality. Recognized today as an important work of French literature and in the history of sexuality, Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife is a highly original, frequently funny, and ultimately tragic work of fiction from an underappreciated writer of nineteenth century France. Having forged a life of success and financial security for himself as a businessman, Adrien returns to Paris to find a wife. Singularly obsessed with tying his fate to a respectable woman, he finds himself struggling to remain realistic in his standards. Just when he thinks he will remain a bachelor for the rest of his days, Adrien meets the beautiful Paule Giraud, a friend of the influential Countess Berthe de Blangy. After a brief courtship, he marries Giraud only to find himself rejected in the bedroom. As he succumbs to jealousy and suspicion, Adrien becomes abusive and petulant, eventually leaving his wife in Paris for the city of Nice. There, he meets the Count de Blangy, who reveals to the unsuspecting husband the secret of his wife's sexual habits: for years, she has engaged in a lesbian affair with her friend Berthe. Enraged and dumbfounded, Adrien hatches a plan with the Count to separate their wives and punish them for their sexual deviancy. Tragic and scandalous, Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife was a bestselling story of homosexuality told from the point of view of an author who clearly possessed his society's reprehensibly oppressive views on sex and gender. Regardless, Belot's novel remains an important landmark in the historical representation of homosexuality in literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Adolphe Belot's Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Download or read book The New Epicurean written by Edward Sellon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Charles, of a predilection given over too those quite younger than he, invites a bevy of virginal and bright young things to his substantial residence and grounds with the surest intention of debauching each eager and naive beauty. Under the guise of innocent games as 'hide-and-seek', 'blind-man's bluff', and the ever entertaining 'find the slipper', the old rake makes opportune of every moment to take the most lascivious liberties with them, both apart and a'la group, educating them in the ways of the gamahuche, tribade, and various positions of fornication, until all are truly awakened to the multiple pleasures of a Libertinage life. In letters to his previous loves, he describes in sumptuously graphic details the manner in which he seduces each of his wards, and the deeds they take great pleasure in partaking in. With a steady supply of inexperienced and willing young women from Mrs. J's orphanage to sate his libidinous desires, Sir Charles' virility will surely be put to the test. That's if his wife's lover as well as the sapphic tutor of one of his favorites don't put him to the sword. This classic gem of Victorian erotica, featuring some of the most titillating scenes that ever graced the pages of a like novel, and with some pistol brandishing brigands providing a dash of unexpected action, The New Epicurean, is a fine edition to any collection of the once forbidden.

Download or read book The Exhibition of Female Flagellants written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birchgrove Press brings together in one volume two books representing the developing corpus of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English sexual fiction focusing on flagellation: Exhibition of Female Flagellants (c. 1780) and its sequel, Part the Second of the Exhibition of Female Flagellants (c. 1785). Collections of amusing anecdotes about the pleasures of flogging, these novellas focus on birching in aristocratic domestic and scholastic contexts, emphasise the display of blood, and extol the aphrodisiacal qualities of flowers. The author or authors are not known. Part one, Exhibition of Female Flagellants was first published about 1780, possibly by George Peacock in 1777. Part two, Part the Second of the Exhibition of Female Flagellants, was first published about 1785, probably also by George Peacock. Both books were reprinted in the early nineteenth century and by John Camden Hotten in 1872. This Birchgrove Press edition, which is based on Hotten's reprints, includes an Appendix with bibliographic details excerpted from Pisanus Fraxi's [Henry Spencer Ashbee's] Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877). Ashbee's record provides a fascinating overview of both books' publishing history.