Download or read book Diary of a Foreigner in Paris written by Curzio Malaparte and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience postwar Europe through the diary of a fascinating and witty twentieth-century writer and artist. Recording his travels in France and Switzerland, Curzio Malaparte encounters famous figures such as Cocteau and Camus and captures the fraught, restless spirit of Paris after the trauma of war. In 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, repeatedly imprisoned. In his intervals of freedom, he had been dispatched as a journalist to the Eastern Front, and though many of his reports from the bloodlands of Poland and Ukraine were censored, his experiences there became the basis for his unclassifiable postwar masterpiece and international bestseller, Kaputt. Now, returning to the one country that had always treated him well, the one country he had always loved, he was something of a star, albeit one that shines with a dusky and disturbing light. The journal he kept while in Paris records a range of meetings with remarkable people—Jean Cocteau and a dourly unwelcoming Albert Camus among them—and is full of Malaparte’s characteristically barbed reflections on the temper of the time. It is a perfect model of ambiguous reserve as well as humorous self-exposure. There is, for example, Malaparte’s curious custom of sitting out at night and barking along with the neighborhood dogs—dogs, after all, were his only friends when in exile. The French find it puzzling, to say the least; when it comes to Switzerland, it is grounds for prosecution!
Download or read book Anni s Diary of France written by Anni Axworthy and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anni's diary describes the trip to France that she takes with her mom and dad.
Download or read book Deposition 1940 1944 written by Léon Werth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians agree: the diary of Léon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited and unclassifiable writer. He is the author of eleven novels, art and dance criticism, acerbic political reporting, and memorable personal essays. He was Jewish, and left Paris in June 1940 to hide out in his wife's country house in Saint-Amour, a small village in the Jura Mountains. His short memoir 33 Days recounts his struggle to get there. Deposition tells of daily life in the village, on nearby farms and towns, and finally back in Paris, where he draws the portrait of a Resistance network in his apartment and writes an eyewitness report of the insurrection that freed the city in August, 1944. From Saint-Amour, we see both the Resistance in the countryside, derailing troop trains, punishing notorious collaborators--and growing repression: arrests, torture, deportation, and executions. Above all, we see how Vichy and the Occupation affect the lives of farmers and villagers and how their often contradictory attitudes evolve from 1940-1944. Werth's ear for dialogue and novelist's gift for creating characters animate the diary: in the markets and in town, we meet real French peasants and shopkeepers, railroad men and the patronne of the café at the station, schoolteachers and gendarmes. They come off the page alive, and the countryside and villages come alive with them. With biting irony, Werth records, almost daily, what Vichy-German propaganda was saying on the radio and in the press. We follow the progress of the war as people did then, day by day. These entries make interesting, often amusing reading, a stark contrast with his gripping entries on the persecution and deportation of the Jews. Deposition is a varied and complex piece of living history, and a pleasure to read.
Download or read book The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821 written by Mary Browne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mira s Diary Lost in Paris written by Marissa Moss and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mira receives a cryptic postcard from her missing mother, she sets off with her father and brother to find her in Paris. Only Mira doesn't know she's looking in the wrong century. With an innocent touch to a gargoyle sculpture on the roof of Notre Dame, Mira is whisked into the past. There she learns her mother isn't just avoiding the family, she's in serious trouble. Following her mother's clues, Mira travels through time to help change history and bring her mother home. "Long after I finished this fast–paced and compelling novel, I thought about Mira. Would I be as determined in pursuit of truth and tolerance? Would you?" —Karen Cushman, Newberry Medal Winner
Download or read book The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821 written by Mary Browne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work gives an entry into the mind of a bright 13-year-old English girl during the first half of the 19th century. She was an enthusiastic naturalist and observer of nature during a time when such amusements were unusual. Mary entertained the readers with her lengthy isolated wanders around her beautiful home. She loved flowers, and she planted and tended with her own loving care fragrant flowers like rose de Meaux, clove pinks, and gillyflowers. Mary was content in her own company. The circle around her didn't understand her because she was shy and strangely indifferent to appearance and worldly advantages. The diary is full of vivid observations of the world around her. This diary is considered a picture poem, painted beautifully and with innocence. It shows little Mary's accuracy of observation and her attention to detail.
Download or read book A French Officer s Diary written by D. Barlone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the war diary of Major D. Barlone of the Free French Forces.
Download or read book Diary in France Mainly on Topics Concerning Education and the Church written by Christopher Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of a French Girl written by Marie-Claire Patron and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a French Girl is the personal journal of a young French traveller who shares with us her perspectives, experiences and insights into the English Diaspora. On a broader leve, this book also seves to prepare all global travellers for the experiences and emotions they will encounter as they journey through different time zones, lands, languages, people and embark on foreign sojourns whether in cultures diametrically opposed to their own, or those that (deceptively) appear similar.
Download or read book Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris written by Henry Du Pré Labouchere and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of the Dark Years 1940 1944 written by Jean Gu?henno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction Jean Gu?henno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal). Here, David Ball provides not only the first English-translation of this important historical document, but also the first ever annotated, corrected edition. Gu?henno was a well-known political and cultural critic, left-wing but not communist, and uncompromisingly anti-fascist. Unlike most French writers during the Occupation, he refused to pen a word for a publishing industry under Nazi control. He expressed his intellectual, moral, and emotional resistance in this diary: his shame at the Vichy government's collaboration with Nazi Germany, his contempt for its falsely patriotic reactionary ideology, his outrage at its anti-Semitism and its vilification of the Republic it had abolished, his horror at its increasingly savage repression and his disgust with his fellow intellectuals who kept on blithely writing about art and culture as if the Occupation did not exist - not to mention those who praised their new masters in prose and poetry. Also a teacher of French literature, he constantly observed the young people he taught, sometimes saddened by their conformism but always passionately trying to inspire them with the values of the French cultural tradition he loved. Gu?henno's diary often includes his own reflections on the great texts he is teaching, instilling them with special meaning in the context of the Occupation. Complete with meticulous notes and a biographical index, Ball's edition of Gu?henno's epic diary offers readers a deeper understanding not only of the diarist's cultural allusions, but also of the dramatic, historic events through which he lived.
Download or read book Paris 75016 written by Lolita Pille and published by French Millenium Library. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money, sex, drugs and love: there is just too much of the first three and little of the last in this spellbinding novel about privileged young adult Parisians. Hell is a lucid, supremely intelligent woman - almost twenty - with enough senne to be disdainful of the moneyed and loveless world she grew up in, but not enough luck to escape il. And then she ments the man of lier life, a cynic who, like llell, enjoys baiting the superficial fools that populate their social scene. Thereby hangs a love story that suddenly twists like the sides of a Rubik's Cube and rockets into uncharted emotional territory, leaving you humbled, crushed, and longing for more.
Download or read book 320 Rue St Jacques written by Wendy Michallat and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1939 Madeleine Blaess, a French-born, British-raised student, set off for Paris to study for a doctorate in Medieval French literature at the Sorbonne. She was forced to remain in France for the duration of the German Occupation and in October 1940 began to write a diary.
Download or read book My Travel Diary written by Stylesyndikat France Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France / Paris Travel Journal - Lined Notebook to write in 1 Beautifully illustrated preview page 111 Pages with lines 6 x 9 inch (nearly DIN A5) Sturdy lightweight soft cover Perfect travel companion for your France trip. Record your adventures, thoughts, dreams and experiences. Beautiful memory keepsake. This notebook makes as well a pretty vacation souvenir. Bon voyage! ** Searching STYLESYNDIKAT you find a selection of beautiful guest books, planners, calendars, log books, recipe books and meal planners to write in. School, college, office supplies and creative art graphic design notebooks for kids and adults. Thank you for your visit. **
Download or read book Diary in France written by Christopher Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diary in France: Mainly on Topics Concerning Education and the Church Dieppe, Friday, Aug. 2, 1844. - Saw a parochial school kept by five s urs de la societe d'Ernemont. The pupils are 300 and upwards in number; learn reading, writing, book-keeping, and all sorts of needle-work. Every Sunday they attend the parish church, and are instructed by the cure there after vepres, but all other religious instruction they receive from the principal s ur, whom we saw, viz. their prayers, creed, catechism, &c., and she also prepares them for their premiere communion, which they receive at the age of from twelve to fourteen years, according to their state of fitness and forwardness: some of them she instructs also after this. There were some children in the school as young as five years old. Those who are able pay something for their education, but the school is mainly supported by the town. The s urs are fully occupied from morning to night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Diary and Correspondence Relating to the Court of France written by Hans Axel von Fersen (greve) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marie Antoinette Princess of Versailles Austria France 1769 The Royal Diaries written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's MARIE ANTOINETTE is back in print with a gorgeous new package! To forge an incredibly powerful political alliance, thirteen-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria is betrothed to Dauphin Louis Auguste, who will one day be the king of France. To prepare the princess for becoming queen, she must be trained to write, read, speak French, dress, act . . . even breathe. Things become more difficult for her when she is separated from her family and sent to the court of Versailles to meet her future husband. Opinionated and headstrong Marie Antoinette must find a way to fit in at the royal court, and get along with her fiance. The future of Austria and France falls upon her shoulders. But as she lives a luxurious life inside the palace gates, out on the streets the people of France face hunger and poverty. Through the pages of her diary, Marie captures the isolation, the lavish parties and gowns, her struggle to find her place, and the years leading up her ascendance of the throne . . . and a revolution.
