Name: Chroniques de France (in French)
SKU: 58400394
Price: 26.65 EUR
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781508986249

portada Chroniques de France (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

152

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.8 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN13

9781508986249

Synopsis "Chroniques de France (in French)"

Notre pauvre histoire de France, grâce à MM les historiographes patentés, a acquis, près des femmes surtout, une réputation d'ennui, qui depuis deux siècles soutient avec avantage la comparaison contre toute réputation de ce genre. La paresse qui leur est naturelle, et qui, comme presque tous leurs défauts, est encore un de leurs charmes, le peu de temps qui leur reste entre la toilette du matin, les courses ou le rendez-vous de la journée, et le bal du soir, étrangle toute occupation sérieuse, et leur fait négliger d'aller chercher le vrai et le pittoresque dans ces merveilleux mémoires du moyen âge, où dès la première page elles craignent de rencontrer une fatigue...

Alejandro Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

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