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  2. Jean-Christophe - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Christophe (1904‒1912) is the novel in 10 volumes by Romain Rolland for which he received the Prix Femina in 1905 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. It was translated into English by Gilbert Cannan. The first four volumes are sometimes grouped as Jean-Christophe, the next three as Jean-Christophe à Paris, and the last three as ...

  3. Jean-Christophe Rufin - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Christophe Rufin (born 28 June 1952) is a French doctor, diplomat, historian, globetrotter and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger , one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières , and a member of the Académie française .

  4. Romain Rolland - Wikipedia

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    Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔmɛ̃ ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

  5. Jean-Christophe Grangé - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Christophe Grangé (born 15 July 1961) is a French mystery writer, journalist, and screenwriter. Grangé was born in Paris . He was a journalist before setting up his own press agency L & G.

  6. Blood Red Rivers - Wikipedia

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    Blood Red Rivers (French: Les Rivières pourpres) is a crime novel by Jean-Christophe Grangé, set in the French Alps. First published in French in 1997, it appeared in September 1999 in an English translation by Ian Monk.

  7. Brazil Red - Wikipedia

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    Brazil Red (French: Rouge Brésil; Portuguese: Vermelho Brasil) is a 2001 French historical novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin which recounts the unsuccessful French attempt to conquer Brazil in the 16th century, against a background of wars of religion and a rite-of-passage discovery of the charms and secrets of the Amerindian world.

  8. The Abyssinian - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Baptiste Poncet: a French apothecarian who has been practicing medicine without a formal license. Maître Juremi: a colleague of Jean-Baptiste who has fled France because of his Protestant religious beliefs; Monsieur de Maillet: the French consul in Cairo; Monsieur de Macé: an expert linguist who works for Monsieur de Maillet

  9. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Wikipedia

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    The Gynaecologist, a man around forty, with "grizzled lanky hair [and] sharp features," [8] performs the Little Seamstress's illegal abortion in return for a book by Balzac, but ends up getting two books, Ursule Mirouet and Jean Christophe, due to the main character's generosity.

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