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German-American filmmaker Otto Preminger produced and directed a film adaptation of the book through his film production company Wheel Productions. Bonjour Tristesse was released in 1958 and stars Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr and David Niven. [5] Canadian dark ambient band Soufferance based and themed their 2011 concept extended play on the book.
A Happy Death (original title La mort heureuse) is a novel by absurdist French writer-philosopher Albert Camus.The absurdist topic of the book is the "will to happiness", the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of time (and money) to do so.
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France was widely reviewed in the academic press.. Mark Curran, writing in The Historical Journal, praised Darnton, saying "Robert Darnton's contributions to the fields of pre-revolutionary French history, book history, sociology, the history of ideas and, more recently, digital humanities have been profound and inspirational."
Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 Collaborationism in France during the Second World War The Collapse of the Third Republic
Cahier de doléances of Saint-Louis, Senegal (1789). The Cahiers de doléances (French pronunciation: [kaje də dɔleɑ̃s]; or simply Cahiers as they were often known) were the lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three Estates in France, between January and April 1789, the year in which the French Revolution began.
This category is for historical novels either written by French authors or primarily published in France. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded (French: L'Histoire de Juliette ou les Prospérités du vice) is a novel written by the Marquis de Sade and published 1797–1801, accompanying de Sade's 1797 version of his novel Justine.
The "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne" (English title: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) is a poem in French composed by Voltaire as a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It is widely regarded as an introduction to Voltaire's 1759 acclaimed novel Candide and his view on the problem of evil .