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Feux Follets: Chemins & Cheminements
Revue de création littéraire
La légende nous indique que la seule façon de rencontrer le surnaturel est de prendre un chemin la nuit, un chemin différent, déconseillé.
feux follets qui rôdent dans l'imaginaire louisianais ne s'intéressent qu'aux passants audacieux : les visiteurs qui ont veillé trop
longtemps ; les travilleurs qui souhaitent faire fortune dans le monde renversé du nocturne. Ils se font enchantés, Ils se perdent en quête
de découvrir la source des lumières flottantes.Â
-Rachel Doherty
Histoire de France
de la Renaissance à nos jours
Que d'événements et de conflits avant de voir triompher la paix et la liberté ! La Renaissance, des rois tout-puissants, la Révolution... Devenue la patrie des droits de l'homme, la France commence le long apprentissage de la République. Elle comprend que la paix et la prospérité dépendent de son entente avec ses pays voisins. Forte de sa culture et de son passé, la France considère désormais l'avenir comme quelque chose à construire en commun : l'Europe. Destiné aux lecteurs entre 8 et 12 ans, ce second volume d'Histoire de France est une initiation à un sujet passionnant. Les grandes périodes de l'Histoire y sont mises en texte et en images de façon claire et synthétique.
The Usborne First Picture Word Book in French
Provides translations of over a thousand French words using over thirteen hundred pictures. Pronunciation of the French words can be accessed on the Internet.
Poulet aux prunes
Nasser Ali Khan est un grand joueur de tar. Le jour où on lui casse son instrument et qu'il ne parvient pas à en trouver un d'une aussi belle sonorité, il sombre dans une torpeur et se laisse mourir. Le récit émouvant du lent passage et des souvenirs d'un homme vers la mort. Le dessin dénudé va droit à l'essentiel. [SDM].
Le grand livre des énigmes de XIII
Plongez dans l'univers de la BD culte en résolvant ces 200 énigmes ! Fan de la première heure, ce livre est fait pour vous ! Rejoignez La Mangouste, Little Jones, Betty Barnowsky, le colonel Amos et bien d'autres encore, et démêlez les énigmes proposées, chacune faisant référence à un tome de la série, et toutes ancrées dans l'imaginaire conspirationniste de la BD culte, le tout illustré par de magnifiques images.
Le chemin de l'Amérique
"La difficulté de devenir adulte dans une certaine France, qui nous met parfois mal à l'aise. L'histoire, entre fiction et réalité, d'un boxeur sacrifié par son époque. A travers sa vie les pages les plus marquantes de l'histoire contemporaine de la France et de l'Algérie sont retracées.
Les Maitres Sonneurs
- La bibliographie de l'auteur- Enum�ration de ses oeuvres- Le roman se divise en trente-deux veill�es, o� le narrateur �tienne Depardieu, dit Tiennet, raconte sa vie aupr�s de sa cousine Brulette, de leur ami Joseph vivant dans le Berry. Le dit Joseph rencontrera des maitres de la cornemuse du Bourbonnais qui lui transmettront le savoir de � musiquer �.
Louisiane
Feux Follets
Relever
Twelfth Annual Natchitoches/Northwestern Folk Festival
Celebrating the Musical Traditions of North Louisiana
Natchitoches
Nestled between stately live oaks, magnolia trees, and Cane River is the beautiful old town of Natchitoches. The oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase and the third-oldest town in the United States, Natchitoches was founded in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, who was sent by the French governor to establish a colony in Louisiana. In Images of America: Natchitoches see the town as the backdrop for such movies as Steel Magnolias and view rare vintage photographs of plantation homes, the laying of bricks on Front Street, and the development of Northwestern State University.
Earl Long in Purgatory
A Play
"In 'Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems' is a compilation of poems written by Darrell Bourque, Louisiana's Poet Laureate, over the last forty years. It includes selected poems from all the previously published volumes, all the poems from The Blue Boat, and all the poems written by Bourque from Call and Response: Conversations in Verse (written with Jack B. Bedell)." --from the publisher.
Jim Garrison's Bourbon Street Brawl
The Making of a First Amendment Milestone
"Years before his inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison first captured the spotlight in late 1962, when he launched a series of raids on French Quarter strip clubs and bars. Even more extraordinary than the vice raids themselves was Garrison's verbal feud with Orleans Parish's criminal court judges, whom he accused of restricting funds for his raids due to their ties to organized crime. Convicted of defaming the jurists, Garrison took his crusade from the back booths of Bourbon Street bars to the marbled confines of the United States Supreme Court. In 1964 a unanimous court ruled that an individual's freedom to criticize elected judges and other public officials was not only protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, but that it was 'the essence of self-government.' Jim Garrison's Bourbon Street Brawl is the first full-length examination of this fundamental legal precedent"--Cover, p. 4.
Acadian Redemption
From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation
Acadian Redemption, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was born in 1702. The book explains his early life events and militant struggles with the British who had, for years, wanted to lay claim to the Acadians' rich lands. The book discusses the repercussions of Beausoleil's life that resulted in the evolution of the Acadian culture into what is now called the Cajun culture. More than 50 vintage photographs, maps, and documents are included.
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