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1) The debacle
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Publisher
Dufour
Pub. Date
1969
Description
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to understand one other. Forging a profound friendship, they must struggle...
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"A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain them until one of their party, the prostitute Boule de Suif, consents to sleep with their officer. When Boule de Suif refuses to do so on account of her principles and patriotic sentiments, the solidarity initially manifested by her fellow travellers becomes increasingly tested as the deadlock continues, and the strained...
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Publisher
Off The Common Books, a division of Levellers Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"It's 1870. Paris is besieged by German invaders. Two million starving people are trapped inside the city walls during the coldest winter in memory. The only connection between the city and the rest of Europe is a fleet of balloons piloted by brave French aeronauts. This is the true story of the flight of the Ville d'Orléans, the two men on board, and their mission to save the city. Leo Bezier, the agent, carries communiques that could change the...
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Joseph W. Bebo, an imprint of J.W.M.Bebo Books Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A story of a man and his cat during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian war. Chanceux is no ordinary cat. He is smarter than most of his kind. He can do things other cats can't do. He was taught a lot and treated well by his first companions, but they are gone. Chanceux was alone, but not for long. He found a new friend, Hugo. It was a match made in heaven. Theirs was a mutual beneficial relationship. The cat caught food for them. The human...
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Lion Heart Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Champagne, France, 1860. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husband and is forced to support her family. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides to make champagne ... When champagne makers refuse to teach her their craft, she forges ahead on her own and secretly begins the excavation of champagne caves under the Reims city dump ... But when her former lover, a Scottish Baron, unexpectedly proposes marriage,...
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