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Raving Madly At The Sky: Rockfort Interviews 'La Terre Tremble!!!'

Mon, 20 May 2013

David McKenna speaks to 'La Terre Tremble!!!' about the multiple meanings behind the album Salvage Blues.
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The Swinging Sixties are Back

Mon, 20 May 2013

A true 'Tutankhamun discovery' moment. Roger Kasparian was a photographer in the sixties, and now…

France in the Eurovision song contest: Ten Highlights

Sat, 18 May 2013

Saturday night sees France's Amandine Bourgeoise represent the country at the Eurovision Song…

French bands at The Great Escape in Brighton

Fri, 17 May 2013

This weekend sees a whole host of French acts play at the The Great Escape festival in Brighton, an…

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La Mare au Diable

George Sand

George Sand was born in Paris but raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother, Marie Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Franceuil, at her grandmother's estate, Nohant, in the French province...…

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Les misérables

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables est un roman de Victor Hugo paru en 1862. L'action se déroule en France au début du XIXe siècle. On suit la vie de Jean Valjean, du retour du bagne jusqu'à sa mort. Autour de...…

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Kaïken

Jean-Christophe Grangé

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Miserere

Jean-Christophe Grangé

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La rêveuse d'Ostende

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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L'enfant de Noé

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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Le sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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Le serment des Limbes

Jean-Christophe Grangé

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Une forme de vie

Amélie Nothomb

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L'autre fille

Annie Ernaux

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L'armée Furieuse

Fred Vargas

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Kaïken

Jean-Christophe Grangé

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Tuer le père

Amélie Nothomb

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Le passager

Jean-Christophe Grangé

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La liste de mes envies

Grégoire Delacourt

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Apocalypse Bébé

Virginie Despentes

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Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit

Delphine de Vigan

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La femme au miroir

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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Barbe Bleue

Amélie Nothomb

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Lettres de Mon Moulin

Alphonse Daudet

Listen to the audiobook. Read the text.

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Marius, Fanny, César

Marcel Pagnol

This audiobook of Pagnol's trilogy from Marseille is an adaptation of Pagnol's plays.

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Chroniques cauchoises

Guy de Maupassant

« Quand, sur une plage pleine de soleil, la vague rapide roule les fins galets, un bruit charmant, sec comme le déchirement d’une toile, joyeux comme un rire et cadencé, court par toute la...…

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Boule de suif

Guy de Maupassant

Pendant l’hiver 1870-71, l’armée française est en déroute. La ville de Rouen est envahie par les Prussiens. Un groupe de dix personnes, représentant toutes les classes de la société...…

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Adieu

Honoré de Balzac

1812, lors des derniers moments du passage de la Bérézina, Philippe de Sucy tente de sauver d'une mort certaine le général de Vandières et sa jeune épouse qui n'est autre que l'amour de...…

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La tour de Monsieur Eiffel

John Mac

écouvrez les coulisses de la construction de la Tour Eiffel, ce monument incroyable, symbole d'une ville, Paris, mais aussi d'un pays, la France. Nous suivons le brillant ingénieur Gustave...…

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Le magasin des suicides

Jean Teulé

Imaginez un magasin où l’on vend depuis dixgénérations tous les ingrédients possibles pour se suicider. Cette petite entreprise familiale prospère dans la tristesse et l’humeur sombre...…

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Les coloriés

Alexandre Jardin

Est-il possible de vivre sans adultes ? De dire non à l’univers raisonnable et sérieux des grandes personnes ? Au fond, les parents sont-ils vraiment nécessaires ? Écoutez plutôt. Il était...…

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La chambre

Françoise Chandernagor

Dans un lieu clos, une chambre du donjon du Temple, le roman montre la lente dégradation morale et physique d'un enfant, le fils de Louis XVI, séparé des siens à l'âge de huit ans et privé...…

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Rose

Tatiana de Rosnay

Paris, sous le Second Empire. Napoléon III confie au baron Haussmann la mission d'« assainir » la capitale en la quadrillant d'avenues et de boulevards, ce qu'il fait avec un zèle qui lui vaut...…

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Mon ami Maigret

Georges Simenon

Maigret is going about his work in rainy Paris, followed around by Inspector Pyke who has come from Scotland Yard to study the famous French detective's methods. Routine is disturbed when Maigret...…

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Poil de carotte

Jules Renard

Poil de carotte (Carrot Head) is a long short story or autobiographical novel by Jules Renard published in 1894, which recounts the childhood and the trials of a redheaded child.

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Lettres à Lou

Guillaume Apollinaire

"The letters sent by French poet Apollinaire to his lover Lou during World War I have been published for the first time in Spain in a volume which, according to translator Marta Pino, "is the...…

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Un enfant prodige

Irène Némirovsky

Ismaël was a gifted young Jewish boy. With his unparalleled voice and sensitivity, he sings songs of pain and illegality. A drunk hears his song, and takes the boy to his wealthy lover. Ismaël...…

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Bobok

Fyodor Dostoievsky

Bobok is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that first appeared in 1873. The title can be translated from the Russian as meaning "little bean," and in the context of the story is taken to be...…

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La première gorgée de bière

Philippe Delerm

A selection of texts from We Could Almost Eat Outside: An appreciation of life's small pleasures and The Small Pleasures of Life.…

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Frédéric Chopin, sa vie, son oeuvre

Claude Dufresne

Chopin's biography, including extracts from his compositions.

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Un cœur simple

Gustave Flaubert

"A Simple Heart", also called Un cœur simple or Le perroquet in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore marries a well-to-do woman to avoid...…

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Les mouvements chiites au Moyen-Orient

(Laurence) Louer

Qu’est ce que l’Islam chiite ? Comment se sont formés les mouvements transnationaux chiites et quelle est leur importance dans le Moyen-Orient aujourd’hui ? Quels sont leurs liens avec...…

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Le vol des cigognes

Jean-Christophe Grangé

Malgré la mort soudaine de l’ornithologue qui l’avait engagé, Louis Antioche décide d'assumer seul la mission prévue : suivre la migration des cigognes jusqu'en Afrique, afin de découvrir...…

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Le bourgeois gentilhomme

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière

Monsieur Jourdain est un commerçant qui a fait fortune dans les perruques. Il décide de vivre 'en homme de qualité' et ouvre sa maison aux arts et aux lettres... Cette comédie-ballet consacre...…

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Les misérables

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables est un roman de Victor Hugo paru en 1862. L'action se déroule en France au début du XIXe siècle. On suit la vie de Jean Valjean, du retour du bagne jusqu'à sa mort. Autour de...…

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Léon Blum et le socialisme

Serge Berstein

Nouveau et en exclusivité sur Numilog : livres audio au format court.Une série de titres de vingt minutes pour comprendre le siècle. Léon Blum est, avec Jean Jaurès et François Mitterrand,...…

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Black Bazar

Alain Mabanckou

This audiobook is about the day-today life of an Afro-Caribbean community in Paris. It is at times irreverent, and always funny.

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Le voyage dans le passé

Stefan Zweig

Texte intégral lu par Thibault de Montalembert Traduit de l’allemand par Baptiste Touverey…

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Une brève histoire de l'avenir

Jacques Attali

This prospective book about the next 50 years would be non-fiction were it not explicitly about the futur. Attali uses his knowledge and imagination to explore social, economic and political facts...…

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Les liaisons dangereuses

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos

Roman épistolaire, roman de moeurs, roman d'analyse des comportements amoureux, Les Liaisons dangereuses est l'oeuvre de la pluralité. Les passions s'y déchaînent, laissant peu de place à...…

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Dickens, barbe à papa et autres nourritures délectables

Philippe Delerm

Il ne lit pas : il dévore. C'est d'un enfant qu'on dit cela. Mais le désir s'est prolongé. La faim, la soif, les mots. Bien sûr que l'on dévore encore, et c'est très bon. Merci pour la...…

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Le divorce français

François Closets, de

Nucléaire militaire et civil, OGM, la fin de vie, les morts sur la route, les finances et la dette : François de Closets a mis au jour des dossiers sensibles pour comprendre Le divorce français...…

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Cinq méditations sur la beauté

François Cheng

The starting point of Five meditations on Beauty by Chinese born François Cheng was Dostoevski's sentence: "beauty will save the world." Cheng investigates the themes of beauty and evil through...…

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Un secret

Philippe Grimbert

A Second World War, coming-of-age story in audiobook format about family secrets, imaginary friends and a boy's search for who he really is.…

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Lettre d'une inconnue

Stefan Zweig

Préface écrite et lue par Elsa Zylberstein…

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