The Swinging Sixties are Back
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A true 'Tutankhamun discovery' moment. Roger Kasparian was a photographer in the sixties, and now…
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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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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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Marcel Pagnol
This audiobook of Pagnol's trilogy from Marseille is an adaptation of Pagnol's plays.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Claude Dufresne
Chopin's biography, including extracts from his compositions.
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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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Stefan Zweig
Texte intégral lu par Thibault de Montalembert Traduit de l’allemand par Baptiste Touverey…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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