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Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
? " French from the Market is a seductive cookbook that will convert readers into Francophiles and inspire almost everyone else to start composing menus and market lists." -- Foreword Reviews , Starred Review This newest cookbook from Hillary Davis focuses on the best of traditional French cooking--provincial cuisine based on produce and foods fresh from the market, simply prepared, and delicious for everyday dining at home. Hillary Davis shows us...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
“This beautiful book is proof that there is always something more to learn about the cuisine of France, even for a French-trained professional chef.” --JacquesPépin, chef, James Beard Foundation Award-winning cookbook author, and Emmy Award-winning public television cooking series host Renowned for her cooking school in France and her many best-selling cookbooks, Anne Willan combines years of hands-on experience with extensive research to...
Author
Publisher
Grub Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
French food is regional, full of variety, and above all designed for enjoyment. But it is also traditionally rich in products of animal origin: meat, butter, cream, eggs, and cheese. Vegan Recipes from France translates all the French classics into vegan alternatives. You will discover many easy recipes to make, with simple ingredients. The book starts with all the basic recipes that are the foundation of French cooking such as stocks, baguette, brioche,...
4) Delicatessen
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Français
Description
It has been fifteen years since the nuclear disaster. In the middle of a vacant lot stands an old building inhabited by some rather strange people whose primary concern is food. The entire Tapioca family; Mr. and Mrs. Interligator, a couple of dreadful snobs; the Kube brothers, who do nothing but manufacture little round boxes that moo when turned upside-down; Mr. Potin, holed up with his frogs and snails; and Miss Plusse, a lady of uncertain virtue;...
5) Socrates
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Socrates is a 1759 French play in three acts written by Voltaire. It is set in Ancient Greece during the events just before the trial and death of Greek philosopher Socrates. It is heavy with satire specifically at government authority and organized religion. The main characters besides the titular role is that of the priest Anitus, his entourage, Socrates' wife Xantippe, several judges, and some children Socrates has adopted as his own.
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Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Sylvestre Bonnard, membre de l'Institut, est un historien et un philologue, doté d'une érudition non dénuée d'ironie. «Savoir n'est rien - dit-il un jour - imaginer est tout.» Il mène une vie austère au milieu de ses livres. Mais il consacre également tous ses efforts à trouver un manuscrit du XIVe siècle, la Légende dorée de Jacques de Voragine, dont il rêve comme un enfant peut convoiter quelque jouet extraordinaire. Au cours d'un
...Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
France 1809. The charming Captain Neuville is set to marry the naive Pauline when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline soon starts to become ill with worry. Her sister Elizabeth starts to write fake letters on behalf of Neuville thinking he would never come back. When Neuville finally returns home unexpectedly, he is welcomed in glory but in truth is a war deserter...
8) Sol
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
Sol, a famous Argentine Tango performer, has lived in Buenos Aires for many years. Behind her excessive temper and her glowing smile, the Diva hides an injury from which she never really recovered: the loss of her only son, Raphaël.
9) Contempt
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Français
Description
When he is asked to rewrite the screenplay of the Odyssey, which is being filmed by Fritz Lang in Rome, he sets in motion his own odyssey. En route to Rome with his wife Camille, who he adores, his wife tells him that she has nothing but CONTEMPT for him.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
Français
Description
The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.
Author
Language
Français
Description
A chaque édition son empreinte et son partage.En 2020, les poètes auront aussi écrit sur la notion de différence. La Covid-19 a-t-elle influencé de quelque manière que ce soit le ressenti et une expressivité poétique sous la contrainte d'un adverbe imposé dans le premier vers ? Après "D'une rive à une autre" (édition 2018) et "Transcendance" (édition 2019), le recueil des nominés et lauréats "La Différence - Poésie 2020" nous ramène...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Escrito en prosa hace más de ciento cincuenta años, este Poema del hachís es un desborde a la noción de género, una mezcla entre ensayo científico, poesía y testimonio. Baudelaire investiga de forma erudita y lucida sobre los orígenes del hachís, su uso espiritual y recreativo, y sobre todo las alteraciones que genera en la conciencia. Se trata de una invitación a pensar el consumo como una forma de conocimiento, una excitación de la imaginación,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A magician conjures a dramatic adventure of romance and intrigue in this seventeenth-century French tragicomedy by the author of Le Cid.
In Pierre Corneille's sparkling play, The Theatre of Illusion, magicians, lovers, and heroes prove that all the world truly is a stage. First performed in 1636, it was pioneering in its use of meta-theatrical storytelling. It then vanished from the stage for the next three-hundred years, to be revived in 1937 at...
Author
Language
English
Description
Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary Particles
A shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France's most exciting authors, Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on themes that are similar to the ones in his novels, these poems are a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions.
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18) Eleanor's Secret
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
From Academy Award-nominated director Dominique Monféry comes a sumptuously animated adventure about a magic library where characters from classic children’s books come alive. Nat has fond memories of his eccentric Aunt Eleanor reading to him from her enormous collection of storybooks but is frustrated by his inability to read the books himself. So he is less than thrilled when he learns that his aunt has left him the keys to her attic library...
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
In the final film from legendary director Eric Rohmer, a young man, Celadon, goes on a journey to prove his devotion to the woman he loves, Astree. When Astree falsely suspects Celadon of infidelity, the young shepherd goes on a journey to prove his devotion. To do so, he must maintain his fidelity in the face of temptation and danger.
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