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Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne leaves her life behind and sets out for the coast of Brittany, also known as "the end of the world". Here she meets a cast of colorful and unforgettable locals who surprise her with their warm welcome, and the natural ease they all seem...
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English
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"Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After...
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Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
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English
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"Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era. Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Château d'If--doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates...
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Publisher
Audio Editions
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
19 sound discs (ca. 24 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
6) The postcard
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
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Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
55, 57 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An enchanting story about a writer remembering her short time in Paris and her reflections on friendships, relationships, and her younger self in a beautiful dual-language edition. Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A city with a vibrant literary and artistic expatriate community. Corina--nicknamed Puffina--is a young writer hoping to find that idealized community, but when her money runs out sooner than expected, she finds a...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
[Widescreen].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American writer and a French environmentalist who first met nine years earlier reunite in Paris and, despite the fact the man is married with children, they spend hours talking about their lives and the possibility of loving one another.
Series
Criterion collection volume 281
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen format
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two artists one Austrian, the other French meet in Paris and form an instant friendship. Each falls in love with the same woman, who loves both in return. Their friendships and mutual love affair last for decades.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes Coco Chanel's rise from an orphaned child working in a tailor shop to one of the most notorious fashion designers and the relationships that helped her achieve success.
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English
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"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
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