French Biography

Découvrez la biographie d'Andre Agassi, l'un des plus grands athlètes de tous les temps et l'un des hommes les plus doués à avoir jamais foulé un court de tennis ! À 18 ans, le "kid de Las Vegas" était le troisième joueur de tennis et à 19 ans, il avait déjà gagné plus de 2 millions de dollars. Andre Agassi est le seul joueur de l'histoire à avoir remporté les sept titres les plus prestigieux du tennis en simple messieurs. Il a atteint la première place mondiale.

Excellent News – French and Saunders are back for more Titting About! Open your ears and hearts (not like that) as Dawn and Jen tit about in their much-loved comedy podcast series, exclusive to Audible. Across Series 7, these two comedy goddesses dive into six more important topics... and then tit about with them.

One of the founding works of modern science fiction — and one of the greatest adventure novels ever written. In 1866, ships of every nation begin to sink in deep ocean. A monstrous creature — vast, phosphorescent, faster than any vessel — is glimpsed in the waters of the world. The American government sends out the frigate Abraham Lincoln to hunt it down. On board: the French marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner Ned Land. What they find is not a creature. It is a submarine — the Nautilus — captained by a brilliant, embittered, ...

This annotated edition includes: Indiana, Mauprat, The Devil's Pool, François the Waif, The Bagpipers, She and He, and six more — twelve works complete, arranged in order of publication from 1832 to 1859 The classic English translations of George Burnham Ives, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Jane Minot Sedgwick, and Stanley Young A critical afterword proposing a single question running beneath all twelve books: who is authorized to claim a place in the world, and can love confer what law and birth refuse? A biographical portrait, chronology, and Note on the Texts, naming every translator ...

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George...

The narrator of Carmen is not Carmen's lover. He is a French antiquarian scholar, hunting the site of an ancient battlefield in Spain, who happens to meet a bandit on the road and later hears the bandit's confession in a Cordoba prison cell. He footnotes his own story like a genuine work of archaeology — real philology, invented details, and a full closing chapter on the grammar of the Romani language, presented with the same scholarly confidence as everything else. Some contemporary readers believed they were reading travel reportage. This is the novella Bizet's opera made world-famous ...

After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before heading home to Sydney. A chance meeting with a charming Frenchman in Bucharest changes her travel plans forever. Acting on impulse, she agrees to visit Fredric in Paris for a week. Put a very French Frenchman together with a strong-willed Australian girl and the result is some spectacular - and often hilarious - cultural clashes.

The memoir of a young diplomat’s wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris—one dish at a time When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic...

A Master of Political Survival. In this penetrating psychological portrait, Stefan Zweig brings to life one of history's most enigmatic figures—Joseph Fouché, the man who served every French regime from the Revolution through Napoleon's empire with cunning adaptability. Fouché was the ultimate political chameleon: a regicide who became a duke, a revolutionary who served emperors, a man who wielded power from the shadows while others fell to the guillotine or battlefield. Through Zweig's masterful prose, we witness how this former priest transformed himself into Napoleon's indispensable ...

Every word Oscar Wilde published — the novel, the plays, the poems, the essays, the fairy tales, and the two masterpieces he wrote in disgrace — in a single authoritative edition. Oscar Wilde lived two lives simultaneously: the most celebrated wit in Victorian London, and a man whose inner life was at war with everything the society around him demanded. He understood, better than almost anyone before or since, that style is not decoration but argument — that how you say something is inseparable from what you are saying. He paid for that understanding with two years in Reading Gaol and...

“A marvelous book. It’s gossipy and personal and completely fascinating...cafe gossip with the footnotes left in.”— New York Times “A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas...this will surely be my philosophy book of the year.” —Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of...

The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic. “A first-rate account of a remarkable life.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author...

En 1968, le Sunday Times décide d'organiser la première régate en solitaire et sans escale, en doublant les trois caps : Bonne-Espérance, Leewin et Horn. Seul entre mers et ciels, il relate dans son journal de bord ses dix mois sans toucher terre, sa vie au quotidien sur le Joshua, les dauphins, les poissons volants et les étoiles. Entre ciels et mers, l'exploit sportif se transforme peu à peu en un voyage intérieur. Se pose alors cette question folle : a-t-il envie de retrouver la société des Hommes ?

A lush and engrossing novel of one woman’s quest to keep Nazis from stealing priceless art during WWII, perfect for fans of The Rose Code. Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can't understand German. They’re wrong. They think she’s merely cataloging art in a Louvre museum and unaware...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living in France. At once a memoir, a cookbook, a how-to handbook, and a delightful exploration of...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Provence, 1970, a lively, dramatic account of the rise of French “nouvelle cuisine,” and the renegade chefs of the 1960s and 70s who revolutionized modern cooking.In The Secret History of French Cooking, Luke Barr takes readers inside the...

What if one of history’s most powerful kings can be understood not just as a ruler, but as a master of performance? In Drama Queen, Verity North takes a fresh, sharp, and deeply readable look at Louis XIV, the Sun King of France, arguing that his genius was not simply political or military. It was theatrical. Louis understood that power worked best when it could be seen, felt, staged, and repeated. He turned daily routines into rituals, fashion into hierarchy, architecture into propaganda, and spectacle into a language of rule. This is not a dry march through dates and dynasties. It is a ...

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school in Paris—a true story of triumphing over French naysayers and falling in love with a city along the way “An engaging, multilayered story of a woman navigating innumerable cultural differences to...

The national bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wives of Henry VIII. France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate...

A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears” This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit...