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En Anglais – The definitive study of one of America’s most unusual experiments in establishing the ideal society. Introduction by Joseph Schiffman
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En anglais – 1°) IBSEN – Rosmersholm 2°) WILDE – The importance of being earnest 3°) ROSTAND – Cirano de Bergerac 4°) GORKI – The lower depths
Raboliot
Voici, à l’occasion de l’entrée au Panthéon de Maurice Genevoix, Raboliot, paru aux éditions Grasset en 1925. Pierre Fouques, dit Raboliot, est un chasseur fameux dans toute la Sologne. Les habitants de la région admirent son habileté, son courage et son art dans le maniement du fusil. La chasse n’est pas la seule passion de cet homme rustique et solitaire : il braconne, partout et à n’importe quelle saison, se moquant des institutions et de leurs règles.
Alors que personne n’ose le défier, que gardes-chasse et métayers enragent de voir cet anarchiste de la nature se comporter avec une telle désinvolture, une conjuration s’organise. Le gendarme Bourrel promet de le capturer. Les autorités tendent un piège au braconnier, il y échappe grâce à son intelligence. Raboliot fuit, se cache dans les bois où il prépare sa vengeance. Bientôt, les parties de chasse nocturnes tournent à la haine, au duel à mort…
Le portrait d’un bandit magnifique. Un héros de la liberté et de la nature. Le dernier résistant d’une société prête à tout pour imposer un ordre coercitif.
The political ideas of St Thomas Aquinas
En Anglais – St. Thomas Aquinas, the chief spokesman of medieval scholasticism, was born at Aquino, a tiny place near Naples and from the name of the place he received the title Aquinas. But he is better known as Thomas and his thought is known to us as Thomism. He belonged to an aristocratic Italian family which had connections with European kings and emperors. In order to be a church father and to devote his life to the cause of Christianity and study he surrendered his title “Count.” He joined the Dominican Order at the age of nineteen and for this purpose he had to fight his family. He studied in Naples, Cologne and Paris and in the last mentioned place he delivered several lectures on philosophy and theology. At the age of forty- eight he died.
Undermajordomo minor
En Anglais – Lucy Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. He is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder. Undermajordomo Minor is an ink-black comedy of manners, an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.