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Le repas chez Simon – Histoire et restauration d’un chef-d’œuvre
Peint pour le réfectoire du convent de santa Maria dei Servi de Venise en 1570-1573, Le Repas chez Simon fut offert en 1644 à Louis XIV par la Sérénissime République en gage d’amitié entre les deux États. (…) Transféré au musée du Louvre en 1832, Le Repas chez Simon ne regagna Versailles qu’en 1961 (…). Malgré une restauration importante en 1948 et deux nettoyages superficiels par la suite, le tableau, obscurci notamment par des vernis épais, nécessitait une intervention fondamentale. Celle-ci a débuté en 1994 et s’est achevée cette année [1997].
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Le secret de Sarah
uand Nash Audubon, journaliste, désenchanté au Chicago Scoop, traque la belle Sarah Ivy jusque sur les rives du lac Michigan, il ne s’attend pas à la sauver du suicide. C’est le début d’un terrible engrenage de faux-fuyants et de mensonges car la femme du milliardaire véreux cache un douloureux secret. Mais Nash également. Aussi se retrouve-t-il prêt à tout accepter pour sortir la jeune femme de l’indifférence et du désespoir. C’est pourtant sans compter avec l’acharnement de Donovan Ivy, capable de tuer pour garder Sarah sous sa terrible emprise…
Reading in the Dark
En Anglais – Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane’s first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend–the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly–reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house “as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it.” Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, Reading in the Dark is one of the finest books about growing up–in Ireland or anywhere–that has ever been written.
The messengers
Nick Bunick was confronted by angels. It will change your life forever… Prominent and successful Portland, Oregon, businessman Nick Bunick never considered himself a particularly religious person. But he knew in his heart that he had experienced something extraordinary in a past life. Anxious to share it, but convinced that his story would seem unbelievable to most people, he kept it to himself. Then, two years ago, angels intervened. Nick came to understand that angels were prevailing upon him to tell his story — a story that began 2,000 years ago when he lived as Paul the Apostle, and walked alongside Jesus. An inspiring chronicle of the angelic visitations that led Nick to finally share his memories, The Messengers also illuminates the events of his life as Paul. Rich with the wisdom and awe borne of Nick’s incredible encounter with Jesus, this magnificent book truly signals a return to the Age of Miracles.