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  La Vie De Marianne

  by Marivaux

  Comme on pourrait soup?onner cette histoire-ci d'avoir ?t? faite expr?s pour amuser le public, je crois devoir avertir que je la tiens moi-m?me d'un ami qui l'a r?ellement trouv?e, comme il le dit ci-apr?s, et que je n'y ai point d'autre part que d'en avoir retouch? quelques endroits trop confus et trop n?glig?s. Ce qui est de vrai, c'est que si c'?tait une histoire simplement imagin?e, il y a toute apparence... (more)
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  The Confessions

  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, "The Confessions" is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his "Confessions" he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his... (more)
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  Geoges Dandin

  by Moliere

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  The Miser

  by Molière

  This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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  Tartuffe

  by Molière

  The translation into English verse of one of Molière’s most masterful and most popular plays. “A continuous delight from beginning to end” (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richard Wilbur.
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  Three Plays of Racine: Phaedra, Andromache, and Brittanicus (Phoenix Books)

  by Jean Racine

  Text: French
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  Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

  by Marquis de Sade

  This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.
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  Jacques the Fatalist

  by Denis Diderot

  Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and free will. In the introduction to this brilliant translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with fate and examines the experimental and influential literary techniques that make Jacques the Fatalist a classic of the Enlightenment.
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  The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

  by Jan Potocki

  Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters... (more)
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  Juliette

  Or, Vice Amply Rewarded

  by Marquis de Sade

  “An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy—all pale beside Juliette.”—Library Journal
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  Julie, or the New Heloise

  Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps

  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm.
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  The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner in which he has... (more)
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  Voltaire in Love

  by Nancy Mitford

  In 1733, the lovely, intelligent, and married Marquise du Chtelet commenced her romance with one Franois-Marie Arouet, a philosophe who had made a name for himself as "Voltaire." Mitford deftly and engagingly recounts their exemplary affair, whether in studious exile in the country, on the run from the censor, or in the "thoughtless circles of high society." Her portrayals of the "scamp" philosopher, his mistress... (more)
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  Théâtre, Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro, La Mère coupable

  by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

  Text: French
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  Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard

  by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

  SILVIAMais encore une fois, de quoi vous m?lez-vous, pourquoi r?pondre de mes sentiments ?
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  Amphitryon, texte intégral

  by Moliere

  Traces d'usages mais sinon bel ouvrage.Expédition rapide de votre commande avec protection soignée de vos articles.Professionnel de la vente à distance.Professional on e-business.Fast delivery of your order.Item very well packed(réf 21g )
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  Les chemins de la liberté (The Roads to Freedom): Book 3

  Troubled Sleep

  La mort dans l'âme

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  Powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished response of the French people to the German occupation. Translated from the French, "La mort dans l'âme" by Gerard Hopkins. Book 3 in Sartre's Roads to Freedom series. Also translated as "Iron in the Soul."
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  Les Contemplations

  by Victor Hugo, Pierre Laforgue

  This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment... (more)
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  Maximes

  by François La Rochefoucauld

  Text: French
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  Atala / René

  by François-René de Chateaubriand

  Francois Rene de Chateaubriand's famous autobiographical history, "Rene et Atala" are hallmarks of French romanticism. Originally published in 1802, these works are essential reading for any admirer of French literature.