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Berne, 1957. Une affaire d'espionnage met aux prises un policier suisse véreux, un barbouze français, le chef du renseignement militaire helvétique, la CIA et des indépendantistes algériens. Un scandale d'écoute ébranle la neutralité suisse et entraîne la chute du Procureur général de la Confédération, René Dubois. Une histoire inspirée d...

Après «Le siècle d'Emma» consacré à l'histoire de la Suisse au XXe siècle, ce volume porte sur le XIXe siècle. Inspirés de faits réels, le scénario restitue la longue série d'événements et de crises qui marquent l'histoire de la confédération pendant la révolution industrielle et la montée des nationalismes en Europe.

Oeuvre majeure d'une intellectuelle suisse du XXe siècle, ce manifeste nourrit encore la pensée féministe et apporte une contribution significative aux questions et combats d'aujourd'hui.

Un fiancé perdu dans les violences de la grève générale, un frère qui devient espion pour l'Allemagne nazie, le passage clandestin de la frontière pour l'amour d'une saisonnière italienne et l'engagement d'une squatteuse féministe et antinucléaire... L'histoire d'Emma et de sa famille nous plonge dans les turbulences, les espoirs et les désillusions du XXe siècles ...

Un recueil de courtes biographies pour découvrir les destins de femmes d'exception qui ont vécu dans cette ville suisse du canton de Vaud. Rosalie de Constant est l'auteure d'un herbier qui sert encore de référence pour l'histoire de la flore, Valérie de Gasparin Boissier a ouvert la première école laïque d'infirmières et Henriette d'Angeville a été la premièr...

Présentation en français Hedwig ou la Pensée-louveraconte la relation singulière d'une petite fille avec sa grand-mère. « Dans ce livre, je reviens sur mes pas quand je passais mes vacances à Lucerne dans la maison d'Hedwig, qui ne parlait pas ma langue. Dans ce carnet d'exploration qui présente chaque pièce comme un chapitre, les nombreux souvenirs rejaillissent de ma t&eci...

Une histoire transnationale de la Suisse depuis le XVe siècle jusqu'à l'instauration de l'Etat fédéral dans laquelle l'auteur examine ses rapports avec le monde et avec l'Europe du point de vue économique, politique, militaire et culturel. Il apporte également un éclairage sur la manière dont la Confédération a pris conscience de son identité et de son autonomie et...

The People of the Abyss is a book by Jack London (Call of the Wild, White Fang) about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several weeks, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. In his attempt to understand the working-class of this deprived area of London the author stayed as a lodger with a poor family. The conditions...

The Revolution, according to Jules Michelet (1798-1874), is the "tardy advent of Eternal Justice" against the tyranny of the monarchy. It is personified by the People, whose joy and misery Michelet evokes in every page of this "romantic history" of unprecedented social upheaval.Charles Cocks' translation of 1864 includes the first four Books of Michelet's Histoire de la Revolution Française, covering events from the earliest indications of the...

Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas is a collection of essays by the novelist, poet, and literary critic Remy de Gourmont. An uncompromising free-thinker, his analytical intelligence is brought to bear on an wide range of topics: the cornerstone of his literary criticism, "The Disassociation of Ideas" is included here along with "Glory and the Idea of Immortality", "Success and the Idea of Beauty", "The Value of Education", "Sté...

The Natural Philosophy of Love is an exploration of the prodigious sexual mores of Nature's creations. Translated with a postscript by Ezra Pound, Remy de Gourmont's "essay on sexual instinct" surveys the entire animal kingdom, describing the hermaphroditism of oysters, the cannibalistic amours of spiders, and many more curious natural phenomena. Blending zoology, poetry, and philosophy, the author's subversive erudition casts a dubious glance...

From the author of Fantômas, this World War I espionage thriller, first published in 1919, follows a group of French patriots as they struggle to prevent the the Kaiser and his dastardly "Boches" from recovering a certain yellow document containing the plans for a secret weapon that could decide the outcome of the war.

The indomitable Inspector Juve and his sidekick Fandor are rescued after crash landing an airplane in the English Channel, and from there proceed to London to continue their never-ending pursuit of Fantômas. But Fandor, in love with Helene, the daughter of Fantômas, becomes the target of the Lord of Terror's ire, who has sworn to prevent their marriage by any gruesome and appalling means necessary.

After leaving the captured Fantômas in the custody of Jerome Fandor, Inspector Juve is shocked to learn that the journalist has let him escape. With Fandor under suspicion of being an accomplice of the Genius of Evil, the two friends follow separate paths to track down their nemesis, with the final chapters of this, the thirty-sixth of the Fantômas novels, comprising what is surely the most dizzying, breakneck action sequence of the series.

Fantômas extorts powerful politicians and financiers as part of a plot to rob the Crédit International bank and get rid of Inspector Juve once and for all. When the great detective falls into the macabre snares of the Lord of Terror, the journalist Jerome Fandor in his desperation must seek the help of Lady Beltham, the wayward lover of Fantômas, to save his beloved friend in this, the thirty-fifth book of the series.

Fantomas having just escaped into the sewers of Paris, Juve and Fandor find themselves with few clues to go on until the great detective is approached by a Committee of Insurance Companies against Theft with a mission-to protect a secret document which details the precise location of the jewels of Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III. Knowing Fantomas will try to steal this priceless treasure map, Juve sets a trap for the Arch-Criminal in the...

De la guerre civile à la mort du Dictateur (1936-1975)

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Miraculously revived on a rooftop in Marseilles ten years after an apparently fatal shipwreck, Inspector Juve and his faithful friend, the journalist Jerome Fandor, renew their never-ending pursuit of the Lord of Terror. Sensing a plot behind mysterious events surrounding a diplomat entrusted with a fortune in diamonds, Juve and Fandor set out again to unmask the criminal mastermind in this, the first Fantomas novel written by Marcel Allain al...

Intrepid journalist Jerome Fandor picks up the trail of Fantômas in London, but before he can relay the details to Inspector Juve in Paris, the Lord of Terror pounces. Meanwhile a certain Dr. Garrick, suspected of the murder of his missing wife, flees with his mistress aboard an ocean liner, with Detective Shepard of the "Council of Five" (Scotland Yard's top agents) in pursuit. Madame Garrick, presumed dead, is in France and could exonerate h...