Name: Massacres du Midi (in French)
SKU: 59083654
Price: 875.00 TWD
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781514840825

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

250

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781514840825

Synopsis "Massacres du Midi (in French)"

Dans ce roman, Alexandre Dumas dépeint les luttes fratricides et sanglantes qui opposèrent catholiques et protestants, à Nîmes, dans le Languedoc et dans le Midi de la France, depuis l'avènement des Bourbons (Henri IV) jusqu'à la Restauration (Louis XVIII), en passant par la Ière République et le Ier Empire (Napoléon Ier). Les rois se succèdent sans arriver à endiguer cette haine religieuse et ses conséquences. En révoquant l'édit de Nantes, Louis XIV pousse même les protestants à se réfugier dans les Cévennes, où, sous le nom de camisards, ils se révoltent contre le pouvoir royal et les catholiques jusqu'en 1710 environ. A une période d'accalmie succède la révolution française en 1789 et la reprise des antagonismes religieux, puis la Terreur qui frappera des deux côtés, laissant derrière elle une paix de dix-sept ans...

Alejandro Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

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