Dumas: 1919 books

Should you ever go to Rome and visit the villa Pamphili, no doubt, after having sought under its tall pines and along its canals the shade and freshness so rare in the capital of the Christian world, you will descend towards the Janiculum Hill by a charming road, in the middle of which you will find the Pauline fountain.

Extrait : "RICHARD, se levant : Ohé ! maître Orsini, notre hôte, tavernier du diable, double empoisonneur ! il paraît qu'il faut te donner tous tes noms avant que tu répondes. ORSINI : Que voulez-vous ? du vin ? SIMON, se levant : Merci, nous en avons encore ; c'est Richard le savetier qui veut...

Extrait : "Dans les premiers jours du mois de décembre 184., je revenais à peine d'un voyage dans le midi de la France, quand je fus incité à dîner chez une dame avec qui j'avais eu l'occasion de me trouver deux ou trois fois avant mon départ, mais dans des circonstances assez confidentielles pour...

This book is the result of my love and memoirs of my only daughter Beverly and my husband, John Henry Wells.Here I have gathered thoughts, ideas and memories of which they have done and enjoyed them.As I listen to my husband, I am in awe of the many experiences he has encountered.Yet, he remains a...

Un soir d'hiver, dans la forêt de Bohème, un bûcheron trouve sous la neige un enfant au visage et au costume blanc. Il le ramène dans sa chaumière et là, sentant l'odeur du dîner, le petit garçon se jette sur la marmite, dévore son contenu puis s'endort. Le lendemain, la femme du bûcheron...

Het leven lacht de jonge zeeman Edmond Dantès toe, tot jaloerse 'vrienden' hem, op de dag van zijn verloving, valselijk van landverraad beschuldigen. Hij wordt ten onrechte opgesloten in de donkere kerkers van het Château d'If, waar hij veertien jaar zucht om gerechtigheid. Zijn te betreuren verloofde...

There are villages so humble as to have taken refuge in the recesses of the valley—have built their farmsteads, mills, and cottages on the margin of a brook, and, protected by the hills that sheltered them from heat and cold, have passed an almost unknown and tranquil life, like that of men without...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. On the 22d of March, in the year of our Lord 1718, a young cavalier of high bearing, about twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age, mounted on a pure-bred Spanish charger, was waiting, toward eight o'clock in the morning, at that end of the Pont Neuf which abuts on the Quai de l'Ecole.

This dramatization of the classic novel is the first of four parts. In 1815 Napoleon has fled to Elba, and the Bourbons have been restored to the French throne. Young Edmond Dantes is First Mate and Acting Capt. of the merchant ship Pharoah. Everything seems bright for his future, until he's arrested...

This text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy.

ON the thirteenth of May, 1770, Paris celebrated the wedding of the Dauphin or Prince Royal Louis Aguste, grandson of Louis XV. still reigning, with Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria. The entire population flocked towards Louis XV. Place, where fireworks were to be let off. A pyrotechnical display...

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

Written in 1836, this collaborative play is based on a real-life incident, using the actual names of the principals involved. The young Marquis de Brunoy is snubbed at the French Royal Court of Versailles because his father, a financier, had been ennobled for his great wealth. After having to fight several...

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.