In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And...

Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete*,* the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud’s work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason.Mas...

CHAPITRE IIISuite du chapitre IIDISSOLUTION DE L'EMPIRE CARLOVINGIENC'est sous Louis le Débonnaire, ou, pour traduire plus fidèlement son nom, sous saint Louis, que devait s'opérer le déchirement et le divorce des parties hétérogènes dont se composait l'Empire. Toutes souffraient d'être ensemble. Le mal, c'était la solidarité d'une guerre immense, qui faisait ressentir sur la Loire les revers de l'Ostrasie; c'était le tyrannique effort d'une centralisation prématurée....

Ce à quoi vous pouvez vous attendre et ce que vous pouvez faire pour aiderAider un proche malade à vivre ses derniers moments est l’une des expériences les plus difficiles de la vie. À mesure que la maladie progresse, il se peut que vous ayez à prendre des décisions importantes. Il se peut même que vous ayez à vous assurer que les besoins fondamentaux – de respect, de dignité et de confort de votre proche – soient satisfaits jusqu’à son dernier jour.

LAPUISSANCE DU SEJOUR DES MORTS Quand des choses ont été recueillies et enterrées, il y a des problèmes, à moins que tu ne comprennes comment retirer ce qui a été enterré. Voila pourquoi le psalmiste parle de la délivrance du séjour des morts. Il parle aussi de la puissance du séjour des morts. Le séjour des morts a certains pouvoirs qui sont derrière ce qu'on appelle les cas difficiles....

Arthur Rimbaud wrote a few pieces that set French poetry aghast around 1873. He'd taken to wandering Europe in lieu of university. His teachers hated him. There was a sort of subtle but perverse defiance to his work. He would create new words to describe the world around him, and produced pages of rhyming Latin verse in his mathematics class while taking notes. For a time he produced Latin homework for his fellow students and appeared, for a time, to raise the general standard. He criticiz...

La Princesse De Clves by Mme de La Fayette.

When the New York and Cincinnati Flyer (the “F. F. V. Limited”) came into Charleston yesterday, it was an hour late and quite a crowd was waiting to get aboard. Going with me as far as Kenova were D, H, and eight or ten of “the boys.” They all carried Winchesters and were bound on a trip to the mountains of Mingo and McDowell, on the Kentucky line, to capture a moonshine still which was reported to be doing a fine business selling to the mines. D wanted me to go along, and offered me a rif...

Read in French"The Philter" is a dual-language edition of "Le Philtre," Stendhal's brief tale of a young Spanish woman's inexplicable passion for a circus rider from Naples. Both the original French tale and the newly translated English version are hyperlinked to facilitate swift navigation from one language to the other.Genre: short storyLanguages: French and EnglishDate of English translation: 2012

The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring the work of fourteen distinguished translators, most of it appearing here for the first time, do...

This is a fantastic product, and one of the best ways to really get an early handle on grammar, and an outstanding way to practice speaking and pronounciation at any level. However, please do not do not get disapointed when you dont speak perfect French in 8 hours. This will give you basic tools to build on, but then you need to spend some time in a French country, or take several years of university classes.When considering the investment in a foreign language, consider that it ma...

Sébastien Erard and the firm that carried his name are seminal in the history of musical instruments. Erard's inventions - especially the double escapement for the piano and the double-action for the harp - have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano and harp building today. The recently discovered archives of the Erard piano and harp building firm are perhaps the largest and most complete record of musical instrument making anywhere...