News — histoire

A very good review of the book The War Staged. Theatre and Conflicts in 17th Century Italy has appeared on the website of the SIES (Society of Italianists in Higher Education).

La vie chameleon, the magnificent work by Hélène Waldaut-Treilles, was presented at the "Critical Mass" operation organized in the spring by Babélio. Among the unanimously complimentary reviews, here is one that caught our attention: "What a lesson – a living one – in History! I learned a lot, I thought, too. I laughed – at least at the beginning – and I shuddered more than once. It is no small thing to say that I truly appreciated these memoirs of a German woman! Her lively style, full of anecdotes, each more piquant than the last, and some even abominable, the...

Chemins de tr@verse editions are now participating in Babélio's Masse critique operation, by submitting works for reader criticism. Antoine Cantenot's book, Incalculable , received the following review, which we would like to share, as it sums up this unclassifiable and fascinating book so well. "When I asked to be selected to read this book during the last Critical Mass operation, I didn't really know what to expect. The back cover had aroused my curiosity, but I wondered what was behind all these enigmatic questions and what would be the main theme of the book: scientific, historical, philosophical, religious? After reading...

Yesterday, our author Christophe Vieu was invited on Télessone to talk about his latest novel "La belle âme". Watch the show again here: http://www.telessonne.fr/ webtv/c-1/v-4704/On_a_des_ Choses_a_Vous_Dire__du_04_ Decembre_2013.html

After the fascinating Lessons of Love , the very beautiful Unfortunate Consequences of a Sleepless Night and the disturbing Journal of the Impossible , Christophe Vieu returns with a new novel, La belle âme . In a beautiful interweaving of stories, with his rare pen, mistress of rhythmic and musical phrases, Christophe Vieu brings to life the forbidden friendship between a French teenager and a young German occupier, in the first steps of the Second World War... Read a free excerpt from this novel here .