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"October 1493. In this rainy autumn, Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, decided to go to Viterbo, officially to inspect the fortifications. Just happened and installed in the castle with his court as Francesca, the poisoner of the family learns that a murderer is on the way. She will then join forces with her ​​lover, the brilliant and fierce Cesare Borgia, to untangle a plot that is a knock at the heart of Christianity. But a devastating secret emerges from the past Francesca and lack of make insane. He will have to mobilize all his courage and willingness to bring reason and save up for what she believes. "

384 pages
November 7, 2012
Novel pole
€ 19

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SNCF has worked closely with the Nazis. 150,000 people have been deported, including 14,000 Jewish children. She acted in concert with the police, the gendarmerie, the prefectural government, all subject to the enemy on the order of Vichy.

The President of the SNCF, appointed in the summer of 1940, founded and chaired an organization that has plundered and pillaged several months of Jewish merchants. The CEO of SNCF has treated its resistance as "terrorists" and urged officials to denounce each rail. Yet these two leaders will be praised for their "resistance" to the liberation by the National Council of Resistance!

But the railroad people, he was placed in the heart of the struggle against the occupier. Risking their lives in 1940, the resistance of the track helped escaped prisoners and Alsatians to "move the lines", then they rescued Jews, Spanish Communists and all deported. The SNCF employees have played a prominent role at the time of the final battle and gave a great hand in the liberation of our country and the Allied victory. But could they all like the hero revealed by this book, Leon Bronchart refuse to drive a train to the "night and fog", the Holocaust, most of whom were unaware of?

Jean-Pierre Richardot is the author, inter alia, another Switzerland, a bastion against Nazi Germany (The Feline, 2002) and 100,000 deaths forgotten, May-June 1940 (the Cherche Midi, 2009).

312 pages
Le Cherche Midi
September 6, 2012
18 € 05
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Venice 1575. Hannah Levi is known throughout the city for his talents as an attendant gift developed in secret by the "spoons of delivery" that she developed. When a winter night, Count Paolo di Padovani just implore the help of his wife, struggling to give birth to their first child, Hannah is shared. If the law prohibits Jews treat Christians the money Count offers to allow him to pay a ransom for her beloved husband, Isaac, held captive on the island of Malta. But the choice of Hannah will rush into the perilous adventures ...

284 pages
MA EDITIONS
October 31, 2012
€ 14 25

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Summer 1493. Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI now is pope for almost a year. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Francesca, who played a crucial role in his ascension to the throne of St. Peter, must ensure that there is at present. Being the poisoner of the most notorious and most dangerous large Italian families, this mistress of death will face moult perils, intrigue and deceit that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance. While the danger surrounds on all sides, Francesca develops a desperate plan, putting his own life in danger. It will confront the madness of a determined to destroy everything she is committed to protect rights. Hidden from the fifteenth-century Rome to its teeming streets, full of sensuality and traitors crypts, Francesca will be fighting against his own demons to thwart a plot to destroy the Borgias, to seize control of Christendom and plunge the world forever in darkness.

MA Editions
April 18, 2012
€ 19

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Rome was in 1492. In the bowels of the Eternal City, s evil has awakened. The brutal murder of an alchemist will trigger a desperate race to uncover a plot to extinguish the light of the Renaissance to plunge the whole of Europe in the medieval darkness.
Determined to avenge the assassination of his father, Francesca Giordano defies all conventions in charge poisoner s granting of the service of Rodrigo Borgia, the man at the head of the most famous and most dangerous family in Italy. She becomes the confidante of Lucrezia Borgia and the lover of Cesare Borgia.
Untangling the web of treachery and deceit, Francesca is in pursuit of the murderer of his father, from the depths of Jewish ghetto in Rome at the top of Christianity itself, the Vatican. Without knowing it, and it will cause the ultimate confrontation between ready to use its most hidden to accomplish their evil designs desires immemorial forces.

420 pages
November 9, 2011
MA Editions
18 € 91

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1492. Pope Innocent VIII died. At the Vatican, a Catalan cardinal, power-hungry, is desperate to succeed him. A man of unparalleled cruelty, whose name will be remembered as one of the most infamous in the history of the Catholic Church: Rodrigo Borgia. Elected to the Holy See through corruption, he has to face, when he took power, the conspiracy of the great Roman houses who want the loss of this "foreign" scandalous morals. Lavish spending, mistresses, illegitimate children he married according to his alliances, assassinations in case of difficulty: Rodrigo plays by his own rules. But when the armies of the King of France arrived at the gates of the city, he knows that he will support his son. Which can he trust? A Juan, arrogant spoiled child, or Cesare, tormented by the blackness of his impulses? Their choices depend not only the future of the Borgias, but also in Rome and all Italy. Rooted in the intellectual and creative expansion of the Renaissance, this dramatic saga traces the rise and fall of an illustrious family, Cesare, the model of the Prince of Machiavelli, Lucrezia, torn between mysticism and sensuality through the sulphurous Giulia Farnese and elusive Rodrigo.

414 pages
September 15, 2011
Michel Lafon
€ 18

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1154. Divorced from Louis, King of France that no devotee who had not known love, Eleanor of Aquitaine enters the city of London alongside her new husband, Henry Plantagenet. The cheers of joy burst forth in the entire country for this enchanting queen. Stunningly beautiful, refined, Eleanor that captivates everyone she meets, men and women.
Now c is an empire that it intends to measure its head! And why it has the impetuous nature of it makes both the muse of the troubadours and feared warrior. No sy wrong. Neither enemies of yesterday or those of today, vile and shameless, desperate to break the alliance.
This story is also that of the mysterious Loanna of Grimwald, descendant of the lineage of the high priestesses of Avalon placed yesterday by his ancestor of Merlin with Eleanor, and always at her side to help her win.
In the whirlwind of love during the tumult of the battlefield, the secret of the most sordid ambitions, or the brilliance of his vengeance, Eleanor of Aquitaine will forge his legend in the face of adversity.

Ten years after the great success of the bed of Eleanor, Mireille Calmel gives us the following, giving life to an unexpected Eleanor in a saga that combines history of France and Arthurian legends. It holds its breath ...

396 pages
October 13, 2011
XO EDITIONS
18 € 91

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The beautiful and spirited German knight, Lanz von Malberg, dreams of one thing: to integrate military and religious order of Teutonic Knights. During the summer of 1338, he left Mainz and take the first ship bound for Estonia. There terrible trials ahead, but do not like Lanz less fierce this country which neither evangelism nor force of arms have not been able to suppress the pagan soul irreducibly. Dealing with spells that emanate from these mysterious regions, the young man will quickly confront the remnants of another age. Under the aegis of the beautiful and sensual Yrmeline then begin for him a challenging journey of initiation he will not escape unscathed, as he conceives love for it devours. Where does she Yrmeline its frightening powers? What a strange and dangerous secret society has managed to infiltrate the ranks of the Teutonic Order? In attempting to demystify the dreaded chief of Black Temple, Lanz discover the remains of a lost civilization incredible and amazing message conveyed by the clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia. Unknowingly, the hero of this extraordinary adventure could unleash immeasurable strength of our distant past. Fortunately, the brave lord can count on help from Petras, a clever little boy and that of an old Breton scholar whose knowledge is at least surprising, too! Through his tribulations, Lanz eventually discover the most amazing secret of all time ... Original and remarkably well documented, this first volume of rare strength will keep the reader in suspense until the end.

Pages 512
10 February 20100
Publishing Pierregord
22 € 80

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In 1536, Henry VIII, King of England, was beheaded for adultery, incest and treason his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who has not given birth to the male heir he hoped.
A few days later, he married Jane Seymour, who will give him a son - the future Edward VI - but will die in childbirth in 1537. Less than three years later, he married Anne of Cleves as part of an alliance with the Protestants. But, unable to consummate his marriage, he decided to get the cancellation to marry with very young Katherine Howard, niece of the ambitious Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.
Despite the vigilance of Jane Boleyn, her lady-in-waiting allied to the Duke, the new queen tied an affair with Thomas Culpepper. In 1542, this infidelity cause his downfall. Also suffer the fate of her cousin Anne six years earlier.
Three wives, three tragic destiny ... With brio, Philippa Gregory takes us into the mysteries of the court, where machinations, intrigues and conspiracies to gain or maintain power succession, and that women are often the first victims ...

450 pages
April 14, 2010
Archipelago
21 € 85

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In 1874, in Washington, U.S. President Grant agrees in the greatest secrecy incredible proposal Indian Chief Little Wolf: barter thousand white women against horses and bison to promote the integration of the Indian tour. If some women volunteered, most of the "Thousand Women" are actually prisons and asylums of all the United States of America ... Arrived in remote regions of Nebraska, one of them, May Dodd , learns his new life Squaw and unknown Indian rites. Married to a powerful warrior, she discovered heavy fighting between tribes and the ravages of alcohol. Alongside women of all backgrounds, May Dodd then witnessing the slow death of self, adopted people ...

July 22, 2004
Pocket
€ 7.03