Au printemps 1336, François Pétrarque entreprend avec son frère l'ascension du mont Ventoux, qui, de ses 1912 mètres, domine le Comtat Venaissin et la...
Vivian Lovel, a penniless Cornish painter and model, finds herself unexpectedly responsible for a baby after rescuing it from a sinking ship. She emb...
La Fortune des Rougon is the first volume in Émile Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series, a sprawling family saga that chronicles the lives of...
'The Fortune of the Rougon' is a sprawling tale of a family in 19th-century Provence during the Second French Empire. The novel explores the intertwi...