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Volume – opinion + -:
Publisher: litos
from Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach
In the intimacy of famous women
Presentation of the publisher
Why can Queen Catherine de Médicis be associated with the mule, Madame de Pompadour à la Macreuse, Joséphine de Beauharnais au musc and Simone de Beauvoir, feminist and coated harm, with the alliance she demanded to take in the grave? Nevertheless, Who were Toto for Juliette Drouet, beautiful conduit for Colette and fauna for Arletty? Therefore, What owes Sarah Bernhardt to Suzanne Noël, the first woman cosmetic surgeon? Therefore,
What is the relationship between Queen Victoria. For example, Chloroform, Marilyn Monroe and Caustic Soda, Geneviève de Gaulle and her handkerchief? Consequently, With a word chosen with care. Similarly, unusual or familiar, volume – opinion + – the author offers us unexpected light on exceptional women who have marked history.
Valérie opinion
We reveal one of the answers to the questions of the publisher’s presentation: why can Queen Catherine. de Médicis be associated with the mule? Because she had trouble giving birth. and the medicine of the time thought that making her drink mule urine – sterile animal – could cure it … Fortunately, science has changed well since.
A queen, a mule …. a funny medicine
The author chooses a word that serves as a prism to tell the life of a more or less famous woman. This word can qualify an era and is therefore put back in context. Sometimes it is a first name. a nickname, or the word is chosen ironically, even to emphasize a detail that can seem futile … but everything remains exciting.
A word to tell volume – opinion + – a woman
The talent-and the specialty-by Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach (journalist. historian) consists in summarizing in one or two pages the life of her subject, while remaining fun and captivating. The counterpart is that sometimes it will miss the name of the king of the time or another temporal landmark. If the reader is curious, he will then have to seek information elsewhere.
To read as we want. where we want
Classified by themes, we can open the work at random, read all the chapters of the same theme, or browse it in order. A hundred people are so crunched there, this diversity allows you to live several lives in a short time. Here is a perfect book to read on a trip, on a beach, in a waiting room … or in the little corner!
Between erudition. lightness, A word, a fate is a historic promenade as fun as volume – opinion + – instructive
Technical sheet
Format: Poche
Pages : 336
Publisher: litos
Exit: December 4, 2024
Prix : 8,50 €
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