PAR LE FER OU LE POISONPAR LE FER OU LE POISON
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Current format, Book, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsPar sa connaissance profonde et vivante de l'Histoire, par ses dons remarquable de romancière, Juliette Benzoni a conquis un immense public dans le monde entier. Parmi une oeuvre abondante : le série des Marianne, Les reines tragiques, Le sang, la gloire et l'amour, Aventuriers du passe. Agrippine, impératrice et mère de Néron, est sans doute la plus fidèle cliente d'une certaine Locuste qui, aux portes de Rome, vit entourée de serpents Dans les années 1600, aux confins de la Slovaquie, Erzsebeth Bathory veut préserver des atteintes du temps l'extraordinaire beauté qui est la sienne, Il lui faut pour cela le sang de centaines d'adolescentes La marquise de Montespan, maîtresse de Louis XIV, va-t-elle réussir a empoisonner le Roi et la trop jeune et jolie Angélique de Scorailles, faite depuis peu duchesse de Fontanges par son royal amant? Ainsi, au long des siècles, en tous lieux, un meme fil rouge et sanglant unit ces femmes, et bien d'autres encore... Pour sauver un amour, assouvie une ambition, ou par pure et gratuite cruauté, aucune n'a craint d'avoir recours au fer ou au poison.
Through her deep and lively knowledge of history and her remarkable gifts as a novelist, Juliette Benzoni has conquered a huge audience all over the world. Among her abundant works: the Marianne series, Les reines tragiques, Le sang, la gloire et l'amour, Aventuriers du passe. Agrippina, empress and mother of Nero, was undoubtedly the most faithful customer of a certain Locust who, at the gates of Rome, lived surrounded by snakes. In the 1600s, on the borders of Slovakia, Erzsebeth Bathory wanted to preserve her extraordinary beauty from the ravages of time. To do so, she needed the blood of hundreds of teenage girls. Will the Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV, succeed in poisoning the King and the too young and pretty Angélique de Scorailles, recently made Duchess of Fontanges by her royal lover? Thus, throughout the centuries, everywhere, the same red and bloody thread unites these women, and many others... To save a love, to satisfy an ambition, or out of pure and gratuitous cruelty, none of them feared to resort to iron or poison. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Through her deep and lively knowledge of history and her remarkable gifts as a novelist, Juliette Benzoni has conquered a huge audience all over the world. Among her abundant works: the Marianne series, Les reines tragiques, Le sang, la gloire et l'amour, Aventuriers du passe. Agrippina, empress and mother of Nero, was undoubtedly the most faithful customer of a certain Locust who, at the gates of Rome, lived surrounded by snakes. In the 1600s, on the borders of Slovakia, Erzsebeth Bathory wanted to preserve her extraordinary beauty from the ravages of time. To do so, she needed the blood of hundreds of teenage girls. Will the Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV, succeed in poisoning the King and the too young and pretty Angélique de Scorailles, recently made Duchess of Fontanges by her royal lover? Thus, throughout the centuries, everywhere, the same red and bloody thread unites these women, and many others... To save a love, to satisfy an ambition, or out of pure and gratuitous cruelty, none of them feared to resort to iron or poison. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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