Letters

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  Rodolphe TÖPFFER

  Correspondance complète. Volume V

  12 août 1840 - 19 novembre 1841

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance complète de R. Töpffer n° 5

  Le 15 mars 1841, la Revue des deux mondes publie, sous la rubrique « Poètes et romanciers modernes de la France » un long article intitulé « M. Rodolphe Töpffer » sous la signature prestigieuse du grand critique Sainte-Beuve...

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  Théodore de BÈZE

  Correspondance

  Tome XXX : 1589

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze n° 442

  The great event of 1589 was the war declared by Geneva against Savoy. Beza thus became a war correspondent, sending his friends letters from the front. Written in the style of the ancient Romans, his letters were much appreciated, read before the...

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  Rodolphe TÖPFFER

  Correspondance complète

  Volume III, mi-octobre 1832 - 8 septembre 1838

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance complète de R. Töpffer n° 3

  The third volume of Rodolphe Töpffer’s correspondence contains witty letters to his friends and colleagues David Munier and Auguste De la Rive. Between 1833 and 1838, Töpffer was not only the head of a boarding-school and a professor of rhetoric at...

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  FÉNELON

  Correspondance

  Tome XVIII, suppléments et corrections

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Fénelon

  The final volume of Fénelon’s correspondence includes rediscovered letters; undated letters or letters to unknown recipients, and a list of errata correcting details in the letters and notes of the first seventeen volumes. This is now the complete...

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  Philippe de COMMYNES

  Mémoires

  Tome I, Introduction, édition des livres I à VIIITome II, Variantes, notes, glossaire, index analytique, index des lieux et personnes

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Joël Blanchard's definitive critical edition of Philip de Commynes’ Mémoires provides a singular window onto the machinations of 15th-century Europe.

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  Théodore de BÈZE

  Correspondance

  Tome XXVIII, 1587

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze n° 413

  This 'Life of Theodore Beza', written by one of the editors of his correspondence, leads from the Paris of Francis I, where Beza wrote his sometimes religious but more often licentious Juvenilia, to Lausanne and Geneva, where in 1548 ...

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  René LUCINGE

  Lettres de 1588 : un monde renversé

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The Duc de Guise's arrival in Paris in May 1588 provoked the king's hasty departure. When the king tried to convene the States General and was opposed by the third estate, he suspected Henri de Guise's influence. He also believed that le Balafré was...

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  Théodore de BÈZE

  Correspondance

  Tome XXVII, 1586

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze n° 401

  In 1586 reformed and Lutheran theologians meet at last at Montbéliard. Despite high hopes, the meeting only exacerbates their differences of opinion. In Germany, Beza keeps his ear to the ground. France is torn between the Ligue, which is pretty much...

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  Rodolphe TÖPFFER

  Correspondance complète

  Volume II, 11 juillet 1820 - début août 1832

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance complète de R. Töpffer n° 2

  The second volume of Rodolphe Töpffer’s correspondence contains letters written between his return to Geneva in July 1820, after an extended stay in Paris, and his appointment on 17 October 1832 as professor of rhetoric at the Geneva Academy. He...

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  Théodore de BÈZE

  Correspondance

  Tome XXV, 1584

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze n° 380

  In 1584, Bèze has good cause for hope: France is at peace and the heir presumptive is a Protestant. Yet he also has causes for concern: the King of Scotland wants to return the Church to the bishops; ecclesiastical discipline is unpopular in England...