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5 days ago · Yet when asked to recommend a book worth reading, novelist Diane Johnson wrote, “My first choice would be Jean Dutourd’s The Horrors of Love, which is translated into English and was published in the sixties. It is an incredible tour de force — a dialogue running to more than 600 pages, between two men who are walking through Paris, talking about the fate of a politician friend of theirs who was brought down by an erotic entanglement.
5 days ago · • The Horrors of Love by Jean Dutourd (1963) In the 600-some pages of this novel, two men carry on a conversation about the case of Roberti, a politician convicted for murdering his mistress’s brother.
4 days ago · Watch on. « L’humour est l’adrénaline des optimistes. » Serge Uzzan. « Aimer, c’est forcément être optimiste. » Bernadette Chirac. « Je préfère vivre en optimiste et me tromper, que vivre en pessimiste et avoir toujours raison. » Jean-Michel Guenassia. « Le monde appartient aux optimistes, les pessimistes ne sont que des ...
5 days ago · « “L’intendance suit toujours”, a dit le général de Gaulle dans une formule heureuse, entendant que l’armée doit aller de l’avant, sans se soucier d’être nourrie » (Jean Dutourd, Le Fond et la Forme, vol. II, p. 16).
1 day ago · Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928, La Trinité, France) is a French nationalist who founded and served as leader (1972–2011) of the National Front political party, which represented the main right-wing opposition to the country’s mainstream conservative parties from the 1970s through the early 21st century.
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3 days ago · Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (French: [ʒɑ̃ klod kamij fʁɑ̃swa vɑ̃ vaʁɑ̃bɛʁɡ]; Dutch: [vɑn ˈvarə(n)ˈbɛrx]; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (French: [vɑ̃ dam]; Dutch: [vɑn ˈdɑmə]), is a Belgian martial artist and actor.
3 days ago · Jean Sibelius (forename in the French pronunciation: surname in the Finland Swedish: [siˈbeːliʉs] ⓘ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods.
