Profitant de l'absence de son mari et épaulée par le colonel Alfred van der Smissen, dont le charme ne la laisse pas insensible, Charlotte de Belgique a pris les rênes de l'empire mexicain. Malheureusement pour elle, au retour de Maximilien, les choses se gâtent. Les révoltes prennent de l'ampleur et pire encore, l'armée française se prépare à quitter le Mexique. Par ailleurs, Maximilien cherche par tous les moyens à concevoir un héritier à la couronne. Refusant de partager sa couche avec lui, le sachant atteint de syphilis, Charlotte doit se résoudre à avoir recours à l'adoption. À moins qu'elle ne finisse par succomber à l'appel de la chair avec le ténébreux van der Smissen...
Alors qu’elle a traversé l’Atlantique pour plaider la cause de son époux, l’impératrice Charlotte du Mexique découvre en Europe que ses alliés se font rares… Abandonnée de tous, la jeune souveraine bascule dans un égarement – parfois violent – dont profite ses ennemis pour l’enfermer… pendant soixante ans !L’épilogue magistral de la quadrilogie de Bonhomme et Nury, sur la vie tragique de Charlotte de Belgique, souveraine et pourtant femme à laquelle aucune souffrance n’aura été épargnée.
Tales of the Waffen SS and award winning comic writer and artist Wayne Vansant provides the stories of the German Panzer troops during World War II. This edition collects for the first time Wayne's previous tales that were released as individual comics or
Au-delà des mots, une rencontre picturale et sensorielle avec Charles Baudelaire.Illustrateur, peintre et auteur d’une trentaine de bandes dessinées (Le Troisième œil, Wika, Requiem, Chroniques de la Lune noire), Olivier Ledroit revient avec un défi digne de son sens de la démesure, de sa générosité visuelle et de sa passion pour les mondes oniriques, en adaptant le chef-d’œuvre de Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal. En faisant revivre cette œuvre, Olivier Ledroit propose un regard singulier sur l’univers du poète, à travers le prisme de son propre univers, si apprécié des amateurs de bande dessinée et des collectionneurs d’art. « Je ne souhaitais pas me contenter d’illustrer les poèmes de Baudelaire, détaille Olivier Ledroit. D’autres l’ont fait avant moi. L’objectif est plutôt de reproduire le bain culturel dans lequel a trempé Baudelaire. Ses visions, ses angoisses, ses inspirations, son monde, son Paris du XIXe siècle ». Connu pour ses incroyables planches épiques autant que pour la délicatesse et la sensualité de ses figures, de ses formes et de ses compositions, retrouvez dans les pages de ce bel ouvrage toute la puissance de son trait. Les femmes splendides côtoient ici les monuments parisiens, les chats, les têtes de mort et les fantasmes tirés de substances psychotropes. Tantôt éclatant de couleur, tantôt mélancolique ou célébrant les corps féminins, c’est un voyage esthétique inédit au plus près du poète maudit du XIXe que nous propose Olivier Ledroit dans ce superbe ouvrage en grand format à l’italienne.
NOT SEW-WICKED STEPMOM ist ein fantastischer Hit-Webtoon aus Korea, der bereits hunderttausende Leser*innen begeistert. Mit toller Photocard in der 1. Auflage!Die klassische Märchen-Stiefmutter ist bekanntlich notorisch böse! Doch als Abigail nach einer Wiedergeburt plötzlich als Mutter der kleinen Prinzessin Blanche aufwacht, möchte sie dieses alte Klischee nicht erfüllen und ihre neue Tochter mit Liebe überschütten. Nun muss die ehemalige Kindermodedesignerin nur noch ihren neuen, kaltherzigen Ehemann davon überzeugen, dasselbe zu tun... In ihrem Bestreben, Blanche ein liebevolles Zuhause zu bieten, beginnt Abigail Geheimnisse und Intrigen innerhalb des Palastes aufzudecken. Wird sich die kleine Familie den teuflischen Kräften beugen müssen, oder wird es Abigail gelingen, sie zusammenzuhalten?Dieser Band ist komplett in Farbe.Der vierte Band des humorvollen Familiendramas!
Vom Grundstück zum Gartenparadies: Dieses Buch begleitet Sie zuverlässig durch den Gartenalltag und verleiht jedem Hobbygärtner einen grünen Daumen. Ob Ziergarten mit Gehölzen, Rosen, Stauden und Sommerblumen oder Obst-, Gemüse- und Kräutergarten, ob idyllischer Gartenteich oder sattgrüner Rasen: Es zeigt Ihnen, was Sie für die erfolgreiche Planung, Anlage und Pflege Ihres Gartens wissen müssen. Erfahren Sie alles über Düngung, Kompost, Schnitt und Pflege, und lesen Sie, wie Sie anfallende Arbeiten fachgerecht ausführen. Mit leicht verständlichen Erklärungen, wertvollen Profi-Tipps, nützlichem Arbeitskalender und über 1000 Pflanzenporträts gelingt das große Gartenglück garantiert!
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 176, Publishers: White Hopton Publications, Author: Claire Austin, ISBN-13: 9780993164736, Date of issue: 2021
Step-by-step instructions, with drawings and photographs--16 in full color, introduce the novice to the full range of growing methods, from sterile culture procedures--the basis of all tissue culture cloning techniques--to indoor bottle gardens to inddoor/outdoor compost gardens. Includes a section on producing small quantities of precisely-mixed compost indoors and a taxonomy of selected psilocybin-containing mushrooms.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 224, Publishers: TEN SPEED PR, Author: Alethea Harampolis, ISBN-13: 9781984860101, Date of issue: 2024
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 176, Publishers: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale, Author: Joseph Tychonievich,Liz Kozik, ISBN-13: 9781984857262, Date of issue: 2021
Celebrate the beauty and creativity of the worlds greatest contemporary gardens through this stunning survey highlighting the leading designers of today
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 112, Publishers: Quarto Publishing PLC, Author: Royal Horticultural Society, ISBN-13: 9780711293007, Date of issue: 2024
This essential resource for growers includes techniques and advice that work in real-life production, not just in the lab or trial greenhouses. Information is offered on how to decide what to grow, as well as tips on temperature, media, plant nutrition, ir
Möchten Sie Ihren Gärten so gestalten, dass er im tiefsten Winter attraktiv und farbenfroh ist? Über die einfache Wirkung von Raureif und Schnee hinaus wird Ihnen in diesem Buch gezeigt, wie Bäume mit auffälliger Rinde, Sträucher mit lebhaft gefärbten Trieben, immergrüne sowie winterblühende Pflanzen mit großer Sorgfalt gestalterisch eingesetzt werden können. Cédric Pollet führt Sie in 20 außergewöhnliche Gärten in Frankreich und England und zeigt Hunderte von Gestaltungen und mehr als 300 Arten und Sorten, die den Garten im Winter verschönern können. Ideen, die Sie dazu verführen, den Winter-Garten "bunt zu malen" und die so oft vernachlässigte Saison neu zu erfinden.
From the renowned editor of "House and Garden" magazine in the 1920s and 1930s comes an engaging and amusing collection of 365 short essays, one for each night of the year.
Today s garden?designers and avid home gardeners have new concerns about ensuring their gardens are above all resilient: They must reduce urban temperatures, protect and improve wildlife habitat, and be able to thrive without traditional chemical maintenance. This volume shows us how to do all that and more step by step, covering every aspect of designing a garden, including finding relevant local environmental data, defining the actual planting challenge, telling a narrative with plants, sketching plans, designing planting compositions full of structure and texture, generating plant palettes and seasonal color schemes, and evaluating sustainability. International case studies of the best new gardens by today s top designers highlight each of these topics and delve further into the design process.Illustrated with hundreds of full-color photos, Fisher Tomlin guides readers on how to create gardens that are truly appropriate for the needs of specific landscapes and therefore likely to succeed, as well as lovely. This book is intended for professionals and students in landscape design programs, and will also appeal to a crossover lay audience of avid home gardeners.
In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social...
This new title in the Crossbill Guides covers the well-known region of Dordogne in southwestern France. This title poses and answers two key questions: what makes this area so special and how you can experience this uniqueness for yourself and describes the flora and fauna, landscape and traditional land use of this region.
The novel centers around Michel, a forty-year-old exhibits agent for the French Ministry of Culture. In the opening chapter, he must deal with his father's murder.
This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and society, the impact of war, competition for power, and the ways in which power has been used. Whilst taking full account of major figures such as Philip Augustus, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Napoleon and de Gaulle, it sets their activities within the broader context of changing economic and social structures and beliefs, and offers rich insights into the lives of ordinary men and women. This third edition has been substantially revised and includes a new chapter on contemporary France - a society and political system in crisis as a result of globalisation, rising unemployment, a failing educational system, growing social and racial tensions, corruption, the rise of the extreme right, and a widespread loss of confidence in political leaders.
A new edition of this guide highlighting what to see as well as where to stay and what to eat in Paris. A mini encyclopedia of the great European city.
Robert Doisneau's enchanting black-and-white photographs immortalize the magic of Paris, with its combination of dreamy nostalgia and teeming modernity. Profoundly fascinated by his city, the photographer possessed an uncanny ability to capture poetry in ordinary moments-from the jubilation of the Liberation in 1944, to a gaggle of schoolchildren crossing the street, or the famous kiss in front of the Hôtel de Ville-and it was this eye for humor and poignancy that infused his work with enduring popular appeal. The 560 photographs in this definitive volume-curated by his daughters Annette Doisneau and Francine Deroudille-are enhanced by witty and revealing quotations from the photographer's personal notebooks.
Insight Guides Pocket Guide Nice, Cannes & Monte CarloTravel made easy. Ask local experts.The definitive pocket-sized travel guide, now with free app and eBook.
WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, prov
And now, dear reader, for your intellectual toilet, here is a little piece of soap. Well handled, we guarantee it will be enough. Let us hold this magic stone. The poet Francis Ponge (1899-1988) occupied a significant and unchallenged place in French letters for over fifty years, attracting the attention and admiration of generations of leading intellectuals, writers, and painters, a notable feat in France, where reputations are periodically reassessed and undone with the arrival of new literary and philosophical schools. Soap occupies a crucial, pivotal position in Ponge s work. Begun during the German occupation when he was in the Resistance, though completed two decades later, it determined, according to Ponge, the form of almost all his postwar writing. With this work, he began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a much more open form, a kind of prose poem which incorporates a laboratory or workshop, recounting its own process of coming into being along with the final result. The outcome is a new form of writing, which one could call processual poetry.Ponge s later work, from Soap on, is a very important tool in the questioning and rethinking of literary genres, of poetry and prose, of what is literature.
In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protru
Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet, there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly significant role as a draftsman. This book is the first to focus on Monet's pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the artist's life and work. Monet has long been seen as an anti-draftsman, an artist who painted his subjects directly and whose rarely seen graphic works were marginal to his artistic process. In an effort to develop his public image, Monet denied the role of drawing in his working method. In actuality, Monet began his career as a caricaturist and as a teenager developed a passion for drawing that was never extinguished. He went on to master the medium of pastel and included seven in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.Citing recently discovered, unpublished documents that overturn the accepted image of the artist, "The Unknown Monet" reveals an extensive group of graphic works created over the course of the artist's career, many of which are unknown to the general public and to scholars: beautiful pastels, stunning black chalk drawings, and fascinating sketchbooks, which include pencil studies that relate to many of his paintings. The book also shows how Monet exploited the print media to promote his art. The most important publication on Monet to appear in a generation, this illuminating volume is essential to anyone interested in his work, Impressionism, and nineteenth-century French culture.
Camille Claudel war unbestritten eine der wenigen großen Bildhauerinnen unserer Zeit. Ihr Leben aber blieb ein Rätsel, eher verstellt als erhellt durch einige bekannte schlagwortartige Akten und Gerüchte: sie war eine sehr eigenwillige Künstlerin, sie war die Geliebte Auguste Rodins, ihr Leben endete in Alkohol und Armut, sie starb in einer Nervenheilanstalt. Auch um anderen spekulativen Deutungen dieses Lebens entgegenzutreten, gab Reine-Marie Paris, eine Enkelin Paul Claudels, ihr Buch heraus. Ihr stand als einziger das Familienarchiv der Claudels offen, und sie hält sich in ihrer Darstellung streng an die Fakten.§Camille Claudel wurde 1864 geboren. Schon früh entdeckte sie ihre künstlerische Begabung. Die Familie zog 1881 nach Paris. Dort trat sie in die Académie Colarossi ein, gründete bald mit zwei anderen jungen Künstlerinnen ein eigenes Atelier. Irgendwann um diese Zeit ein genaues Datum ist nicht bekannt tritt sie in Rodins Atelier ein, wird seine Gehilfin. Eine jahrelange stürmische Liebe verbindet die beiden, eine quälerisch intensive Beziehung, die schließlich zerbricht. Künstlerisch wächst die Anerkennung für das Werk Camilles, obwohl es immer an der Arbeit Rodins gemessen wird. Dann beginnt der Abstieg. Nach dem Zerbrechen der Bindung an Rodin wird es für sie schwer, eine unabhängige Existenz aufrechtzuerhalten. Sie braucht die Zuwendungen ihres berühmten Bruders, Paul Claudel, sie trinkt, verwahrlost, treibt sich nachts in den Straßen von Paris herum, wird schließlich von der Familie in eine Nervenheilanstalt eingewiesen.§Über die Biographie hinaus enthält das Buch eine Auswahl aus den Briefen, eine Darstellung ihrer Krankheitsgeschichte sowie Werkkatalog und Bibliographie. Bernard Howells schrieb ein Nachwort über Camilles Beziehung zu ihrem Bruder Paul. 70 Schwarzweiß- und 6 Farbfotos dokumentieren das bildhauerische Werk.
Publiée pour la première fois sous forme d'édition collector signée et épuisée en une semaine, cette édition centenaire est un récit sans précédent de la vie et de l'époque de Stan Lee.
Get Your Shit Together est le premier livre qui présente exclusivement des œuvres récentes en couleur de l'artiste britannique bien-aimé David Shrigley. Ce volume célèbre la sensibilité absurde et impassible de Shrigley à travers à la fois son style de dessin caractéristique et le texte qui l'accompagne. Organisée par chapitres avec des titres tels que Stupid, Nonsense, Dirt, Fear, Paranoia, Love et Self Delusion, cette collection ravira à coup sûr les fans inconditionnels de Shrigley et les nouveaux. Il s'agit du livre au format le plus grand à ce jour sur le travail prolifique de Shrigley, et présente des détails de conception tels qu'un marqueur de ruban avec l'un de ses dictons mordants imprimés dessus, ainsi que des essais humoristiques écrits à la main tout au long.
Celebrating decades of achievement by one of the foremost names in British fashion, whose vitality and influence continue to shineZandra Rhodes provides a luscious documentary of this leading British designer, spanning her 50-year
Do you want to knit but don't have any idea where to start? Discover your one-stop resource for everything you'll ever need to know about knitting.Do knitting patterns and techniques have you scratching your head? Do you dream of creating handcrafted gi
The first book dedicated to Vivienne Westwood’s jewellery creations, published in close collaboration with the house and written by fashion – and Westwood – expert Alexander Fury. This lavish survey of Vivienne Westwood jewellery evokes the heady blend of luxury and rebellion that is the house’s signature style. Whether a skilfully rendered safety-pin brooch, a hand-strung 'broken’ pearl necklace or the iconic Westwood orb in crystal, these are pieces that define the house’s codes.Following an introduction by renowned fashion journalist Alexander Fury, who acquaints readers with the recurring motifs, techniques and inspirations of the world of Vivienne Westwood jewellery, the book presents almost two hundred pieces arranged by theme. From punk masterworks, such as the 'Hardcore Paperclip Earrings’ and 'Chaos Necklace’, through the pastel-toned 'Flower Skull Necklace’ and 'Nymph Earrings’, to the recycled can 'Simone Earrings’ and the pagan 'Conkers Necklace’, contemporary creations mingle with reimagined classics. A full range of jewellery is included: necklaces, pendants and chokers; earrings, brooches, pins, badges and nose rings; metal masks; tiaras and coronets; bejewelled sunglasses; cuffs and bangles.Each piece is indexed with its name, fashion season, and what is often an extraordinary range of materials. Through evocative still life vignettes and close-ups, images of catwalk models and stunning portraits of Vivienne Westwood herself, this glittering volume welcomes readers to a vibrant world that draws on the house’s rich heritage.
A Proven, Step-By-Step Method To Become Fashion Designer Fashion designing is becoming a hot field. Their are people who want to become successful in this industry but don't know where to start and how to become successful if they are already in that. Its
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 144, Publishers: Rizzoli International Publications, Author: Robert Ossant, ISBN-13: 9781849949682, Date of issue: 2025
Clothing from the Hands that Weave is a remarkable book that traces the history of weaving and fashion from the beginning of time through the modern era. Part memoir, part weaving instruction, part historical textbook, Clothing from the Hands
Language: English, Binding: Book, Number of pages: 16, Publishers: C & T Publishing, Author: Maggie Hofmann, ISBN-13: 9781644032701, Date of issue: 2022
