by Claude Pasteur (2001)
Molière, Voltaire, Napoléon, Talleyrand, Messieurs de Staël, de Montespan, Récamier, Tallien, Pouchkine, Victor Hugo... tous furent des maris trompés. Mais ne jetons pas la pierre à ces dames. Bravant les lois de la bienséance, elles recherchaient davantage le véritable amour que l'aventure sans lendemain, d'autant que les rivaux de ces messieurs étaient souvent des hommes de qualité : Louis XIV, Wagner, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Sainte-Beuve... Claude Pasteur, journaliste et historienne, est l'auteur d'une vingtaine d'ouvrages. Elle nous livre avec Les Cocus magnifiques une vision étonnante de ces personnalités du monde politique ou artistique entrés dans l'Histoire.
Paul Tunbridge
Kelvin's great accomplishment was to bring together all the experimental scientists of his time into one co-operative association for investigators whose individual efforts were aided by their combined results, expressed in a notation and described in language understood by everyone.
Julie Williams
In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first US civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles the short life of this flight school as seen mainly through the eyes of the Alabama press, whose reporting and sometimes mis-reporting "reflected the misconceptions, hopes, dreams, and fears about aviation in 1910, painting a picture of a time when flight was untested, unsteady, and unavailable to most people."--Publisher description.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, and takes a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Philip F. Gura
"Between 1829 and 1831, Jared Curtis, the newly appointed prison chaplain at the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown, interviewed every one of the over 300 inmates at the prison and recorded their biographies in two leatherbound notebooks. Those notebooks, fully transcribed and well annotated after their discovery in 1998, form the basis for Philip Gura's Buried from the World: Inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829-1831."--BOOK JACKET.