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The story chronicles Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO non-commissioned officer) to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses. The novel is set in Paris in the upper-middle class environment of the leading journalists of the newspaper La Vie Francaise and their friends. It tells the story of Georges Duroy, who has spent three years of military service in Algeria. After six months working as clerk in Paris, an encounter with his former comrade, Forestier, enables him to...

Jeanne, fille du baron Simon-Jacques et de la baronne Adelaide, est une jeune aristocrate qui, pour ses dix-sept ans, quitte le couvent pour commencer une vraie vie . Elle s'en va donc de chez elle avec son pere et sa mere qui lui leguent un chateau pour y vivre avec son prochain mari. Celui-ci, Julien de Lamare, qu'elle rencontre dans les quelques jours suivants sa sortie du couvent, est un veritable avare et un egoiste, mais elle ne le decouvre qu'apres leur mariage."

Christiane Andermatt, venue en Auvergne, sur les terres d'Enval, suivre un traitement contre une pretendue sterilite, s'eprend de Paul Bretigny dont elle aura une fille, tandis que son mari William Andermatt specule sur des terrains de la region. L'intrigue amoureuse se double ainsi d'une intrigue financiere, a laquelle s'ajoute une satire du milieu medical. A cette derniere s'ajoutent egalement une satire de la condition de la femme a travers le personnage de Christiane et sa grossesse ainsi qu'une satire de la finance au travers de la speculation dont les personnages centraux sont, outre...

Les nouvelles qui suivent ont ete publiees, les unes en France, les autres a l'etranger. Elles nous ont paru proceder d'une idee unique, avoir une meme philosophie: nous les reunissons. Nous nous attendons a toutes les attaques, a la mauvaise foi et a l'ignorance dont la critique courante nous a deja donne tant de preuves. Notre seul souci a ete d'affirmer publiquement nos veritables amities et, en meme temps, nos tendances litteraires.

M. Roland, ancien bijoutier parisien, demenage avec toute sa famille au Havre par amour partage de la mer. Apres leurs etudes a Paris, les deux fils de M. et Mme Roland, Pierre, l'aine, medecin, et Jean, avocat, decident de s'installer dans la nouvelle residence familiale. Une somme d'argent laissee en heritage a Jean par un ami de la famille, Leon Marechal, renforce la rivalite des deux freres, opposes physiquement et moralement. Un soupcon nait chez Pierre: et si Jean etait le fils de Marechal ? Peu a peu, il decouvrira la verite et le secret familial en fouillant dans le passe de sa mere...