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Free Download Le Coq: A Journey to the Heart of French Rugby (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVDLTDDG | 2023 | 11 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: Peter Bills
Narrator: Peter Bills
From French rugby’s origins in Le Havre, (as an English export in the late nineteenth century), to the Catalan coast, acclaimed rugby writer Peter Bills travels the length and breadth of this vast country, visiting not only the big cities but those regional heartlands of the game such as Toulouse, Bordeaux and Clermont, as well as clubs in the Basque country, to reveal a country whose deep love of rugby has created a culture and playing style like no other. Featuring exclusive interviews with many of the greatest international players to have played club rugby in France, from Jonny Wilkinson to Dan Carter, as well as French legends of the sport, from Serge Blanco and Jean-Pierre Rives to Antoine Dupont, Le Coq: A History of French rugby brings to life the passion, color, excitement, characters, anecdotes, locations and great moments of French rugby’s near 150 years of existence, just as it prepares to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Free Download Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris: Shifting Perspectives By Maria C. Scott
2005 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 0754651118 | PDF | 19 MB
Maria Scott’s study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection’s spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth century, was naturally very keenly aware of the growing dominance of the bourgeoisie in France, not least as a market for art and literature. Despite being dependent on this market for his own writing, the poet was highly critical of bourgeois values and attitudes. Scott builds on existing criticism of the collection to argue that these are indirectly mocked in Le Spleen de Paris, often in the person of the poet’s supposed textual alter ego. The contention is that the prose poems betray the trust of readers by way of an apparent transparency of meaning that functions to blind us to their embedded irony. Though focused on Le Spleen de Paris, Scott’s study engages with the full range of Baudelaire’s writings, including his art and literary criticism. Her book will be of interest not only to Baudelaire scholars but also to those engaged more generally with nineteenth-century French culture.

Free Download Catherine’s Quest by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
English | MP3@192 kbps | 40 min | 56.1 MB
Traumatised by dreams and visions about the unassuming chest under the window in her bedroom, Catherine Lestrange demands it be opened; but what is found inside has the power to change her future as well as her reveal her past.