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"La Frontire" de Maurice Leblanc. crivain franais (1864-1941).

"The Frontier" from Maurice Leblanc. French novelist and writer of short stories (1864-1941).

"The Frontier" is that old idea of the conflict between the old and the new, between fathers and sons, between the intense convictions of yesterday and to-morrow. The form which Le Blanc recreates it is that of the conflict between devotion to country and devotion to that latest... Read Full Overview

Une fronti re source de nombreux conflits....des tensions entre un p re et son fils....et un v nement tragique qui survient sur la fronti re... La fronti re entre la France et l'Allemagne est ici le th tre d'un roman historique charg de suspens et de rebondissements, comme... Read Full Overview

"The Frontier" is that old idea of the conflict between the old and the new, between fathers and sons, between the intense convictions of yesterday and to-morrow. The form which Le Blanc recreates it is that of the conflict between devotion to country and devotion to that latest... Read Full Overview

The captain said, clearly, and the order was repeated to the end of the garden: "Fire as you please.... Sight at three hundred yards...."There were a few seconds of solemn waiting ... then the terrible word: "Fire "Yonder, along the barrel of his rifle, near an old oak in whose... Read Full Overview

C' tait l -bas, au bourg de Saint- lophe-la-C te, dans le modeste logis que ses parents habitaient avant le Vieux-Moulin. Interne au coll ge d' pinal, il passait au village d'enthousiastes vacances jouer ou bien courir les Vosges en compagnie de son p re - papa Trompette,... Read Full Overview

Philippe, professeur a Paris, rentre passer quelques jours de vacances chez son pere (Morestal) a la frontiere avec l'Allemagne. Philippe revoit Suzanne Jorance qui va bientot se marier, son pere est commissaire special a la frontiere. Mais un matin, le vieux Morestal et le pere... Read Full Overview

Maurice Marie ?mile Leblanc (11 December 1864 - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Ars?ne Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation... Read Full Overview

Le vieux Morestal et sa femme vivent ? la fronti?re avec l'Allemagne. Il n'a toujours pas dig?r? la d?faite de 1870 et la perte de l'Alsace, chaque incident frontalier, aussi petit soitil, est source de satisfaction, ?a va recommencer comme en 70. Aujourd'hui, il attend son fils,... Read Full Overview

"La Fronti re" est un roman de l' crivain fran ais Maurice Leblanc, publi en 1922. Maurice Leblanc est surtout connu pour avoir cr le personnage d'Ars ne Lupin, le c l bre gentleman-cambrioleur. "La Fronti re" est un roman qui traite des cons quences de la Premi re Guerre... Read Full Overview

Maurice Marie mile Leblanc (1864 -1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Ars ne Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Leblanc... Read Full Overview