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Tout va pour le mieux entre les deux frères, jusqu'à la mort de Léon Maréchal, un vieil ami de la famille. En effet, pourquoi donc a-t-il légué toute sa fortune à Jean et rien à Pierre ?

A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal at that other little animal which had suddenly come to lie in his father's and mother's arms and to be loved and fondled by them.

Pierre Glendinning is the 19-year-old heir to the manor at Saddle Meadows in upstate New York. Engaged to the blonde Lucy Tartan in a match approved by his domineering mother, Pierre encounters the dark and mysterious Isabel Banford, who claims to be his half sister, the illegitimate and orphaned child of his father and a European refugee. Driven by his magnetic attraction to Isabel, Pierre devises a remarkable scheme to preserve his father's name, spare his mother's grief, and give Isabel her share of the estate.

The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy. But when a lawyer arrives at the house of their parents, to declare that an old family friend has bequeathed his entire fortune to Jean, this envy rapidly becomes an all-consuming force. Despising himself for the hate that he feels, Pierre roams the seaport of Le Havre alone, desperate to come to terms with his brother's success.

The Cid, written by Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), is one the greatest theater plays from France (Le Cid). Recorded for the first time in English language, this Studio Cast Album Recording stars David Serero as Don Rodrigo, in his own adaptation.

First published in 1888 in France, this novel is usually considered Maupassant's best. It is a piercing study of jealousy and suspicion. Pierre and Jean are the sons of a retired Parisian jeweler, M. Roland, living at Le Havre. Pierre is a doctor, whose temperament is somewhat nervous and unsteady. Jean, the younger, has a placid nature and is a lawyer. Both love the widowed young Mme. Rosemilly, who seems to prefer Jean. When Jean inherits a fortune from M. Marechal...

Die Brüder Pierre und Jean könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Während Jean, der Ältere, sich grüblerisch und verschlossen gibt, ist der Jüngere lebensfroh und zugewandt. Eines Tages erbt Jean das Vermögen eines Freundes der Familie und Pierre wird misstrauisch. Was steckt hinter dieser Erbschaft? Getrieben von Eifersucht und Missgunst deckt Pierre ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis seiner Mutter auf: Jean hat einen anderen Vater als Pierre.

Initially dismissed as "a dead failure" and "a bad book," and declined by Melville's British publisher, "Pierre" has since struck critics as modern in its psychological probings and literary technique fit, as Carl Van Vechten said in 1922, to be ranked with "The Golden Bowl", "Women in Love", and "Ulysses". None of Melville's other "secondary" works has so regularly been acknowledged by its most thorough critics as a work of genuine grandeur, however flawed.

Camille, fille de Monsieur et Madame des Arcis, est une très belle enfant. Cependant, elle est née sourde, au grand désespoir de ses parents, et surtout de son père. Par un malheureux hasard, Madame des Arcis meurt noyée et la petite Camille est recueillie par son oncle. Son père refuse de voir celle qui est la cause de tant de chagrins. Grâce à la bienveillance de son oncle, Camille va rencontrer Pierre, sourd lui aussi.

Lorsqu'il édita ces Mémoires olympiques, Pierre de Coubertin avait 69 ans en 1931. Ce livre est particulièrement utile pour comprendre l'Esprit des Jeux Olympiques de l'ère moderne tels qu'ils ont été recréés sous l'impulsion de Pierre de Coubertin. Car Pierre de Coubertin dut batailler ferme avant de pouvoir imposer son œuvre qui s'inscrit dans un contexte politique précis dont on retrouve la trace dans son récit.

"La chèvre de monsieur Seguin", extrait des "Lettres de mon moulin" d'Alphonse Daudet ; "Pierre et le Loup", conte musical pour enfants de Serge Prokifiev, orchestre sous la direction d'Albert Wolff.

Le colonel Armand de Kergaz est assassiné par le capitaine Felipone, qu'il pensait être son ami. Celui-ci convoite sa veuve et sa fortune. Il aura les deux. Ce crime inaugural est à l'origine de la lutte à mort que vont se livrer quelques années plus tard, Armand, fils du colonel assassiné, et Andrea, fils de Felipone, l'usurpateur. Sous le nom de Sir William, Andrea ne recule devant aucun procédé abject pour parvenir à ses fins. Il s'attache les services du redoutable Colard et de la flamboyante Baccarat. L'honnête Armand semble bien démuni face à de tels adversaires.