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Une fois que la Première Guerre Mondiale fut terminée, des français — presque tous des héros de la République française — prirent part à un équipage de gens que l'on croyait morts lors d'un accident aérien, alors qu'ils effectuaient le premier vol de longue distance à bord de l'avion géant Farman " Goliath " depuis Paris jusqu'à Dakar. Ils s'étaient alors perdus dans le désert du Sahara, sans nourriture et sans eau.Ils étaient restés presque deux ans à Cuba, et l'endroit le plus important durant leur séjour sur le territoire cubain avait été l'aérodrome de Columbia de La Havane, lequel était devenu une vraie foire aéronautique à cause de la présence des aviateurs français. Pour ces français, après les batailles de la Première Guerre Mondiale et le vol d'épreuve du " Goliath " vers Dakar, tous ces événements étaient produits sans aucun repos. Leur séjour à Cuba était comme une aventure, laquelle avait eu lieu dans une atmosphère relaxante et chaleureuse, pleine… Read More

Little is known about Adam Dollard (referred to as Daulac on his death certificate) except that he came to New France in 1658 under mysterious circumstances and had a military background in France.Adam Dollard in the spring of 1660, assumed the leadership of an expedition to the Ottawa River. Along with 17 young French companions left Ville-Marie (Montreal) to deter an army of 800 Iroquois who were intent on invading Quebec and Montreal later that year to remove the French from their hunting grounds once and for all.These young Frenchmen set up camp at the foot of the Long Sault (rapids) along the Ottawa River and were joined eventually by 40 Huron's and 4 Algonquin's who were sworn enemies of the Iroquois.Scarcely had they had time to put an old abandon fort in shape when 300 Iroquois burst forth along the river. They were the advance-guard of the 800 Iroquois forming at the mouth of the Richelieu on the St. Lawrence.Fighting ensued and the Iroquois were driven back several times with severe losses.… Read More

Jahangir was the fourth Moghul emperor of India. His empress Nur Jahan literally ruled the empire. Most of the gardens still intact in Kashmir were designed by her and built by her orders. Kashmir's beautiful palaces and gardens became a haven for the royal couple away from court intrigues in India. Before his death Jahangir wrote in his journal:'All is vain, fleeting and perishable. In the twinkling of an eye we shall see the enchantress fate who enslaves the world and its votaries. Seizes the throat of another and another victim. And so exposed is man to be trodden down by the calamities of life that one can almost be persuaded to affirm that he never had existed. This world the end of which is destined to be miserable can scarcely be worth the risk of so much useless violence.'ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Farzana Moon is a historian and a playwright. All of her scholarly books on Moghul History are accepted to be adapted for documentaries. She has Masters in Education and well versed in Moghul History and… Read More

This narrative, which is entirely fictional, takes place in a real historical context: that of the Holy Roman Empire, at the beginning of the thirteenth century. At that time, the empire was torn by incessant civil wars, which were fought between two rival clans over the right to rule.Godefroy of Lanicey, known as "Godefroy the Cruel," remarried, taking for his bride Isadora of Willeim. She gave birth to Guillaume, his second son. Godefroy's son, Quentin—who had left his father three years earlier, because they both loved the same woman, who was then murdered—returned to the Lanicey fortress in 1201. He waged war alongside Othon of Brunswick, while his father supported the rival clan. But his character was beginning to assert himself, and he was behaving more and more like his father. He became powerful, full of himself, and terribly resentful.Following two prior adventures about the fortress's inhabitants—which pertain to Godefroy and his son—Quentin embarks for the Fourth Crusade, in the… Read More

Ce livre fait suite à " Godefroy-Le-Cruel " et " Quentin-Le-Rebel ", déjà publiés par les Editions Dédicaces, et termine cette histoire médiévale qui se déroule sous l'Empire Romain Germanique. L'auteur a tenté de respecter les mÅ“urs plutôt dures de cette époque.Quentin a quitté son père avec son épouse, car ils ont été chassés par lui. Après avoir assassiné son ex-ami, il doit se cacher dans différents châteaux. Puis il se réconcilie avec son père. Ensuite il s'installe dans son propre château, mais il est arrêté puis emprisonné car il est dénoncé par Ulric.Une fois libéré, il retourne vivre chez son père, à Lanicey, et ils s'entendent enfin bien tous les deux. Ulric manipule Godefroy car celui-ci est devenu moins cruel avec l'âge et il a une entière confiance en son serviteur. Mais Ulric est un traître et un pervers...À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR :Née à Besançon, Opaline Allandet réside toujours dans cette ville. Attirée par les sciences humaines, elle a obtenu un… Read More