A great author and short stories exciting ideas

We learn a lot in this book. On characters encountered little or no in our history books and their sometimes happy love, sometimes dramatic. The tone is rather loose and does not pay in the tragic despite the title. Fortunately .. one is not there to weep over the fate of the whole world that we lived before and will live after us .. The book is fun, informative, sometimes funny. As in any Castelot André: one learns and no spring there without thinking. I like ***