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  • Many heart  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    JC Ruffin was able to make us human, a historical character that we knew little of which we knew very little. thanks to a precise and smooth writing, we men of the twenty-first century come to put ourselves in the head of this man living in the middl
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  • Longuet ...  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    Difficult to add anything to the already numerous comments. Personally, if all the start I was interested I started getting bored from mating (assumed from the afterword) between Agnès Sorel and Jacques Coeur and I struggled to finish this book. For
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  • A Coeur open! 1  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    Jean-Christophe Rufin (1952-) is a physician, historian, globe trotter, French writer and diplomat. Former chairman of Action against Hunger, it was France's ambassador to Senegal and Gambia. In 2001, he won the Prix Goncourt with "Brazil Red" a
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  • Difficult to finish this book ...  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    I just finished the books of Simone Bertiere on the 16th and 17th century, and my delight and enthusiasm for these works made me buy "Le Grand Coeur" by Jean-Christophe Ruffin. What a disappointment, no comparison with the psychological subtlety
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  • A good book and a good Ruffin!  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    Wonderful story of the life of Jacques Heart. Told in the first person, the novel gives a good picture of the time of Charles VII and switching between the age of chivalry and the Renaissance, with the reception of foreign artists and goods from afar
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  • Exciting! 42  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    Small precision: it was my first Ruffin ... Conclusion: it made me want to read more. Indeed, this is a novel that kept me awake for both adventure story for the historical picture and the interior monologue of Jacques Coeur. This period of transitio
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  • A disguised test novel  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    My opinion may detonate in the chorus of praise, but I do not share the rave reviews that have been made about this novel. Although I am coming to end, I got bored farm. Certainly the life of Jacques Coeur deserves to be better known, but his moods -
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  • The beautiful stuff that dreams are made  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    What posterity has retained Jacques Heart (1400-1456)? The image of a man of power, of an ambitious financier, such Fouquet early, fell from above, a victim of its arrogant munificence which King Charles VII took umbrage. And legacy, this magnificent
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  • A ROMAN HISTORY WHO IS ALSO A BIG BIG TIME WRITING A REAL SUCCESS  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    The story of Jacques Caeur is that of ambiguity, that of the late Middle Ages, and that of the early Renaissance, that of discovery that will diminish the role of France. The financial strength that will allow the unity of the kingdom, which will ass
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  • Medieval Tycoon!  

    The big Heart (Paperback)
    Here we are plunged at the end of the Middle Ages, when the world switches to the Renaissance. War men and nobles lose power with wise "bourgeois", financiers and merchants. Jacques Coeur was the greatest among those! The East loses its "st
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