French Terror

Six victimes en douze mois. Des prostituées sont retrouvées sans vie sur la voie ferrée où passe le West Coast Express. Un tueur en série rôde et sème la terreur à Vancouver dans le Downtown Eastside, l’un des quartiers les plus pauvres et les plus criminalisés en Amérique.

Les élèves de la classe de Jacob avaient très hâte à cette soirée de jeux de société à l’école, mais ils ignoraient qu’une tempête les garderait enfermés dans le bâtiment ! Bientôt, les faits troublants s’accumulent : est-ce un hasard si toutes les communications ont été coupées ? Où est passée l’enseignante, madame Patricia ? Quelle est cette ombre qui se promène dans les couloirs ? Est-ce un farceur qui s’amuse à les effrayerou une personne mal intentionnée ? De quel danger la mère de Jacob essaie-t-elle de les protéger ?

Jacob devrait être heureux de passer davantage de temps chez son père musicien... Mais il doute qu'il ait beaucoup de plaisir sans sa mère enquêteuse et sans mystère à résoudre. À sa grande surprise, la musique classique n'est pas aussi ennuyante qu'il le croyait! Entre des instruments qui subissent d'étranges bris, un fantôme flûtiste et des créateurs de jeux vidéos curieux, il en a vite plein les bras! Heureusement qu'il peut encore une fois compter sur Axel et Marie-Maxime pour mener l'enquête à ses côtés.

Dans un coin de la cour d’école, un grand cordon jaune, comme celui qui délimite une scène de crime, a été installé entre les arbres. Dans cette zone désormais interdite, un trou a été creusé puis rempli de terre à nouveau et couvert de fougères déracinées. Mais pourquoi ? Se peut-il qu’un cadavre y soit enterré ? Des vers de terre géants seraient-ils en train d’envahir la clairière de la cour ? Ou peut-être s’agit-il du lit d’un zombie ?... Tout comme les autres élèves, Jacob et ses amis Axel et Marie-Maxime élaborent des hypothèses farfelues.

Les hurlements terrifiés de Jimmy et Flavien en pleine classe n'inquiètent d'abord pas Jacob. Il n'est pas comme sa mère, une excentrique enquêteuse qui voit des drames et des mystères partout. Mais les deux élèves blagueurs sont-ils de si bons acteurs? Quand d'autres personnes sont victimes de ces mêmes crises de frayeur, Jacob ne peut plus faire comme si tout était normal. Quelle est la cause de ces terreurs? Une série télévisée de zombis? Le fantôme d'un ancien concierge? Son enseignante madame Patricia?

Passer dix jours dans une auberge au bord d'un lac est peut-être le rêve de certains, mais pas celui de Jacob et sa mère ! Ils ne voient pas comment ils pourront survivre loin des amis et d'Internet. Heureusement, plusieurs légendes fantastiques font du village de Lac-aux-Galets un endroit hors de l'ordinaire.

Le célèbre chanteur Pierre-Simon Beaupré est désespéré: sa chienne Wilhelma a été volée alors qu'elle se trouvait à la clinique vétérinaire. Jacob et Marie-Maxime sont heureux d'avoir un nouveau mystère à éclaircir. Ils se rendent vite compte que quelque chose ne tourne pas rond à la Clinique Doodle. Que se passe-t-il vraiment? Bouton, le chien d'Axel, est-il aussi en danger? En commençant cette enquête, Jacob et Marie-Maxime ignorent jusqu'où ils devront aller pour trouver des pistes....

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? 

The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, ushered in the French Revolution. Within four years, the king was executed and a revolutionary tribunal was established to judge "enemies of the people." The property of nobles was seized and "enemies" tried and sent to the guillotine. Harry Sandwith, a companion of a French family, wins their confidence and becomes the protector of the three daughters. After the girls are condemned to death in the coffin-ships, Harry saves the girls and the gets them safely to England.

The editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica are pleased to present The French Revolution Series. Here you will learn about the grandeur and opulence of the French régime, as well as its chaotic downfall and the new order that rose from its ashes. In this edition, the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica examine the key events of the French Revolution that lead to the Reign of Terror.

A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation. The advent of the French...

With Sido safely in England and the Terror at it's height, Yann returns to France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But when Sido is kidnapped, he must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil Count Kalliovski, and rescue her for a second...

With Sido safely in England and the Terror at it's height, Yann returns to France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But when Sido is kidnapped, he must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil Count Kalliovski, and rescue her for a second...

When Tristan Chevalier joined the French revolutionaries to fight for brotherhood, equality, and liberty, he was full of hopes and dreams of what the revolution could accomplish. But after several years of serving as the bloodthirsty Robespierre's second, Tristan is having doubts. When Tristan tries to halt Robespierre's Reign of Terror, he inadvertently steps into a trap laid by the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel and orchestrated by the lovely Alexandra Martin.

After her late husband leaves her in debt to some dangerous people, Lady Gabrielle McCullough is forced to become a thief. In the intervening years, her skills have not gone unnoticed. After being recruited by the Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious do-gooder spiriting aristocrats out of revolutionary France, Gabrielle crosses the Channel for the most daring mission of her life. Accompanying her is the Earl of Sedgwick, a thief in his own right and an enticingly masculine presence. The man is not to be trusted - nor is Gabrielle's body when he's near.  

Honoria Blake knows she must have had a moment of madness when she accepted a summons by the Scarlet Pimpernel to travel to revolutionary Paris and help his League. She's an expert forger, but the violence of the Reign of Terror has her longing for her quiet, unobtrusive life in London. Then a bloody man staggers to the door of the house where she's hiding, claiming he was sent by the Pimpernel. Recently escaped from La Force prison, the former Marquis de Montagne is sinfully handsome and charming. He's also desperate enough to kidnap Honoria. So much for her return to the quiet life.

Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis. After various adventures he accompanies the family to Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Imprisonment and death reduce their number, and Harry finds himself beset by perils with the three young daughters of the house in his charge. After narrow escapes they reach Nantes. There the girls are condemned to death in the coffin ships, but are saved by the unfailing courage of their young protector.

The editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica are pleased to present the world of Marie-Antoinette and the French Revolution - from the grandeur and opulence of the French régime to its chaotic downfall and the new order that rose from its ashes. Here you will learn about the extravagant history of the royal Palace of Versailles with its Hall of Mirrors and extensive gardens, and the lavish court style of Louis XVI.

A rich and sweeping novel of courage, duty, sacrifice, and love set during the French Revolution from New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki and her brother Owen Pataki Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with revolution. The citizens of...

In this audiobook, read by Paul Spera, each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.