#pierre pevel

[maddiesbookshelves]

Fav books of 2024 (in no particular order and including only one re-read that I had actually never finished so it doesn't count, shush)

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Gueule-de-cuir, tome 1

Aujourd'hui sur Blog à part – Gueule-de-cuir, tome 1 Paris, 1633: son roi, son cardinal, ses mousquetaires, ses duellistes. Et, dans l’univers de la bande dessinée Gueule-de-cuir, son Zodiaque du Diable. #BD #Fantastique #KPDP

[alma37]

Un coup de foudre! J’ai découvert cet auteur plus au moins par hasard, suite �� l’édition du Paris des Merveilles en bande dessinée, qui avait tiré mon regard dans une librairie.

Comme j’ai lu que c’était un livre avant d’être une bd, j’ai tenté le coup et je n’ai pas regretté. J’ai lu les trois tomes à la suite. Et, honnêtement, ce n’est pas assez. De mon point de vue, en tout cas. Le passé commun des deux héros, en particulier, mériterait d’être développé (oui! Je veux tout savoir!😁)

C’est vraiment une chance que Bragelonne ait réédité les deux premiers et publié le troisième. Maintenant, ça serait bien qu’on ait une suite.

Parce que les nouvelles écrites par différents auteurs sont sympathiques, mais ça ne remplace pas un vrai livre, avec nos deux héros, écrit par l’auteur original.

En attendant les deux nouveaux tomes de nouvelles, et à défaut d’un roman entier, je relis les trois romans.

Et je croise les doigts jusqu’à avoir des crampes. 🤞🤞🤞🤞 😁

Le Paris des Merveilles T1 – Les Enchantements d’Ambremer de Pierre Pevel

🔥AVIS 🔥J'ai lu le premier tome du Paris des Merveilles de Pierre Pevel et voici ce que j'en pense : ⤵️

Je connais Pierre Pevel depuis des années, des ami. e. s l’ont lu, l’ont encensé et… malgré ma curiosité et mon envie, je n’avais jamais vraiment pris la peine d’ouvrir l’un de ses romans ! J’admets avoir profité de la réédition dans cette nouvelle version pour lire (enfin) ce « fameux Paris des Merveilles ». Son résumé : Mon avis : Eh bien… Waouh ! Je me suis régalée et c’est un magnifique…

[darrynnsfrancelitblog]

10 interesting fiction French books

The perfect nanny by leila slimani -French-Moroccan lawyer Myriam is returning to work after having children. When Louise comes into her life, she thinks they’re incredibly lucky — she’s the perfect nanny, cleaning their Paris apartment, devoted to the children, staying late, and working extra hard. But from page one, you know something that Myriam does not: Louise will end up killing the two children in her care. The unraveling of the story is dark and reveals the dehumanization, class struggle, and power dynamics that are part of how rich parents treat those who work for them. Slimani is a writer to watch, and this mystery/thriller won a slew of awards

A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos- A Winter's Promise takes place after a world altering event called the Rupture, when Earth shattered into pieces, leaving clumps of isolated floating islands called arks. Ophelia is a young girl who lives on an ark called Anima, where she is able to communicate with objects when she touches them.

The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugh-  The story centres on Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his unrequited love for the beautiful dancer La Esmeralda. Esmeralda, born Agnès, is perceived to be a French Roma girl. Sep 15, 2023

The Stranger in the Seine by Guillaume Musso-On a winter night in Paris, a young woman is pulled naked out of the Seine. She has amnesia and bears no identifying marks apart from two peculiar tattoos. She is rushed to the infirmary of Paris police headquarters, but only a few hours later, she disappears. DNA analysis reveals her identity.

The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir - Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.

The Knight by Pierre Pevel - The High Kingdom is facing its darkest hour. Its King has been weakened by illness and many are discontent with the Queen’s regency. As rebellion rumbles throughout the land, new threats are massing forces at the realm’s borders.

The Confessions of Arsene Lupin - is the world's most cunning thief—and a gentleman, to boot. His brilliant criminal mind can nab riches from even the stickiest of situations, and he's not above the occasional good deed, so long as there's reward money on the table. Baroness Repstein has vanished from Paris, and her husband's jewels have gone with her. French detectives have been left in her dust all over Europe, but Lupin has the skill to outwit both the police and criminals

Lie with me by Philippe Besson -s a bittersweet novella about the first love between two teenage boys in rural France in the 1980s. Their affair kept hidden because of the shame surrounding homosexuality at the time, begins in winter but is over by the summer

A Single rose by Muriel Barbery- a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible. Rose has just turned forty when she gets a call from a lawyer asking her to come to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father's will.

The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas -  is literary fiction about three women in the Salpêtrière Asylum in Paris, 1885. Based on a historical event; once a year the asylum hosted a ball where the bourgeois mixed with women cast out of society - goodreads-

[tounknowndestinations]

Tag 9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

@oh-the-aster-blooms my dear partner in tag game crime tagged me! it's been a while we hadn't done that, thank you my dear :) sorry it took me so long, i was busy on vacation, you know :p

Favourite colour: teal and black

Currently reading: L'elixir d'oubli - Le Paris des Merveilles tome 2 by Pierre Pevel

Last song: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - The Death Of You And Me - I can't stop listening to his songs, send help

Last series: Somewhere Between

Last movie: Oppenheimer, a masterpiece!

Sweet/savory/spicy: yes

Currently working on: my huge frame with new pics from my last travels - some kind of patchwork with a map in a middle and magnets from where I went

Tagging @roseoswiins

[beckyh2112]

Books I Have Read in the Past Six Months and Enjoyed

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Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich - Quite fun and informative. By necessity, he has to breeze over some of the popes because either a) it's so far back, we know jack and shit about them, or b) they're boring, and we need space to talk about Renaissance popes behaving badly.

(The Renaissance Catholic Church behaving badly is currently one of my major interests.)

Paladin's Grace/Paladin's Strength/Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher - I love Ursula Vernon's characters and worldbuilding, and it's delightful to return to the world of the Temple of the White Rat. She also has some of my favorite takes on paladins in fiction.

The Cardinal's Hat and Conclave 1559 by Mary Hollingsworth - Remember how I said the Renaissance Catholic Church behaving badly is one of my major interests? Allow me to introduce you to Ippolitto II d'Este, grandson of Pope Alexander VI (aka Rodrigo Borgia).

Not sure why The Cardinal's Hat isn't on bookshop.org, but you can find it elsewhere. It covers Ippolitto's early career up until shortly after he received his cardinal's hat. Conclave 1559 covers a papal election Ippolitto was a major figure in that went on for months. Both are very good reads.

Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick - Also not listed on bookshop.org for some reason. I kriffing love weird world-building, and our protagonists stumbling headlong into problems and making problems for other people while they try to figure out what's going on, and this book has both.

The Cardinal's Blades by Pierre Pevel (omnibus with the whole trilogy; caveat: I haven't read the whole trilogy yet, just the first book) - Dragons vs. Cardinal Richelieu. We focus far, far more on the people he's using to fight the dragons than the cardinal himself, which allows the writer to get in some amazing twists. None of them are forced, they just rely on us not being told everything because the character whose pov we're in hasn't been told everything.

The book does hop through multiple points-of-view, so if you're bad at keeping track of names, you may not enjoy this as much as you might otherwise.

[the-list-tm]

Things I have or want to read or watch

To further improve my personal knowledge of literature and cinema

Featuring stuff in both French and English

Code:

Status:

Unread/Unseen ❌

Read/Seen ✅

Currently reading/watching 📖

Need to restart 🔄

Language:

French 🇫🇷

English 🇬🇧

Books:

Plays:

Shakespeare's:

Hamlet 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | ❌ Le songe d’une nuit d’été 🇫🇷 | ✅ Macbeth 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | 🔄 Romeo and Juliet 🇬🇧 | ❌ Le marchand de Venise 🇫🇷 | ❌ Much Ado About Nothing 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | ❌

Molière's:

Le malade imaginaire 🇫🇷 | ✅ Le médecin malgré lui 🇫🇷 | ❌ L’Avare 🇫🇷 | ❌ Les fourberies de Scapin 🇫🇷 | ❌ Dom Juan 🇫🇷 | ✅ Les femmes savantes 🇫🇷 | ❌

Antigone, Sophocles 🇫🇷 | ❌

Œdipe à Colone, Sophocles 🇫🇷 | ❌

Antigone, Anouilh 🇫🇷 | ❌

Knock, Jules Romains 🇫🇷 | ✅

L’illusion comique, Corneille 🇫🇷 | 📖

La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu, Jean Giraudoux 🇫🇷 | ❌

Amphitryon, Jean Giraudoux 🇫🇷 | ❌

L’Apollon de Bellac, Jean Giraudoux 🇫🇷 | ❌

La Marmite, Plaute 🇫🇷 | ❌

Les Nuées, Aristophane 🇫🇷 | ❌

Les Cavaliers, Aristophane 🇫🇷 | ❌

Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand 🇫🇷 | ❌

L’aiglon, Edmond Rostand 🇫🇷 | ❌

Médée, Euripides 🇫🇷 | ❌

Médée, Corneille 🇫🇷 | ❌

Les fausses confidences, Marivaux 🇫🇷 | ❌

Andromaque, Racine 🇫🇷 | ❌

Novels:

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett 🇬🇧 | 📖

American Gods, Neil Gaiman 🇬🇧 | ❌

the Discworld books, Terry Pratchett 🇬🇧 | ❌

Dune, Franck Herbert 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | ❌

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 🇬🇧🇫🇷 | 📖✅

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen 🇬🇧🇫🇷 | ❌

Les Trois Mousquetaires, Alexandre Dumas 🇫🇷 | ❌

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 🇬🇧🇫🇷 | ❌

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 🇬🇧🇫🇷 | ❌

Dracula, Bram Stoker 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | ✅📖

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 🇬🇧🇫🇷 | ❌

Le fleuve de l’éternité, Philip José Farmer 🇫🇷 | ❌

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo 🇫🇷 | ❌

Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo 🇫🇷 | ❌

Le dernier jour d’un condamné, Victor Hugo 🇫🇷 | ❌

the Percy Jackson books, Rick Riordan 🇫🇷 | ❌

Robinson Crusoé, David Defoe 🇫🇷 | ❌

A song of Ice and Fire and following, George R.R. Martin 🇬🇧 | ❌

the Harry Potter books 🇬🇧 | 📖

Memoirs by Lady Trent, Marie Brennan 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | 📖

Livres du Paris des Merveilles, Pierre Pevel 🇫🇷 | 📖

Gargantua, Rabelais 🇫🇷 | ❌

1984, George Orwell 🇬🇧 | ❌

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 🇬🇧 | ❌

This is how you loose the time war, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 🇬🇧 | ❌

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | 🔄

Circe, Madeline Miller 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | 🔄

Call me by your name, André Aciman 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | 🔄

Le Roman de Renart 🇫🇷 | ❌

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | ❌

Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas 🇬🇧 | ❌

Short Stories:

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft 🇬🇧 | ❌

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft 🇬🇧 | ❌

Miscellaneous:

The Art of War, Sun Tzu 🇫🇷 | ❌

Inferno, Dante 🇫🇷 | ❌

TV:

Movies:

Titanic (1997) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Bohemian Raspody (2018) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Rocketman (2019) 🇬🇧 | ❌

the Twilight trilogy (2008) 🇬🇧 | ❌

the Blade Runner films (1982) 🇬🇧 | ❌

the Matrix films (1999) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Apocalypse Now (1979) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Psycho (1960) 🇬🇧 | ❌

The Lorax (2012) 🇬🇧 | ❌

the Bee Movie (2007) 🇬🇧 | ❌

the Shrek films (2001) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Princess Bride (1987) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Series:

Doctor Who (2005) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Doctor Who (1963) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Torchwood (2006) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Our Flag Means Death (2022) 🇬🇧 | 📖

What We Do In The Shadows (2019) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Friends (1994) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Hannibal (2013) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Merlin (2008) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Supernatural (2005) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Star Trek (most of them) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Musicals:

Nerdy Prudes Must Die (2023) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Starmania (1979) 🇫🇷 | ❌

Legally Blonde (2007) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Epic, the musical (2021) 🇬🇧 | ❌

Plays:

Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors 🇬🇧 | ❌

[ellanainthetardis]

Les Lames du Cardinal by Pierre Pevel My rating: 3 of 5 stars Je suis un peu déçue, ayant adoré le Paris des Merveilles. Le récit était très décousu, encore que je m'y attendais vu que c'est un peu le style de l'auteur, mais là comme on suit plusieurs personnages, ça donnait vraiment des longueurs désagréables. Sans parler des répétitions et des leçons d'histoire qui arrivaient parfois comme un cheveu sur la soupe. Les personnages sont sympathiques mais peu fouillés de sorte que je ne me suis pas vraiment attachée. C'est aussi une chose propre à l'auteur mais les révélations après coup en mode "tadaa" qui relève du dit et pas montré sont un peu faciles. Au final je sors mitigée de ce premier tome mais je lirais peut-être la suite à l'occasion. View all my reviews

[saemi-the-dreamer]

Top 10 favorite books of any genre

Thanks for the tag, @calimera62 ^^

Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama. This series means a lot to me, I grew up both reading the manga and watching the anime, and even today I love this story wholeheartedly and I'm sad that people forget that "Dragon Ball Z" is only part of it.

Gaston Lagaffe, Franquin. This comic series never fails to make me laugh!

Karekano, Masami Tsuda. One of my all-time favourite shoujo manga; if Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon remind me of my childhood, then Karekano reminds me of my teenage years in a good way. It's a good mix of comedy and emotions, the whole cast is very endearing and lovely to follow, it made me cry and laugh so much, and just remembering some part of it makes my heart warm. Not perfect of course, but still an excellent read!

Worlds of Ewilan, Pierre Bottero. It's a story told in three trilogies (haha), and they are all wonderful! I picked this cover because it must be the book that I love the most. The world created by Pierre Bottero is amazing, and he really had (sob) a way to write group of people travelling, getting to know each other and bond; so when a character dies, you really feel the pain with everyone else TT_TT

Wonder Paris, Pierre Pevel. A story written by one of the best French fantasy writers (in my humble opinion!), I remember how the bookseller of my fav bookshop back then rushed to me when it was edited again, telling me "This is a series you are going to love! It's just what you asked me a while ago!" and he was so right! A story set in Paris that is a gateway to the Fairies World, with tons of magical creatures now living on Earth, mystery, action, humour and great characters? I recommend it!

The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton. A wonderful surprise, I was afraid it might be a horror book of a style I might not like, and I don't regret buying it! The historical aspect of the story is great, and I love the heroine's development!

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson. If you take a look at my fanfics, my blog and my writing side blog, you might not be very surprised XD I just love this story.

Beauté, Hubert & Kerascoët. An adult fairytale where a poor girl's wish gets her into a chaotic spiral! Love the heroine's character development, the world-building and the lore!

Chewing gum and Spaghetti, Exbrayat. I am sad so few people know about Exbrayat, he's such a great writer! And this book is my favourite so far. Send a rigid American inspector in Verone of all towns in Italy, team him up with an eccentric, romantic but competent Italian inspector, and you have this! A ton of fun XD

The Chronicles of Prydain, Lloyd Alexander. Another fantasy series (yeah I love them), it's one of the best coming-of-age I've read.

Tagging: @notmoreflippingelves ; @twinklecupcake ; @chlogummy

@pharry ; @mazhenfang ; @anuy-chan and anyone who wants to do it :D

Top 10 favourite books of any genre

There’s likely one of these already circulating somewhere but I’ve not seen one yet so I thought I’d start one.

Tagging (no pressure whatsoever): @richardsthirdnipple, @mejcinta, @bohemian-nights, @mercedesdecorazon, @gwenllian-in-the-abbey, @aifsaath, @dangerouswinnercandy, @daylander1000

[cuillere]

So here's a little thing I wrote for the Cardinal's Blades. I have never found anything written for it but I'm absolutely in love with these stories and this universe :) It turned out way softer than intended, but that's good too! 247 words

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Saint Lucq enters the room where she is reading. She lifts her head slowly as her eyes trail on the page for as long as they can and he can��t help the corner of his mouth lifting at that. When she meets his eyes, she answers his smile in a radiant way. Her enthusiasm in everything she does is very endearing, but Saint Lucq is especially moved when she’s smiling at him like that. Saint Lucq takes the few steps separating them and grabs the hand that has just put the book away. He lifts it gently to his mouth without breaking the gaze they’re sharing. And as his cold lips touch her skin, he can hear her low and steady exhale. As he peppers her hand with kisses, she reaches with her other hand to take away his hat, and then undo the clasp of his cloak. He stops as she reaches for his glasses, her hand floating mid-air as she awaits for his consent. He nods shortly and she gently takes his all-time protection away from his eyes. Suddenly all is a bit green and the loss of this barrier gives him shivers. Maybe she felt them, or maybe she just knows how delicate this is for him. Either way, she squeezes reassuringly his hands and St Lucq feels a wave of warm gratitude for her. One of his hands lifts to brush her jawline and her smile brings another wave of warmth to him.

[citations-en-vrac]

La mémoire est un ciment solide. Si solide et durable que la nostalgie survit parfois longtemps à l'amitié. Elle peut même s'y substituer et nous tromper. Combien de fois nous sommes-nous aperçus trop tard que rien ne nous attachait désormais à tel ou telle, sinon le souvenir d'une époque évanouie ? Quand cette idée frappe, douloureuse, le temps paraît faire un bond et nous nous découvrons subitement face à un étranger que les hardes des sentiments ont cessé de déguiser. Cela, plus que les ans, fait que l'on vieillit. L'âge est le catalogue de nos désenchantements intimes.

Les Enchantements d’Ambremer - Le Paris des Merveilles tome 1 - Pierre Pevel

[maddiesbookshelves]

25 books for 2025

Thanks for the tag @agardenandlibrary ☺️

Honestly, I just want my physical TBR to go down, but there are some books I really want to read before the others. Although I didn't really put them in any kind of order here

Le Paris des merveilles #2, Pierre Pevel (and #3 I guess)

Blackwater, Michael McDowell (the whole series, really)

A dowry of blood, S. T. Gibson

All these sunken souls, anthology (mostly for Joel Rochester aka fictionalfates)

Nettle and bone, T. Kingfisher

These violent delights, Chloe Gong (from my advent calendar)

The dark days club, Alison Goodman (also from my advent calendar)

The ballad of songbirds and snakes, Suzanne Collins

Camp damascus, Chuck Tingle

The locked tomb #1, Tamsyn Muir

Reread The ruin of kings #1, Jenn Lyons (so I can do the whole series)

Reread Iron Widow (Xiran Jay Zhao) so I can read Heavenly tyrant

Dr. Greta Helsing #4, Vivian Shaw (coming out this year)

Le jour du caillou, Véro Cazot (story) & Anaïs Flogny (illustrations) (it's a graphic novel)

The jasmine throne, Tasha Suri (and then read the whole trilogy if I like it)

Before the coffee gets cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Pageboy, Elliot Page

Coraline, Neil Gaiman & illustrated by Aurélie Neyret

He who drowned the world, Shelley Parker-Chan (I need a refresh but I don't have the strength to reread book 1)

Any of the Jules Verne I own, honestly. At least one

Nous, Christelle Dabos

Any of the 2 Osemanverse books I still have to read, so either I was born for this or Radio silence (Alice Oseman)

The priory of the orange tree, Samantha Shannon (one day I'll finally read it)

Ariadne, Jennifer Saint

The sunbearer trials, Aiden Thomas

Tagging some people but feel free to participate if you want!

@profiterole-reads @therefugeofbooks @cleopatras-library

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Le Paris des Merveilles: Les Enchantements d’Ambremer, tome 2

Aujourd'hui sur Blog à part – Le Paris des Merveilles Les Enchantements d'Ambremer, tome 2 Un mage, une aventurière et ses acolytes plus ou moins truands, des artefacts disparus. C'est le deuxième tome des Enchantements d’Ambremer. #bd #steampunk

[sous-le-saule]

Inktober 2019 #12 “Dragon” (& “The Cardinal’s Blades” by Pierre Pevel) 

(Based on a portrait of Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne and an illustration by Rolland Barthélémy)  

[antonomase]

Aaah, Pierre Pevel et ses savoureuses descriptions de personnages féminins.

(Ce n'est pas le premier exemple que je croise. Notez que je préfère ne pas m'énerver pour l'instant.)

[iamblosewriter-blog]

Hi everybody!😊

I'm starting to read this book. I always prefer to read romances or thrillers. But I saw this one, and I decided to buy it, maybe because of the fantasy picture or because of the colors it has, I don't know. So, I give you a small introduction and I will give you my critical feedback when I'll finish it.

Le Paris des merveilles (French version)

Les enchantements d'Ambremer (T. 1/3)

Steampunk

Written by PIERRE PEVEL

French intro: Les messieurs ont de fières moustaches, des chapeaux melons ; les dames portent des corsets, des jupons, des bottines à boutons. Déjà, de rutilants tacots pétardent parmi les fiacres le long des Grands Boulevards aux immeubles haussmanniens. Mais ce n’est pas le Paris de la Belle Époque tel que nous l’entendons : la tour Eiffel est en bois blanc, les sirènes ont investi la Seine, les farfadets, le bois de Vincennes, des chats-ailés discutent philosophie et une ligne de métro permet de rejoindre le pays des fées. Occupé à enquêter sur un trafic d’objets enchantés, Louis Denizart Hippolyte Griffont, mage du Cercle Cyan, se retrouve mêlé à une série de meurtres. Confronté à des gargouilles immortelles et à un puissant sorcier, Griffont n’a d’autre choix que de s’associer à Isabel de Saint-Gil, une fée renégate que le mage ne connaît que trop bien…

Have a GOOD READING 📖!!