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Les turbulences d'une grande famille
Comment le krach de l'Union générale, à Paris, en 1882, ruina des milliers de petits porteurs et enrichit à millions l'industriel Jules Lebaudy. Comment sa femme, Amicie, ne se remit jamais de ce "fabuleux coup de Bourse"... Comment, à la mort du scandaleux bénéficiaire de l'opération, Amicie, qui l'avait pris en haine, se trouva, avec ses enfants, à la tête d'une des plus grosses fortunes de France et se transforma, par horreur de l'argent, en fausse pauvresse et en philanthrope despotique... Comment ses fils, la bride sur le cou, se lancèrent dans les plus folles aventures jusqu'à vouloir, l'un, conquérir le ciel avec des dirigeables et, l'autre, régner en empereur sur les sables du Sahara...
Ce sont ces turbulences d'une grande famille qu'Henri Troyat évoque dans une biographie multiforme et atypique dont les péripéties tiennent à la fois du roman picaresque, de l'étude psychologique et du document d'histoire contemporaine.
Ce sont ces turbulences d'une grande famille qu'Henri Troyat évoque dans une biographie multiforme et atypique dont les péripéties tiennent à la fois du roman picaresque, de l'étude psychologique et du document d'histoire contemporaine.
280 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 1999
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Henri Troyat
508 books271 followersTroyat was a French author, biographer, historian and novelist.
Troyat was born Levon Aslan Torossian in Moscow to parents of Armenian descent. His family fled Russia in anticipation of the revolution. After a long exodus taking them to the Caucasus on to Crimea and later by sea to Constantinople and then Venice, the family finally settled in Paris in 1920, where young Troyat was schooled and later earned a law degree. The stirring and tragic events of this flight across half of Europe are vividly recounted by Troyat in 'Tant que la terre durera'.
Troyat received his first literary award, Le prix du roman populaire, at the age of twenty-four, and by twenty-seven, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Troyat published more than 100 books, novels and biographies, among them those of Anton Chekhov, Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Ivan the Terrible and Leo Tolstoy.
Troyat's best-known work is La neige en deuil, which was adapted as an English-language film in 1956 under the title The Mountain.
He was elected as a member of the Académie française in 1959. At the time of his death, Troyat was the longest serving member of the Academy.
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Troyat was born Levon Aslan Torossian in Moscow to parents of Armenian descent. His family fled Russia in anticipation of the revolution. After a long exodus taking them to the Caucasus on to Crimea and later by sea to Constantinople and then Venice, the family finally settled in Paris in 1920, where young Troyat was schooled and later earned a law degree. The stirring and tragic events of this flight across half of Europe are vividly recounted by Troyat in 'Tant que la terre durera'.
Troyat received his first literary award, Le prix du roman populaire, at the age of twenty-four, and by twenty-seven, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Troyat published more than 100 books, novels and biographies, among them those of Anton Chekhov, Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Ivan the Terrible and Leo Tolstoy.
Troyat's best-known work is La neige en deuil, which was adapted as an English-language film in 1956 under the title The Mountain.
He was elected as a member of the Académie française in 1959. At the time of his death, Troyat was the longest serving member of the Academy.
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