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La République romaine
« J’entends raconter, dans ce livre, la première partie de l’histoire romaine : celle de son ascension à la puissance. Elle contient une suite extraordinaire de triomphes et de désastres, de faits de bravoure au combat et de bêtise dans la paix, d’intrigues sordides et d’idéalisme glorieux. Et j’entends privilégier ici les transports de la guerre et de la politique. »
352 pages, Paperback
Published November 5, 2025
About the author
Isaac Asimov
4,367 books28.3k followersWorks of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles,
The Foundation Trilogy
(1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
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March 30, 2026
J’ai toujours trouvé les livres d’histoire un peu arides. Inversement, j’aime beaucoup Asimov dont j’ai dévoré les Robots et Fondation (plusieurs fois). J’étais donc curieux de ce que pouvait donner ce géant de la SF en historien. Je ne suis pas déçu.
Bien sûr, ce n’est pas un roman, ça ne se lit pas comme tel, mais c’est un formidable ouvrage de vulgarisation. Les puristes trouveront ça sûrement simpliste, trop high level, d’autant que le livre a 60 ans et ne tient pas compte des dernières recherches. Mais pour le simple curieux que je suis, c’était parfait. 700 ans d’histoire en 350 pages, sans que ça soit une simple collection de faits, c’était une gageure.
Asimov a toujours le bon niveau de recul et permet d’avoir une bonne vue de l’ensemble de l’histoire et de donner une compréhension générale très intéressante, ce qui met en relief les différents événements en les liant non seulement chronologiquement mais aussi logiquement.
C’est érudit et simple d’accès. Vivement le mois de juin pour lire la partie sur l’Empire
Bien sûr, ce n’est pas un roman, ça ne se lit pas comme tel, mais c’est un formidable ouvrage de vulgarisation. Les puristes trouveront ça sûrement simpliste, trop high level, d’autant que le livre a 60 ans et ne tient pas compte des dernières recherches. Mais pour le simple curieux que je suis, c’était parfait. 700 ans d’histoire en 350 pages, sans que ça soit une simple collection de faits, c’était une gageure.
Asimov a toujours le bon niveau de recul et permet d’avoir une bonne vue de l’ensemble de l’histoire et de donner une compréhension générale très intéressante, ce qui met en relief les différents événements en les liant non seulement chronologiquement mais aussi logiquement.
C’est érudit et simple d’accès. Vivement le mois de juin pour lire la partie sur l’Empire
February 26, 2026
excellent. permet de mieux comprendre l'évolution de la société romaine de la République a l'Empire
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