Project Gutenberg 2005-03-09 Public domain in the USA. 91 Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe 1814 1841 Aubert de Gaspe, Philippe Gaspé, Philippe Aubert de De Gaspé, Philippe Aubert L'influence d'un livre: Roman historique Reading ease score: 73.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. This text was adapted from that found at the Bibliothèque virtuelle. http://www.fsj.ualberta.ca/biblio/default.htm Thank you to Donald Ipperciel and the Faculté Saint-Jean (University of Alberta) for making it available. "L'influence d'un livre: Roman historique" by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé is a historical novel written in the early 19th century. The story likely revolves around themes related to ambition, knowledge, and perhaps the consequences of one's actions within a historical context. The primary characters introduced include Charles Amand, an alchemist obsessed with the pursuit of gold, and his hesitant companion, Dupont, who is drawn into Amand's dangerous schemes. The opening of the novel introduces us to a dimly lit cabin on the southern bank of the Saint-Laurent River, where Charles Amand labors tirelessly in the hope of achieving alchemical success. Despite his efforts to transmute base metals into gold, he is met with frustration and failure. As Amand prepares for a fateful meeting with his friend Dupont, who grapples with uncertainty about their morally dubious plans, the tension between ambition and conscience is established. Amand, infused with a sense of desperation and determination, dreams of future success, while Dupont's reluctance foreshadows the conflict that lies ahead in their quest for wealth and power. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr French-Canadian fiction PQ Text Canada FR Littérature Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 188150 188151 2024-10-07T04:58:14.814024 2023-09-07T06:47:35.248806 text/html text/html 182174 2020-12-14T06:56:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 70780 2020-12-14T06:56:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 155209 2024-10-07T04:58:21.560998 application/epub+zip 157206 2024-10-07T04:58:18.185978 application/epub+zip 137425 2024-10-07T04:58:16.933972 application/epub+zip 327056 2024-10-07T04:58:24.093993 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 320049 2024-10-07T04:58:20.774015 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 225009 2022-09-07T21:04:10.463094 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 176014 175771 2024-10-07T04:58:14.285034 2023-09-07T06:47:34.902788 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 171960 2020-12-14T06:56:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 68931 2020-12-14T06:56:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20655 2024-10-07T04:58:24.218959 application/rdf+xml 16922 2024-10-07T04:58:17.481973 image/jpeg 3857 2024-10-07T04:58:17.204986 image/jpeg 155309 2024-10-07T04:58:14.832991 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia