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A very good review of the book The War Staged. Theatre and Conflicts in 17th Century Italy has appeared on the website of the SIES (Society of Italianists in Higher Education).

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La vie chameleon, the magnificent work by Hélène Waldaut-Treilles, was presented at the "Critical Mass" operation organized in the spring by Babélio. Among the unanimously complimentary reviews, here is one that caught our attention: "What a lesson – a living one – in History! I learned a lot, I thought, too. I laughed – at least at the beginning – and I shuddered more than once. It is no small thing to say that I truly appreciated these memoirs of a German woman! Her lively style, full of anecdotes, each more piquant than the last, and some even abominable, the...

In 1943, somewhere in eastern France. Young Carl learns from Father de Larnes, the director of the school where he is a boarder, that both his parents died in a bombing. He then decides to join his good friend Henri Volane in Algiers, where he has gone to find refuge with his father. But the trip to North Africa does not go as planned. Carl must hide in the open countryside with young STO draft dodgers but, to overcome the boredom that is eating away at him, he decides to make himself useful and participates in an act of resistance....

Chemins de tr@verse editions are now participating in Babélio's Masse critique operation, by submitting works for reader criticism. Antoine Cantenot's book, Incalculable , received the following review, which we would like to share, as it sums up this unclassifiable and fascinating book so well. "When I asked to be selected to read this book during the last Critical Mass operation, I didn't really know what to expect. The back cover had aroused my curiosity, but I wondered what was behind all these enigmatic questions and what would be the main theme of the book: scientific, historical, philosophical, religious? After reading...