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This collection is perfect for fans of psychological mysteries like Agatha Christie or Simenon, but with a French poetic touch.
Flipping through old Italian chronicles, Stendhal finds motifs for a series of his novels in which he depicts the passions of the Middle Ages and the unrestrained madness of the Renaissance.
In The Silk Trap, Françoise Sagan depicts a love trap woven from passion, irony, and self-deception. Adrian, a cynical writer, is caught between success, boredom, and an elusive woman who changes his perspective on life.
In his novels Eugenie Grandet (1833) and The Museum of Antiquities (1837), Balzac explores universal themes of greed, human passions, sacrifice, and moral dilemmas, placing them in different social contexts of 19th-century French society.
In 1506, Michelangelo Buonarroti was invited by Sultan Bayezid II to design a bridge across the Golden Horn in Constantinople. Furious at Pope Julius II who had humiliated him and refused to pay, Michelangelo left Rome and arrived by ship in Constantinopl