Thank you for giving this review - I had forgotten the name of the author and series.
Tom Send a noteboard - 13/12/2010 09:29:59 PM
I have wanted to read this series since I heard about it from a friend several years ago, but he didn't remember the author's name and he was reading them in Russian so it DIDN'T HELP much.
FYI, Philip is usually referred to as "Philip the Fair" in English. It leads to some confusion as people aren't clear at first if they mean fair-looking or fair-dealing. When they find out what he did to the Templars they usually realize it has to be the former.
I will read it after I finish some other French books that I've got in my short "to read" list (almost done with Le Rouge et Le Noir - my reading speed in French is increasing dramatically and my next book will likely be La Peste, but don't quote me on that).
FYI, Philip is usually referred to as "Philip the Fair" in English. It leads to some confusion as people aren't clear at first if they mean fair-looking or fair-dealing. When they find out what he did to the Templars they usually realize it has to be the former.
I will read it after I finish some other French books that I've got in my short "to read" list (almost done with Le Rouge et Le Noir - my reading speed in French is increasing dramatically and my next book will likely be La Peste, but don't quote me on that).
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Maurice Druon - The Accursed Kings
- 13/12/2010 08:19:21 PM
19678 Views
Thank you for giving this review - I had forgotten the name of the author and series.
- 13/12/2010 09:29:59 PM
2206 Views
You're welcome (and thanks for the correction, edited).
- 13/12/2010 10:23:55 PM
2196 Views
I know it's not "literary". (EDITED)
- 13/12/2010 10:42:33 PM
2076 Views
And with regard to your edit, I don't have a problem with passé simples myself.
- 13/12/2010 10:53:59 PM
2496 Views
But how can one read any French literature at all without encountering the passé simple?
- 15/12/2010 03:39:37 AM
2323 Views
The point is it is a "literary" tense
- 15/12/2010 10:19:59 AM
2317 Views
Why would I read a lower style of book (I won't use the term "literature" to describe them) ?
- 16/12/2010 06:11:36 AM
2092 Views
I don't want to start a fight here, but your attitude is seriously starting to grate.
- 16/12/2010 06:54:30 PM
2352 Views
I don't care. Start a fight.
- 16/12/2010 08:24:22 PM
2282 Views
Well, or we can have a civil debate on French culture, I suppose... also fun. 
- 16/12/2010 09:09:20 PM
2292 Views
- 16/12/2010 09:09:20 PM
2292 Views
Well, I'm up for that, too.
- 17/12/2010 05:48:39 AM
2278 Views
Good.
- 17/12/2010 09:01:37 PM
2626 Views
- 17/12/2010 09:01:37 PM
2626 Views
Ah - I support the subjunctive!!!
- 18/12/2010 05:10:38 AM
2464 Views
TANGENT
- 18/12/2010 09:56:31 AM
2319 Views
This whole conversation is just a pile of tangents, anyway. *NM*
- 18/12/2010 01:30:09 PM
1047 Views
*NM*
- 18/12/2010 01:30:09 PM
1047 Views
But you don't think its disappearance corresponds to a decline in American culture?
- 18/12/2010 01:29:43 PM
2267 Views
- 18/12/2010 01:29:43 PM
2267 Views
About the passé simple, what Camilla said. As for medieval vocabulary...
- 15/12/2010 07:17:44 PM
2299 Views
That looks like a really fascinating series.
- 13/12/2010 10:56:52 PM
2193 Views
Step up your French lessons!!!
- 13/12/2010 11:50:21 PM
2401 Views
That is a great reason to learn French.
- 14/12/2010 07:29:54 PM
2107 Views
*NM*
Ooooh
- 14/12/2010 07:41:03 PM
2034 Views
I'm really not quite sure how you managed that.
- 14/12/2010 08:09:55 PM
2199 Views
- 14/12/2010 08:09:55 PM
2199 Views