The action of this satirical poem takes place during the Hundred Years War between France and England (1337-1453). Some contemporaries of Voltaire said that the author, ridiculed Joan of Arc, treated her more cruelly than the bishop of Beauvais, who once burned her at the stake. Voltaire, of course, laughed mercilessly, ...

The text of the play is preceded by the author’s dedication to the Duke of Orleans, the king’s only brother. The brothers Sganarelle and Arist unsuccessfully try to convince each other of the need to change. Sganarelle, always gloomy and unsociable, condemning fashion quirks, reproaches his elder brother for frivolity ...

The action takes place in Aulis, in the camp of Agamemnon. The yearning king wakes up a faithful servant of Arkas. He is extremely surprised by the dejected look of his master: good luck favors the descendant of the gods Agamemnon - it is not without reason that the fearless warrior Achilles, the most important of the Greek heroes, wants to marry his daughter....

The action takes place in ancient Rome in the palace of the emperor Nero. He ascended the throne illegally, thanks to his mother Agrippina. Britannicus, son of Agrippina Claudius' second husband, was to become emperor, but she managed to bribe the army and the Senate and elevated her son to the throne. Nero, contrary to his influence ...

The action takes place in the kingdom of Judea, in the temple of Jerusalem. Joram, the seventh king of the Jews of the dynasty of David, married Hofolia, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, who ruled the kingdom of Israel. Hofolia, like her parents, is an idolater who persuaded her husband to build the Temple of Baal in Jerusalem....

The source of the tragedy was the biography of Emperor Titus in the book of the Roman historian Guy Suetonius Tranquillus, "The Life of the Twelve Caesars." Emperor Titus wants to marry the Palestinian Queen Berenice, but Roman laws prohibit marriage to a non-Roman woman, and people may not approve Caesar's decision. Act ...

I Felicite is a humble servant. The lady once had a husband, but he died, and she sold all the wealth, leaving a small farm, which brings a small income. Felicite also has a love story that she recalls. II Felicite's parents died when she was very young. She survived a lot ...

The action takes place in the modern author of France, mainly in Mans, a city that is located two hundred kilometers from Paris. "Comic novel" is conceived as a parody of fashionable novels of "high style" - instead of wandering knights, his characters are stray comedians, countless fights ...

Peasant and Death In the cold winter, the old peasant picks up a logger and, groaning, carries it to his smoky shack. Stopping on his way to rest, he drops a bundle of firewood from his shoulders, sits on it and begins to complain about fate. In a speech addressed to himself, the old man recalls which ...

In the 60s. The old walls became cramped with sorbonne - she was suffocating from the influx of students. Then I had to make a difficult decision reluctantly. The university recognized that some of the capital’s children would not be able to get higher education in Paris itself, the philological faculty tore a piece from its own body ...

The protagonist of the novel, Kolen, is a very cute young man of twenty-two years old, who so often smiles with an infantile smile that even makes a dimple in his chin, preparing for the arrival of his friend Shik. Nicolas, his cook, conjures in the kitchen, creating masterpieces of culinary art. Chic - ...

The action takes place in Southeast Asia (in Thailand, South Vietnam and Cambodia) a few years after the First World War. The young Frenchman Claude Vannek goes to Siam (the official name of Thailand until 1939 - E.M.) in search of ancient Khmer bas-reliefs. In Europe arose ...

The plot is based on a genuine event - a rebellion on the English brig "Bounty" (first half of the 18th century). The boundless waters of the Pacific Ocean. The handsome "Blossom" is rapidly flying through the waves. The third assistant captain Adam Parsel admires the ship, but at the sight of exhausted sailors he becomes ashamed of ...

June 25, 1925. The narrator sailed on an English boat to Hong Kong. On the map, this island resembles a cork in the delta of the Pearl River, along the banks of which the gray spot of Canton has spread. China is engulfed in revolution: grandiose demonstrations are being prepared in Beijing and Shanghai, in the southern provinces ...

Once the house-keeper of one famous church, whose name was Theophilus, was famous in the district for its prosperity, high position and kindness. But life treated him cruelly, he lost everything and fell into disfavor with the cardinal. And once, Theophilus, sitting at home, bitterly recalled how jealously he prayed. ...

Bourgeois English interior. English evening. English couple - Mr. and Mrs. Smith. English watches beat seventeen English beats. Mrs. Smith says it's already nine o'clock. She lists everything they ate for dinner, and makes gastronomic plans for the future. It ...

Auguste Saint-Clair was not loved in the so-called "great light"; the main reason was that he tried to please only those who fit his heart. He walked towards one and carefully avoided the others. Moreover, he was careless and absent-minded. He was proud and proud. He cherished the opinions of others....

The play has many invisible characters and three real ones - the Old Man (95 years old), the Old Woman (94 years old) and the Orator (45-50 years old). There are two empty chairs on the front stage, three doors and a window on the right, three doors and a window on the left, near which there is a black board and a small elevation. Another door is located ...

A brilliant nobility feasts on the Trinity in the chambers of the noble and good king Arthur. The knights have a pleasant conversation with the ladies. As everyone knows, in those blessed times, ardent tenderness and courtesy were valued above all - now morals have become much more rude, no one thinks about purity, a genuine feeling ...

Under the city elms, Abbot Lanten, the rector of a seminary in the city of ***, wrote a letter to Monsignor Cardinal Archbishop, in which he bitterly complained about Abbot Gitrel, a teacher of spiritual eloquence. Through the medium of the aforementioned Gitrel, dishonoring the good name of the clergyman, Mrs. Worms-Clavlen, ...