Voltaire, cuyo nombre real era François-Marie Arouet, nació en París, Francia, en 1694. Fue un escritor, filósofo y activista conocido por su agudo ingenio y su habilidad para...

La Comedìa, o Commedia, conosciuta come Divina Commedia (l’aggettivo «Divina» si deve a Boccaccio), di Dante Alighieri, è probabilmente la...

La Comedìa, o Commedia, conosciuta come Divina Commedia (l’aggettivo «Divina» si deve a Boccaccio), di Dante Alighieri, è probabilmente la...

General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft....

A Simple Soul is a literary work written by Gustave Flaubert in 1877. It’s the story of Madame Aubain who was envied by her neighbors for her maid Felicite . Felicite worked...

Esta historia se inspira en El origen del mundo, el famoso cuadro de Gustave Courbet exhibido en el Museo de Orsay, en París. Se escribió mucho acerca de la identidad de la...

Salammbo is a literary work written by Gustave Flaubert and published in 1865. This story is set immediately after the first Punic War. Carthage has weakened and is now not able...

First published in 1874, ‘The Temptation of Saint Anthony’ is a novel which French author Gustave Flaubert worked on throughout his life. Inspired by the painting of the same...

A servant girl named Felicite. After her one and only love Theodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicite quits the farm where she works and heads...

The novel describes the life of a young man living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman. Flaubert based...