Claude Blum Boeken

Caustic and hilarious, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide, disciple of Dr. Pangloss, who was himself a disciple of Leibniz. In the course of his travels and adventures in Europe and South America, Candide saw and suffered such misfortune that it was difficult for him to believe this was "the best of all possible worlds" as Dr. Pangloss had assured him. Indeed, it seemed to be quite the opposite. In brilliantly skewering such naïveté, Voltaire mercilessly exposes and satirizes romance, science, philosophy, religion, and government — the ideas and forces that permeate and control the lives of men. After many trials and travails, Candide is reunited with Cunegonde, his sweetheart. He then buys a little farm in Turkey where he and Cunegonde, Dr. Pangloss and others all retire. In the end, Candide decides that the best thing in the world is to cultivate one's own garden. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Connaissez-vous le frigoden, le chneuqueur ou la barboulotte ? Le premier se baigne toute l’année en Bretagne, le second fouille ses placards dans le Jura et la troisième est une coccinelle pour les Bourguignons ! Toutes les régions de France ont conservé des expressions populaires, héritées des traditions, des spécialités gourmandes, des usages anciens : dans le Lyonnais, on dépicole des prunes, dans le Centre, le ciel s’abernaudit, en Provence, on se méfie du capenoule... Cet ouvrage recense 5 000 mots, qui dessinent un portrait imagé et charmant de la France des campagnes et des villes. Pour chacun d’eux, on trouvera également l’aire régionale d’origine, l’étymologie et des exemples d’usage.