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Alain Vircondelet
Alain Vircondelet (born 1947)

biographer, literary critic

  • University of Paris, Lycée Bugeaud

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Duras
Mortel amiante
Jean-Paul II
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Marguerite Duras
L'Enfance de Jean-Paul II
Mémoires de Balthus
Séraphine de Senlis
Alger, Alger
Charles de Foucauld
Pour Duras
Les couples mythiques de l'art
Antoine et Consuelo de Saint Exupéry, un amour de légende
La maison devant le monde
Joris-Karl Huysmans
La traversée
Albert Camus, fils d'Alger
Sagan
La Princesse de Lamballe
Jean Paul II, la biographie
L'art jusqu'à la folie
Une passion à Venise
Le Paris de Sagan
Marguerite Duras, une autre enfance
Sur les pas de Marguerite Duras
C'étaient Antoine et Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
Auprès de Balthus
Rencontrer Marguerite Duras
Jésus
La véritable histoire du Petit prince
Séraphine
Saint Jean-Paul II
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Les trésors du Petit Prince
Legendarnai︠a︡ li︠u︡bovʹ
Dans les pas de Saint-Exupéry
Albert Camus et la guerre d'Algérie
Saint Exupéry dans la guerre
Un été à Long Island
Le Paris de Picasso
Renaissance de Saint Exupéry
L'exil est vaste mais c'est l'été
Albert Camus, fils d'Alger
Les Chats de Balthus
Venice
Le roman de Jacqueline et Blaise Pascal
Journal de résistance d'un chrétien dans le monde
Les derniers jours de Casanova
Le monde merveilleux des images pieuses
Là-bas
Bernadette, celle qui a vu
Albert Camus
Nulle part qu'à Venise
JE VOUS SALUE MARIE
La poésie fantastique française
Marguerite Duras
Maman la Blanche
Alger, l'amour
Le grand guide de Venise - Sur les pas de Canaletto et des maitres venitiens
Venise, ou, l'innocence retrouvée
La-bas
Extase de Tolède
La terreur des chiens
John Paul II
La nuit de Mayerling
Juan Pablo II/ John Paul II
Guernica 1937
La vie la vie
Naissances d'un père
Tant que le jour te portera
Marie Noël
Le petit frère de la nuit
Balthus and Cats
La Cathédrale
Maman la Blanche
Balthus'un Anilari
Monde Merveilleux Des Images Pieuses
Éloge des herbes quotidiennes
Alger Alger
Alger, ombres et lumières
Amore veneziano
Duras, Dieu et l'écrit
Huysmans, entre grâce et péché
Cet été-là, de braise et de cendres
Dans les pas de Toulouse-Lautrec
Devenir Venise
Die Rose des kleinen Prinzen. Erinnerungen an eine unsterbliche Liebe.
Duras, la traversée d'un siècle
Die Rose des kleinen Prinzen. Erinnerungen an eine unsterbliche Liebe.
Les enclos bretons
De l'or dans la nuit de Vienne selon Klimt
Poéms pour détruire
La tisserande du Roi-Soleil
Ralf Georg Reuth
Ralf Georg Reuth (born 1952)

historian, journalist, biographer

  • University of Cologne

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Goebbels
Rommel
Hitler
Freigekauft
Erwin Rommel, des Führers General
Hitlers Judenhass
Deutsche auf der Flucht
Die längste Nacht, der grösste Tag
Annäherung an Helmut Kohl
Hitler: eine politische Biographie
Entscheidung im Mittelmeer
IM "Sekretär"
Das Komplott
Auf der Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
Tagebücher 1924 - 1945
Das Gesicht der Diktatur
Kurze Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Das erste Leben der Angela M.
Einhard
Einhard (0769-0840)

historian, biographer, Catholic priest, Imperial Councillor

  • Fulda monastery

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The life of Charlemagne
Vita Karoli Magni imperatoris
The Life of Charlemagne
Vita Karoli Magni
Einhardi omnia quæ exstant opera primum in unum corpus collegit eisque versionem gallicam
Annales fuldenses
Annales
Vie de Charlemagne
The Life of Charlemagne. --
Einhard's life of Charlemagne
Vie de Charlemagne
Les Oeuvres d'Einhard
Charlemagne's courtier
Einhardi omnia quae exstant opera primum in unum corpus collegit eisque versionem gallicam
Eginharti Vita Caroli Magni edita cvm adnotationibvs et varietate lectionis a Gabriele Godofredo Bredow
The Life of Charlemagne
Einhard's Life of Charlemagne
Translatio S. Marcellini et Petri
Ejnharts Kejser Karl den stores liv og levned
Vita Caroli Magni
Ejnharts Kejser Karl den stores liv og levned
Einhardi Vita Karoli Magni
Vie de Charlemagne
Histoire de l'empire d'Occident
Kaiser Karls Leben
Einhardus--a neuniknout budoucímu věku
Einhardi Vita Karoli imperatoris
Eginardo
Einhardi Vita Karoli Magni
Einhard's life of Charlemagne
Einhard - Vita Karoli Magni
Einhardi omnia quæ exstant opera primum in unum corpus collegit eisque ..
Kaiser Karls Leben
Les oeuvres d'E ginhard
Einhards Jahrbücher
Life of the Emperor Karl the Great
Life of Charlemagne
Vita Karoli Magni
Das Leben Karls des Groszen
De vita et gestis Caroli Magni
Kaiser Karls leben
Vita Karoli Magni =
Early lives of Charlemagne
Vita et gesta Karoli Magni
The life of Charlemagne
Early lives of Charlemagne
Einhards Jahrbücher
Epistolae
Baha ad-Din Shoieb
Baha ad-Din Shoieb (1145-1234)

historian, theologian, Islamic jurist, qadi, biographer, assistant professor

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The rare and excellent history of Saladin, or, al-Nawādir al-Sulṭāniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya
The rare and excellent history of Saladin =
Sīrat al-Sulṭān al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī
Saladin
Al- Nawadir al-sultaniyah
Sīrat Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī
Dalāʼil al-aḥkām
Dalāʼil al-aḥkām min aḥādīth al-Rasūl ʻalayhi al-salām
Vita et res gestae Sultani Almalichi Alnasiri, Saladini, abi modaffiri Josephi F. Jobi. F. Sjadsi
The life of Saladin [by Beha Ed-Din]
al- Nawādir al-sulṭānīyah wa-al-maḥāsin al-yūsufīyah, aw Sīrat Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn
Dalāʾil al-aḥkām
Min kitab al-Nawādir al-sulṭānīyah wa-al-maḥāsin al-Yūsufīyah
Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

poet, painter, literary critic, biographer

  • University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool

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Eminent Victorians
Elizabeth and Essex
Queen Victoria
Lytton Strachey by himself
The shorter Strachey
Eminent Victorians
Biographical essays
Books and Characters
Florence Nightingale
Portraits in miniature, and other essays
Portraits in miniature
Characters and commentaries
Queen Victoria
Portraits in miniature
Cornerstones
Queen Victoria
The Poetry of Cats
The letters of Lytton Strachey
Landmarks in French literature
Spectatorial essays
Ermyntrude and Esmeralda
The really interesting question, and other papers
Pope
Reina Victoria
No Royalty A/C Biographical Essays
Französische Paradiese
The really interesting question
Ely
Five Victorians
Geist und Abenteuer
100 Best Nonfiction
A son of heaven
Literary essays
The end of General Gordon
La muerte del general Gordon
Florence Nightingale
Eminent Victorians/Cassettes
Store Viktorianere
Landmarks in French Literature
La reina Victoria
Vals con Bashir
Ermyntrude and Esmeralda: an entertainment
Queen Victoria
Strachey Queen Victoria
Das Leben, ein Irrtum. Acht Exzentriker
The Président de Brosses
Cinq excentriques anglais
No Royalty A/C Literary Essays (Strachey)
Eminent Victorians
Landmarks in French Literature
Elizabeth and Essex
landmarks in French literature
Landmarks in French Literature
Elisabeth und Essex
Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
Landmarks in French literature
Landmarks in French Literature
Isabel y Essex
Eminent Victorians
Eminent Victorians Illustrated
Lytton Strachey by Himself
The Biography of Florence Nightingale
Elizabeth and Essex
Elizabeth and Essex, a tragic history
Landmarks in French literature
Lytton Strachey on Queen Victoria
Pope
Victori
Elizabeth and Essex
Literary Essays
LETTERS OF LYTTON STRACHEY; ED. BY PAUL LEVY
QUEEN VICTORIA-Royalty Biographies (Annotated)
Pope
QUEEN VICTORIA (Annotated)
Guide to Hospitals and Nursing - a Collection of Writings and Excerpts
Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria : (Annotated Edition)
Elizabeth and Essex, a tragic history
Landmarks in French literature
Ernest Scott
Ernest Scott (1867-1939)

historian, journalist, biographer

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Lapérouse
Terre Napoléon: A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
Working in wood
Men and thought in modern history
A short history of Australia
Australia during the war
Terre Napoleón
Terre Napoléon
Working in Wood
History and historical problems
The life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N
Australian discovery. --
A short history of Australia
A short history of Australia
Australian discovery ..
The Canadian and United States transported prisoners of 1839
Australia Volume 7 Part 1 Australia
Terre Napoleón
Wenceslao Retana
Wenceslao Retana (1862-1924)

journalist, publisher, biographer

  • Academy of Military Engineering of Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid)

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Ìndice biográfico de los que asistieron al descubrimiento de las islas Filipinas
Indice de personas nobles y otras de calidad que han estado en Filipinas desde 1521 hasta 1898
Sinapismos (bromitas y critquillas)
Vida y escritos del dr. José Rizal
La imprenta en Filipinas
Mando del general Weyler en Filipinas, 5 junio, 1888-17 noviembre 1891
Bibliografía de Mindanao (epítome)
Orígenes de la imprenta filipina
Supersticiones de los indios filipinos
El periodismo Filipino =
Noticias histórico-bibliográficas
Filipinas [microform]
Aparato bibliográfico de la historia general de Filipinas deducido de la colección que posee en Barcelona la Compañia general de tabacos de dichas islas
Archivo del bibliófilo filipino
La censura de imprenta en Filipinas
Fiestas de toros en Filipinas ...
Catálogo de obras Filipinas que ofrece en venta W.E. Retana
Reformas y otros excesos
El periodismo filipino
Ìndice biográfico de los que asistieron al desubrimiento de las islas Filipinas
Tablas cronológica y alfabética de imprentas é impresores de Filipinas (1593-1898)
Transformismo
Aguas fuertes
Orígenes de la imprenta Filipina
Noticias histórico-bibliográficas
Catálogo abreviado de la biblioteca filipina
Diccionario de flipinismos
Frailes y clérigos
El precursor de la política redentorista
La imprenta en Filipinas
Diccionario de filipinismos
Los antiguos alfabetos de Filipinas
Rizal
El periodismo Filipino, 1811-1910
La tristeza errante
Supersticiones de los indios filipinos
Elizabeth Haldane
Elizabeth Haldane (1862-1937)

philosopher, justice of the peace, biographer, social worker, suffragist

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James Frederick Ferrier
Mrs. Gaskell and her friends
Descartes, his life and times
George Eliot And Her Times a Victorian Study
Scots gardens in old times (1200-1800)
Malaysia's Emerald Crown
The British nurse in peace and war
Philosophical Works
James Frederick Ferrier
Rules for the direction of the mind. Discourse on the method
The Brontës and their biographers
Hegel's Ten Books
Hegel's Lectures On The History Of Philosophy
From one century to another
Discourse on Metaphysics - The Monadology / Discours de Métaphysique - La Monadologie
Lectures On the History of Philosophy; Volume 1
The Wisdom and Religion of a German Philosopher: being selections from the ...
Meditations
The Scotland of our fathers
Hegel's Complete History of Philosophy : All Three Volumes Combined
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Mary Elizabeth Haldane
James Frederick Ferrier (19th Century British Philosophy)
James Frederick Ferrier
Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus
The life of Descartes
Mrs. Gaskell and her friends
Descartes
James Frederick Ferrier