Étudiante en sciences politiques, héritière d'un empire pétrolier impliqué dans un énorme scandale qui a secoué Bâton-Rouge, Ornella Sinclair est obligée de fuir sa ville natale pour intégrer en cours d'année l'université de Lafayettte. Par crainte de finir à la rue, elle écume les petites annonces et les journaux à la recherche d'un appartement. Lorsqu'elle parvient enfin à trouver une colocation à deux pas du campus, elle ne se doute pas une seule seconde qu'elle va débarquer au beau mil...

**The USA Today Bestseller!Recommended by Oprah Magazine ∙ Cosmopolitan∙ PopSugar∙ SheReads ∙ Parade ∙ and more!An epic saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy.**Most castles are protected by men. This one by women.A founding mother...1774. Gent...

Historian Olivier Bernier draws an indelible portrait of the man who represented, more than anyone else, the idea of French nobility to all Americans of the early Republic and who represented to the French the idea of freedom and its American expression. Lafayette was, indeed, the hero of two worlds. Bernier's Lafayette - much of it based on previously inaccessible documents - is a man who lived the liberal ideal as few others have. In the war for American independence, this twenty-year-ol...

Il y a un paradoxe Lafayette : héros à la réputation quasi immaculée outre-Atlantique, il reste un mal aimé de l’histoire de France. Lafayette est souvent résumé par un cliché – le « héros des deux mondes » ou réduit à une caricature, celle d’un personnage vain et naïf, voire d’un traître.Au-delà des apparences et des procès d’intention, Laurent Zecchini restitue la dimension et la complexité d’un homme au destin épique : après avoir joué un rôle si singulier dans la naissance des É...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Lafayette en moins d’une heure !Parti en Amérique contre la volonté de son entourage et même du roi, Lafayette, tout juste âgé de 20 ans, se lance à corps perdu dans la guerre d’indépendance. Son engagement précoce, son indéfectibilité et son talent militaire feront de lui un véritable héros, celui des deux mondes. Animé par les valeurs américaines que sont la liberté, l’égalité des droits et des devoirs, il n’aura de c...

She's looking for a heartbreaker. He's looking for love.After a hit-and-run accident ends her career as a principal dancer, Myra Harwood seeks a fresh start in Lafayette Falls. Opening a dance studio is all-consuming for her and she's determined to rebuild her life, leaving no room for distractions—or romance. But when she learns her ex-boyfriend has been invited to her best friend's wedding, she knows she can't go alone. Myra needs a date for the wedding—with no s...

She is the key to his success. . .Let the fun and payback begin!In Lafayette Falls, Senator Layton’s daughter, Natalie, charmed everyone in high school except Brett “Hot Rod” Harris. Growing up on the wrong side of town only fueled his ambition. Brett dismissed Natalie as a slacker whose saving grace was her family’s fortune and the local princess who was beyond his reach.Home for the holidays…After years of working in war zones, widowed photographer Natali...

The Marquis de Lafayette may be a name that sounds vaguely familiar. If you've studied even a little American history, you'll recall Lafayette as George Washington's right-hand man during the American Revolution. This remarkable man was just a teenager when he ventured across the seas from France to fight in a conflict that he was in no way obligated to participate in. Yet, here he was, this young man full of idealistic thoughts, ready to help a country set their path on the road to indepe...

Acclaim for Lafayette"I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account of the marquis's two revolutions-one might even say his two lives-the French and the American. It also captures the private Lafayette and his remarkable wife, Adrienne, in often moving detail." -Thomas Fleming, author, Liberty!: The American Revolution"Harlow Unger's Lafayette is a remarkable and dramatic account of a life as fully lived as it is possible to imagine, that of Gi...

Will the baby left behind bring them together. . .In a life-altering moment, Dr. Aaron Kendall becomes responsible for an unwanted premature baby boy when the preemie's mother gives him up. Feeling he and the baby are "meant to be" father and son, Aaron begins the adoption process. Then his joy plummets when Lia Montgomery, a stunning singer/songwriter from Nashville, shows up unexpectedly at his house and shatters his adoption plans.Shocked by her estrange...

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette - American Revolutionary War hero, toast of liberal Europe, and a founder of modern France - started his illustrious life as a shy, clumsy, if aristocratic, country bumpkin. Here, in this essay from New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Thomas Fleming, is Lafayette's surprising - and inspiring - story.

Set towards the end of the reign of Henry II of France, The Princesse de Clèves (1678) tells of the unspoken, unrequited love between the fair, noble Mme de Clèves, who is married to a loyal and faithful man, and the Duc de Nemours, a handsome man most female courtiers find irresistible. Warned by her mother against admitting her passion, Mme de Clèves hides her feelings from her fellow courtiers, until she finally confesses to her husband - an act that brings tragic consequences for all. ...