Crimen y castigo

El verano de 1661, el 17 de agosto, el superintendente de Finanzas del reino de Francia, Nicolás Fouquet, ofreció una gigantesca fiesta para celebrar la inauguración de su maravillosa nueva residencia a las afueras de París: el Vaux-le-Vicomte. El proyecto contó con la participación de tres genios como el arquitecto Louis Le Vau, el paisajista André le Notre y el pintor Charles le Brun. François Vatel dirigió el festejo, Molière escribió una pieza teatral para conmemorar la ocasión y, como es natural, el joven rey Luis XIV se convirtió en el invitado de honor.Pero, en pleno...

“Each war entails the destruction of the human soul” (Henry Miller). Humanity should not lose its memory, even if some may try to conceal it. From the hindsight afforded by the passing of 75 years from the events narrated, with freedom of thought and a totally independent standpoint, Pacific Media have undertaken an arduous research which has resulted in the series: “The Finest Hours of WWII". From the atrocious moment in which Hitler ordered the invasion of Polish territory to the day in which Emperor Hirohito “had to accept the unacceptable”, all is encompassed in this book over...

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