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100 1 _aMaindron, Maurice,
_d1857-1911
245 1 3 _aLa gardienne de l'idole noire
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2024-12-30
505 0 _aLa Gardienne de l'Idole noire -- Histoire du berger Nicolas et de la demoiselle Monette -- La Légende singulière et naïve des Sept Dormants d'Éphèse -- Véridique Histoire de la Vierge Marine -- Le Miraculeux Serpent de Fondi.
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520 _a"La Gardienne de l'Idole noire" by Maurice Maindron is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. The story is told from the perspective of Gianbattista Capoferro, a war veteran now residing in an abbey, who reflects on his tumultuous life filled with love, greed, and adventure. As he shares his past exploits, the narrative delves into themes of desire, loss, and the transitory nature of wealth and pleasure against a backdrop of exotic settings, particularly in the Eastern Indies. At the start of the novel, Gianbattista, an old man, contemplates his life, marked by an insatiable thirst for both love and riches. Confined in an abbey after losing a leg in battle, he recalls his adventurous youth, including a venture to the East Indies where he finds himself entangled in the servitude of a tyrant and drawn into a plot involving a prince and a temple. As the narrative unfolds, Gianbattista is approached by an usurer, Azer, who offers him a lucrative mission to rescue a young princess from a temple guarded by fierce idols. The opening sets a tone of intrigue and hints at the multifaceted nature of Gianbattista’s character—his bravado entwined with deeper vulnerabilities. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Lemerre, 1910
653 _aShort stories, French
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/lagardiennedelid00main
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74995
999 _c115720
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