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Piaget / by Cologni, Franco.(CARDINAL)377529;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Piaget (International) S.A.; Piaget(Suisse); Bijoux.; Clocks and watches; Horloges et montres.; Montres-bracelets;
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The enchanted clock : a novel / by Kristeva, Julia,1941-author.(CARDINAL)714628; Mortimer, Armine Kotin,1943-translator.(CARDINAL)718506;
"In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time -- hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds -- until the year 9999. Passemant's clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva's intricate, poetic novel The Enchanted Clock. Nivi Delisle, a psychoanalyst and magazine editor, nearly drowns while swimming off the Île de Ré; the astrophysicist Theo Passemant fishes her out of the water. They become lovers. While Theo wonders if he is descended from the clockmaker Passemant, Niv's son Stan, who suffers from occasional comas, develops a passion for the remarkable clock at Versailles. Soon Nivi is fixated on its maker. But then the clock is stolen, and when a young writer for Nivi's magazine mysteriously dies, the clock is found near his body. The Enchanted Clock combines past and present, jumping back and forth between points of view and across eras from eighteenth-century Versailles to the present day. Its stylistically inventive narrative voices bring both immediacy and depth to our understanding of consciousness. Nivi's life resembles her creator's in many respects, coloring Kristeva's customary erudition with autobiographical poignancy. Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time. It is one of the most illuminating works of one of France's great writers and thinkers" --
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Passemant, Claude Siméon, 1702-1769; Astronomical clocks; Time;
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Poèmes [sound recording] / by Fleming, Renée,vocalist.(CARDINAL)357355; Cassou, Jean,1897-1986.(CARDINAL)128898; Gilbert, Alan,1967-conductor.; Klingsor, Tristan,1874-1966.(CARDINAL)853451; Ozawa, Seiji,1935-conductor.(CARDINAL)518049; Dutilleux, Henri,1916-2013.Sonnets de Jean Cassou.Il n'y avait que des troncs déchirés;arranged.; Dutilleux, Henri,1916-2013.Sonnets de Jean Cassou.J'ai rêvé que je vous portais entre mes bras;arranged.; Dutilleux, Henri,1916-2013.Temps l'horloge.; Messiaen, Olivier,1908-1992.Poèmes pour Mi;arranged.; Ravel, Maurice,1875-1937.Shéhérazade (Song cycle); Orchestre national de France,performer.; Radio-France.Orchestre philharmonique,performer.;
Shéhérazade / Maurice Ravel (18:48) -- Poèmes pour Mi / Olivier Messiaen (28:17) -- Deux sonnets de Jean Cassou (7:49) ; Le temps l'horloge (14:13) / Henri Dutilleux.Renée Fleming, soprano ; Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Alan Gilbert, conductor (1st-3rd works) ; Orchestre national de France, Seiji Ozawa, conductor (4th work).Recorded at Salle Liebermann, Opéra national de Paris, July 6-10, 2011 (1st-3rd works), and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, May 7, 2009 (4th work).
Subjects: Cassou, Jean, 1897-1986; Klingsor, Tristan, 1874-1966; Song cycles.; Songs (High voice) with orchestra.; Songs, French.; Vocal music;
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Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time / by Sobel, Dava.(CARDINAL)175638;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and index.Imaginary lines -- The sea before time -- Adrift in a clockwork universe -- Time in a bottle -- Powder of sympathy -- The prize -- Cogmarker's journal -- The grasshopper goes to sea -- Hands on heaven's clock -- The diamond timekeeper -- Trial by fire and water -- A tale of two portraits -- The second voyage of captain James Cook -- The mass production of genius -- In the meridian courtyard.The story of mariners' centuries-long search for ways of determining longitude that tells not only of the scientific advances but of the perseverance, pettiness, politics, & interesting anecdotes involved. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking. Through Dava Sobel's consummate skill, Longitude will open a new window on our world for all who read it.1320LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Harrison, John, 1693-1776.; Longitude; Chronometers; Clock and watch makers; Clock and watch makers; Chronomètres; Horlogers;
Current Copyright Fee: GBP30.00
Available copies: 31 / Total copies: 38
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L'épave. Le Bengali. La Chambre de l'horloge : trois nouvelles des "Hommes abandonnés" / by Duhamel, Georges,1884-1966.(CARDINAL)129980; Vlaminck, Maurice de,1876-1958.(CARDINAL)124119; Vlaminck, Maurice de,1876-1958.Bengali.; Vlaminck, Maurice de,1876-1958.Chambre de l'horloge.;
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La pendule francaise : des origines a nos jours / by Tardy.(CARDINAL)165595; Bulla, L.;
1ere ptie. Des origines au Louis XV -- 2e me ptie. Du Louis XVI a nos jours -- 3eme ptie. Les provinces francaises. Horloges et pendules etrangeres.
Subjects: Clocks and watches;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The clockmaker of St. Paul [videorecording] / by Danon, Raymond,film producer.; Noiret, Philippe,actor.; Rochefort, Jean,actor.; Tavernier, Bertrand,film director,screenwriter.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Simenon, Georges,1903-1989.Horloger d'Everton.; Kino Classics (Firm); Kino Lorber, Inc.(CARDINAL)347545;
Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort.The clockmaker of St. Paul is the debut feature of legendary director Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the country, Journeys through French cinema). Adapted from Georges Simenon's novel The watchmaker of Everton (1954), it stars Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso) as the unassuming title character, a man who begins to reexamine his life when his son is wanted for murder. Asked for help by the police inspector (Jean Rochefort, Man on the Train), he realizes how little he knew about his son, and begins to seek out the truth hidden behind his family's walls.DVD, wide screen.
Subjects: Crime films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fathers and sons;
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