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Da Vinci Code (French language edition) [Mass Market Paperback]

Dan Brown (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)


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April 2005

« Da Vinci Code est un livre envoûtant, idéal pour les passionnés d'histoire, les amateurs de conspirations, les mordus du mystère, pour tous ceux qui aiment les grands récits que l'on ne parvient pas à lâcher. J'ai adoré ce roman. »
Harlan Coben

De passage à Paris, Robert Langdon, professeur à Havard et spécialiste de symbologie, est appelé d'urgence au Louvre, en pleine nuit. Jacques Saunière, le conservateur en chef a été retrouvé assassiné au milieu de la Grande Galerie. Au côté du cadavre, la police a trouvé un message codé. Langdon et Sophie Neveu, une brillante cryptographe membre de la police, tentent de le résoudre. Ils sont stupéfaits lorsque les premiers indices le conduisent à l'oeuvre de Léonard de Vinci. Ils découvrent également que Saunière était membre du Prieuré de Sion, une société secrète dont avaient fait partie Nexton, Boticelli, Léonardo da Vinci, Victor Hugo, et qu'il protégeait un secret millénaire. L'enquête de nos deux héros les entraînera à travers la France et le Rouyaume-Unie, non seulement pour chercher une vérité longtemps cachée concernant la Chrétienté, mais également pour échapper à ceux qui voudraient s'emparer du secret. Pour réussir, il leur faut résoudre de nombreuses énigmes, et vite, sinon le secret risque d'être perdu à tout jamais.


ARTICLES DE PRESSE

Chez Dan Brown, le décryptage est une passion. Normal pour cet ancien historien d'art qui devait, enfant, trouver ses cadeaux de Noël grâce à des jeux de piste. L'écrivain en a gardé le goût de l'enquête : son quatrième roman a nécessité deux années de recherches, passées à compulser les archives, à bûcher l'étymologie ou a rencontrer des membres de l'Opus Dei.

Avec une trame machiavélique digne d'Arturo Pérez Reverte, un rythme d'une efficacité redoutable, ce polar érudit reste remarquablement bien ficelé. Et donne envie, une fois refermé, de courir revoir la célèbre Cène de Léonard de Vinci, celle que l'on croyait si bien connaître.

Une trame machiavélique, un rythme infernal : la visite au Louvre d'un maître du polar.

L'Express Anne Berthod 01/03/2004


Jeu de piste efficace mêlant art, spiritualité et ésotérisme, le Da Vinci Code figure une sorte d'Harry Potter pour adultes.

Une pure fiction, mais suffisamment documentée pour susciter des questions.

JDD Gilles Delafon et Solène Davesne 08/08/2004


Selon la formule consacrée et pour une fois exacte c'est le livre qu'on ne peut pas lâcher une fois qu'on l'a commencé, tant les rebondissements se succèdent à un rythme qui ne laisse pas au lecteur le temps de souffler.

Cerise sur le gâteau, l'auteur est un homme cultivé, dont les appartés sur la peinture ou l'histoire des religions sont aussi passionnants que son intrigue. Bref, un plaisir de lecture total.

Lire Henri Fournay nº37 mai-juin 2004


…ce sont ses quatre premières pages. Un piège. Une trappe dans laquelle le lecteur tombe et qui le plonge dans cette envie paradoxale : être pressé de savoir et n'être pas pressé d'en sortir.

Le Parisien Pierre Vavasseur 26/03/2004


On ne passera plus jamais devant la Pyramide du Louvre sans un pincement au coeur.

Valeurs Actuelles Stéphanie des Horts 02/07/2004


Envoûtant, palpitant, machiavélique… « Da Vinci Code » (comme Leonardo Da Vinci) ne bat pas pour rien tout les records de vente, 4 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. Signé par Dan Brown, professeur d'histoire de l'art en Nouvelle-Angleterre, auteur des plus doués et des plus retors, c'est la meilleure enquête policière de l'année.

Version Fémina Dominique Bona 06/06/2004


Un livre coup de tonnerre qu'il serait navrant d'ignorer.

Madame Figaro Christian Gonzalez 27/03/2004

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.


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Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 744 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket (FR) (April 2005)
  • Language: French
  • ISBN-10: 2266144340
  • ISBN-13: 978-2266144346
  • Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.3 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Brown is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and, previously, Digital Fortress, Deception Point, and Angels and Demons. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. He lives in New England with his wife.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and fun, June 5, 2005
This review is from: Da Vinci Code (French language edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
Forget about the hype, will the suspension of your disbelief and enjoy this terrific page turner. Without spoiling the plot or the surprises it's about a Symbiologist (Robert Langdon) who is in France to meet the Curator of The Louvre Art Museum. But the meeting never takes place and there follows in the next few hundred pages an incredible eye-opening journey of discovery. He and a Cryptologist (Sophie Neveau) are on a chase to solve a puzzle left for them by The Curator. They don't know who the good guys/bad guys are, they don't know what's at the end of the puzzle and there are twists and turns all the way through. It reminds me of The Thirty-Nine Steps where you have an ordinary guy (okay, not ordinary but a non-cop/non-crook) just minding his own business and then suddenly caught up in international intrigue and murder and having to stay ahead of both the good guys and bad guys because he doesn't know who's on his side. The beginning, ending, and the ride in between are fantastic. The controversial aspects of the book concern Paganism and Catholicism and I'm sure there are many facts but also fallacies- this is fiction, but terrific fiction. It's nearly six hundred pages long and I read it in a weekend.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book!, August 7, 2005
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This review is from: Da Vinci Code (French language edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
I could not put this book down. And every time I had too, I couldn't wait to get back to where I left off. Because I didn't want to miss any details.
This book was great. It had all the things that make a great thriller of a novel -- a great plot, gripping details, intrigue, and it moved at a pace where it was comfortable enough for the reader to keep track of what was happening.
If you enjoy mystery novels of all kinds, and love a "Bourne Identity" type of plot, than this novel is an absolute must read. Your collection would be incomplete without it.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A FASCINATING AND INTRICATELY PLOTTED THRILLER..., January 28, 2006
This review is from: Da Vinci Code (French language edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
For a while I resisted reading this book, thinking that it could not possibly be as good as its hype. Well, I was wrong. This is simply one terrific book that will keep the reader riveted to its pages until the very last one is turned. It is a very well-written, intricately plotted thriller in which a great number of esoteric historical facts and interesting theories of a religious nature are woven. Those who read it should, first and foremost, keep in mind that this book is simply a work of fiction.

All hell breaks loose when Jacques Sauniere, the elderly and revered curator of the Louvre, is murdered inside the museum. The crime scene and the body itself are laden with symbols and cryptic messages pointing to renowned Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon. He is invited to the crime scene by the wily Captain Bezu Fache, of the Central Directorate Judicial Police, the French equivalent of our Federal Bureau of Investigation, ostensibly to assist the police. Little does Langdon know that he is, in fact, the prime suspect.

When he meets police cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, they join forces. They are then led on a merry chase by a series of riddles and ciphers that are ground in a historical context. They are always just one step of the French police, who seem determined to charge Langdon with the murder of Jacques Sauniere. During their voyage of discovery, Langdon and Sophie come across a secret society, the Priory of Sion, that has a startling list of former members, which list includes Leonardo Da Vinci, as well as the late Jacques Sauniere. There is also some interesting historical detail about the ancient Knights Templar, as well as Opus Dei, a conservative religious organization currently in existence.

Langdon and Sophie peel back layers of historical clues that point to a secret of such magnitude that some would kill for it. As Langdon and Sophie surreptitiously travel from France to England and seem to be headed closer to the heart of the mystery that they are trying to unravel, an unknown nemesis is closer to them than they would dare imagine. This unknown adversary is marshaling resources in order to obtain the long hidden secret that Langdon and Sophie appear to be on the brink of discovering. It is one that has the potential to have earth shattering implications.

This is a fast-paced, plot driven, rather than character driven, thriller. It hurls itself into the reader's consciousness at break-neck speed, and before the reader realizes it, the book holds the reader in its thrall: hook, line, and sinker. For those readers who love historical detail and unusual facts and coincidences, this is definitely a fascinating book that will hold their interest. It is a page-turning thriller in which nearly every chapter leaves the reader on the brink of a precipice. The book is written in clear, effortless prose, which makes the most esoteric historical details surprisingly easy to understand. Simple in its presentation but intricate in its plotting, it is no surprise that this book has become a runaway, international bestseller. Bravo!
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