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- Sylvain and Angelina, two young people living in the Alps, love each other but they are separated when Sylvain thoughtlessly joins Napoléon Ier's army and takes part in all the Napoleonic campaigns until the fall of the emperor. As for Angelina who believes that her lover is dead, she marries Jean-Marie, a man she does not love, has a child and goes to America. Thirteen years later,Angelina and her family, back from the States, are buried by an avalanche in the Alps. Saved by Barry, the good rescue dog, and Father Théotime, a monk of St Bernard's Hospice, who once loved her, Angelina is reunited with Sylvain in dramatic circumstances. Her daughter Gisèle is still missing. Although old and tired, Théotime does not hesitate. He defies the snowstorm once again in the company of Barry... saves them with the help of Barry, the good rescue dog.
- Maria Pilar is the second wife of a gangster of Algiers who has just been arrested. Michel, her husband's son by a first marriage, arrives in Algiers, the town in which he was born but that he left long ago. Charmed by the teenager, his stepmother soon feels a burning passion for Michel. Michel tries to defend himself, but in vain. When he falls for young Sylvie, Maria Pilar gets beside herself with rage...
- One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.