Test love dictionary of the Bible of Didier Decoin

When Didier Decoin was a child, his father, Henri, famous film director, bought the House of his neighbour who was none other than the writer Paul Guth. The rumour said that this building was hiding a treasure. After having surveyed the walls of the cellar to the attic, the Decoin father and son had abandoned all hope. But one day, they spotted at the top of a gable wall barely visible window that corresponded to no listed parts. Climbed on a scale the young Didier saw inside a trunk. After broken glass, he grabbed the box. His father did jump the locks. Las! The legendary Barbary Macaque of father Guth was a hundred of Protestant bibles in German. "A priceless treasure for a convinced Lutheran note Didier Decoin." And he was excellent human right: the Bible is a treasure.

It took no less than 1,300 years and 50 authors to write the 1.189 chapters, translated by 2.303 dialects or languages. It is sold each year 50 million worldwide, of all sizes and all materials. "The Mite Bible" that weighs 16 grams provided 876 pages and 24 prints in less than 5 x 3 centimeters (1 centimeter in thickness). Conversely, "The Bible of the devil" which necessitated the use of donkey 160 skins is almost a metre long and weighs 75 kilograms. It is the only one in the world to represent Satan and would be the work of a monk who, to escape his sentence - he had to be walled living-, had vowed to copy it in one night. Unable to keep his promise, he sold his soul to the devil which gave him in return a helping hand to the dawn. At Uppsala, Sweden, the "Codex Argenteus" contains the Gospels written in silver ink. The poor, on the other hand, had a Bible crudely printed with ink painted wood blocks. Texts placed in bubbles out of the mouths of the characters, as a BD before the letter!

Malicious and inspired

Didier Decoin enjoys a clear lead us into the furious whirlwind of the book of wonders. Erudit without ever being pedantic, malicious as inspired, this dictionary is an act of love of one who, child, délectait on the face of the "lives of saints". With him, it is moves (on the face of the "song of Solomon") as much as it unworthy (why flows on the stigma on Esau while Jacob is only a false token). You travel as much as it is heard. Did you know for example that at the top of Mount Ararat, where is supposed to be grounded Noah's Ark, the US Air Force aircraft spotted a geological "anomaly" which evokes the hull of a ship Rouquin David, the ACE of the fronde, had obtained the hand of the daughter of Saul by offering 100 foreskins from of Philistines in Exchange and that it was probably in love with a certain Jonathan (Oscar Wilde, in his trial for homosexuality, appealed it to the rescue). How to explain the presence in Dura Europos, a caravan city of Syria, a synagogue decorated with biblical frescos while the second commandment prohibits any representation of humans live Where is located the Jerimadeth town cited by Victor Hugo in his famous poem "Booz asleep", "everything was in Ur and in Jerimadeth" Nowhere: Hugo sought only a rhyme in a verse. How to explain that the initials of the names of the five children, Freud formed the word "moshe" (Moses) Why, finally, Winston Churchill chose to refer to one of the most crazy secret operations of the second World War (transform icebergs in carrier!) the name of Habbakuk code When requested, Churchill quoted the little known "Book of Habakkuk": "be seized with astonishment as your living a work will be accomplished, a work that you is think not if someone the told you."

Didier Decoin enjoys a clear lead us into the furious whirlwind of the book of wonders. Erudit without ever being pedantic, malicious as inspired, this dictionary is an act of love of one who, child, délectait on the face of the "lives of saints". With him, it is moves (on the face of the "song of Solomon") as much as it unworthy (why flows on the stigma on Esau while Jacob is only a false token). You travel as much as it is heard. Did you know for example that at the top of Mount Ararat, where is supposed to be grounded Noah's Ark, the US Air Force aircraft spotted a geological "anomaly" which evokes the hull of a ship Rouquin David, the ACE of the fronde, had obtained the hand of the daughter of Saul by offering 100 foreskins from of Philistines in Exchange and that it was probably in love with a certain Jonathan (Oscar Wilde, in his trial for homosexuality, appealed it to the rescue). How to explain the presence in Dura Europos, a caravan city of Syria, a synagogue decorated with biblical frescos while the second commandment prohibits any representation of humans live Where is located the Jerimadeth town cited by Victor Hugo in his famous poem "Booz asleep", "everything was in Ur and in Jerimadeth" Nowhere: Hugo sought only a rhyme in a verse. How to explain that the initials of the names of the five children, Freud formed the word "moshe" (Moses) Why, finally, Winston Churchill chose to refer to one of the most crazy secret operations of the second World War (transform icebergs in carrier!) the name of Habbakuk code When requested, Churchill quoted the little known "Book of Habakkuk": "be seized with astonishment as your living a work will be accomplished, a work that you is think not if someone the told you."

Test, love dictionary of the Bible of Didier Decoin. Plon, 662 pages, 24.50 euro.