Auguste Belloc est un peintre et un photographe français, connu pour ses photographies de nus érotiques. Auguste Belloc commence sa carrière à Toulouse, au 39, rue Lafayette, comme peintre de miniatures et aquarelliste, mais il s'intéresse à la photographie dès 1845. Publications : Traité théorique et pratique du procédé au collodion en photographie, Paris, 18548 Les Quatre Branches de la photographie. Traité complet théorique et pratique des procédés de Daguerre, Talbot, Niepce de Saint-Victor et Archer, précédé des annales de la photographie et suivi d'éléments de chimie et d'optique appliqués à cet art, Paris, [Auguste Belloc], 1855 Causeries photographiques, 1861 Traité d'un nouveau système de couleurs pour colorier les épreuves albuminées : traité de photographie opératoire, Paris, Leiber, 1866 Le Retoucheur, traité complet de la photographie, de la retouche, du coloris des épreuves albuminées par les couleurs et le système, 1868
The Mercy of Allah. by Hilaire Belloc
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- Nombre de pages280
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.366 kg
- Dimensions14,8 cm × 21,0 cm × 1,5 cm
- ISBN979-10-431-4479-0
- EAN9791043144790
- Date de parution31/03/2026
- ÉditeurCulturea
Résumé
The Mercy of Allah is a humorous, satirical novel on the methods by which the merchant Mahmoud rises from humble beginnings to massive wealth. The setting in a fictionalized Middle East provides deeply-Catholic author Hilaire Belloc a "far-off land" in which to attack what he saw as the rapacious nature of the British businessmen, industrialists, and bankers of his day. Each episode of Mahmoud's life satirizes greed, from small frauds and outright theft, to market manipulation, money-printing, and funding both sides in a long war.
Mahmoud justifies all his dealings as simply the way things are : "For Allah, in his inscrutable choice, frowns on some and smiles on others. The first he condemns to contempt, anxiety, duns, bills, courts of law, sudden changes of residence and even dungeons ; the second he gratifies with luxurious vehicles, delicious sherbet and enormous houses, such as mine". First published in 1922, this satire fits into Hilaire Belloc's growing advocacy for the economic and social philosophy of "distributism".
It was selected as one of four books by Belloc for Arnold Bennett and Frank Swinnerton's influential Literary Taste : How to Form It.
Mahmoud justifies all his dealings as simply the way things are : "For Allah, in his inscrutable choice, frowns on some and smiles on others. The first he condemns to contempt, anxiety, duns, bills, courts of law, sudden changes of residence and even dungeons ; the second he gratifies with luxurious vehicles, delicious sherbet and enormous houses, such as mine". First published in 1922, this satire fits into Hilaire Belloc's growing advocacy for the economic and social philosophy of "distributism".
It was selected as one of four books by Belloc for Arnold Bennett and Frank Swinnerton's influential Literary Taste : How to Form It.
