2023-11-24
A few weeks ago, I published the first in a series of blogs highlighting 35 years of COTE 100. In this series, I intend to look back on this long journey, more specifically on some of the important lessons that we have learned, both in investing and in running our business. The first blog was about investing, this one is about our company, COTE 100.
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2023-11-17
Why Does Everything Seem Darker and Darker?
I’m reading Morgan Housel’s newest book, “Same as Ever.” I really liked this author’s first...
2023-11-10
Not All the Qualities of a Good Entrepreneur Are Transferable to the Stock Market
I wrote a blog on this subject in 2017 entitled “Does a good entrepreneur make a good...
2023-11-03
Real Estate Prices Can’t Go Down!
I went to a fundraising dinner last Friday. On this occasion, I had the chance to speak to...
2023-10-27
Blog Miniseries: 35 Years of Service!
COTE 100 is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, my father Guy having founded the...
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By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 2024, Europa Editions
To be published in May 2024
This author, whom I have appreciated for many years, has started a series that will eventually include eight historical novels telling the story of humanity. The first volume, Paradises Lost, launches this adventure set 8000 years ago with Noam as hero, who will have to face the Flood. This character, who has become immortal, continues to be the central character of the other volumes. The remarkable pen of Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt is used to produce this work where the romantic and the encyclopedic intersect. Three volumes have already been published, and I await the sequel with great interest.
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Recommended by Phillipe
By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 2024, Europa Editions
To be published in May 2024
This author, whom I have appreciated for many years, has started a series that will eventually include eight historical novels telling the story of humanity. The first volume, Paradises Lost, launches this adventure set 8000 years ago with Noam as hero, who will have to face the Flood. This character, who has become immortal, continues to be the central character of the other volumes. The remarkable pen of Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt is used to produce this work where the romantic and the encyclopedic intersect. Three volumes have already been published, and I await the sequel with great interest.
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Recommended by Phillipe
By James A. Michener, 688 pages, 2015, Points
This is the second book by this author that I have read, after discovering him with The Source. In this epic novel, we discover, through a story centred around three Polish families, that the history of the Polish people is littered with bitter defeats and reconstructions, spread over eight centuries. A historical fresco that keeps us captivated and provides a memorable reading experience. Not to mention that this story takes on a whole new meaning in light of Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine.
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By José Rodrigues dos Santos, 448 pages, 2021, Hervé Chopin Éditions
(Book only available in French)
Countless novels have been written about the Holocaust. This one, from a Portuguese author, offers a detailed — and harsh — perspective on life in the Nazi extermination camps. Refugee in Prague with his family to flee the Nazi regime, Grand Nivelli will cross paths, in Auschwitz, with the fate of a young Russian legionnaire renowned for his great brutality. Thanks to still unknown manuscripts found near the crematorium ovens, the author manages to bring us even closer to this terrible part of history.
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By Jean d’Ormesson, 384 pages, 2001, Robert Laffont
(Book only available in French)
This is a superb novel that brings the history of the 20th century to life through the friends of a character who has just died. Romain, who cultivated a love of life and had everything to please, was inhabited by an immoderate taste for happiness. Through returns to the past intertwined with the story of his burial, we discover the crossed destinies of those who come to bid him a final farewell, over a framework of nearly a hundred years of the History of our time, which the author approaches through anecdote.
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In this masterful American epic, the first volume of which was the subject of a film, we discover a hard and touching story like the Southwest and Mexico where it takes place. This story is about two young men coming of age, poised on the brink of a world about to change forever. Difficult to put down, this book is so well written that we can clearly imagine the landscapes of the deserts of Texas and Mexico where we are made to travel.
