by Donald Kladstrup  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273).... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Various Publisher Comments The Rough Guide to Provence & the Cote D'Azur is your definitive handbook to one of France's most stunning regions. From the bustling Vieux Port of Marseille and the beaches of St Tropez to the remote mountains of Haute-Provence, the full-colour... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
18th Century and Revolutionary by Mark Steel Publisher Comments "Thank goodness . . . for Mark Steel. Engagingly lighthearted while clearly thorough, the author has taken the events of the French Revolution and given them a human face, as well as neatly poking fun at the over-pomposity with which our recent... (read more) Your Price $14.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Steven Englund Publisher Comments This sophisticated and masterful biography brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman. As Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall — from his Corsican boyhood, his French education... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Alice Kaplan Publisher Comments Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jay Berkovitz Publisher Comments In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking many of the most crucial aspects of French Jewish... (read more) Your Price $22.50 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by John Baldwin Publisher Comments Modern historians have generally approached the study of medieval society through chronicles, charters, and other documents composed in Latin by members of the clergy. Although these records may be satisfactory for studying the affairs of ecclesiastics... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancandeacute, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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by Hugh Brogan Publisher Comments Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of... (read more) Your Price $11.95 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Ian Thompson Publisher Comments Presents an illustrated account of the creation of one of the world's most dazzling and extensive gardens, the gardens at the palace of Versailles, noting the unique four-decade friendship between Louis XIV, the creator of the garden, and Andre Le Ntre... (read more) Your Price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Eugen Weber Publisher Comments The author and narrator of the PBS program "The Western Tradition" presents a scintillating introduction to a troubled French decade. Caught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Robert Darnton Publisher Comments Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. Here are the ambitious writers who crowded... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Wendy Leigh Publisher Comments On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Grace Kelly’s death, New York Times bestselling author Wendy Leigh has written a haunting celebration of a life that ended far too soon, starring a heroine whose dramatic, star-crossed story is both tragic and... (read more) Your Price $11.95 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by David Stewart Publisher Comments The province of Roussillon was acquired by France in 1659, just as Louis XIV reached his majority. The region was peopled by Catalans, a group with their own language, religious values, political traditions, and cultural patterns. Louis XIV and his... (read more) Your Price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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