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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass Publisher Comments An unforgettable portrait of the diverse American community in Paris during the occupation. From the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, Americans in Paris recounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival under the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” In The Greater Journey, he tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $14.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Love & Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments Louis XIV, the highly-feted Sun King, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the... (read more) Your price: $11.97 Sale - Hardcover
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La Dame D'Esprit: A Biography of Marquise Du Chatelet by Judith P Zinsser Publisher Comments Zinsser vividly explores how the Marquise Du Chatelet transformed herself from courtier, wife, and mother into one of the leading intellects of the French Enlightenment.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb Publisher Comments A narrative of exploration--full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants--that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie Du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, Sword Fights, Book Burnings, Assorted Kings, Seditious Verse..... by David Bodanis Publisher Comments It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Chatelet, a beguiling (and married) aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton's arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein's theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments A landmark work of French Revolution scholarship, now in its 20th anniversary edition.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Man in the Iron Mask by Roger Macdonald Publisher Comments Alexandre Dumas said that his famous Three Musketeers never existed, but Athos, Aramis and Porthos were flesh and blood. Their supposedly fictional duel with Cardinal Richelieu's guards actually took place in 1640 and Charles d'Artagnan, a teenager on... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 by Marc Bloch Publisher Comments Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France 1898-1991 by James F Mcmillan Publisher Comments Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has now been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like During the Age of Reason: France, AD 1660-1800 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Age of Napoleon (American Heritage Series) by J Christoph Herold Publisher Comments THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects — political, cultural, military... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Provence: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination) by Martin Garrett Publisher Comments Celebrated by writers from Petrach to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis, and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Martin Garrett explores a region littered with ancient monuments and medieval castles. Looking at the vibrant... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire by Flora Fraser Publisher Comments From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleons favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canovas statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb Publisher Comments This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten. A young artillery lieutenant,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema by Rae Beth Gordon Publisher Comments Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, café -concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, “ Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?” The extraordinary emphasis... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Paris Between Empires 1814 1852 by Philip Mansel Synopsis Between 1814 and 1852, Paris was a magnet for people of all nationalities that exerted an influence far beyond the borders of France. This is the story of a golden age, when Paris was the stage for the great conflicts of the age to be fought out before... (read more) Your price: $11.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Testimony: France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century by Nicolas Sarkozy Publisher Comments In an important book from the newly elected president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy sets forth his personal vision of France's role in world affairs and his plans for modernizing the country and equipping it for the twenty-first century. Testimony begins... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Joan of Arc: A Military Leader by Kelly Devries Publisher Comments A world authority on warfare in the Middle Ages offers a fresh insight into the military skills of the young girl who led the French Army to victory In 1428 a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village by Gay L. Gullickson Publisher Comments The cottage industry of France enjoyed enormous growth from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Through an intensive analysis of the social and economic impact of the expansion of this female-dominated industry, Gay Gullickson broadens our... (read more) List Price $63.95 Your price: $6.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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