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Love & Louis XIV
by Antonia Fraser
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The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958
by Rosemary Wakeman
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
by Graham Robb
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Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
by Robert Gildea
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
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When the World Spoke French
by Marc Fumaroli
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
by Graham Robb
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Man in the Iron Mask
by Roger Macdonald
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Testimony: France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century
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Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris. by Graham Robb
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A History of the Gardens of Versailles (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
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Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de La Faloise
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Paris: Portrait of a City
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