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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
by Graham Robb
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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)

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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
by Graham Robb
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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)

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Pages from the Goncourt Journal (New York Review Books Classics)
Pages from the Goncourt Journal (New York Review Books Classics)
by Robert Baldick
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Love & Louis XIV
Love & Louis XIV
by Antonia Fraser
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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)

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Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
by Robert Darnton
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His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction... (read more)

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Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi
Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi
by Olivier Magny
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In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Parisians. To be mistaken for a Parisian, readers must buy the newspaper Le Monde, fold it, and walk. Then sit at a café and make phone... (read more)

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The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958
The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958
by Rosemary Wakeman
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The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Pariss public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Pariss public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and... (read more)

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When the World Spoke French
When the World Spoke French
by Marc Fumaroli
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A New York Review Books Original During the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens... (read more)

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Man in the Iron Mask
Man in the Iron Mask
by Roger Macdonald
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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)

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The Fall of Napoleon, Volume I: The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814 (Cambridge Military Histories)
The Fall of Napoleon, Volume I: The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814 (Cambridge Military Histories)
by Michael Leggiere
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Crushing defeats in Russia (1812) and Germany (1813) caused the collapse of Napoleon’s empire and brought his enemies to the Rhine River at the close of 1813. With a depleted and exhausted army, Napoleon attempted to direct the defense of his... (read more)

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Testimony: France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century
Testimony: France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century
by Nicolas Sarkozy
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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)

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Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
by Robert Gildea
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In France, the German occupation is called simply the dark years. There were only the good French who resisted and the bad French who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative history drawing on previously unseen archives, firsthand... (read more)

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Petain: Verdun to Vichy (Brassey's Military Profiles)
Petain: Verdun to Vichy (Brassey's Military Profiles)
by Robert B Bruce
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Analyzes the military career of one of the greatest, yet controversial, French military commanders of the twentieth... (read more)

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Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
by Renee Winegarten
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When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their twenties, both married, and both outsiders. She was already celebrated and a published writer, whereas he, though... (read more)

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Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France 1898-1991
Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France 1898-1991
by James F Mcmillan
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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)

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Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile (Armchair Traveller)
Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile (Armchair Traveller)
by Johannes Willms
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St Helena is one of the most remote, and yet most famous, islands in the world—it was the final place of exile for Napoleon Bonaparte until his death in 1821. The island remains a place of mystery as a unique colonial survivor, with the island... (read more)

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Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de La Faloise
Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de La Faloise
by James A Ganz
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Previously announced Edouard Baldus (1813–1889) was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-19th century. This book offers an in-depth exploration of one of his most intriguing projects—a remarkable series of views... (read more)

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A History of the Gardens of Versailles (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
A History of the Gardens of Versailles (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
by Michel Baridon
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The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. Seemingly open to the horizon, their scale is monumental. Their grand east-west axis celebrates the Sun King, even as they offer an expression of the scientific spirit of the age in... (read more)

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The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV
The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV
by Charles Drazin
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Late in 1664, the musketeer DArtagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man in the Iron Mask. From a glorious zenith as Louis XIVs first minister and Cardinal... (read more)

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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
by Charles Glass
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"[A]n impressive achievement: a boot-level take on the conflict that is fresh without being cynically revisionist." --The New Republic A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new... (read more)

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