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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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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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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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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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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 fast-paced narrative history of World War II centered on the little explored subject of deserters A tale that redefines the ordinary soldier in the Second World War, The Deserters is a breathtaking work of historical reportage, weaving together the... (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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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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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 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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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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La Dame D'Esprit: A Biography of Marquise Du Chatelet
La Dame D'Esprit: A Biography of Marquise Du Chatelet
by Judith P Zinsser
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The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mind Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie... (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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Louvre
Louvre
by Henri Loyrette
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Candida Höfer Louvre Photographien Die Baugeschichte des Louvre geht bis ins frühe 13. Jahrhundert zurück. Er begann als vergleichweise bescheidene Königsburg, wurde unter François I., dem Freund und Gönner Leonardo da... (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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A Traveller's History of the Hundred Years War in Peace: Battlefields, Castles and Towns (Traveller's History)
A Traveller's History of the Hundred Years War in Peace: Battlefields, Castles and Towns (Traveller's History)
by Michael Starks
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-225) and index.... (read more)

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News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
by Ronald Weber
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The great American exodus to Paris after World War I included not only writers and artists but journalists. They came by the score, the raw and the accomplished, and in their baggage most carried the dream of eventually becoming poets, short-story... (read more)

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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris. by Graham Robb
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris. by Graham Robb
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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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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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... (read more)

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Paris: Portrait of a City
Paris: Portrait of a City
by Jean Claude Gautrand
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The vivid history of the capital of love and photography A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to... (read more)

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