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A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments A boxed set containing the first two bestselling volumes of Peter Mayles hilarious and heartwarming adventures living in the Provence region of France. A Year in Provence In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Publisher Comments In this lushly written follow-up to Almost French, Sarah Turnbull explores a new paradise: Tahiti. Having shared her story in her bestselling memoir, Almost French, Australian writer Sarah Turnbull seemed to have had more than her fair share of dreams... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics) by Henry Brooks Adams Publisher Comments Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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France in the New Century: Portrait of a Changing Society by John Ardagh Publisher Comments In this authoritative work, John Ardagh explores the lives, society, and cultural fabric of the French people, illuminating this influential and stimulating-if sometimes exasperating-nation. From cultured and stressful Paris to the increasingly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The French Party System by Jocelyn A J Evans Publisher Comments This book provides a complete overview of political parties in France. The social and ideological profiles of all the major parties are analyzed chapter by chapter, highlighting their principal functions and dynamics within the system. This examination... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Petain: Verdun to Vichy (Brassey's Military Profiles) by Robert B Bruce Publisher Comments Analyzes the military career of one of the greatest, yet controversial, French military commanders of the twentieth... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars by Ronald Weber Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Social Change in Modern France: Towards a Cultural Anthropology of the Fifth Republic by Henri Mendras and Alistair Cole Publisher Comments Social Change in Modern France is a concise and lucid account of the profound transformations that have reshaped French society over the past thirty years. The authors show how the characteristic institutions of the Third Republic have been weakened... (read more) List Price $47.75 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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The Master and Minerva by Helen Solterer Publisher Comments Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language. Solterer investigates the debates over women... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Coming of the French Revolution: With a New Preface by R.R. Palmer (Princeton Paperbacks) by Georges Lefebvre Review Much more than a history of 1789. . . . A synthesis, conveying a philosophy of the Revolution as a whole, such as could be written only by a seasoned scholar. . . . The smooth, careful translation preserves the literary merit of the French prose.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.71 Used - Trade Paper
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Louis XIV by J H Shennan Publisher Comments J. H. Shennan surveys the reign of Louis XIV in three broad, interrelated sections which consider the character and outlook of the King, his domestic and foreign policy, and the personality cult of the Sun King. Shennan focuses particularly on the King's... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-241) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Petains Crime by Paul Webster Publisher Comments An account of the fate of Jews under the wartime Vichy government. This text examines the role of Marechal Philippe Petain in the persecution and mass murder of Jews under the Vichy government. It provides an account of this national "hero" and "saviour",... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Man Behind the Iron Mask by John Noone Publisher Comments "For more than three hundred years the legend of 'the man in the iron mask' has held a place on the stage of human enquiry and debate. From the time of his incarceration during the reign of Louis XIV right through to our modern day, the awful fate of the... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Napoleon Publisher Comments Called an outstanding work of popular history by The New York Times, this book is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality, as well as the portrait of an entire age. The author explores relevant political, cultural, military, commercial... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Deeds of Louis the Fat by Suger Publisher Comments This book presents the first English language translation of the deeds of a major figure in French history, King Louis the Fat (1108-1137), a text frequently cited in textbooks and monographs.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip Hallie Publisher Comments During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Terrible Year the Paris Commune 1871 by Alistair Horne Publisher Comments From the author of "The Price Of Glory: Verdun 1961" and "The Age Of Napoleon". A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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