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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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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant by Jean Mari Deguignet Publisher Comments A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth... (read more) List Price $25.75 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Courtesans: the Demi-monde in 19TH-century France by Joanna Richardson Publisher Comments Richardson pens a colorful portrait of twelve of the most famous courtesans; women who encrusted bathroom taps with jewels, fought duels in the Bois de Boulogne, scandalized society, influenced the press and politics, and ensnared the husbands and lovers... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century by Jonathan Miles Publisher Comments The Wreck of the Medusa is a spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, historian Jonathan Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Louis XVIII by Philip Mansel Publisher Comments Louis XVIII, is often considered a nonentity whose weaknesses, apathy, greed, insensitivity, were flagrant, and whose virtues, prudence, imperturbability, moderation, were unspectacular. Mansel sets out to prove he deserves better. The author considers... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.95 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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The Journey of Martin Nadaud by Gillian Tindall Publisher Comments An exceptional work of miniaturist history, The Journey of Martin Nadaud reconstructs the experiences of an ordinary man who rose to meet the challenges posed by extraordinary times. Through the life of a little known French political figure, Gillian... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Marie D'Agoult: The Rebel Countess by Richard Bolster Publisher Comments Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d'Agoult (1805-76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in society, she eloped with her great love, the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a... (read more) Your price: $35.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Lafayette & the Liberal Ideal, 1814-1824: Politics & Conspiracy in an Age of Reaction by Sylvia Neely Publisher Comments Sylvia Neely provides both the first scholarly study of Lafayettes life after the French Revolution and a detailed analysis of French politics during the early Restoration. Lafayette, advocating a liberalism based on the American example, used both... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Marie d'Agoult: The Rebel Countess by Richard Bolster Publisher Comments Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d'Agoult (1805-76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in society, she eloped with her great love, the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Republican Experiment, 1848-1852 (Cambridge History of Modern France) by Maurice Agulhon Publisher Comments 'Before 1848, France had been ruled by the \'July Monarchy\', a liberal regime without democratic participation. After 1852, France was to be ruled by the Second Empire, an anti-liberal regime with some democratic participation. In the intervening period,... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Herculine Barbin by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant by Jean-Marie Deguignet Publisher Comments Memoirs of A Breton Peasant combines the discovery of a fascinating document of nineteenth-century history with an extraordinary life story. As lively as an adventure novel, the account bristles with the curiosity of an alert, opinionated autodidact from... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de La Faloise by James A Ganz Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy by Donny Gluckstein Publisher Comments When Parisian workers established the world's first workers' democracy, there were no blueprints for the society they might build. This detailed study examines their brief experiment in collective social, economic, and political equality, with attention... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan Publisher Comments Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments In nineteenth-century Paris, the pampered demimonde became almost indistinguishable from the haut monde, with mythical reputations growing up around its most alluring and favored celebrities. Grandes Horizantales examines the lives of four of the era's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century by Jonathan Miles Publisher Comments In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail. She never arrived at her destination. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $11.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant by Jean Marie Deguignet Publisher Comments A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris Synopsis Splendidly researched, this magisterial history explores the world's greatest Catholic healing shrine and the remarkable devotion it still inspires in a secular age. 8-page color insert. Illustrations throughout.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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