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La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life by Elaine Sciolino Publisher Comments France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more. It is the key to... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu Publisher Comments No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour by Joan Dejean Publisher Comments What makes fashionistas willing to pay a small fortune for a particular designer accessory -- a luxe handbag, for example? Why is it that people all over the world share the conviction that a special occasion only becomes really special when a champagne... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton Publisher Comments When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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French Cafe by Marie France Boyer Synopsis An intimate look at the institution of the French cafe, from the grand establishments dating from the beginning of the century to the small rural bistro. From Directoire decoration to Starck style, this book reveals the rich variety and inventiveness of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life in the French Country House by Mark Girouard Publisher Comments Mark Girouard, author of Life in the English Country House and other superb books, extends his realm to France in this perceptive and witty portrait of the upper classes at home in their châteaux, manoirs, and gentilhommières. ... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Singing Our Way to Victory (Music Culture) by Regina M Sweeney Publisher Comments The practice of singing and songwriting in France during the Great War provides an intriguing tool for the exploration of the French cultural politics of the epoch. Responding to the dearth of cultural studies of the First World War, Regina Sweeney's... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $16.00 Used - Hardcover
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French Bourgeois Culture by Beatrix Lewita Publisher Comments This witty, observant ethnography decodes the culture that dominates France.... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Friend Or Foe an Anglo Saxon History of France by Alistair Horne Publisher Comments A century after the Entente Cordiale ended centuries of war and enmity between France and Britain, and two hundred years after the coronation of Britain's deadly enemy, Napoleon Bonaparte, as Emperor, Alistair Horne contemplates two thousand years of... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age by Harvey A. Levenstein Publisher Comments A colorful, illustrated history traces the course of Americans' adventures in France from the eighteenth century to the present; their attitudes toward French food, sex, and culture; and the changing relationship of tourism and economic class. UP.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $18.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France: Franche-Comtaaa1/2 and Absolute Monarchy, 1674-1715 (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe) by Darryl Dee Publisher Comments Driven by a desire for glory and renown, Louis XIV presided over France's last great burst of territorial expansion in Europe. During the first three decades of his rule, his armies conquered numerous territories along France's borders. After 1688... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $53.60 New - Hardcover
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Memoirs of the Comtesse De Boigne Volume 1 by Comtesse De Boigne Publisher Comments “We must rejoice at the publication of these memoirs. . . . Providing portraits and some unforgettable scenes with a keen sense of detail, Mme de Boigne’s memoirs were greatly admired by Marcel Proust.”—Victor... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Something To Declare by Julian Barnes Synopsis A collection of essays on France from Julian Barnes. Written over a 20 year period, the topics Barnes covers range from landscape to literature, food to flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Peasantry and Society in France Since 1789 by Annie Moulin Publisher Comments This book examines the social, economic and cultural evolution of the peasantry in France and its place in French society since 1789.... (read more) List Price $120.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sixty Million Frenchman Cant Be Wrong by Jean Benoit Nadeau Publisher Comments The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans. They work 35-hour weeks and take seven weeks' paid holiday each year, yet they are the world's... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Babette: Elisabeth Ullman Wills by Constance Crawford Publisher Comments As we quickly learn from Constance Crawford's perceptive and engaging memoir, it was in Babette's nature, in the genes and circumstances she inherited from both her mother and her father, to go against the grain of the high French bourgeoisie into which... (read more) List Price $18.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of Survival: Artisans in Twentieth-century France by Steven M. Zdatny Publisher Comments The problem of the general political inclinations of the petite bourgeoisie, and especially its relationship to fascism, is one of the major questions currently facing historians dealing with European society in the past one hundred years. Independent... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price: $111.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Notes and Remembrances, 1871-1872 by Hal Book News Annotation French librettist and novelist Hal... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $28.47 New - Hardcover
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