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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Proletarian Nights: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France by Ranci Publisher Comments Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancière's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not rebelling against specific hardships and conditions but... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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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: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The French (Kodansha Globe) by Theodore Zeldin Publisher Comments A BOOK FOR ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN IRRITATED, IGNORED, AMUSES, OR PERPLEXED BY THE FRENCH. French cuisine, French style, and French wine are internationally renowned and familiar, but for most of the English-speaking world, the French people remain an enigma.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 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 Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin by Elizabeth C Goldsmith Publisher Comments The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age:... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating/Pol by Sara E Melzer Publisher Comments In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Charles Dupin (1784-1873) and His Influence on France: The Contributions of a Mathematician, Educator, Engineer, and Statesman by Margaret Bradley Book News Annotation The author points out in her introduction that although a 2007 colloquium in Paris began thecorrection of historians' neglect of Charles Dupin, there has been no biography published previous to this one. Dupin was an early graduate of the Ecole... (read more) List Price $119.99 Your price: $80.39 New - Hardcover
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Joan of Arc by Kelly Devries Publisher Comments Where previous works have concentrated on the religious and feminist aspects of Joan's career, this title addresses the vital issue of what it was that made her the heroine she became. Why did the soldiers of France follow a woman into battle when no... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization #7: University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Keith Michael Baker Publisher Comments The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) by Colin Jones Publisher Comments In a tour de force, Colin Jones gives a gripping, superbly and intelligently illustrated account of the political, social and cultural history of France, placing an innovatory emphasis on the impact of regionalism, class, gender and race in French... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Concise History of France (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Roger Price Publisher Comments The new Concise History is an accessible and highly illustrated history of France, from the middle ages to Mitterrand.... (read more) List Price $102.25 Your price: $20.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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The Bon Marche: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920 by Michael B Miller Publisher Comments In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marché, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue by Otto J. Scott Publisher Comments Originally published: New York, N.Y.: Mason & Lipscomb Publishers, 1974.... (read more) List Price $23.96 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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