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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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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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Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue by Otto J Scott Book News Annotation American historian and biographer Scott (1919-2006) characterizes Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) as one of those grey bureaucrats that so often take over a revolution when the revolutionaries have shuffled off the stage. He chronicles how the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $20.07 New - Trade Paper
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Storm and Conquest: The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809 by Stephen Taylor Publisher Comments The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's navy and France. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India--and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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France Since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society by Charles Sowerwine Publisher Comments This fascinating, authoritative history describes the great political, economic, cultural, and social events that have defined the period, from the convulsive establishment of a French republic to the apotheosis of French national culture in World War I,... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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France in the Age of Organization: Technicians, Culture and Politics from the 1920s to Vichy by Jackie Clarke Publisher Comments This book will change the way that historians think about the recent history of France. It challenges not only conventional narratives of the origins and nature of the French 'economic miracle', but the very categories that have been used to make sense... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $53.60 New - Hardcover
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Confessions of a Concierge by Bonnie G Smith Synopsis Bonnie Smith weaves biography and oral history into this vivid life of Madame Lucie, concierge of a Paris apartment building] and witness of nearly a century of French history. Both Smith and Madame Lucie are brilliant, flexible storytellers who present... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of the Gardens of Versailles (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Michel Baridon Publisher Comments 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) List Price $59.95 Your price: $38.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Seducing the French: Dilemma of Americanization by Richard Kuisel Publisher Comments When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea Publisher Comments For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon’s final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. Children of the Revolution... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Concise History of France 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 $21.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Regeneration and Hegemony: Franco-Batavian Relations in the Revolutionary Era, 1795-1803 (Legal History Library) by Raymond Kubben Book News Annotation The series editor offers an introductory note explaining that this is the first volume in a new series titled "Studies in the History of International Law." He describes the series as a response to increased scholarly interest in the history of... (read more) List Price $222.50 Your price: $142.04 New - Hardcover
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Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France 1898-1991 by James F Mcmillan Publisher Comments Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has now been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My France: Politics, Culture, Myth by Eugen Weber Publisher Comments Fifty years after reaching France by way of school in England, Eugen Weber presents a series of illuminations on the country he loves, and whose civilization he has made the centre of his life's work. "My France" focuses on some of the most intriguing... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Adventures in the French Trade: Fragments Toward a Life (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jeffrey Mehlman Synopsis This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar/critic of matters French (and a key figure in the naturalization of French "theory" in English) than a series of differently angled fragments, episodes, each with its attendant surprise, in... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $14.71 New - Trade Paper
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National Geographic Traveler: Australia, 4th Edition (National Geographic Traveler Australia) by Roff Martin Smith Publisher Comments A jewel of the Southern Hemisphere, Australia offers visitors a fascinating blend of gorgeous beaches, dramatic Outback vistas, unique animal and plant life, and glittering cosmopolitan cities. In National Geographic Traveler: Australia, 3rd Edition... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.73 New - Trade Paper
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