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Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema by Rae Beth Gordon Publisher Comments Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, café -concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, “ Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?” The extraordinary emphasis... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Grandeur & Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe, 1914-1940 by Anthony Adamthwaite Publisher Comments This account of France's transition from victor in 1918 to vanquished in 1940 offers a long-overdue reassessment of all the central issues.... (read more) List Price $43.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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France, Fin de Sihcle by Eugen Weber Publisher Comments millions of fin de siè cle French lived as only thousands had lived fifty years before; while their advance was slow, their right to improvement was conceded.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dynamite Club (09 Edition) by John Merriman Publisher Comments The fascinating story of a long-forgotten "war on terror" that has much in common with our own On a February evening in 1894, a young radical intellectual named Émile Henry drank two beers at an upscale Parisian restaurant, then left behind a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna Publisher Comments Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. With Paul in the army from 1914 through 1919, they were forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Drawing upon the hundreds of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War by Jean-Yves Le Naour Publisher Comments The powerful story of a soldier who lost his memory and identity, and of a people in mourning who found in him their own missing men. In February 1918, a derelict soldier was discovered wandering the railway station in Lyon, France. With no memory of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Intellectual Founders of the Republic: Five Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Republican Political Thought by Sudhir Hazareesingh Publisher Comments In this innovative study of French political culture, Sudhir Hazareesingh re-examines the origins of modern republicanism through the writings and political practices of five key nineteenth century intellectuals: Jules Barni, Charles Dupont-White, Emile... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Glassworkers of Carmaux (Harvard Studies in Urban History) by Joan Wallach Scott Review An important book, well written and thoroughly researched. Its rather narrow focus belies its conceptual breadth and the impact of this kind of historical research on our understanding of the laboring population's experience of industrialization. John... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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France and the Nazi Threat: The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932-1939 by Jean Bapt Duroselle Publisher Comments A brilliant study by France's foremost historian of the period that details the reasons behind France's lack of response to Hitler's Germany during the 1930s and the slide toward war.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque by Kate Cambor Publisher Comments They were the children of Frances most celebrated men of nineteenth-century letters and science, the celebrity heirs and heiresses of their day. Their lives were the subject of scandal, gossip, and fascination. Léon Daudet was the son of the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Casey Harison Publisher Comments This book connects the story of a group of migrant workers to the question of why Paris became the nineteenth century's Capital of revolution, and why this stage of the city's history ended. The stonemasons were well-known for their skills, their... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Contributions to the Study of World History #55: Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914 by David M Gordon Publisher Comments This book examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the success and stability of the country's economic and political order. It focuses in particular on the... (read more) List Price $158.95 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes Publisher Comments The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world's fair that introduced it In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus by Frederick Brown Publisher Comments Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Emile Zola ("Magnificent" — The New Yorker) and Flaubert ("Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written" — The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Strapless: Madame X and the Scandal that Shocked Belle Epoque Paris by Deborah Davis Publisher Comments The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914: A Study in the Origins of the Modern French Left by Tony Judt Publisher Comments Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industrial context for the rise of socialism, Socialism in Provence 1871-1914 offers instead a reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France among the peasantry. By focusing on a... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Trade Paper
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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus by Frederick Brown Publisher Comments In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, a defeated and humiliated France split into cultural factions that ranged from those who embraced modernity to those who championed the restoration of throne and altar. This polarization—... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the Century by Hilary Spurling Publisher Comments A hundred years ago Thérèse Humbert was one of the most powerful women in France. Her salon was the center of Parisian life. Her wealth -- as the assumed illegitimate daughter of an American billionaire -- was fabled. She lived life on a grand scale... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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La Grande Therese :Therese Humbert by Hilary Spurling Synopsis Therese Humbert's life was one of wealth built solely on illusion and fantasy. When exposed in 1902, the scandal nearly destroyed the French Third Republic, and thousands of creditors were ruined. An unforgettable real-life story, this book describes the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Eiffel's Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris's Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World's Fair That Introduced It by Jill Jonnes Publisher Comments The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world's fair that introduced it In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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