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La Dame D'esprit: A Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet by Judith P. Zinsser Publisher Comments Documents the life of the French Enlightenment-era intellectual, from her aristocratic youth and controversial choice to become the mistress of Voltaire to her mathematical and scientific achievements and work as a translator of Newton.... (read more) Your price: $5.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire by Flora Fraser Publisher Comments The author of Beloved Emma examines the life and times of Napoleon's favorite sister, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese, a woman renowned at the turn of the nineteenth century as one of Europe's most beautiful women, who shocked the continent with her... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France by Penny Schine Gold Publisher Comments Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues that the complex interactions between men and women as... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $25.44 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Our Paris: Sketches from Memory by Edmund White Publisher Comments With 30 drawings by Hubert Sorin. From the Hardcover edition.... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Once upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier by J. Randy Taraborrelli Publisher Comments This is the candid and moving story of one of the world's most fascinating royal families. When Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III, she crowned her career with an ending even Hollywood would have never dared to script. Here is an honest and full... (read more) Your price: $7.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Great Cat Massacre And Other Episodes in Frenc: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton Publisher Comments Delves into the cultural history of 18th century France through an examination of events that took place during what has become to be considered "The Age of Enlightenment."... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.68 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade Publisher Comments A compassionate and comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century by Ruth Harris Publisher Comments The definitive history of the infamous scandal that shook a nation and stunned the world In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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Résistance by Agnes Humbert Publisher Comments Agn?'s Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance-very likely the first such group to fight back... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $11.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams Publisher Comments This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France. Henry Adams referred to this book as "A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity," and its expansive... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 by Michael M. Seidman Publisher Comments "[the book] offers a meticulouos and appropriately dispassionate account of the French events of May 1968. Contributing to a more complete picture of what occurred, the book would be worthwhile reading in courses on comparative experiences of the 1960s."... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille by Rosemary Sullivan Publisher Comments France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For AndrE Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-ExupEry, Remedios Varo... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax by Kate Berridge Publisher Comments Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. This intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman had both a ringside seat and a cameo role in the French Revolution, then went on to plant the seed of our obsession... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments One of history's most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette represents the extravagance and the decadence of pre-Revolution France. Yet there was an innocence about Antoinette, thrust as a child into the chillingly formal French court. Married to the... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War by Deborah A. Fraioli Publisher Comments Collects essays on the life of Joan of Arc, discussing her role in the Hundred Years War between France and England, and includes chronologies, genealogies, biographies of key players, and transcripts of primary documents.... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price: $41.67 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 by Julian Jackson Publisher Comments On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Addisonian Tradition in France: Passion and Objectivity in Social Observation by Ralph Arthur Nablow Publisher Comments This work focuses on reportorial writers in French eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who wrote in the Addisonian tradition--a tradition that has to do with the dispassionate observation of individuals and society.... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $37.72 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Paris under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 by Jeffrey H. Jackson Publisher Comments In the winter of 1910, the river that brought life to Paris quickly became a force of destruction. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created a perfect storm of conditions that soon drowned Parisian streets, homes, businesses,... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958 by Rosemary Wakeman Publisher Comments The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $27.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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