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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” In The Greater Journey, he tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring — and until now, untold — story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Napoleon's Campaigns in Italy by Philip Haythornthwaite Publisher Comments In January 1794 the French 'Army of Italy' was commanded by General Dumerbion and he acknowledged a great debt to his 25-year-old commander of artillery - Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution had resulted in major changes in the military system... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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French Revolution and Human Rights (96 Edition) by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights.... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass Publisher Comments An unforgettable portrait of the diverse American community in Paris during the occupation. From the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, Americans in Paris recounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival under the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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1812: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia by Paul Britten Austin Publisher Comments This unique paperback brings together in one volume Paul Britten Austin's acclaimed and atmospheric trilogy on Napoleon's Russian campaign, allowing the reader to trace the course of Napoleon's doomed soldiers from the crossing of the Niemen in June 1812... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Donald Kladstrup Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273).... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments Frances beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip Hallie Publisher Comments During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Forging Napoleon's Grande Armee: Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808 (Warfare and Culture) by Michael J. Hughes Publisher Comments Our consumer culture sets exacting standards and norms for what constitutes an ideal child. The tough realities of life often create children and child-bearing and rearing circumstances that are outside the ideal. How do women whose experiences don't... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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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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Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France by Gayle K. Brunelle PW Review "On May 16, 1937, Laetitia Toureaux, a 29-year-old Italian-born factory worker, was murdered in an otherwise empty first-class compartment on a Paris mtro train. The case has never been solved, and the case files were ordered sealed for 101 years. In... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $38.50 New - Hardcover
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The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The French Revolution: A Document Collection by Laura Mason Publisher Comments Ideal either as a textbook or anthology, this volume encompasses the entire chronology of the Revolution, while highlighting the political, cultural, and social diversity of the period.... (read more) List Price $82.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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,... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Making of Revolutionary Paris (04 Edition) by David Garrioch Publisher Comments The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Don Kladstrup Publisher Comments In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (2ND 06 Edition) by Mack P. Holt Publisher Comments This book is a new edition of Mack P. Holt's classic study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation, it shows how religion infused both... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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