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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 $19.50 Your price: $6.95 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(in... (read more) Your price: $28.75 New - Trade Paper
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Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman by Francine Du Plessix Gray Publisher Comments Of political and intellectual prominence, the daughter of Jacques Necker and the wife of Sweden's ambassador to the French court, Madame de Stael held the limelight as a philosopher, political figure, and prolific writer. She was demonized by Napoleon... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters (Why X Matters) by Louis Begley Publisher Comments In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr Publisher Comments “Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” —Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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 1730s 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) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Resistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France by Agnes Humbert Publisher Comments You may think you've read stories like this before, yet hers is special...Resistance was written by a woman of exceptional intelligence and courage. Her perceptions are...acute, honest and humane.--Newsday Agnes Humbert was an art historian in Paris... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Pariss public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Pariss public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and 50s,... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution) by Roger Chartier Publisher Comments Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not... (read more) Your price: $25.25 New - Trade Paper
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber Publisher Comments A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year When her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an entourage, and dressed in French attire to please the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel Publisher Comments The first major biography of one of France’s most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette’s only child to survive the revolution. Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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French Revolution : a Document Collection (99 Edition) 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 $57.85 Your price: $47.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Occitan War by Laurence W. Marvin Publisher Comments In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military... (read more) Your price: $56.75 New - Trade Paper
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France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: From Hugh Capet To Joan of Arc (93 Edition) by Georges Duby Publisher Comments In this book, now available in paperback, he examines the history of France from the rise of the Capetians in the mid-tenth century to the execution of Joan of Arc in the mid-fifteenth. He takes the evolution of power and the emergence of the French... (read more) List Price $51.75 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France by Emilie Carles Publisher Comments Emilie Carles was born in 1900 into the rigidly conservative patriarchal world of a poor and isolated peasant community in the High Alps of France. Her autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that has emerged to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda Publisher Comments Poisoner, despot, necromancer -- the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 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: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 by Michael Bess Publisher Comments The accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new "light-green" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $9.95 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 $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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