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Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans
by Virginia Rounding  Publisher Comments In nineteenth-century Paris, the pampered demimonde became almost indistinguishable from the haut monde, with mythical reputations growing up around its most alluring and favored celebrities. Grandes Horizantales examines the lives of four of the era's...
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Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
by Hugh Brogan Publisher Comments Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of...
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The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture
by Petra Ten Boess Chu Publisher Comments The modern artist strives to be independent of the public's taste--and yet depends on the public for a living. Petra Chu argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him. In The...
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Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
by Mary Gluck Publisher Comments A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture. Contrary to conventional views...
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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
by Jean Mari Deguignet Publisher Comments Memoirs of A Breton Peasantcombines 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, opinionatedautodidact from...
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Eugenie
by Desmond Seward Synopsis Eugenie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. She impressed the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck so much that he called her The only man in Paris....
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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...
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The Life of a Simple Man
by Emile Guillaumin Synopsis A classic in France, this moving first-person story can be read as a fictional account, as well as the best kind of material for historians of 19th-century French peasant life....
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Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life
by Sheldon S Wolin Publisher Comments Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on...
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Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871
by Ronald Aminzade Publisher Comments Using class analysis to understand the dynamics of political conflict in mid-nineteenth-century France, Ronald Aminzade explores political activity among workers in three industrialized French cities--Toulouse, Saint-Étienne, and Rouen. A...
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The Journey of Martin Nadaud
by Gillian Tindall Publisher Comments An exceptional work of miniaturist history, THE JOURNEY OF MARTIN NADAUD reconstructs the experiences of an ordinary man who rose to meet the challenges posed by extraordinary times. Through the life of a little known French political figure, Gillian...
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In the Solitude of My Soul: The Diary of Genevieve Breton, 1867-1871
by James Smith Allen Publisher Comments Originally published to glowing reviews and literary prizes in France in 1985, this revealing diary not only recounts the moving and tragic relationship of its author, Geneviève Bréton, with the rising young nineteenth-century artist Henri...
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Marie d'Agoult: The Rebel Countess
by Richard Bolster Synopsis Abandoning her privileged position in society, Marie d'Agoult eloped with Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a writer under the name Daniel Stern. Drawing on her memoirs, letters and other writings, this biography sets her life against a backdrop of...
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Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de La Faloise
by James A Ganz Publisher Comments Previously announced Edouard Baldus (1813–1889) was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-19th century. This book offers an in-depth exploration of one of his most intriguing projects—a remarkable series of...
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Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century
by Bonnie G Smith Synopsis In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive...
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Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France During the Nineteenth Century
by James R Lehning Publisher Comments Peasant and French examines the relationship between French peasants and the development of the French national identity during the nineteenth century. Drawing on methods from cultural studies, social history and a broad range of literary and archival...
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The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
by Alistair Horne Synopsis From Alistair Horneas grand trilogy on French historyatwo magisterial works now back in print In 1870, Paris was the center of Europe, the font of culture, fashion, and invention. Ten months later Paris had been broken by a long Prussian siege, its...
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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...
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The Duchess of Dino: Chatelaine of Europe
by Philip Ziegler Publisher Comments The unique and fascinating life of Talleyrand’s niece, Dorothea Courland, Duchess of Dino, will grab readers’ attention and hold it fast. This first English-language biography of the Duchess paints a portrait of an intelligent, strikingly...
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Pages from the Goncourt Journal (New York Review Books Classics)
by Edmond De Goncourt Publisher Comments No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt The brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt were born into a French aristocratic family. Together they formed one of...
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