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The Master and Minerva
by Helen Solterer  Publisher Comments "This in an entirely new finding with extremely broad implications related to the current legal preoccupation with linguistic forms of sexual harassment."--Gabrielle M. Spiegel, author of "Romancing the...
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Marie Antoinette
by Hilaire Belloc Publisher Comments Every few years the public becomes enamored with the story of Marie Antoinette (1755-93), the Austrian royal sent at the age of fourteen to France to marry the young prince who reigned as Louis XVI, and her time has come again. Hilaire Belloc's...
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The Coming of the French Revolution: With a New Preface by R.R. Palmer (Princeton Paperbacks)
by Georges Lefebvre Review Much more than a history of 1789. . . . A synthesis, conveying a philosophy of the Revolution as a whole, such as could be written only by a seasoned scholar. . . . The smooth, careful translation preserves the literary merit of the French prose....
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French Spirits: A House, a Village, and a Love Affair in Burgundy
by Jeffrey Greene Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Presbytery How is it that real estate agents know even before they look at you, as they shout on the phone to a colleague, that you are a waste of their time? They must develop a sixth sense to spot dreamers, like us, who know nothing...
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Louis XIV
by J H Shennan Publisher Comments J. H. Shennan surveys the reign of Louis XIV in three broad, interrelated sections which consider the character and outlook of the King, his domestic and foreign policy, and the personality cult of the Sun King. Shennan focuses particularly on the King's...
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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One
by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments "I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916 In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped...
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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-241) and index....
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The French Revolution (Revolutions in the Modern World)
by J F Bosher Publisher Comments Bosher finds that the revolutionary struggle took place not in an atmosphere of sharp class alignment, but instead with socially mixed and transient groupings. He delves deeply into the prerevolutionary period, examining the stresses in the social and...
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The Bastille: A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom (Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution)
by Hans Jurg Lusebrink Publisher Comments This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to...
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Man Behind the Iron Mask
by John Noone Publisher Comments "For more than three hundred years the legend of 'the man in the iron mask' has held a place on the stage of human enquiry and debate. From the time of his incarceration during the reign of Louis XIV right through to our modern day, the awful fate of the...
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
by R R Palmer Publisher Comments This modern classic is being reissued in recognition of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. From a review of an earlier edition: "This is wholly an admirable book: it is based upon all the most recent researches and itself makes some original...
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Napoleon and Marie Louise: The Emperor's Second Wife
by Alan Warwick Palmer Publisher Comments "Archduchesses have always been disastrous for France," Napoleon once remarked. Yet in 1810 he married Archduchess Marie Louise, the eighteen-year-old daughter of his lifelong enemy, the Emperor of Austria. On January 5, 1810, she had read in the...
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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...
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Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot's Chapel and Other Haunts of St.-Germain (National Geographic Directions)
by Diane Johnson Publisher Comments As a child, Diane Johnson was entranced by "The Three Musketeers," dashing 17th-century residents of the famous romantic quartier called St.-Germain-des-Pres. Now, the paperback edition of her delightful book will take even more Americans to the richly...
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Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France
by Robert A Nye Publisher Comments In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the "ancien ré gime" in 1789 to the end of World War I, Robert Nye argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a cultural construct, comprising a strict set...
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The Politics of Survival: Artisans in Twentieth-Century France
by Steven M. Zdatny Publisher Comments The problem of the general political inclinations of the petite bourgeoisie, and especially its relationship to fascism, is one of the major questions currently facing historians dealing with European society in the past one hundred years. Independent...
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Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier
by J Ran Taraborrelli Publisher Comments From master storyteller Taraborrelli comes the powerful and moving story of one of royalty's most secretive families, led by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, told with passion and sympathy. photos....
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Ceremonial City
by Robert Schneider Publisher Comments From public executions to religious processions to political festivities, Toulouse's ceremonial life was remarkably rich in the decades prior to the French Revolution. In an engaging portrait that conveys this provincial city in all its splendor and...
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Marie d'Agoult: The Rebel Countess
by Richard Bolster Publisher Comments Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d'Agoult (1805-76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in society, she eloped with her great love, the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a...
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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
by Regine Pernoud Publisher Comments One feels closer to Joan in these pages than in any modern biographies.--Saturday...
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