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The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena
by Jean Paul Kauffmann  Publisher Comments Like his subject, Napoleon, author Jean-Paul Kauffmann has experienced captivity, as a three-year hostage in Beirut. He brings his insider's knowledge to this moving account of the most famous French soldier's last years in seclusion on a tropical island....
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Provence: Past and Present
by Silvana Rizzi Publisher Comments Provence, a beautiful land long exalted by centuries of visitors and natives alike, is renowned for its magnificent architecture, enchanting countryside, delectable food, and fascinating history. This exquisitely illustrated volume celebrates and...
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Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850
by Karl Marx Publisher Comments 1848-50. Marx's first full application of historical materialism to an ongoing event. He analyzes the first sharp class conflict of capitalism and shows how the developing working class can lead other social strata to socialism....
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French Dreams
by Steven Rothfeld Publisher Comments In this collection of visual enchantment Steven Rothfeld presents a dreamer's celebration of France. It is the France of mist over the vineyards of Beaujolais and a sun-dappled allee in St. Remy; of shadows falling on the Place des Vosges and of fishing...
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French reaction to British slave emancipation
by Lawrence C Jennings Book News Annotation Focusing primarily on France, Jennings (history, U. of Ottawa) sheds new light on the development of French emancipation as part of a renascent humanitarian movement. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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The Man Who Would Be King: The Life of Philippe D'Orleans, Regent of France
by Christine Pevitt Publisher Comments Many consider Philippe to be France's equivalent to Richard III: a royal regent who would be accused of debauchery, treason, incest, and murder. Philippe threw Voltaire in prison and coveted the throne for himself. Once an accomplished soldier and artist,...
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Harvard Historical Monographs #0066: Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789-1795
by Philip Dawson Publisher Comments It is commonly agreed that the history of France at the end of the eighteenth century was influenced powerfully, at times decisively, by collective interests and group actions. Yet, as Philip Dawson shows, this consensus has been the foundation of...
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French Revolution From 1793 To 1799 Volume 2
by Georges Lefebvre Review "Lefebvre tells the story of what actually happened — not only in the first and most reputable years of the Revolution, but also during the times of war and terror, the Thermidorian reaction, and the Directory, up to the establishment of the...
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Child labor reform in nineteenth-century France :assuring the future harvest
by Lee Shai Weissbach Book News Annotation Weisbach (history, U. of Louisville) considers how attitudes and theories interacted with structural factors to determine not only the nature and timing of French child labor reform efforts but also the actual impact of those efforts on the nation's...
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Through French Windows: An Introduction to France in the Nineties
by James Corbett Publisher Comments A cultural portrait of contemporary France and its people that dispels persistent stereotypes and myths<BR>...
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Panorama of Paris
by Louis Sebas Mercier Publisher Comments Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sebastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris (published from 1781 to 1788), an important and original work that...
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My Blue Notebooks Pa: The Intimate Journal of Paris's Most Beautiful and Notorious
by Liane Pougy Publisher Comments Liane de Pougy, known as Paris's most beautiful and notorious courtesan, was a Folies-Bergandegravere dancer who became a princess and died a nun. Between 1919 and 1941 she wrote her intimate memoir, My Blue Notebooks. Making modern tell-alls seem...
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The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena
by Jean Paul Kauffmann Publisher Comments Like his subject, Napoleon, author Jean-Paul Kauffmann has experienced captivity, as a three-year hostage in Beirut. He brings his insider's knowledge to this moving account of the most famous French soldier's last years in seclusion on a tropical island....
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The trial of Madame Caillaux
by Edward Berenson Publisher Comments Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event...
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Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945
by Michael Burns Book News Annotation A riveting saga of six generations of a French Jewish family, from the French Revolution to the Vichy regime of WWII, but dramatically centered on the notorious Dreyfus affair of the late 1890s. Burns shows how the Dreyfus case helped shape the...
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Paris to the Moon
by Adam Uopnik Synopsis The comic-romantic adventures of an American family in Paris is penned by "The New Yorker" writer and author of the magazine's popular "Paris Journal" column. The private story is rooted in the sentimental reeducation of a weary American through the...
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The notorious life of Gyp :right-wing anarchist in fin-de-siáecle France
by Willa Z Silverman Publisher Comments The aristocratic French writer known to her readers as "Gyp" was acclaimed by Henry James as "Mistress...of one of the happiest of forms" for her satirical dialogue-novels of fin-de-sie[accent]le Parisian society, but Octave Mirbeau declared her work...
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Women of the Left Bank
by Shari Benstock Publisher Comments This is an exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century....
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Yale French Studies, 85: Discourses of Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century France
by Alan Astro Publisher Comments This volume presents voices from a paradoxical community: the Jews of France, long assimilated yet more expressive than ever of their particular concerns. It includes the first accounts of French survivors of death camps; effects of Jewish migration from...
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Paris after the Liberation, 1944-1949
by Antony Beevor Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-468) and index....
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