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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle  Publisher Comments In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures...
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War
by Graham Robb Publisher Comments A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even...
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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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Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light
by David Burke Publisher Comments No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work and their...
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Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue
by Robert Zaretsky Publisher Comments In the French Camargue—the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern “nation” of Occitania—the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. How this came to be—how the...
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Oxford History of French Revolution (2ND 02 Edition)
by William Doyle Publisher Comments This second edition of the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the French Revolution draws on a wealth of new research in order to reassess the greatest of all revolutions. It includes a generous chronology of events and an extended...
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The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
by Colin Jones Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-614) and index....
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W Tuchman Synopsis "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of...
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Antonia Fraser 
Publisher Comments France’s 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...
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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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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments France's 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 fascination so...
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Dawn, Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy
by Yasmina Reza Publisher Comments An enormous success in France and a media sensation around the world, Yasmina Reza’s Dawn, Dusk or Night will startle English-language readers with its utterly unorthodox (and candid and witty) portrait of a man in his quest for ultimate power....
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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...
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Marie Antoinette
by Antonia Fraser Synopsis Biography of the extravagant and frivolous queen Marie-Antoinette, examining her influence over King Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her imprisonment, death threats, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial, and eventual...
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France Under Napoleon
by Louis Bergeron Review Bergeron, a distinguished French historian with sympathies for the school, has produced an excellent social history of France in the Napoleonic period.... Highly recommended....
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Wine and War : the French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure (01 Edition)
by Donald Kladstrup Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273)....
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Invention of the Restaurant : Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (00 Edition)
by Rebecca L. Spang Publisher Comments Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating to be an enjoyable leisure activity or even a serious pastime? To find the answer to these questions, we must accompany Rebecca Spang back to France in the eighteenth century, when a...
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The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics)
by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments The book that established Thomas Carlyle’s reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid...
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Paris by Metro: An Underground History
by Arnold Delaney Synopsis Delaney's text is full of illuminating insights into hidden corners of the history of the world's most elegant city. The text is complemented by color photography that takes a slightly idiosyncratic look at Paris as well as giving a taste of the...
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Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugfne Atget's Paris
by Christopher Rauschenberg Publisher Comments Between 1888 and 1927 Eug?ne Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environments, capturing in thousands of photographs the city's parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the late...
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