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The Oysters of Locmariaquer (P.S.) by Eleanor Clark Publisher Comments On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel, is the little town of Locmariaquer (pronounced "loc-maria-care"). The inhabitants of this town have a special relationship to the world, for it is their efforts that... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Secret Paris of the '30s by Brassai Publisher Comments Alone, or in the company of friends, Brassa discovered and recorded the forbidden Paris of the 1930s--the sordid yet fascinating bas-monde where high society mingled with the underworld. "The Secret Paris of the '30s" is one of the most remarkable... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser Excerpt chapter one A Small Archduchess "Her Majesty has been very happily delivered of a small, but completely healthy Archduchess." Count Khevenhuller, Court Chamberlain, 1755 On 2 November 1755 the Queen-Empress was in labour all day with her... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris by Barbara Diefendorf Publisher Comments The religious conflicts of sixteenth-century France, particularly the St. Bartholomew's Day massacres of 1572, continue to draw a good deal of attention from historians. What started as a limited coup against the Huguenot leadership became instead a... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Mary Gordon Publisher Comments " A master of the story form" (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Mass Market
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 by Antony Beevor Publisher Comments In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time in years, The Days of the French Revolution brings to life the events that changed the future of Western... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Athenais the Real Queen of France by Lisa Hilton Synopsis A detailed biography of Louis XIV's principal mistress - Athenais de Montespan (1640-1707). The greatest beauty of her day, Athenais' life was lived publicly and sensationally until accusations of witchcraft forced her from power in the "Affair of the... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Petain's Crime: The Complete Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust by Paul Webster Publisher Comments A controversial in Paris, this shocking history of French collaboration in the Holocaust accuses Ptain and the Vichy government of independently and enthusiastically planning and overseeing the extermination of French Jews.... (read more) List Price $16.90 Your price: $4.40 Used - Trade Paper
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Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook by Sara Midda Publisher Comments From Sara Midda, whose first book evoked all the pleasures of an English garden, comes a wondrous sketchbook of a year's sojourn in the South of France. This is a very personal journal, crammed with images, notions and discoveries of the day-to-day. In... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner Publisher Comments In 1925 Flanner began her New Yorker “Letter from Paris,” from which most of the pieces in this collection are drawn. They give an incomparable view of French life before World War II. Edited by Irving Drutman; Index.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford Publisher Comments When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture by Julian Barnes Publisher Comments Barnes' long and passionate relationship with La Belle France began 40 years ago, and in these essays on the country and its culture, he combines a lively appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as classic haute... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Early Modern France 1560-1715 by Robin Briggs Publisher Comments Incorporating new material drawn from recent scholarship, this Second Edition offers a more complete picture of this crucial period. It also has a thoroughly updated and expanded bibliography.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Publisher Comments A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frdric... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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French Lessons: A Memoir by Alice Kaplan Publisher Comments Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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