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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
by David McCullough
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The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring — and until now, untold — story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830... (read more)

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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (P.S.)
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (P.S.)
by Caroline Moorehead
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They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera; a midwife; a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons... (read more)

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French Revolution : a Very Short Introduction (01 Edition)
French Revolution : a Very Short Introduction (01 Edition)
by William Doyle
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Includes bibliographical references (119-123) and index.... (read more)

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Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune
Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune
by Gay L Gullickson
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This book analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. the uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the most hotly debated episodes in modern history.... (read more)

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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
by David McCullough
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As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” In The Greater Journey, he tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and... (read more)

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Almost French
Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull
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In this lushly written follow-up to Almost French, Sarah Turnbull explores a new paradise: Tahiti. Having shared her story in her bestselling memoir, Almost French, Australian writer Sarah Turnbull seemed to have had more than her fair share of dreams... (read more)

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The Return of Martin Guerre
The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Davis
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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)

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Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime (03 Edition)
Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime (03 Edition)
by Vidocq
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Cultural Writing. Criminal exploits, secret agent intrigue, and clever disguises fill the pages of Francois Eugene Vicocq's memoirs. A legendary figure in history, Vidocq is known as the first detective and an inspiration to great writers such as Honore... (read more)

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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
by Edmund White
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Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the city they know best. These beautifully produced, pocket-sized books will provide exactly what is missing in... (read more)

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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
by Julie Kavanagh
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From the author of Nureyev, the definitive biography of the celebrated Russian dancer, now comes the astonishing and unknown story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who inspired Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel and play La dame aux camélias... (read more)

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And the Show Went on: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
And the Show Went on: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
by Alan Riding
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On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. The only consolation was that, while the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was... (read more)

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Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook
Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook
by Sara Midda
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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)

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The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
by Alicia Drake
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Drake presents a sublime and dramatic narrative about the high-chic fashion wars of 1970s Paris where two titanic geniuses and rivals, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagefeld, collided and sparked a tumultuous decade.... (read more)

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A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800
A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800
by Susan Pinkard
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Modern French habits of cooking, eating, and drinking were born in the Ancien Regime, radically breaking with culinary traditions that originated in antiquity and creating a new aesthetic. This new culinary culture saw food and wine as important links... (read more)

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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
by Eric Jager
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In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a huge crowd gathers at a Parisian monastery to witness what will become the nation's final "trial by combat" — a court-ordered duel intended to let God determine which of the two men was telling the truth. The... (read more)

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)
by Henry Brooks Adams
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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams... (read more)

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And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran
And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran
by Jacques Lusseyran
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Selected as one of USA Todays 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, this astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by... (read more)

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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
by Antonia Fraser
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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)

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News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
by Ronald Weber
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The great American exodus to Paris after World War I included not only writers and artists but journalists. They came by the score, the raw and the accomplished, and in their baggage most carried the dream of eventually becoming poets, short-story... (read more)

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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
by Kelly Devries
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A world authority on warfare in the Middle Ages offers a fresh insight into the military skills of the young girl who led the French Army to victory In 1428 a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of... (read more)

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