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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (P.S.) by Caroline Moorehead Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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French Revolution : a Very Short Introduction (01 Edition) by William Doyle Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (119-123) and index.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune by Gay L Gullickson Synopsis 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) List Price $26.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments 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) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $23.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime (03 Edition) by Vidocq Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis by Julie Kavanagh Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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And the Show Went on: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia Drake Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 by Susan Pinkard Publisher Comments 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) List Price $41.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Jager Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics) by Henry Brooks Adams Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran by Jacques Lusseyran Synopsis 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 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: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars by Ronald Weber Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Joan of Arc by Kelly Devries Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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