|
France
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
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 $21.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses by Regine Pernoud Publisher Comments First published in the United States in 1966 by Stein and Day.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments A boxed set containing the first two bestselling volumes of Peter Mayles hilarious and heartwarming adventures living in the Provence region of France. A Year in Provence In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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 $32.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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 $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence (Most Beautiful Villages) by Michael Jacobs Publisher Comments From one of the most famous coastlines in the world, the Cote d'Azur, to the hills and mountains of the Luberon, the variety and culture of its villages are astounding. It is in such small communities as those so beautifully photographed by Hugh Palmer... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France by Peter Mayle Review "Mayle's prose is, as ever, as pure and welcoming as a glass of the house wine at a Provençal cafe." --The Philadelphia Inquirer From the Hardcover edition.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Reinterpreting the French Revolution by Bailey Stone Publisher Comments This book provides a synthesis of the most recent scholarly literature on the diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultural history of eighteenth-century and revolutionary France. On the basis of that synthesis, and current theoretical writing on... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Donald Kladstrup Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273).... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Virtue and Terror (Revolution!) by Maximil Robespierre Publisher Comments Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Age of Napoleon (63 Edition) by By J. Christopher Herold Publisher Comments THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects — political, cultural, military... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip Hallie Publisher Comments During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Most Beautiful Villages of France (Most Beautiful Villages) by Dominique Reperant Publisher Comments Here are 50 of the most beautiful villages in a country famous for its rural architecture and small towns. They have been selected for their situation in a picturesque landscape, for their authentic state of preservation and for their sheer beauty and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
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
add to wish list |
|
Paris in the Fifties by Stanley Karnow Publisher Comments This "New York Times" bestseller chronicles a beautiful and bygone era in the history of the world's most alluring city, from the vantage point of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a part of it. 20 line drawings.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Radiance of France Nuclear Power & Natio by Gabrielle Hecht Publisher Comments Winner of the 1999 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association. and Winner of the 2001 Edelstein Prize (formerly the Dexter Prize) presented by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). This award is given to the author of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Publisher Comments The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in Paris. "This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabet De Feydeau Publisher Comments A new perspective on Marie Antoinette and the French court told through the story of her personal perfumer, Jean-Louis... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Parisians (11 Edition) by Graham Robb Publisher Comments This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten. A young artillery lieutenant,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
