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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 Turnbullas stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and FrA(c)dA(c... (read more)  List Price $13.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Edmund White Publisher Comments “One has the impression, reading The Flâneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn’t otherwise see…Edmund White tells such... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Kladstrup Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273).... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacques Lusseyran Publisher Comments Selected as one of USA Today’s 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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Doyle Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (119-123) and index.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Solterer Synopsis Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language. Solterer investigates the debates over women... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Princess Michael Publisher Comments Set against the stunning backdrop of Renaissance France, The Serpent and the Moon is a true story of love, war, intrigue, betrayal, and persecution. At its heart is one of the world's greatest love stories: the lifelong devotion of King Henri II of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lisa Hilton Publisher Comments - As biography, as history, as a rich story superbly told, ATHENAIS will appeal to readers of Antonia Fraser, Amanda Foreman, Francine du Plessix Gray, and Alison Weir.- ATHENAIS quickly sold through three hardcover printings.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hilaire Belloc Publisher Comments A biography of Cardinal Richelieu of France—considered by many to be the founder of modern Europe—this book does not seek to make Richelieu a figure either of irrational worship or irrational hate. Belloc impartially examines Richelieu's life... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R R Palmer Publisher Comments This modern classic is being reissued in recognition of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. From a review of an earlier edition: "This is wholly an admirable book: it is based upon all the most recent researches and itself makes some original... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Karnow
Publisher Comments In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gregor Dallas Publisher Comments A history of Paris in twelve métro stops. Métro Stop Paris recounts the extraordinary and colorful history of the City of Light, by way of twelve Métro stops—a voyage across both space and time. At each stop a Parisian building, or... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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