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by Emilie Carles  Publisher Comments Carles autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that emerged to take its place. Her account reflects the turbulent history of the twentieth century from the viewpoints of the many roles she played in it--teacher... (read more)  List Price $24.00 Your price $6.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Alistair Horne Publisher Comments La Belle France is a sweeping, grand narrative written with all the verve, erudition and vividness that are the hallmarks of the acclaimed British historian Alistair Horne. It recounts the hugely absorbing story of the country that has contributed to the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Princess Michael Of Publisher Comments Set against the stunning backdrop of Renaissance France and peopled by the titans of European history, 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 great love stories: the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments In 1804, when Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband, Napoleon, to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets hidden behind the imperial façade. To her subjects, she appeared to vet hew... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments A landmark work of French Revolution scholarship, now in its 20th anniversary edition.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hilary Spurling Publisher Comments A hundred years ago Thérèse Humbert was one of the most powerful women in France. Her salon was the center of Parisian life. Her wealth -- as the assumed illegitimate daughter of an American billionaire -- was fabled. She lived life on a grand scale... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $3.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A J B Johnston Publisher Comments A wide-ranging collection that explores many new and innovative facets of the French experience outre mer. The contributors, a mix of established experts and younger scholars, examine French activity in North America, the West Indies, Africa, and South... (read more) Your price $10.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Solterer Publisher Comments "This in an entirely new finding with extremely broad implications related to the current legal preoccupation with linguistic forms of sexual harassment."--Gabrielle M. Spiegel, author of "Romancing the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Victor Brombert Publisher Comments In an unforgettable addition to the literature of memoir, one of America's preeminent literary scholars tells his story of coming of age in France during the buildup to the Second World War. As a Jewish youth in France during the 1930s, Victor Brombert's... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Antonia Fraser
Publisher Comments Fraser's definitive biography excites compassion and regard for all aspects of her subject, immersing the reader not only in the coming-of-age of a graceful woman, but also in the unraveling of an era. 60 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kate Berridge Publisher Comments Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. This intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pierre Goubert Publisher Comments 'Presenting the regional, social and economic variety of pre-modern France, this survey of rural life examines the crucial external relationships between peasant/priest and peasant/seigneur as well as the not less important ones that existed within the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Darnton Publisher Comments When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (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 $11.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Bodanis Publisher Comments It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Chatelet, a beguiling (and married) aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton's arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein's theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments Burke's Reflections (1790) predicted with uncanny accuracy the Reign of Terror which lay ahead . . . The book, however, is far more than a supremely eloquent piece of occasional writing. For Burke is without doubt the foremost conservative British... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosemary Sullivan Publisher Comments France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupé ry, Remedios... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hilaire Belloc Publisher Comments Every few years the public becomes enamored with the story of Marie Antoinette (1755-93), the Austrian royal sent at the age of fourteen to France to marry the young prince who reigned as Louis XVI, and her time has come again. Hilaire Belloc's... (read more) List Price $9.98 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nigel Aston Publisher Comments In this masterly study, based on the latest evidence, Nigel Aston sheds new light on a dynamic period in European history and its impact on the next 200 years of religious life in France.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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