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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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by J H Shennan Publisher Comments J. H. Shennan surveys the reign of Louis XIV in three broad, interrelated sections which consider the character and outlook of the King, his domestic and foreign policy, and the personality cult of the Sun King. Shennan focuses particularly on the King's... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Dwyer Publisher Comments At just thirty years of age, Napoleon Bonaparte ruled the most powerful country in Europe. But the journey that led him there was neither inevitable nor smooth. This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill Harsin Publisher Comments A gripping narrative honoring the extraordinary lives of everyday citizens fighting for a new republic in Paris Between 1830 and 1848, Paris was rocked by two successful revolutions, three unsuccessful rebellions, and seven assassination attempts against... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Noone Publisher Comments "For more than three hundred years the legend of 'the man in the iron mask' has held a place on the stage of human enquiry and debate. From the time of his incarceration during the reign of Louis XIV right through to our modern day, the awful fate of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philippe Burrin Publisher Comments From 1940 to 1944, the French people adapted in a variety of ways to life under the domination of Nazi Germany. This book offers the definitive study of the choices made by ordinary French citizens during that turbulent historical period, exposing for... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill Forbes Publisher Comments French Cultural Studies: An Introduction challenges received theories about France and French culture. Taking into account the major changes which have been taking place in French Studies (with the focus shifting to a broader range of cultural forms... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matt K Matsuda Publisher Comments A multidisciplinary work, Memory of the Modern examines stock markets, tango dancers, vagabond murderers, neurology, monument destruction, and colonial policies to document how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late nineteenth and early... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven M. Zdatny Publisher Comments The problem of the general political inclinations of the petite bourgeoisie, and especially its relationship to fascism, is one of the major questions currently facing historians dealing with European society in the past one hundred years. Independent... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $3.74 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Schom Publisher Comments Chapter One "A Dangerous Islander" "I was born even as my country was perisbing." On December 17, 1778, thirty-two-year-old Carlo Maria (or Charles, as he now called himself) Buonaparte boarded a coastal vessel in the Corsican port of Ajaccio. At his... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Greene Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Presbytery How is it that real estate agents know even before they look at you, as they shout on the phone to a colleague, that you are a waste of their time? They must develop a sixth sense to spot dreamers, like us, who know nothing... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yasmina Reza Publisher Comments An enormous success in France and a media sensation around the world, Yasmina Reza’s Dawn, Dusk or Night will startle English-language readers with its utterly unorthodox (and candid and witty) portrait of a man in his quest for ultimate power.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-241) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ale Bonfante Warren Publisher Comments Bordered by the Mediterranean to the South, Alpine chains to the east and northeast, and the Rhone on the West, Provence has been home to popes and peasants, kings and queens, saints and sinners, and writers, painters, and artists of every description... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah Davis 
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-293) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carmen Callil Publisher Comments Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and con men — Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and "Commissioner for Jewish Affairs," who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, "controlling" its Jewish... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Emilie Carles Publisher Comments Emilie Carles was born in 1900 into the rigidly conservative patriarchal world of a poor and isolated peasant community in the High Alps of France. Her autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that has emerged to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $2.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Melanie Rand Miller Publisher Comments An American Founding Father??'s important contributions to the French... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Mcstay Adams Publisher Comments In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained. In this... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $7.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Davies Publisher Comments France and the Second World War is a concise introduction to a crucial and controversial period of French history - world war and occupation. During World War Two, France had the dramatic experience of occupation by the Germans and the legacy of this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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