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by David Lee Rubin  Publisher Comments A broad-based, innovative survey of rewriting in several modalities, this volume includes translation, adaptation, recycling, appropriation, and remediation, along with the effect of each on form and meaning, kind and canon, historical and discursive... (read more)  List Price $49.95 Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by J Ran Taraborrelli Publisher Comments From master storyteller Taraborrelli comes the powerful and moving story of one of royalty's most secretive families, led by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, told with passion and sympathy. photos.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Meg Ostrum Publisher Comments Of the thousands of people who escaped through the Pyrenees during World War II, at least one hundred owe their lives to a daring scheme that Belgian Charles Schepens masterminded in Mendive, a remote Basque village near the French-Spanish border. The... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Schneider Publisher Comments From public executions to religious processions to political festivities, Toulouse's ceremonial life was remarkably rich in the decades prior to the French Revolution. In an engaging portrait that conveys this provincial city in all its splendor and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Regine Pernoud Publisher Comments One feels closer to Joan in these pages than in any modern biographies.--Saturday... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marthe Cohn Publisher Comments Marthe Cohn was a beautiful young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas Porch Book News Annotation A scholarly but highly readable account of France's intelligence networks, from the "black chambers" of the ancien regime and Napoleon to the formation of the SDECE (CIA) and the DST (FBI). The events chronicled range from the Dreyfus Affair, to WWI... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by A Corbin Publisher Comments My task is piecing together a puzzle... I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished.... I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance... to become part of the memory of his century. With these words, Alain... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Scholl Latour Publisher Comments Dieser repräsentative Landes-Bildband lädt auf 72 Seiten in Bild und Text zu einer touristischen Rundreise durch das SAARLAND, der Grenzregion zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich ein. Er zeigt einen Querschnitt der wechselvoll anmutigen... (read more) Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gabriel P Weisberg Publisher Comments "It is clear what American consumers of the 1940s and 1950s had to gain from a dreamworld Montmartre, from a paradise of sexual and expressive freedom, artfully disguised as high culture. In this fascinating work, we finally learn what its inventors took... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gabrielle M Spiegel Publisher Comments In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Evelyne Lever Publisher Comments A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Judt Publisher Comments Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Aubrey Burl Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-271) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Louis Bergeron Review Bergeron, a distinguished French historian with sympathies for the school, has produced an excellent social history of France in the Napoleonic period.... Highly recommended.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Melinda Camb Porter Publisher Comments Melinda Camber Porter has interviewed the most prominent Parisian cultural figures of the ’70s and ’80s. The dominant trends in French artistic and political thought emerge vividly from an array of portraits and dialogues. As a whole, Through... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Albert Soboul Publisher Comments Albert Soboul has held the Chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbone since 1967, and is probably the leading Marxist scholar working in that field today. The book translated here should be regarded more as a synopsis of Professor... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lisa Hilton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-341) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishments and follies, exploring in detail his intimate... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Roche Publisher Comments In his collective portrait of the common people, Roche offers a rich and fascinating description of their lives--their housing, food, dress, financial dealings, literature, domestic life, and leisure time. Roche's highly readable style and use of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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