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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 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 D Hamilton Williams Publisher Comments This important study of the cause and effects of Napoleon's removal from power tracks his illustrious career through to his downfall.... (read more) Your price $6.50 (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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by Sharif Gemie Publisher Comments Moving away from a Paris-centric view of the country, this book examines developments which unfolded across France, including studies of rural socialism in Mediterranean France and peasant monarchism in the West.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Glatt Publisher Comments In all its glittering splendor and decadence, here is the uncensored story of a family bred for glory, and destined for tragedy. The jewel in the crown of Europe's lush Cote D'Azur, the fiercely independent principality of Monaco gleams like a diamond... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sheldon S Wolin Publisher Comments Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Annie Moulin Publisher Comments This book examines the social, economic and cultural evolution of the peasantry in France and its place in French society since 1789.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $7.70 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Kale Publisher Comments The salon, among the most enduring of French cultural institutions, is also one of the most misunderstood. Seen primarily as a venue for apolitical social gatherings, the salon's influence is generally believed to have ended during the French Revolution.... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard A Jackson Publisher Comments The ordines coronationis are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an extraordinarily important source for the study of individual rulers... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $31.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Feenberg Book News Annotation Both Feenberg (philosophy, San Diego State U.) and Freedman (anthropology, U. of W. Ontario), who were participants in the May 1968 uprising, present a multifaceted study. Historical background is provided through a narrative of the causes and... (read more) List Price $57.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Jager 
Publisher Comments In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Parisian monastery to witness what would become the nation’s final trial by combat: a court-ordered duel intended to let God determine which of two men was telling the truth. The... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.95 (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 Victor Brombert Publisher Comments Paris in the 1930s — melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized — provides the poetic beginning for this remarkable autobiography by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. In Trains of Thought Victor Brombert recaptures the story of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah S Reisinger Publisher Comments Reisinger examines contemporary French society's relationship with violence in an era of increased media dominance. The study's innovative and interdisciplinary approach integrates media, cinema, and literary studies to analyze how crime news functions... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francine Du Pl Gray Publisher Comments Gray draws on Louise Colet's recently discovered journals to present a compelling biography of one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. Colet defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become an award-winning writer and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $1.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Crosland Publisher Comments Mistress of Louis XIV and Louis XV, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, known as Madame de Pompadour, was a woman of remarkable grace, beauty, and wit.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Barclay Synopsis Paris--with its subtle moods, elegant charm, and sensual allure--inspires writers and visitors like no other city. A Place in the World Called Paris, now in a beautiful paperback edition, collects the twentieth century's most distinguished authors... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Price Publisher Comments The new Concise History is an accessible and highly illustrated history of France, from the middle ages to Mitterrand.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Ellis Publisher Comments This book offers a synthesis of the central issues raised in that debate and critically assesses findings of historians during the past. Beginning with Napoleon's inheritance, and ending with his legacy, the author balances the conflicting evidence for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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