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by Colin Jones  Publisher Comments Paris has been the center of French culture and politics, the great stage of kings, poets, and revolutionaries, the inspiration of artists, and the prize of armies since the Middle Ages. More distinguished than London, more central to world events than... (read more)  List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ted W Margadant Publisher Comments The reordering of France into a new hierarchy of administrative and judicial regions in 1791 unleashed an intense rivalry among small towns for seats of authority, while raising vital issues for the vast majority of the French population. Here Ted... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosalind H Williams Publisher Comments In "Dream Worlds," Rosalind Williams"" examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.... (read more) List Price $35.25 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Noel Parker Publisher Comments How did the French try to understand their revolution? How have writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portrayed so unprecedented an upheaval? Dr. Parker examines contemporary representations of the Revolution—political rhetoric... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hilary Spurling Synopsis Therese Humbert's life was one of wealth built solely on illusion and fantasy. When exposed in 1902, the scandal nearly destroyed the French Third Republic, and thousands of creditors were ruined. An unforgettable real-life story, this book describes the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip T Hoffman Publisher Comments The author discovers that growth cannot be explained by culture, property rights, or farm size, and argues that the real causes of growth derived from politics and gains from trade. By challenging other widely held beliefs, such as the nature of the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Emerich Acton Publisher Comments This collection of the lectures of Lord Acton on the French Revolution comprises a disciplined, thorough, and elegant history of the actual events of the bloody episode. It is as thorough a record as could be constructed in Acton's time of the actions of... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments In his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Edmund Burke excoriated French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there,... (read more) Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Paul Kauffmann Publisher Comments In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix's crowning masterwork, "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way. <P>With the same... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Saadah Publisher Comments This dynamic introduction to contemporary France analyzes the problems and possibilities of democracy in a globalizing world. Visit our website for sample chapters!... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Downie Publisher Comments Like all great cities and yet unlike any other Paris is alive and fluttering, it changes with the light, buffeted by Seine-basin breezes. This place called Paris is at once the imaginary land of literature and film, a distant view through shifting, misty... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Goodman Publisher Comments "One of the most charming, perceptive and subtle books ever written about the French by an American."--San Francisco... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Greene Publisher Comments When Jeffrey Greene, a prizewinning American poet, and Mary, his wife-to-be, a molecular biologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discover a moss-covered stone presbytery in a lovely village in the Puisaye region of Burgundy, they know they have to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Siobh Nash Marshall Publisher Comments Written in a straight-forward, concise, and at times humorous manner, Nash-Marshall's Joan of Arc acquaints the reader with a historical character who became a legend during her lifetime legend. Joan is presented to us as a brave young girl who received... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Graeme Fife Publisher Comments For the audience that made a major bestseller of Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution comes this exhaustively researched, character-driven chronicle of revolutionary terror, its victims, and the young men... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith P Zinsser Publisher Comments Zinsser vividly explores how the Marquise Du Chatelet transformed herself from courtier, wife, and mother into one of the leading intellects of the French Enlightenment.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Mari Deguignet Publisher Comments Memoirs of A Breton Peasantcombines the discovery of a fascinating document of nineteenth-century history with an extraordinary life story. As lively as an adventure novel, the account bristles with the curiosity of an alert, opinionatedautodidact from... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Ellis Publisher Comments Napoleon: From a hero to a zero <UL><LI> Illuminates Napoleon's personality and policies. </LI><LI> Traces Napoleon's imperial ambitions. </LI><LI> Distinguishes the real legacy of the Empire from legend. </LI>... (read more) List Price $19.80 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Berenson Publisher Comments Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy "Le Figaro" editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Pierre Azema Synopsis Through hundreds of photographs and documents never before or rarely seen, Collaboration and Resistance offers an unprecedented view of life in France during the German occupation in World War II. Plumbing an archival source that only recently has begun... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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