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by Louis Chevalier  Publisher Comments Published to controversial acclaim in 1977, The Assassination of Paris describes the transformation of the Paris of Raymond Queneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson; of quartiers of carpenters and Communists and country folk from the Auvergne; of dance halls... (read more)  List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Suzanne Rodriguez Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-396) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $4.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Louisa Jones Publisher Comments Originally published in 1993, Provence: A Country Almanac has sold through two printings and continues to generate sales. But much has changed in the past five years, and Jones has completely reworked the entries in this book. She has expanded her tour... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex De Tocqueville Publisher Comments The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Georges Lefebvre Review Much more than a history of 1789. . . . A synthesis, conveying a philosophy of the Revolution as a whole, such as could be written only by a seasoned scholar. . . . The smooth, careful translation preserves the literary merit of the French prose.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Childers Publisher Comments A “masterful example of nonfiction brought to life”* —the harrowing account of an aviator’s World War II journey and the two people who helped him along the way In a small village in France during the fateful summer of 1944, three... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans Jurg Lusebrink Publisher Comments This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Theodore Zeldin Publisher Comments French cuisine, French style, and French wine are internationally renowned and familiar, but for most of the English-speaking world, the French people remain an enigma. In his engaging, eye-opening book, Theodore Zeldin introduces scores of French men... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eunice Lipton Publisher Comments The author takes us on a sensual journey through her love-hate relationship with France.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Warwick Palmer Publisher Comments "Archduchesses have always been disastrous for France," Napoleon once remarked. Yet in 1810 he married Archduchess Marie Louise, the eighteen-year-old daughter of his lifelong enemy, the Emperor of Austria. On January 5, 1810, she had read in the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $4.24 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bonnie G Smith Publisher Comments In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Stewart Publisher Comments The province of Roussillon was acquired by France in 1659, just as Louis XIV reached his majority. The region was peopled by Catalans, a group with their own language, religious values, political traditions, and cultural patterns. Louis XIV and his... (read more) List Price $67.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Palmer Synopsis By 1812, when Napoleon invaded Russia, his empire covered most of Europe. The invasion ended in disaster, defeat and humiliation. In this narrative, the French campaign is followed day to day within the most intimate context of the Emperor's state of... (read more) Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments "I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916 In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J F Bosher Publisher Comments Bosher finds that the revolutionary struggle took place not in an atmosphere of sharp class alignment, but instead with socially mixed and transient groupings. He delves deeply into the prerevolutionary period, examining the stresses in the social and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alistair Horne Publisher Comments An unprecedented history of Paris--the result of a 25-year labor of love undertaken by the renowned English historian. Horne's telling of the story of Paris is as impassioned as it is comprehensive, as anecdotal as it is historically informed. A landmark... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by R R Palmer Publisher Comments This modern classic is being reissued in recognition of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. From a review of an earlier edition: "This is wholly an admirable book: it is based upon all the most recent researches and itself makes some original... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian Barnes Publisher Comments Barnes' long and passionate relationship with La Belle France began 40 years ago, and in these essays on the country and its culture, he combines a lively appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as classic haute... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Hussey Publisher Comments If Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone's... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $23.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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