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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 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 $12.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dominique Reperant Publisher Comments Here are 50 of the most beautiful villages in a country famous for its rural architecture and small towns. They have been selected for their situation in a picturesque landscape, for their authentic state of preservation and for their sheer beauty and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Childers Publisher Comments A compelling narrative of the Eighth Air Force, told from the perspective of not only American flyers, but also European civilians on the ground. Thomas Childers is a master storyteller with a gift for weaving a rich social fabric around military events.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dean De La Motte Publisher Comments Much recent writing on print culture has focused on the social and political implications of the transition from "elite" to "mass" culture in the 1800s. The essays in this volume add significantly to our understanding of the role of the nineteenth... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Eleanor Clark Publisher Comments On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel, is the little town of Locmariaquer (pronounced "loc-maria-care"). The inhabitants of this town have a special relationship to the world, for it is their efforts that... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Benedetta Craveri Publisher Comments This book describes in non academic writing the world of French salons in the 17th and 18th centuries and the women who presided over them.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pierre Goubert Publisher Comments 'Presenting the regional, social and economic variety of pre-modern France, this survey of rural life examines the crucial external relationships between peasant/priest and peasant/seigneur as well as the not less important ones that existed within the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louis-be Robitaille Synopsis This is a detailed view of how French society really works, with its hidden codes, unspoken rules, tribal loyalties and attachment to the past, satirical pieces on anything and everything French from King Louis XIV to Charles de Gaulle, from... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edouard M Lockroy Publisher Comments 1881. Translated from the French by Miss Martin and an American collaborator. The French politician Lockroy derived this volume on the revolution from the letters of his great-grandmother.... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Hallie Publisher Comments During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments France's beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Princess Michael Of Publisher Comments Set against the stunning backdrop of Renaissance France and peopled by the titans of European history, The Serpent and the Moon is a true story of love, war, intrigue, betrayal, and persecution. At its heart is one of the world's great love stories: the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Diane Johnson Publisher Comments As a child, Diane Johnson was entranced by "The Three Musketeers," dashing 17th-century residents of the famous romantic quartier called St.-Germain-des-Pres. Now, the paperback edition of her delightful book will take even more Americans to the richly... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Weber Publisher Comments A bumptious narrative history of American newspapermen in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when serious journalism still went hand in hand with relative poverty, good times, and a carefree spirit cultivated by eccentric personalities. An absorbing... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Gildea Synopsis This fascinating book offers a new perspective on French history and political culture by examining how the commemoration of the past pervades French public life. The book surveys the ways that various political communities in France during the past two... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert A Nye Publisher Comments In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the "ancien ré gime" in 1789 to the end of World War I, Robert Nye argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a cultural construct, comprising a strict set... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Evans Publisher Comments Written in an accessible style and assuming no prior knowledge, the books in this series address the specific needs of students in language courses. France 1815-2003 focuses on the main events in French political history, including major socio-economic... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Merriman Synopsis Balazuc is a small medieval village carved from a limestone cliff that towers over the Ardeche River in south-central France. This book looks at the historical events that greatly affected this little village, from the French Revolution to the two World... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Briggs Publisher Comments Incorporating new material drawn from recent scholarship, this Second Edition offers a more complete picture of this crucial period. It also has a thoroughly updated and expanded bibliography.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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