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Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull
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A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frdric... ( read more)
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
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A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.... ( read more)
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French
by Jean Benoit Nadeau
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"Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why."
--Wall Street Journal
Decrypting French ideas about land, food, privacy, and... ( read more)
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Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
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Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.... ( read more)
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
by Edmund Burke
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Burke's Reflections (1790) predicted with uncanny accuracy the Reign of Terror which lay ahead . . . The book, however, is far more than a supremely eloquent piece of occasional writing. For Burke is without doubt the foremost conservative British... ( read more)
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Alison Weir
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Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor... ( read more)
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
by Leonie Frieda
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Poisoner, despot, necromancer -- the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and... ( read more)
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
by Donald Kladstrup
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273).... ( read more)
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
by Eric Jager
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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)
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by Pierre Bourdieu
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No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and... ( read more)
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Antonia Fraser
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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)
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The Judgment of Paris
by Ross King
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With consummate skill, Ross King resurrects the rivalry between the French art establishment and the artists who gave birth to the Impressionist movement. Focusing on the decade between two famous exhibitions, the shocking Salon des Refusés in... ( read more)
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French Lessons: A Memoir
by Alice Kaplan
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Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of... ( read more)
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The Journal of Helene Berr
by Helene Berr
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Following in the tradition of timeless Holocaust literature such as "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" and "Suite Francaise," this important literary contribution by a young writer presents an account of war-time Paris that is profoundly affecting and... ( read more)
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Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
by Rosemary Sullivan
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France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupé ry, Remedios... ( read more)
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A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France
by Emilie Carles
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Emilie Carles was born in 1900 into the rigidly conservative patriarchal world of a poor and isolated peasant community in the High Alps of France. Her autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that has emerged to... ( read more)
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The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France
by Jeffrey Ravel
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In the tradition of The Return of Martin Guerre, a dramatic tale of false identity, murder, and bigamy that riveted France during the reign of Louis XIV From the historian Jeffrey Ravel comes a scandalous tale of imposture that sheds new light on French... ( read more)
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Readings in Western Civilization : the Old Regime and the French Revolution, Volume VII (87 Edition)
by Keith M. (ed.) Baker
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The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization... ( read more)
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Sevigne: Selected Letters (Penguin Classics)
by Madame De Sevigne
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One of the world's great letter writers, Madame de Sevigne (1626-96) has bequeathed an extraordinarily vivid picture of life in the France of Louis XIV.... ( read more)
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by Caroline Weber
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In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France.... ( read more)
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