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Andress, David The French Revolution and the People Hambledon and London 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1175758. ISBN #1852855401 / 9781852855406. (filed under: France ) *
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ANTOINETTE; Fraser, Antonia Marie Antoinette: The Journey Random House, Inc. 2001 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176357. ISBN #0307277747 / 9780307277749. (filed under: France ) *
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Beik, William Louis XIV and Absolutism : A Brief Study with Documents St. Martin's Press 2000 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1164234. ISBN #031213309X / 9780312133092. (filed under: France ) *
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Bidault, Georges Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault Praeger 1965 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1153918. (filed under: France ) *
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Braudel, Fernand and translated by Sian Reynolds The Identity Of France Volume Two: People And Production HarperCollinsPublishers 1990 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141936. ISBN #0060162120 / 9780060162122. (filed under: France ) *
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Brown, Frederick For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus Alfred A. Knopf 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1171173. ISBN #0307266311 / 9780307266316. (filed under: France ) *
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Brown, Michael and Sybil Food & Wine of France: Bordeaux to the Pays Basque A Gastronomic Guide Exeter Books 1984 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160211. ISBN #0671059688 / 9780671059682. (filed under: France ) *
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Buckman, Peter Lafayette: A Biography Paddington Press Ltd 1977 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168802. ISBN #0448220601 / 9780448220604. (filed under: France ) *
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Burningham, John John Burningham's France DK CHILDREN 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101103. ISBN #0789425572 / 9780789425577. (filed under: France ) *
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Burningham, John John Burningham's France DK CHILDREN 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101103. ISBN #0789425572 / 9780789425577. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Burningham b. 1936 is an English author and illustrator of children's books, especially picture books for young children. Burningham won the 1963 and 1970 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration. The first was for his debut as illustrator and author , Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers, named one of the top ten winning works for the 50th anniversary of the Medal 1955-2005 . His second Greenaway Medal winner, Mr. Gumpy's Outing 1970 , is his work most widely held in World Catalog participating libraries, and it also won the annual Boston Globe-Horn Book Award U.S. in the picture books category. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator, Burningham was one of five finalists in 2012 and in 2014 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. He was the U.K. national nominee in 1980 and 1986. Burningham has contributed to more than sixty other books including Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car by Ian Fleming. He has a house in the South of France and has captured the essence of France and England in his books. In this adult picture book. Burningham makes and selects images of the lifestyle of modern France with generous wit and satiric affection. "How can you expect any kind of agreement from Frenchmen in a country where there are 270 different kinds of cheese?" asks Charles de Gaulle. Pate de foie gras, an evenomh game of boules, the Moulin Rouge, the Cannes Film Festival, April in Paris, August anywhere else ..... in this brilliantly witty book, John Burningham celebrates the nation and culture that is France.
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Carlyle, Thomas French Revolution : a History Modern Library hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1169490. (keywords: French History) (filed under: France ) *
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Cobb, Richard and edited by David Gilmour The French and Their Revolution: Selected Writings John Murray 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1173733. ISBN #0719554616 / 9780719554612. (filed under: France ) *
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Coburn, Jennifer We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047473v1. ISBN #1402288638 / 9781402288630. (filed under: France ) *
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Coburn, Jennifer We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047473v1. ISBN #1402288638 / 9781402288630. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late. Even though her husband can't join them, even though she's nervous about the journey, and even though she's perfectly healthy, Jennifer is determined to jam her daughter's mental photo album with memories just in case. From the caf s of Paris to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Jennifer and Katie take on Europe one city at a time, united by their desire to see the world and spend precious time together. In this heartwarming generational love story, Jennifer reveals how their adventures helped vanquish her fear of dying...for the sake of living. "Brimming with joie de vivre " Jamie Cat Callan, author of Ooh La La French Women's Secrets to Feeling Beautiful Every Day "Coburn proves as adept at describing the terrain of the human heart as she is the gardens of Alc zar or the streets of Paris." Claire and Mia Fontaine, authors of the bestselling Come Back and Have Mother, Will Travel
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Collins, Lauren When in French: Love in a Second Language 2016 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149779. ISBN #1594206449 / 9781594206443. (filed under: France ) *
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Daley, Robert Portraits Of France 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082268. ISBN #0316171859 / 9780316171854. (filed under: France ) *
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Daley, Robert Portraits Of France 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082268. ISBN #0316171859 / 9780316171854. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Publishers Weekly Freely mixing travelogue, history and offhand cultural commentary, Daley's serendipitous journey appraises France's soul. Whether he is expressing consternation at Avignon's immense Palace of the Popes, monument to medieval extravagance, or tracking the legend of bike racer Jacques Anquetil, Daley has a knack for the telling detail, the unusual observation. A few of these 19 vignettes delve into little-known events, like the building of French concentration camps in the Pyrenees during WW II. Among the indelible portraits we find those of French soldier- politican-aristocrat Lafayette, Grace Kelly, Scottish novelist Tobias Smollett inventor of the fabulous Riviera'' mystique and De Gaulle, an obscure brigadier general in 1940 worried mainly about his wife and retarded daughter. Other pieces deal with Lourdes, Bordeaux, a perfume factory in Grasse, Jules Massenet writing operas in Paris and the Sansons family, which operated the guillotine through six generations. Library Journal Popular writer Daley whips up a delightful blend of history and anecdote mixed with a little travelog to provide an intimate, refreshing look at France. Each chapter draws a revealing portrait of a place. As much as possible, I have based my descriptions on scars that can still be seen today,'' Daley writes, "scars on the national body, each one dating from some accident in its past.'' All of the familiar cities Paris, Nice, Bordeaux are here, but not sites like the Eiffel Tower and Versailles. Daley's anecdotes are fascinating. He writes about Charles Deville Wells, the man who broke the Bank of Monte Carlo,'' and a renegade cop who ran a Paris gestapo. Recommended for those who enjoy a richer form of travel writing and seek a deeper appreciation of France.
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Daley, Robert Portraits Of France 1995 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076120. ISBN #0316171816 / 9780316171816. (filed under: France ) *
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Daley, Robert Portraits Of France 1995 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076120. ISBN #0316171816 / 9780316171816. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Publishers Weekly Freely mixing travelogue, history and offhand cultural commentary, Daley's serendipitous journey appraises France's soul. Whether he is expressing consternation at Avignon's immense Palace of the Popes, monument to medieval extravagance, or tracking the legend of bike racer Jacques Anquetil, Daley has a knack for the telling detail, the unusual observation. A few of these 19 vignettes delve into little-known events, like the building of French concentration camps in the Pyrenees during WW II. Among the indelible portraits we find those of French soldier- politican-aristocrat Lafayette, Grace Kelly, Scottish novelist Tobias Smollett inventor of the fabulous Riviera'' mystique and De Gaulle, an obscure brigadier general in 1940 worried mainly about his wife and retarded daughter. Other pieces deal with Lourdes, Bordeaux, a perfume factory in Grasse, Jules Massenet writing operas in Paris and the Sansons family, which operated the guillotine through six generations. Library Journal Popular writer Daley whips up a delightful blend of history and anecdote mixed with a little travelog to provide an intimate, refreshing look at France. Each chapter draws a revealing portrait of a place. As much as possible, I have based my descriptions on scars that can still be seen today,'' Daley writes, "scars on the national body, each one dating from some accident in its past.'' All of the familiar cities Paris, Nice, Bordeaux are here, but not sites like the Eiffel Tower and Versailles. Daley's anecdotes are fascinating. He writes about Charles Deville Wells, the man who broke the Bank of Monte Carlo,'' and a renegade cop who ran a Paris gestapo. Recommended for those who enjoy a richer form of travel writing and seek a deeper appreciation of France.
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Druckerman, Pamela Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers The Wisdom Of French Parenting 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136724. ISBN #1594203334 / 9781594203336. (filed under: France ) *
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Druckerman, Pamela Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers The Wisdom Of French Parenting 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136724. ISBN #1594203334 / 9781594203336. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old while those of her American friends take a year or more. French kids eat well-rounded meals that are more likely to include braised leeks than chicken nuggets. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play. Motherhood itself is a whole different experience in France. There's no role model, as there is in America, for the harried new mom with no life of her own. French mothers assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children and that there's no need to feel guilty about this. They have an easy, calm authority with their kids that Druckerman can only envy. Of course, French parenting wouldn't be worth talking about if it produced robotic, joyless children. In fact, French kids are just as boisterous, curious, and creative as Americans. They're just far better behaved and more in command of themselves. While some American toddlers are getting Mandarin tutors and preliteracy training, French kids are- by design-toddling around and discovering the world at their own pace. With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman-a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal -sets out to learn the secrets to raising a society of good little sleepers, gourmet eaters, and reasonably relaxed parents. She discovers that French parents are extremely strict about some things and strikingly permissive about others. And she realizes that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is. While finding her own firm non , Druckerman discovers that children-including her own-are capable of feats she'd never imagined.
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Erickson, Carolly Josephine: A Life of the Empress St Martins Press 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148609. ISBN #0312200013 / 9780312200015. (keywords: JOSEPHINE CONSORT NAPOLEON I 1763) (filed under: France ) *
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Erickson, Carolly To The Scaffold: The Life Of Marie Antoinette 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136227. ISBN #0688073018 / 9780688073015. (filed under: France ) *
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Erickson, Carolly To The Scaffold: The Life Of Marie Antoinette 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136227. ISBN #0688073018 / 9780688073015. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One of history's most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette represents the extravagance and the decadence of pre-Revolution France. Yet there was an innocence about Antoinette, thrust as a child into the chillingly formal French court. Married to the maladroit, ill-mannered Dauphin, Antoinette found pleasure in costly entertainments and garments. She spent lavishly while her overtaxed and increasingly hostile subjects blamed her for France's plight. In time Antoinette matured into a courageous Queen, and when their enemies finally closed in, Antoinette followed her inept husband to the guillotine in one last act of bravery. In To the Scaffold , Carolly Erickson provides an estimation of a lost Queen that is psychologically acute, richly detailed, and deeply moving.
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Erlanger, Philippe Richelieu: The Thrust For Power Stein and Day Publishers 1968 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1162214. (filed under: France ) *
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Fenby, Jonathan General: Charles De Gaulle And The France He Saved Skyhorse Publishing 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1179618. ISBN #1616086009 / 9781616086008. (filed under: France ) *
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Fenby, Jonathan General: Charles De Gaulle And The France He Saved Skyhorse Publishing 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1179618. ISBN #1616086009 / 9781616086008. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as carrying France on his shoulders. In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler s Germany. Thereafter, he twice rescued the nation from defeat and decline by extraordinary displays of leadership, political acumen, daring, and bluff, heading off civil war and leaving a heritage adopted by his successors of right and left. Le G n ral, as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if he was carved from a single monumental block, but was in fact extremely complex, a man with deep personal feelings and recurrent mood swings, devoted to his family and often seeking reassurance from those around him. This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and of the country with which he so identified himself. Written with terrific verve, narrative skill, and rigorous detail, the first major work on de Gaulle in fifteen years brings alive as never before the private man as well as the public leader through exhaustive research and analysis.
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