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Algrant, Christine Pevitt Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France Grove Press 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020489. ISBN #0802117260 / 9780802117267. (filed under: France ) *
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Algrant, Christine Pevitt Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France Grove Press 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020489. ISBN #0802117260 / 9780802117267. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The critically acclaimed author of Philippe, duc d'Orleans, Christine Pevitt Algrant presents a stunning new biography of the most famous of Louis XV's mistresses. From her beginnings amid anonymity in early-eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable, self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced and the savviest of her contemporaries. Algrant weaves her richly textured narrative with tremendous authority, setting the dramatic events that marked Madame de Pompadour's life against the defining moments of the times. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a grande dame, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson underwent a number of transformations -- from a halfhearted marriage to a Parisian tax-collector to a passionate involvement with the newly established salon culture of Paris -- before attaining the affection of the king of France. Although used to the king's romantic escapades, the stunned courtiers reeled in disbelief upon Poisson's success, for never in the annals of the French monarchy had a semidivine king taken a mere bourgeoisie as his mistress. The newcomer, however, wasted no time, slowly establishing herself as Louis's sole confidante, and ultimately an indispensable, albeit officially unacknowledged, head of state. Algrant takes the reader into the farthest and most exclusive chambers at Versailles, offering glimpses that portray the resourcefulness and the determination with which the king's favorite deftly manipulated the divided court, ruling as absolutely as any monarch. Madame de Pompadour will become the definitive biography of the most fascinating and influential woman of the age. "Algrant's Madame de Pompadour makes you hear the rattle of the tumbrils, just thirty years down the road." -- Alistair Horne
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Anselmo, Lisa My (Part-Time) Paris Life: How Running Away Brought Me Home 2016 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102068. ISBN #1250067472 / 9781250067470. (filed under: France ) *
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Anselmo, Lisa My (Part-Time) Paris Life: How Running Away Brought Me Home 2016 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102068. ISBN #1250067472 / 9781250067470. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Lisa Anselmo wrapped her entire life around her mother, a strong woman who was a defining force in Lisa s life maybe too defining. When her mother dies from breast cancer, Lisa realizes she hadn t built a life of her own and struggles to find her purpose. Who is she without her mother and her mother s expectations? Desperate for answers, she turns to her favorite city Paris and impulsively buys a small apartment, refusing to play it safe for the first time. What starts out as an act of survival sets Lisa on a course that reshapes her life in ways she never could have imagined. Suddenly, she s living like a local in a city she thought she knew, but her high school French, while fine for buying bread at the corner boulangerie , goes only so far when Paris gives her a strong dose of real life. From dating to home ownership in a foreign country, Lisa quickly learns it s not all picnics on the Seine, and starts to doubt herself and her love of the city. But she came to Paris to be happy, and she can t give up now. Isn t happiness worth fighting for? In the vein of Eat, Pray, Love and Wild , My Part-time Paris Life a story is for anyone who s ever felt lost or hopeless, but still dreams of something more. This candid memoir explores one woman s search for peace and meaning, and how the ups and downs of expat life in Paris taught her to let go of fear, find self-worth, and create real, lasting happiness in the City of Light.
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Barnes, Julian Something To Declare: Essays On France And French Culture 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1011645. ISBN #1400030870 / 9781400030873. (filed under: France ) *
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Barnes, Julian Something To Declare: Essays On France And French Culture 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1011645. ISBN #1400030870 / 9781400030873. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Anyone who loves France or just feels strongly about it , or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes s appreciation extends from France s vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Here are the prolific and priapic Simenon, Baudelaire, Sand and Sartre, and several dazzling excursions on the prickly genius of Flaubert. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy.
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Barry, Ann At Home in France: Tales Of An American And Her House Abroad Ballantine Books 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or991587. ISBN #0345392019 / 9780345392015. (filed under: France ) *
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Barry, Ann At Home in France: Tales Of An American And Her House Abroad Ballantine Books 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or991587. ISBN #0345392019 / 9780345392015. (filed under: France ) *
"This engaging and brave adventure story is as beguiling and delectable as France itself. Ann Barry's hospitality takes readers along as she copes with bats, searches for the best boulangerie, explores medieval villages and country roads, and practices the savory intricacies of preparing foie gras." --Mimi Sheraton "Ann Barry tells her tale directly and clearly, without cloying artifice or guile, so that it has the warmth, honesty and force of a long letter from an old friend. She makes her reader a welcome house guest in her much loved little cottage in the heart of France." --Susan Allen Toth Ann Barry was a single woman, working and living in New York, when she fell in love with a charming house in Carennac in southwestern France. Even though she knew it was the stuff of fantasy, even though she knew she would rarely be able to spend more than four weeks a year there, she was hooked. This spirited, captivating memoir traces Ms. Barry's adventures as she follows her dream of living in the French countryside. Her fascinating and often humorous excursions to Brittany and Provence, charmed nights spent at majestic chateaux and back-road inns, and quiet moments in cool Gothic churches become our own. She takes us along on her one-woman search to find the best homemade breads in the region and on her daily trips to the old-world markets where she finds blood oranges, mounds of fat white asparagus, cream and lavender turnips, and pencil-thin green beans. When she buys a car, she chooses a French classic Citro n that even her banker admires. When her water runs out, the fire department speeds over to fill her tanks. And when a snapping dog sinks its teeth into her ankle, her neighbors insist that she seek compensation from its careless owners. And as the years go by, and "la Americaine," as she is known, returns again and again to her real home, she becomes a recognizable fixture in the neighborhood. She is always grateful for help, advice, company, and the selfless kindness of her equally eccentric but good-hearted neighbors. Anne Barry is a foreigner enchanted with an unpredictable world that seems constantly fresh and exciting. In this vivid memoir, she shares the colorful world that is her France.
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Bashor, Will Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, The Queen, And The Revolution 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092539. ISBN #0762791535 / 9780762791538. (filed under: France ) *
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Bashor, Will Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, The Queen, And The Revolution 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092539. ISBN #0762791535 / 9780762791538. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen s reign, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most ostentatious best. Who was this minister of fashion who wielded such tremendous influence over the queen s affairs? Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Scholarship, Marie Antoinette s Head: The Royal Hairdresser, The Queen, and the Revolution charts the rise of Leonard Autie from humble origins as a country barber in the south of France to the inventor of the Pouf and premier hairdresser to Queen Marie-Antoinette. By unearthing a variety of sources from the 18th and 19th centuries, including memoirs including L onard s own , court documents, and archived periodicals the author, French History professor and expert Will Bashor, tells Autie s mostly unknown story. Bashor chronicles Leonard s story, the role he played in the life of his most famous client, and the chaotic and history-making world in which he rose to prominence. Besides his proximity to the queen, Leonard also had a most fascinating life filled with sex he was the only man in a female dominated court , seduction, intrigue, espionage, theft, exile, treason, and possibly, execution.
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Baxter, John Most Beautiful Walk in The World: A Pedestrian in Paris Harper Perennial 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or969070. ISBN #0061998540 / 9780061998546. (filed under: France ) *
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Baxter, John Most Beautiful Walk in The World: A Pedestrian in Paris Harper Perennial 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or969070. ISBN #0061998540 / 9780061998546. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years. In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long- time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literary walking tours" through the city. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a brilliant cast of characters: the favorite caf s of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso's underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century fl neurs ; the secluded "Little Luxembourg" gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries plotted; and finally Baxter's own favorite walk near his home in Saint-Germain-des-Pr s. Paris, by custom and design, is a pedestrian's city each block a revelation, every neighborhood a new feast for the senses, a place rich with history and romance at every turn. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is your guide, par excellence, to the true, off-the-beaten-path heart of the City of Lights.
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Baxter, John We'll Always Have Paris: Sex And Love in The City Of Light 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076296. ISBN #0060832886 / 9780060832889. (filed under: France ) *
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Baxter, John We'll Always Have Paris: Sex And Love in The City Of Light 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076296. ISBN #0060832886 / 9780060832889. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary For more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, artists, epicureans, and connoisseurs of the good life. Globe-trotting film critic and writer John Baxter heard her siren song and was bewitched. Now he offers readers a witty, audacious, scandalous behind-the-scenes excursion into the colorful all-night show that is Paris -- interweaving his own experience of falling in love, with a delightfully salacious tour of the sultry Parisian corners most guidebooks ignore: from the literary caf s of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and de Beauvoir to the brothels where Dietrich and Duke Ellington held court, where Salvador Dali sated his fantasies, and Edward VII kept a sumptuous champagne bath for his favorite girls.
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Benton, John F. (Editor) Self And Society in Medieval France: The Memoirs Of Abbot Guibert Of Nogent paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or990752. (filed under: France ) *
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Bergeron, Louis France Under Napoleon 1981 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056183. ISBN #0691007896 / 9780691007892. (filed under: France ) *
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Bergeron, Louis France Under Napoleon 1981 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056183. ISBN #0691007896 / 9780691007892. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes the condition of France and the French people during the fifteen years immediately following their great revolution. The translator, R. R. Palmer, is a distinguished historian who has written and translated many books in French history, including The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre Princeton . Applying the methods of the new social history Annales school , the author covers the political, administrative, social, economic, and cultural facets of the First Empire. Part I deals with the domestic program and institutions under Napoleon and the fervor of the new chief of state as he sought to establish a coherent, efficient, and thoroughly controlled regime. Part II examines the opposition to his system and the reasons behind the imperfect realization of his ideal. It discusses population and demographic trends, social structure, and economic activity--all of which eluded Napoleon's grasp.
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Blom, Philipp Wicked Company: Freethinkers and Friendship in Pre-Revolutionary Paris Phoenix 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or995759. ISBN #1780220103 / 9781780220109. (filed under: France ) *
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Blom, Philipp Wicked Company: Freethinkers and Friendship in Pre-Revolutionary Paris Phoenix 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or995759. ISBN #1780220103 / 9781780220109. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Dazzling recreation of the world of radical free-thinkers in 18th-century France From the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron d'Holbach was an epicenter of debate, intellectual daring and revolutionary ideas, uniting around one table vivid personalities from Denis Diderot, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, the radical ex-priest Guillaume Raynal, the Italian Count Beccaria and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who later turned against his friends. It was a moment of astonishing racicalism in European thought, so uncompromising and bold that it was viciously opposed by rival philosophers such as Voltaire and the turncoat Rousseau, and finally suppressed by Robespierre and his Revolutionary henchmen. In Wicked Company, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom retraces the fortunes and characters of this exceptional group of friends and brings to life their startling ideas, largely forgotten by historians. Brilliant minds full of wit, courage and humanity, their thinking created a different and radical French Enlightenment based on atheism, passion, empathy and a compellingly insightful perspective on society. Their ideas force us to confront the debates about our own society and its future with new eyes.
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Boyles, Denis Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese Encounter Books 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or918682. ISBN #1594030529 / 9781594030529. (filed under: France ) *
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Boyles, Denis Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese Encounter Books 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or918682. ISBN #1594030529 / 9781594030529. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this bitingly funny and insightful polemic, Boyles, using his knowledge of history and his shrewd eye for current events, examines the internal crises -- a falling birth rate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige -- that have changed the personality of what was once 'La Belle France', transforming it into a nation afflicted with status anxiety. He explains how a country that endlessly repeats its credentials as America's oldest ally became one of our most resolute enemies, wielding the biggest weapon in its arsenal -- the European Union -- against the interests of an America that it fears and envies. While making clear his affection for the "France" of the French people, he targets the "France" of the ruling elite -- from de Gaulle to Chirac -- who have always run the country as a private club, often to the angry dismay of its citizens.
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Boyles, Denis Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice And Cheese Encounter Books 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or986597. ISBN #1594030529 / 9781594030529. (filed under: France ) *
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Boyles, Denis Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice And Cheese Encounter Books 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or986597. ISBN #1594030529 / 9781594030529. (filed under: France ) *
stock image, actual book may vary In this bitingly funny and insightful polemic, Boyles, using his knowledge of history and his shrewd eye for current events, examines the internal crises -- a falling birth rate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige -- that have changed the personality of what was once 'La Belle France', transforming it into a nation afflicted with status anxiety. He explains how a country that endlessly repeats its credentials as America's oldest ally became one of our most resolute enemies, wielding the biggest weapon in its arsenal -- the European Union -- against the interests of an America that it fears and envies. While making clear his affection for the "France" of the French people, he targets the "France" of the ruling elite -- from de Gaulle to Chirac -- who have always run the country as a private club, often to the angry dismay of its citizens.
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Brennan, Georgeanne Pig in Provence: Good Food And Simple Pleasures in The South Of France 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1075554. ISBN #081185213X / 9780811852135. (filed under: France ) *
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Brennan, Georgeanne Pig in Provence: Good Food And Simple Pleasures in The South Of France 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1075554. ISBN #081185213X / 9780811852135. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new life this time in the South of France. Thirty years ago, James Beard Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence . She and her husband, with their young daughter in tow, bought a small farmhouse with a little land, and a few goats and pigs and so began a life-affirming journey. Filled with delicious recipes and local color, this evocative and passionate memoir describes her life cooking and living in the Proven al tradition an entrancing tale that will whet the appetite and the spirit perfect for foodies, Francophiles, or anyone who's dreamed of packing their bags and buying a ticket to the good life.
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Brunelle, Gayle K.; Finley-Croswhite, Annette Murder in The Metro: Laetitia Toureaux And The Cagoule in 1930s France Louisiana State University Press 2010 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or987546. ISBN #0807136166 / 9780807136164. (filed under: France ) *
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Brunelle, Gayle K.; Finley-Croswhite, Annette Murder in The Metro: Laetitia Toureaux And The Cagoule in 1930s France Louisiana State University Press 2010 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or987546. ISBN #0807136166 / 9780807136164. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Dor e station in the Paris M tro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever murder in the Paris M tro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as journalists and the police slowly uncovered the shocking truth about the victim: a twenty-nine-year-old Italian immigrant, the beautiful and elusive Laetitia Toureaux. Toureaux toiled each day in a factory, but spent her nights working as a spy in the seamy Parisian underworld. Just as the dangerous spy Mata Hari fascinated Parisians of an earlier generation, the mystery of Toureaux's murder held the French public spellbound in pre-war Paris, as the police tried and failed to identify her assassin. In Murder in the M tro , Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite unravel Toureaux's complicated and mysterious life, assessing her complex identity within the larger political context of the time. They follow the trail of Toureaux's murder investigation to the Comit Secret d'Action R volutionnaire, a secret right-wing political organization popularly known as the Cagoule, or "hooded ones." Obsessed with the Communist threat they perceived in the growing power of labor unions and the French left wing, the Cagoule's leaders aimed to overthrow France's Third Republic and install an authoritarian regime allied with Italy. With Mussolini as their ally and Italian fascism as their model, they did not shrink from committing violent crimes and fomenting terror to accomplish their goal. In 1936, Toureaux--at the behest of the French police--infiltrated this dangerous group of terrorists and seduced one of its leaders, Gabriel Jeantet, to gain more information. This operation, the authors show, eventually cost Toureaux her life. The tale of Laetitia Toureaux epitomizes the turbulence of 1930s France, as the country prepared for a war most people dreaded but assumed would come. This period, therefore, generated great anxiety but also offered new opportunities--and risks--to Toureaux as she embraced the identity of a "modern" woman. The authors unravel her murder as they detail her story and that of the Cagoule, within the popular culture and conflicted politics of 1930s France. By examining documents related to Toureaux's murder--documents the French government has sealed from public view until 2038--Brunelle and Finley-Croswhite link Toureaux's death not only to the Cagoule but also to the Italian secret service, for whom she acted as an informant. Their research provides likely answers to the question of the identity of Toureaux's murderer and offers a fascinating look at the dark and dangerous streets of pre-World War II Paris.
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Burke, Edmund Reflections On The French Revolution And Other Essays (Everyman's Library No. 460) hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107485. (filed under: France ) *
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Burke, Edmund Reflections On The Revolution in France 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104065. ISBN #0486445070 / 9780486445076. (filed under: France ) *
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Burke, Edmund Reflections On The Revolution in France 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104065. ISBN #0486445070 / 9780486445076. (filed under: France ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It provoked an enormous reaction, both supportive and critical, with a flood of pamphlets and books including Thomas Paine's enduring denunciation, The Rights of Man . Endlessly reprinted and studied by countless scholars and other readers, this is a classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought. Burke ranked among the era's most eloquent defenders of democracy; however, he also realized the dangers of unchecked liberty and that mob rule is in no way better than the reign of a king or dictator. His lucid and passionate manifesto, written in the form of letters, employs examples from the aftermath of the French Revolution to demonstrate the superiority of gradual political change over outright anti-authoritarian revolt. A believer in practicality rather than abstract theorizing, Burke articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that continues to resonate with twenty-first century readers.
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