Cultural Region/French
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The Rival Queens: Catherine De’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
$19.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de’ Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestu… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0316409669
- Language: English
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.
On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by- Author: Jager, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0316224510
- Language: English
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The Watcher in the Shadows
$15.99 Add to cartA chilling, compelling mystery from the internationally bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind.
When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normand- Author: Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 031604475X
- Language: English
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Boulangerie at Home: Bread, Brioche, and Other Baked Delicacies
$50.00 Read moreA French pastry chef providers the tools and instruction you need to master the art of classic French bread and dough-based baked goods with this stunning cookbook featuring 100 recipes, infographics,
- Author: Landemaine, Rodolphe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0062887130
- Language: English
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Property Is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader
$34.00 Add to cart“An indispensable source book for anyone interested in Proudhon’s ideas and the origins of the socialist and anarchist movements in nineteenth-century Europe.”–Robert Graham, editor of Anarchism: A D
- Author: Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 670
- Publish Date: April 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1849350248
- Language: English
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Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank
$24.95 Add to cartOriginally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new pr… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 161902179X
- Language: English
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Provencal
$34.99 Read moreCook the simple and flavoursome food of the South of France with acclaimed chef Alex Jackson’s Provencal.
Provencal is the stunning reissue of Alex Jackson’s widely acclaimed first book Sardine. This
- Author: Jackson, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1911682725
- Language: English
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At the Table in Paris: Recipes from the Best Cafés and Bistros
$29.99 Read moreAt the Table in Paris invites readers to take a culinary stroll through the City of Light, along the Seine, over the Pont Neuf, to the Eiffel Tower, while taking little pit stops at street caf?s to ex… [more below]
- Author: Jan Thorbecke Verlag
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1784886912
- Language: English
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A Concise History of France
$35.00 Add to cartThis is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and so… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Price, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107603439
- Language: English
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The Bomb
$13.95 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865096
- Language: English
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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
$15.99 Add to cartIn the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Pri
- Author: Burger, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0358108527
- Language: English
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
$30.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
When her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an- Author: Weber, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427344
- Language: English
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Maldoror and Poems
$20.00 Read moreOne of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing
Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautr?amont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lautr?amont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140443428
- Language: English
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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
$20.00 Add to cartMax Hastings’s “exceptional” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the famous World War II D-Day landings “[will] stand with that of the best journalists and writers who witnessed it” (The New Y… [more below]
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1982110775
- Language: English
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A Short History of Cahiers Du Cinema
$24.95 Add to cartCahiers du Cin ma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art, ‘ equal to literature, painting or musi… [more below]
- Author: Bickerton, Emilie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1844677605
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo
$31.99 Add to cartThe true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French an- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 150404911X
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$24.00 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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Poems of Paris
$20.00 Add to cartA beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Pa- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Fragos, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1101908122
- Language: English
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Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRA… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671755145
- Language: English
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The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s
$27.99 Add to cartCaught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. Brilliantly chronicled here by a master historian, this … [more below]
- Author: Weber, Eugen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0393314790
- Language: English
