Europe - France
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
$20.00 Add to cartIs the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?
– Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?
– Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline st- Author: Baigent, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 489
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0385338457
- Language: English
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
$20.00 Read moreA strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more th- Author: McPhee, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228694
- Language: English
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France: An Illustrated History
$12.95 Add to cartThe number of travelers France welcomes each year is as great as its population-some sixty million. They arrive to experience not only the latest fashions in clothing, art, and cuisine, but also the v… [more below]
- Series: Illustrated Histories (Hippocrene)
- Author: Neal, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0781808723
- Language: English
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal P?tain
$21.95 Add to cartA Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year
“This is a story not just about P?tain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France i- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 067429937X
- Language: English
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Francis I: The Knight-King
$25.00 Add to cartA compelling, concise biography of the sixteenth-century French king, whose patronage was central to Renaissance art.
Francis I of France led one of the most colorful and influential reigns of the si- Series: Renaissance Lives
- Author: Richardson, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391218
- Language: English
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Ninette’s War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France
$29.95 Add to cartThe moving, poignant true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II, as the Holocaust approaches.
This is the heart-wrenching true story of a young Jewish girl coming of- Author: Jay, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369619
- Language: English
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House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
$35.00 Read more“A joy to read…one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years” (Dan Jones, Sunday Times), this is the definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that ma… [more below]
- Author: Firnhaber-Baker, Justine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 154160475X
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle ?poque
$35.00 Add to cartA top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle ?poque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacr?-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be … [more below]
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541647491
- Language: English
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Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
$30.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and openhearted tale of a na?f eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society – at least a little.
When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in- Author: Kuper, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541704827
- Language: English
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949
$24.00 Add to cart“A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill.”–Sunday Telegraph
From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem In this bri- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437921
- Language: English
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Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
$20.99 Add to cartDuring 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 mi
- Author: Hallie, Philip P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 08 1994
- ISBN10: 0060925175
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
$24.99 Add to cartWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the Fren
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086424
- Language: English
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
$38.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679726101
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
$26.95 Add to cartA pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged a- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299884
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of France: From Roman Gaul to Revolution and Cultural Radiance – A Global Story for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartFrance is the most popular tourist destination in the world, thanks to its unsurpassed cultural and historical riches. Gothic architecture, Louis XIV opulence, revolutionary spirit, caf? society, haut
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Jones, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
$19.99 Read moreAt the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval pa
- Author: Dejean, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 162040768X
- Language: English
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Seven Ages of Paris
$23.00 Add to cartIn this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is neve… [more below]
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034469
- Language: English
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
$18.00 Add to cart“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Someth… [more below]
- Author: Follett, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 198488025X
- Language: English
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A History of the Barricade
$17.95 Read more- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1784781282
- Language: English
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The Paris Commune: A Brief History
$22.95 Read moreThe Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and… [more below]
- Series: Reinventions of the Paris Commune
- Author: Eichner, Carolyn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827687
- Language: English
