France
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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
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Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée
$32.99 Add to cartThis authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon’s most powerful weapon–the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines ev
- Author: Elting, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0306807572
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartIn this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general’s reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his f… [more below]
- Author: Cole, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0230606032
- Language: English
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Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic
$30.00 Read moreA French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites
France, t- Author: Ramdani, Nabila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703251
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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The Story of French
$32.00 Add to cartWhy does everything sound better if it’s said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at on
- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0312341849
- Language: English
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In Love with Paris: Recipes & Stories from the Most Romantic City in the World
$27.99 Add to cartFall in love with Paris, the food, the stories, and the city’s most romantic spots. A celebration of one of the world’s most beautiful cities, In Love with Paris is an irresistible combination of mout… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Anne-Katrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1784884723
- Language: English
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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
$16.99 Add to cart“Splendid… Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation.” –Boston Globe
“Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for t
- Author: Baxter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061998540
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Provence and the Côte d’Azur
$14.99 Read moreImmortalized on canvas by the likes of C?zanne and Van Gogh, Provence and the C?te D’Azur is a region resplendent with Roman ruins, stunning beaches, glamorous towns and beautiful countryside. Your DK… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0241472199
- Language: English
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Living the Château Dream
$28.00 Read moreTHE FOLLOW-UP TO THE MASSIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, A YEAR AT THE CHATEAU!
In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom- Author: Strawbridge, Dick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1399620266
- Language: English
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Café Society: Time Suspended, the Cafés & Bistros of Paris
$49.95 Add to cartThe Parisian café is an integral part of the city’s daily life no matter the weather, the time of day or year, the mood or neighborhood. It is the spirit of the café, the dance of the wait… [more below]
- Author: Osburn, Joanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1954081774
- Language: English
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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
$40.99 Add to cartThe day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198715951
- Language: English
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A History of France
$24.00 Add to cartJohn Julius Norwich–called a “true master of narrative history” by Simon Sebag Montefiore–returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France: a portrai… [more below]
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147771
- Language: English
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The Coming of the French Revolution
$22.95 Add to cartThe classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French Revolution
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the or- Series: Princeton Classics #19
- Author: Lefebvre, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168466
- Language: English
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France
$52.99 Add to cartIn a tour de force, Colin Jones gives a gripping, superbly and intelligently illustrated account of the political, social and cultural history of France, placing an innovatory emphasis on the impact o… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Illustrated Histories
- Author: Jones, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0521669928
- Language: English
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Salty, Bitter, Sweet
$18.99 Read moreA slow-burn romance in a cutthroat kitchen! There’s more to becoming a top chef for 17-year-old Isabella Fields than just not getting chopped … especially when the chances of things heating up with
- Author: Cuevas, Mayra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0310769779
- Language: English
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The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
$18.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The H tel on Place Vend me is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous H tel Ritz–a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0061791040
- Language: English
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Barns of the St Croix Valley: An Architect’s Sketchbook
$24.95 Add to cartIllustrated with 200 barn sketches, diagrams, and maps, this book takes you on a journey through the St Croix River Valley.
It grounds you in the geography, geology and biology of the region and intro
- Author: Lammers, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081677
- Language: English
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Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador DalÃ, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their Frie
$29.93 Add to cartParis on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s. The decade was marked by violence at home and the rise of Hitler abroad, even as glamour prevailed in fashion and Sur… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1538121794
- Language: English
