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Learn French fast: Apprenez le Français rapidement. As you may already know, French is not an easy-to-learn language.  The best way to try to master French is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.  In this book, you will find the corresponding English...

Here are 180 recipes of traditional French appetizers, entrees, and desserts that members of the French National Assembly, representing the myriad regions of their native country, have decided to share with the world. From a challenging slow-cooked hare recipe that predates the French Revolution to...

Welcome to France. Nothing beats the right phrase. THE TOP TEN GUIDE TO FRENCH PHRASES provides travelers the key words for getting around one of the world’s most visited countries. Turn the pages as Parisian Françoise Chaniac Dumazy lists necessary phrases to guide you through...

Learn French fast: Apprenez le Français rapidement. As you may already know, French is not an easy-to-learn language. The best way to try to master French is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions. In this book, you will find the corresponding English version below...

Boasting one of Western culture’s oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Molière to the torment of Baudelaire’s verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive...

A narratively rich cookbook of French and Californian recipes from longtime Chez Panisse executive chef Jean-Pierre Moulle and his wife, Denise Moulle. Jean-Pierre and Denise Moullé met on a street corner in Berkeley, California, in 1980; six months later they were married. French Roots is...

François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics. Cusset presents the foundations...

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY/LE PORTRAIT DE DORIAN GRAY:This unique book features paragraph by paragraph translations from English to French, allowing the reader to learn French vocabulary and sentence structure while enjoying a famous novel.It is a fun and affordable way to learn a second...

This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels—that is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Claire...

First, catch your frog... May we propose some oyster and champagne soup from Brittany, accompanied by Normandy lettuce bread and followed by Loire Valley frog’s legs and roasted swan as Richard the Lionheart liked them served up? Then you could round your modest meal off with a soufflé...

The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on...

I love French food - most people do. I've researched and created an easy to follow Classic French Recipe book with 25 fantastic recipes. Prepare a delicious Brunch, Dinner or Party. Easy to prepare, ingredient lists, instructions and so easy to make recipes include: Pommes de Terre a la Boulangere:...

Interpreting the Republic focuses on contemporary French literary and cinematic works (1986-2003) that reflect on what it means to belong to a nation such as France by giving voice to those who find themselves marginalized by French society. While citizenship and belonging can be, and indeed are,...

As opposed to memorizing French phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry French grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader ("DLR") will keep you excited to get to the next page! This compilation features Charles Dickens' classic masterpiece: "A Christmas Carol" coupled with the superb...