French category: 3718 books
Gender and Citizenship
The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2000
Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France. She analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship elaborated by Friedrich Hegel, George Sand, Honore de Balzac, Auguste Comte and Herculine Barbin...
Paris and the Marginalized Author
Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers...
by Anders Bengtsson
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Attesté dans les traductions et les textes narratifs en moyen français, la proposition participiale frappe par son essor pendant cette époque. La fréquence de la construction n’est pourtant pas uniforme : il y a d’une part une différenciation selon les époques, d’autre part une différenciation...
by Fabio Regattin
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Dans ce volume, Sarah Mombert, Serge
Zenkine, Barbara Sosien´ et Alain Montandon,
ainsi que d’autres chercheurs
et des étudiants, se confrontent au Capitaine
Fracasse de Théophile Gautier.
The House Of Mirth
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
The Country Of The Blind
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
by François-René de Chateaubriand
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 1957
If the writings of Chateaubriand, one above all is both most representative of its author and most significant for reader and student alike. René, a milestone of literature, presents the first genuine and complete picture of that state of spiritual frustration and moral isolation known as le mal...
Understanding french literature : "Candide" by Voltaire
Analysis of the key passages of the tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Analysis of the key passages of the tale "Candide" by Voltaire.
by Alain Braux
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
"This first Food & Your Health collection is a gathering of blog posts I have originally published exclusively for my followers. It offers you a wide review of subjects related to my passion, Food as Medicine. As a professional chef, teacher & culinary nutritionist, I use food as a way...
The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon
Toward a Political History of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial—and the next day, the director of a Paris hospital for the insane...
Engraven Desire
Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
How do literary illustrations affect the way we read—or more subtly, what we read? Through a critical investigation of the role of engraving played in eighteenth-century French literature, Philip Stewart grapples with this question. In both its approach and its conclusions, his project marks a provocative...
The Tales Of Mother Goose
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
French Business Dictionary
The Business Terms of France and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This is the next generation of business dictionaries. Including modern banking, accounting, insurance, real estate, import-export, taxes, business law and computer terms, this is an essential resource for those working in multilingual, multicultural business fields.