France category: 4880 books
Credit, Fashion, Sex
Economies of Regard in Old Regime France
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
In Old Regime France credit was both a central part of economic exchange and a crucial concept for explaining dynamics of influence and power in all spheres of life. Contemporaries used the term credit to describe reputation and the currency it provided in court politics, literary production, religion,...
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas—eager to be a good wife and strong queen—she...
The Hotel on Place Vendome
Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous Hôtel Ritz—a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance—from Tilar J. Mazzeo, the New York...
The Table Comes First
Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding...
A Woman of No Importance
The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Excellent…This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” -- The New York Times Book Review
"A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little resistance."...
by Anne Curry
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
Although the term 'Hundred Years War' was not coined until the 1860s, the Anglo-French conflicts of the later Middle Ages have long been of interest to historians. A fundamental question remains - was this a feudal war fought over ancient English rights in Gascony, or was it a dynastic war in which...
Athenais
The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
In her superb new biography, Hilton chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, known as "the real Queen of France," who reigned as official mistress to Louis XIV during the most glorious period of "the splendid century."
Shadows in the Vineyard
The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.
In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the...
The Bonjour Effect
The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle...
by David Le Vay
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Mont Blanc, or ‘Il Bianco’ as it is sometimes known as in Italy; The White One. It sits, regally, upon pleated glacial folds gathered together around a timeless, grey-rock body, high above the French town of Chamonix, lord of all that it surveys. It beguiles, bewitches and charms the lesser folk...
by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This "anti-Mayle" will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul West struggles to solve the mysteries inherent in life in France....
Paris to the Pyrenees
A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Part adventure story, part cultural history, this “enjoyably offbeat travelogue” explores the phenomenon of the spiritual pilgrimage (Booklist).
Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees....
France: Charming Small Hotel Guides
Stylish city hotels, captivating country hotels, auberges and other places to stay
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Travel guides are perfect for ebook readers because they're light and portable. Charming Small Hotel Guides are the only accommodation guides that combine these five essential qualities: places with character and charm, from budget to luxury; highly selective - every place worth a journey; fussy about...
Adventures on the Wine Route
A Wine Buyer's Tour of France (25th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
When Adventures on the Wine Route was first published, Victor Hazan said, "In Kermit Lynch's small, true, delightful book there is more understanding about what wine really is than in everything else I have read." A quarter century later, this remarkable journey of wine, travel, and taste...