France category: 4880 books
The Road to Burgundy
The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgundy
Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion he couldn’t stifle. He quit his job and moved to...
Little Money Street
In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of...
French Country Cooking
Meals and Moments from a Village in the Vineyards: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A captivating journey through off-the-beaten-path French wine country with 100 simple yet exquisite recipes, 150 sumptuous photographs, and stories inspired by life in a small village.
“Francophiles, this book is pure Gallic food porn.” —The Wall Street Journal
Readers everywhere...
by Jérôme Sabatier
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Travel guide updated in February 2019.
The Loire Valley is the largest site ever registered in France as World Heritage site by UNESCO. The site crosses a multitude of historic towns and villages, rich with architectural heritage and ancient history. It reveals religious buildings and castles,...
HISTOIRE DU XIX ème siècle
Tome 1
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Considéré comme étant l'un des grands historiens du XIXe siècle, Jules MICHELET (1798-1874) est doué d’un immense talent littéraire. Libéral et anticlérical, il a donné naissance à travers ses ouvrages historiques à une grande partie du « roman national » remis en cause par le développement...
Les rois et les gouvernements de la France
De Hugues Capet à l'année 1906
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Extrait : "La chute de la dynastie carolingienne n'est pas une de ces révolutions qui semblent devenues inévitables. Hugue Capet n'a dû la royauté ni à son habileté, ni à son courage, ni à un irrésistible mouvement d'opinion."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des...
L'Académie des sciences et les académiciens de 1666 à 1793
( Edition intégrale )
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2018
L’histoire complète de l’Académie des sciences serait une œuvre considérable. Faire connaître la marche de toutes les sciences depuis plus de deux siècles, dire le temps et l’occasion de leurs progrès en France, assigner le génie particulier de plus de deux cents membres qui, avec des...
Shocking Paris
Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart...
I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do)
Living in a Small Village in Brittany
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside reluctantly travels, eats of the crêpes, and finds a second...
by Jean Gill
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Humorous travel book about moving to France from Wales by IPPY and Global Ebook Award Winner Jean Gill
'Laugh out loud ... such a vivid picture of the fields of lavender, sunflowers and olive trees that you could almost be there with her.' - Living France Magazine
The true scents of Provence?...
Encore Provence
New Adventures in the South of France
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In his most delightful foray into the wonders of Provençal life, Peter Mayle returns to France and puts behind him cholesterol worries, shopping by phone, California wines, and other concerns that plagued him after too much time away.
In Encore Provence, Mayle gives us a glimpse into the...
The Magic of Provence
Pleasures of Southern France
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
When Yvone Lenard returned to her native France and purchased a house in a hilltop village of Provence, an enchanted world of food, wines, and unusual adventures–including chicken rustling, flirtatious advances from neighbors, and a séance–opened up before her. This is her account of the spell...
Au Contraire!
Figuring Out the French
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"I find Au Contraire! delightfully validating - a great piece of work." - Nancy Bragard, Franco-American interculturalist, trainer and coach
The French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it,...
Le maréchal Pétain
Le héros de Verdun devenu vassal d’Hitler
Language: French
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le maréchal Pétain en moins d’une heure !
L’histoire de France est jalonnée de grands personnages qui ont façonné son destin. Philippe Pétain, quoi qu’on en dise, est l’un d’eux. Adulé par ses soldats pour sa clairvoyance tactique,...