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by Lorant Deutsch, Emmanuel Haymann
Language: French
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Après l'immense succès de Métronome, consacré à Paris, Lorànt Deutsch nous propose une nouvelle promenade historique...
Cela commence au VIe siècle avant notre ère par la création idyllique de Marseille, et se termine de nos jours aux portes du tunnel sous la Manche. Entre-temps, on...
La Mort des Rois de France
depuis François Ier jusqu'à la Révolution Française
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2014
De quoi sont morts nos rois ? Quelles furent les causes fatales, les hérédités, les accidents, qui mirent fin aux règnes de nos monarques français ? Comment se sont déroulées ces agonies royales ? C'est ce que tente de nous expliquer...
And the Show Went On
Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. The only consolation was that, while the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged. Soon, a peculiar kind of normality returned...
by Dayna Oscherwitz, MaryEllen Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumi_re in 1895 with the invention of the cinZmatographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinZmatographe...
by Nelly Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Bernard-Lazare (1865-1903) was a French Jewish writer and a prime mover in the Dreyfus Affair. After being involved in the Symbolist and anarchist movements, he took up the cause of Dreyfus in his brochure “Une erreur judiciaire” which anticipated Zola’s “J’accuse” by three years. He was...
A Cool and Lonely Courage
The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, sisters who risked everything to fight for freedom during the Second World War.
When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering...
The Great Cat Massacre
And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it...
by Edward Enfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2006
It had been so amazingly hot that I felt myself about to dissolve into a kind of creme brulee on the road, so I bought some super-power Number 8 suncream. This had the word Bronzante on it, and must have contained some dye or other chemical because my knees stayed brown until February.'
Fed...
Uncorked
My year in Provence studying Pétanque, discovering Chagall, drinking Pastis, and mangling French
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Will having smoke repeatedly blown in his face deter a foreigner from breaking in to French culture? Find out, as Paul Shore’s evocative story telling, wry wit, and big heart, inspire and entertain you, as he tells the tale of how he gained acceptance inside a charming village in France.
Shore’s...
De Gaulle
Lessons in Leadership from the Defiant General
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Michael Haskew takes us on a tremendous journey through de Gaulle's pivotal years, his leadership of the resistance, and beyond to understand the man who remade both modern military tactics and global leadership.
Charles de Gaulle once stated, "France has no friends, only interests,"...
by Olivier Bernier
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
"Only those who lived before the Revolution know how sweet life can be," Talleyrand wrote, many years before the event. Those who dip into Olivier Bernier's lively pages will discover just how sweet, how deep the pleasure, how precious the privilege. For he has populated this book with real...
The Dreyfus Affair
The Scandal That Tore France in Two
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
July 20, 1894. The German Military Attache in Paris. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the General Staff; that he was in desperate need of...
Buonaparte’s Voyage to St. Helena
Comprising the Diary of Rear-Admiral Sir George Cockburn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
After the defeat of Waterloo and the subsequent rout of the fragile French army’s morale, all Europe craved peace. In the minds of many, there was one man who must be removed from the political landscape; a stumbling block to any lasting peace. Napoleon was forced out of Paris and escorted to the...
That Sweet Enemy
Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel...