France category: 4880 books
The Conquest of Morocco
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
The Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France's last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, ruled by local warlords and riven by religious fanaticism. But in the mad scramble for African colonies, Morocco had one...
How the French Saved America
Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and the Success of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America.
To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph....
Versailles
A Biography of a Palace
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The behind-the-scenes story of the world's most famous palace, painting a picture of the way its residents truly lived and examining the palace's legacy, from French history through today
The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France's old regime,...
Wars Against Napoleon Debunking The Myth Of The Napoleonic Wars
Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon a brilliantly written and researched study...
by Charles Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**"The result is a mix of history, biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller." —*The Guardian *(US)
This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer...
Voices from the Dark Years
The Truth About Occupied France 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The clearest picture yet of what life was really like in German-occupied France during World War II, using previously unpublished first-person accounts of ordinary men and women who lived through this extraordinary and dangerous time Using new, meticulously researched material, Douglas Boyd tells...
by Jeffrey Mehlman
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism — Maurice Maeterlinck — came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism — André Breton — came to survive; and where French structuralism — Claude Lévi-Strauss — came to be born. From the largely forgotten prewar...
The Hundred Years' War
A Century of War Between England and France
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Hundred Years’ War in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Hundred Years’ War. One of the longest direct conflicts between two countries, the Hundred Years’ War marked...
The Waning of the Middle Ages
A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and The Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
“To the world when it was half a thousand years younger,” Huizinga begins, “the outline of all things seemed more clearly marked than to us.” Life seemed to consist in extremes—a fierce religious asceticism and an unrestrained licentiousness, ferocious judicial punishments and great popular...
How the French Think
An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
An award-winning historian presents an absorbing account of the French mind, shedding light on France's famous tradition of intellectual life
Why are the French such an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? The French take pride in the fact that their history and culture...
Demonic Possession and Exorcism
In Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which reached epidemic proportions in France.
Catholics at the time believed that the Devil was everywhere present, in the rise of the heretics, in the activities...
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549)
Mother of the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Sister to the king of France, queen of Navarre, gifted writer, religious reformer, and patron of the arts—in her many roles, Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was one of the most important figures of the French Renaissance. In this, the first major biography in English, Patricia F. Cholakian and...
Bonjour Kale
A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A memoir of love, life, and recipes from the woman who brought kale to the City of Light
The story of how one expat woman left her beloved behind when she moved to France-her beloved kale, that is. Unable to find le chou kale anywhere upon moving to the City of Light with her new husband, and...
Detour de France
An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her teenage years as a nanny on a boat moored at Cannes, his utter lack of travel experience (Weymouth,...