France category: 4880 books

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The Law of Kinship

Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France

by Camille Robcis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013

In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many...
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by Tom Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017

The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. When historians interpret these events they inevitably depend on sources of information gathered by contemporaries, none more valuable than the diaries and collection of Pierre de...
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Joan of Arc

Maid, Myth and History

by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011

Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was 13, and, believing they were directives from God, followed them—to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to defeat and capture. She was put on trial for heresy,...
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by Kathleen Wellman
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognized royal mistress in 1444; including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, and Marguerite...
Cover of Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, S.J. (1786–1864) and the Reform of the American Jesuits
by Cornelius Michael Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J. delves into Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson’s life, using him as the point of departure to describe the tensions among Jesuits in Maryland after the restoration of the order in 1814. A refugee of the violent slave rebellions in Haiti, where he was born, and the Terror...
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HISTOIRE de la REVOLUTION FRANCAISE

TOME 4 août 1792-novembre 1792

by JULES MICHELET
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015

Considéré comme étant l'un des grands historiens du XIXe siècle bien qu'aujourd'hui controversé, Jules MICHELET (1798-1874), pour comprendre la formation de la monarchie a voulu en étudier la ruine en écrivant Histoire de la Révolution Française. Doué d’un immense talent littéraire,...
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by Max Radiguet
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

“ Dans les derniers jours du mois de mars 1842, la frégate la Reine-Blanche, l’aile ouverte aux brises alizées, quittait Valparaiso et se dirigeait vers le couchant. Elle avait à son bord un brave amiral que ses goûts et ses antécédents préparaient à toutes les entreprises glorieuses,...
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Our Man in Paris

A Foreign Correspondent, France and the French

by John Lichfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012

Since 1997 John Lichfield, The Independent’s correspondent in France, has been sending dispatches back to the newspaper in London. More than transient news stories, the popular ‘Our Man in Paris’ series consists of essays on all things French. Sometimes serious, at other times light-hearted, they...
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Roast Beef on Frogs' Legs

An Englishman's Encounters with the French

by Jeremy JOSEPHS
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

A word or two with the world’s greatest mime, Marcel Marceau? A chat with Brigitte Bardot? Insights from France’s top business leaders – or from British ex-patriots beating the French at their own wine-making or gastronomic games? In a series of highly-entertaining and stylish photo-essays,...
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by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action-and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint Laurent suit", the book...
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by Hugh Nicklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012

A new history book for France that examines the commercially and strategically important region of the Lauragais, sometimes known as the 'Land of Cockaigne' in reference to a time of Pastel and the flourishing cotton industry that once existed there. The Lauragais lies to the south east of...
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by J. M. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

First published in 1935, this is widely regarded as the most definitive and comprehensive biography of Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), the French lawyer and politician who would become one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution...
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by Richard Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

Louis XIV ruled France for more than half a century and is typically remembered for his absolutism, his patronage of the arts and his lavish lifestyle – culminating in the building of Versailles. This original and lively biography focuses on Louis’s personal life while keeping the needs of the...
Cover of Napoleon and the campaign of 1814
by Henry Houssaye
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

January 1814. The Great Army, hit hard by the defeat of Leipzig October 19 1813, must leave the scene of German operations to defend its national territory. Cornered and hunted by the Blücher’s Russians and Prussians troops, Bernadotte’s Swedes and Schwarzenberg’s Austrians, the Emperor must...
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