France category: 4880 books
by Charles Esdaile
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
A highly original and critical introduction to the revolutionary and napoleonic conflicts. It illuminates the less well-known areas of the subject, such as the changing atttitude of the French people towards Napoleon, as well as providing a balanced account of the campaigns of Wellington and Napoleon.
Based...
A Week in Provence
Walking in the Verdon Gorge and Haute Provence
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A much needed autumn break walking in the Verdon Gorge region of Provence turns into a fraught lesson in how not to speak French as the author gets to grips with the language of love, romance and strange combinations of Cs, Qs, apostrophes and genders. Written with her by now trademark self-deprecating...
Champagne, Uncorked
The House of Krug and the Timeless Allure of the World's Most Celebrated Drink
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Champagne is the epitome of effervescence, the centerpiece of celebration, and a symbol of good fortune. It has become an icon, a symbol of luxury, an emblem of the "good life," and few are not attracted to its sparkle.
Champagne, Uncorked is a journey into the heart of this beloved...
Work, Regulation, and Identity in Provincial France
The Bordeaux Leather Trades, 1740–1815
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy.
by Doreen Porter
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Welcome to France. It's only about 90 minutes from London by plane, but it is most definitely Abroad. Moving there is not without its problems, not least the language. From calling a handyman to report a Musketeer in your bedroom, to offering to clean all the shoes in a shoe shop, there are pitfalls...
by Laura Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Five years after My Grape Escape, Laura and Franck are back in Burgundy to tackle their newest project, a derelict 16th-century winemaker’s cottage located behind Franck’s family home.
Navigating the different rules for raising children and managing a family in a small French village prove...
by Rick Steves
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the Basque Country.
In this compact guide, Rick Steves covers the essentials of the Basque Country with coverage of St. Jean-de-Luz, The Bay of Biscay, and Bayonne. Visit the Eglise St. Jean Baptiste, the...
Napoleon: a History of the Art of War Vol. IV
from the Beginning of the French Revolution to the End of the 18th Century [Ill. Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes over 200 maps, plans, diagrams and uniform prints
Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge was a soldier of long and bloody experience, having served with the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War losing one of his legs during the battle of Gettysburg. After the end of the war he...
by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Europe's great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France, yet force of numbers, superior leadership and the patriotic fervour of France's citizen-soldiers not only defeated each in turn, but closed the era of small, professional armies fighting for limited political objectives. This period...
by Prosper Mérimée
Language: French
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Chronique du règne de Charles IX
Prosper Mérimée
Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.
Le roi que tout le monde a oublié... et pour cause : Il a tout raté sauf sa fin...
Only Muslim
Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints,...
A Desert Named Peace
The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
With interdisciplinary analyses of texts whose origins span the diversity of the Jewish and Muslim traditions, the provocative essays collected in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World offer startling insights into the meaning of the volatile history of this conflict in the Francophone...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised...