France category: 4880 books

Histoire de France - 814-1189 Jules Michelet, historien français (1798-1874) Ce livre numérique présente «Histoire de France - 814-1189», de Jules Michelet, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...

Histoire de France - 1547-1572 Jules Michelet, historien français (1798-1874) Ce livre numérique présente «Histoire de France - 1547-1572», de Jules Michelet, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...

Histoire de France - 1516-1547 Jules Michelet, historien français (1798-1874) Ce livre numérique présente «Histoire de France - 1516-1547», de Jules Michelet, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...

Histoire de France - 1618-1661 Jules Michelet, historien français (1798-1874) Ce livre numérique présente «Histoire de France - 1618-1661», de Jules Michelet, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...

Le best-seller incontournable d'Alain Decaux dans une nouvelle édition entièrement remaniée (nouvelle iconographie et nouvelle maquette)et complétée jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Une histoire de France pour tous, indispensable à toutes les familles. " L'histoire que je vous propose ne ressemble à aucune...

France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934. On 6 February 1934, thousands of fascist rioters almost succeeded in bringing down the French...

There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably...

Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster They Eat Horses, Don't They is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage. From absinthe...

In occupied France, the Nazis pursued aggressive, tightly orchestrated measures designed to monopolize the French market and foster agitation against Americans, Jews, Communists, and others. The documentary film was one instrument of propaganda employed by the Nazi occupiers, as well as the Vichy...

In this revisionist account of France’s crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation’s downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France’s diplomatic and military preparations for war with Germany, its conduct of the war once the fighting began,...

Mapping and Charting for the Lion and the Lily: Map and Atlas Production in Early Modern England and France is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France, with a particular focus on Paris, the cartographic center of production from...

L'histoire de France comme vous ne l'avez encore jamais lue...Revisiter l'histoire de France en suivant le fil conducteur des crimes politiques les plus effroyables qui l'ont jalonnée nous transporte dans les coulisses des ambitions de nos " grands " hommes. Au-delà des hauts faits d'armes...

In 1918, the end of the First World War triggered the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France after almost fifty years of annexation into the German Empire. Enthusiastic crowds in Paris and Alsace celebrated the return of the 'lost provinces,' but return proved far more difficult than expected. Over...

Historians of the Cold War, argues William Hitchcock, have too often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping the post-World War II international system. In particular, France, a country beset by economic difficulties and political instability in the aftermath of the war, has been...