France category: 4880 books

Sur près de cent-vingt Impératrices ou Reines de France, combien sont encore présentes dans la mémoire collective des Français ? Et pourtant ! Femmes de pouvoir ou femmes réservées, femmes de guerre ou femmes de paix, femmes scandaleuses ou femmes exemplaires, bien...

Opinion de Voltaire sur les amours du Roi et de Marie Mancini.—Les trois projets de mariage de Louis XIV.—Documents inédits consultés par l'auteur. Le vif intérêt que présente la passion de Louis XIV pour Marie Mancini, passion qui faillit provoquer de si graves événements entre...

*** Premium Ebook optimisé pour la lecture numérique *** Tiré de l’ouvrage « Simple récits de l’histoire de France » du pédagogue Gustave Ducoudray, cette Histoire de France est conçue comme un manuel destiné aux néophytes. Des guerres de religion à Louis XIV, en passant par...

Very successful genre: From Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence to A.J. Liebling’s Between Meals, from Graham Robb’s Discovery of France to Julia Child’s My Life in France, books that allow the reader to live vicariously Through the writer’s experience with French food and culture have a strong...

Avec les Nuls, tout devient facile ! Découvrez les grandes dates de l'Histoire de France dans ce livre Pour Les Nuls inédit ! Les événements sont classés par ordre chronologique pour visualiser au mieux les grandes périodes de l'Histoire de France et être moins Nul. Par Jean-Joseph Julaud, l'auteur du best-seller L'Histoire de France Pour Les Nuls.

With beguiling recipes and sumptuous photography, A Kitchen in France transports you to the French countryside and marks the debut of a captivating new voice in cooking. "This is real food: delicious, honest recipes that celebrate the beauty of picking what is ripe and in season, and capture...

The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context of...

Nice France Holiday Series Title:The Illustrated Diaries of Llewelyn Pritchard Vol 7 By Llewelyn Pritchard Smashwords Edition Copyright 2010 Llewelyn Pritchard Nice France Holiday A short-break budget holiday. Brighten-up your days and nights (even on a rainy, misty day) by enjoying all the...

(approx. 200 pages) Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground. Finding Internet...

CultureShock! France peels away the layers of the French and their country to reveal the heart of the Gallic temperament. The book navigates through essential topics such as learning the French language, how best to work with the French, observing their body language and even how to choose wine in a...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Richelieu en moins d’une heure ! Haï et critiqué par le peuple de son vivant, le cardinal de Richelieu est devenu, après sa mort, une sorte de légende. Considéré comme le modèle par excellence du ministre dévoué à l’État, il a préparé,...

'Sixty pages… of memory, praise, nostalgia and gratitude' Julian Barnes Rudyard Kipling's love affair with India is well-documented but his affection for France and its people is less well-known. It started at the age of twelve when he would regularly accompany his father to the Paris Exhibition...

The second book in the best-selling Mill of the Flea series, continuing the often farcical and always entertaining adventures of the author and his wife as they attempt to make a new life in rural France. Totally unlike any other book in travel literature. Following on from Home & Dry...

A woman who killed three men in a sword fight; drunken musketeers assaulting passers-by; a wife whose husband brought his mistress home and beat her when she objected.... These are just some of the colorful figures from eighteenth century France in this addition to the Old Regime Police Blotter series,...