France category: 4880 books
The General
Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as “carrying France on [his] shoulders.”
In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In...
by Gustave Masson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Medieval France: From the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century is a classic treatise on the history of France. This expansive text covers French history form the 10th to the 16th centuries, including the Capetian dynasty, the Crusades, and the Hundred Years War. A table of contents is included for easier navigation.
A French Renaissance?
An Irish Family Moves to France
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O’Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural France is not some romantic idyll. Aiming to tell their...
by Marquis de Lafayette
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Memoirs of General Lafayette
With an Account of His Visit to America, and of His Reception by the People of the United States; from His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824 by Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier
CONTENTS (abridged list)
Introductory...
Marie-Antoinette
The Queen and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Marie-Antoinette in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and reign of Marie-Antoinette. In 1789, a bloody revolution broke out in France, and four years later the king and...
by Henriette Elizabeth Witt, François Guizot
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
For more than ten years, amid unheard of shocks and sufferings, France had been seeking for a free and regular government, that might assure to her the new rights which had only been gained through tribulation. She had overthrown the Monarchy and attempted a Republic; she had accepted and rejected three...
Wine and War
The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II.
"To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine."
–Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La...
Murder in the Métro
Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Dorée station in the Paris Métro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever...
Ego-histories of France and the Second World War
Writing Vichy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France during the Second World War. Based
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Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995)
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 1995, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia is the first single-volume reference work on the history and culture of medieval France. It covers the political, intellectual, literary, and musical history of the country from the early fifth to the late fifteenth century. The shorter entries...
by Elizabeth C. Macknight
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles' conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France. During the French Revolution nobles' property was seized, destroyed, or sold off by the nation. State intervention during the nineteenth...
by Ronald Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought,...
The Court Book of Mende and the Secular Lordship of the Bishop
Recollecting the Past in Thirteenth-Century Gévaudan
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
Mende is a diocese in south-central France where, in the 1260s, scribes of Bishop Odilon de Mercoeur created an extensive court book or register of litigated cases. Their intention was to develop an archive for the use of the chancery as well as to preserve the causae of the episcopal court. These...
Medieval France
From the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Masson's Medieval France is a concise history of France from the end of the 10th, to the beginning of the 16th centuries. This edition includes an active table of contents.