France category: 4880 books

Radio provided a new and powerful medium in 1930s France. Devoted audiences responded avidly to their stations' programming and relied on radio as a source of daily entertainment, news, and other information. Within the comfortable, secure space of the home, audio culture reigned supreme. In Programming...

Postwar recovery required a transformation of France, but what form it should take remained a question. Herrick Chapman charts the course of France’s reconstruction from 1944 to 1962, offering insights into the ways the expansion of state power produced fierce controversies at home and unintended consequences abroad in France’s crumbling empire.

France, Paris. L'amour, l'amour, toujours l'amour Yesterday it was hip and trendy Brits and glamorous financial towers along the Thames; today it's the City of Love and the art of living along the Seine. Only in Europe can you find two such contrasting cities just a few hundred miles apart. France...

Ce chapitre vous propose 4 itinéraires afin de découvrir les plus beaux villages de France. Il vous fera notamment visiter les magnifiques villages des Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Puis, on vous suggère la visite des charmants villages du Sud et du Nord de la France. En terminant, impossible de passer à côté des superbes villages de Provence et de la Côte d’Azur.

During a cycle tour in France in 2012, Marie’s legs started talking to her.  A year later, pedalling up a long hill in Corsica, The Legs piped up again.  ‘And how long is it for this time? Two months? And we’re going where? Oh, just to the Atlantic. Fine. No problem.’ With...

The kingdom of France of the medieval ages, emerged from the Western dominion of Europe. It was called as Charlemagne’s empire of Carolingians. During those days, the territory was prominently called as Western Francis. It was during the later years in and around 987, the prominence of this Western...

Moving beyond traditional state-centered conceptions of foreign relations, Christopher Endy approaches the Cold War era relationship between France and the United States from the original perspective of tourism. Focusing on American travel in France after World War II, Cold War Holidays shows how...

Brittany (Bretagne in French) in France’s northwest region was first known to the Romans as Lesser Britain. The famous peninsula is located close to Normandy and the Loire Valley of France.  A stay in Brittany will leave you feeling like you’re in a perpetual Celtic fairytale with many of...

When Samantha Brick’s life started to unravel – her company in liquidation, homeless, penniless and friendless, and on max-strength anti-depressants – it seemed that everything was going wrong. But a chance week away in France led to the most unexpected of all turn-arounds: a whirlwind romance...

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an imaginative...

The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories...

Kennedy describes how the Croix de Feu promised to restore patriotic unity to France but instead demonized the organization's enemies as unfit to be French; its successor, the Parti Social Français, professed a respect for democracy but actually promoted an authoritarian nationalist vision. Previous...

Nice on the French Riviera is famous for its temperate climate and landscape and it is sometimes called “Nice la Belle” (Nice the Beautiful.) It is the second-most visited tourist destination in France, after Paris, with 4 million arrivals a year.    TABLE OF CONTENTS:  Introduction...

« En 1841, dans son discours de réception à l’Académie française, Victor Hugo avait évoqué la “populace” pour désigner le peuple des quartiers pauvres de Paris. Vinçard ayant vigoureusement protesté dans un article de La Ruche populaire, Hugo fut très embarrassé. Il prit conscience...