France category: 4880 books

Le privilége de Diane de Poitiers, comme celui de la marquise de Pompadour, fut d'avoir présidé à une époque de grandeur et de rénovation dans les arts. Toutes les gloires passent, le souvenir de la douce protection accordée aux artistes survit à toutes; les noms de Léonard de Vinci, del...

De Vercingétorix aux présidents de la Ve République, retrouvez tous les grands personnages qui ont joué un rôle essentiel dans l’Histoire de France. Par leur sens politique ou leur audace, leur esprit visionnaire ou leur sang froid, ces hommes et ces femmes sont les acteurs primordiaux des...

Retour sur un épisode clé de l'histoire de France sous un éclairage inédit L’histoire sérieuse n’a pas encore mis en lumière la place qu’a tenue, dans la Révolution française, et dès le début, la crainte, chez les possédants, d’une menace sur leurs biens. Ce qu’il faut...

Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Fabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses’ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on women and gender in the...

Compass of Society rethinks the French route to a conception of 'commercial society' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Henry C. Clark finds that the development of market liberalism, far from being a narrow and abstract ideological episode, was part of a broad-gauged attempt to address...

Disneyland Paris (France) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section...

Following on from the Author’s “Napoleon’s Last Campaign in Germany”, Petre’s closely researched and well argued account of the 1814 campaign, which would see some of the finest strategical manoeuvres of Napoleon’s entire career. As the wreck of the last Grande Armée created in 1813,...

Marie Antoinette is most famously remembered as 'Madame Deficit'. Unlike the image portrayed by those who led the French Revolution, Marie was a well-intentioned philanthropist, devoted mother, and free spirit. This short historical account details the truth behind the Queen's childhood,...

At the age of 45 Miles Morland resigned from his highly paid job as head of the UK division of a major American bank and went for a walk with his wife in France. Neither of them was used to walking further than the distance between a restaurant and a waiting taxi. They walked from the Mediterranean...

Normandy (France) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

D-Day beaches (France) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section...

A sourcebook of homicide, suicide, rape and prostitution cases from 18th century France, most from previously untranslated material. Sources include periodicals, Bastille records, police reports and contemporary true crime accounts. Within each subject, material - most of it from the period - is presented...

The most enduring work of its time, Reflections on the Revolution in France was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke’s analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This outstanding new edition of...

Written by locals, Fodor's Paris annual travel guidebook offers expert advice and insider tips for all tastes and budgets to help you make the most out of your visit to Paris. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease. Join Fodor’s...