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Toute l'eloquence humaine dans toutes les assemblees de tous les peuples et de tous les temps peut se resumer en ceci: la querelle du droit contre la loi. Cette querelle, et c'est la tout le phenomene du progres, tend de plus en plus a decroitre. Le jour ou elle cessera, la civilisation touchera a...

France – 50 itinéraires de rêve vous fera voyager dès la première page. Ce magnifique album se présente comme une splendide source d’inspiration et une boîte à outils pour imaginer et préparer votre prochain voyage en France, qu’il s’agisse d’une longue excursion à travers plusieurs...

France is in a rut, and so is French cuisine. Twenty-five years ago it was hard to have a bad meal in France; now, in some cities and towns, it is a challenge to find a good one. For the first time in the annals of modern cuisine, the most influential chefs and the most talked-about restaurants in...

'A splendid romp. Vive la France!'Peter Mayle, author of 'A Year in Provence' and many other bestsellers'Mike Buchanan is the best kind of opinionated, middle-aged, middle-class Englishman abroad: the funny kind.'Andy Heslop'If you have a sense of humour, this book will put a big smile on your face....

**Wander the lavender fields of Provence, climb the Eiffel Tower, and bite into a perfect croissant: with Rick Steves on your side, France can be yours! Inside Rick Steves France 2019 you'll find:** Comprehensive coverage for planning a multi-week trip to France Rick's strategic...

According to Wikipedia: "A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 18831884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes,...

France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French...

Culture Briefing: France, updated for 2019, provides current, in-depth information found in no other single publication to help you understand the culture, customs, values and beliefs of the French people. Whether traveling to France, working on a class paper or doing business with the French, you'll...

Comprendre la France d’aujourd’hui, c’est savoir quelles sont ses origines. Connaître l’histoire de France, c’est avoir enfin une vision claire et ordonnée de la chronologie des faits. La France n’est pas née spontanément et n’a jamais été un espace géopolitique naturel. Elle...

Norwich has published dozens of books, but A History of France is the book he says he’s always wanted to write, and the one he most enjoyed writing: a single-volume historical narrative in the vein of his classic books A History of Venice, and A Short History of Byzantium, both of which continue...

"As beguiling and delectable as France itself." *Mimi Sheraton "Ann Barry tells her tale directly and clearly, without cloying artifice or guile, so that it has the warmth, honesty, and force of a long letter from an old friend. She makes her reader a welcome house guest...

This book is illustrated. Six years since, I published a book entitled The Huguenots: their Settlements, Churches, and Industries, in England and Ireland. Its object was to give an account of the causes which led to the large migrations of foreign Protestants from Flanders and France into England,...

In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtel’s diary, photographs, and letters home to her family provide the central texts of this study. From 1945 to 1948,...

The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books...