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Annecy (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....

Stagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban...

French Riviera (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...

Within this guide we have attempted to bring you the very best of the current contemporary, boutique and luxury hotels available within France today. We have listed our choice by region, and not always cost defined, although it normally goes without saying, that this level of accommodation does come...

(approx. 120 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...

The story tells of a lone traveller, Bede Jamieson, who makes a long cycle journey of 2,500 kilometres in the spring of 1989, through the main winegrowing regions of France—involving sightseeing, vineyard and winery visits, and other interesting encounters along the way. Bede, a lawyer on sabbatical...

This guidebook describes a 240km cycle ride along the length of the Canal du Midi in southern France. Starting at Toulouse in the Haute Garonne and finishing at Sète on the Mediterranean Coast, the route is divided into five stages of about 50km. It is a flat, car-free and picturesque route mainly...

Edition Complète de " Histoire de France  -  Livre 1 sur 19 - Jules Michelet ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée. Le premier livre de cette série...

EXTRAIT: PRÉFACE L'Histoire de France est terminée. J'y mis la vie.- Je ne regrette rien. Commencée dès 1830, elle s'achève enfin (1867). Il est rare que cette courte vie humaine suffise à de pareils labeurs. L'un des grands travailleurs du siècle,...

Les transcriptions des conférences données par Henri Guillemin en 1967 réunies dans un seul ouvrage On avait bien compris, à la lecture de son Silence aux pauvres, qu’Henri Guillemin ne se contentait pas, quant à la Révolution française de 1789, des versions officielles et convenues....

Marie Francois Sadi Carnot was bludgeoned by the dagger of an anarchist during a visit to an international exhibition in Lyons, France in June 1894. Sadi Carnot was riding to the theater around 9:30 p.m. when a man emerged from the crowd who was thought to be carrying a petition. Inside his sleeve...

Laura Levine Frader’s synthesis of labor history and gender history brings to the fore failures in realizing the French social model of equality for all citizens. Challenging previous scholarship, she argues that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars...

Quelle douleur ! Après l’invasion, la Chambre introuvable. Avoir rêvé une France régénérée qui, d’un vol puissant, s’élancerait vers la lumière et se sentir refoulé d’un demi-siècle en bas, sous le joug du jésuite,...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la guerre de Vendée en moins d’une heure ! Le 23 février 1793, au plus fort de la Terreur, la Convention décrète une levée en masse : 300 000 hommes devront rejoindre l’armée révolutionnaire française, de gré ou de force. En Vendée,...