France category: 4880 books

« Qui m’aime me suive », « Du haut de ces pyramides, quarante siècles vous contemple », « Je vous ai compris », autant de phrases célèbres qui restent dans la mémoire de tous les Français. Cet ouvrage évoque et explique les deux cent cinquante citations les plus célèbres de l’histoire...

The Palace of Versailles, Château de Versailles, or simply Versailles is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. When the palace was built, Versailles was a small village dating from the 11th century. Louis XIV's expansion of the building was begun around...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la Révolution française de 1789 en moins d’une heure !  Tournant crucial de l’Histoire de France, la Révolution française inaugure une ère fortement troublée. Alors que le pays est en crise et que les finances restent désespérément...

The author of the acclaimed When Paris Went Dark, longlisted for the National Book Award, returns to World War II once again to tell the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance—many only teenagers—who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators...

First published in 1980, this compact and useful book uses the earliest volumes of government-published statistics, and with the aid of computer-generated cartography, transforms the numbers there reported into an arrondissement-by-arrondissement comparative picture of French agriculture in the mid-1830s....

Over 300.000 copies sold for this book (new edition) The first part of Louis' reign was marked by attempts to reform France in accordance with Enlightenment ideals. These included efforts to abolish serfdom, remove the taille, and increase tolerance toward non-Catholics. The French nobility...

With Stuff Parisians Like, Olivier Magny shared his hilarious insights into the fervently held opinions of his fellow Parisians. Now he moves beyond the City of Light to skewer the many idiosyncrasies that make modern France so very unique. In France, the simple act of eating bread is an exercise...

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French...

FRENCH historians, anxious to vindicate in all things the priority of their nation, point out that in 1512, five years before Luther denounced the sale of indulgences, Lefevre, a lecturer on theology and letters at Paris, published a commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul in which he taught the doctrine...

Ce chapitre Le Sud de la Corse est issu du guide Sur la route des régions de France. Tous les chapitres sont disponibles et vendus séparément. Vous pouvez également acheter le guide complet.

Ce chapitre La Bretagne entre brumes et légendes est issu du guide Sur la route des régions de France. Tous les chapitres sont disponibles et vendus séparément. Vous pouvez également acheter le guide complet.

Demystifying the French: How to Love Them, and Make Them Love You is aimed at first-time visitors to France as well as long-term expatriates. Designed to help readers "crack the code," avoid common mistakes, and get off on the right foot with the French, the book begins with five easy-to-follow...

Author and intellect Brewster Chamberlin invites you along on his personal journey through the culturally rich landscapes of Greece and France. From the author of The Time in Tavel: An Informal Illustrated Memoir of a Sojourn in Provence; Paris Now and Then: Memoirs, Opinions, and a Companion to the...

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