France category: 4880 books
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
A country for romantics, art enthusiasts, and lovers of culture, France is eternally compelling. Be inspired to visit by the brand new Insight Pocket Guide France, a concise, full-colour guide to this iconic country that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the best that France...
by Charles Léopold Louandre
Language: French
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Du mouvement catholique en France depuis 1830 Charles Léopold Louandre, historien et un bibliographe français (1812-1882)
Ce livre numérique présente «Du mouvement catholique en France depuis 1830», de Charles Léopold Louandre, édité...
by Jacques BAINVILLE, Franz-Olivier GIESBERT
Language: French
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Une histoire de France des origines à la fin de la Grande Guerre par un styliste à la plume incomparable.
Voici enfin une histoire de France qui fait aimer la France. De Clovis à la iiie République, en passant par les Capétiens, l'auteur raconte les hommes et déroule les événements...
Histoire de la France coloniale (2)
L'Apogée : 1871-1931
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1995
Bien que peu explorée, l’histoire coloniale est l’un des aspects les plus singuliers de l’histoire de France. Des premières découvertes faites au nom de la couronne au XVIe siècle à la prise armée du Tonkin, de la rivalité franco-britannique à l’élaboration par la IIIe République...
by Gérard Bossuat
Language: French
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 30, 2013
À l’heure de l’après-guerre froide et de la reconversion des ex-pays de l’Est à l’économie de marché, La France, l’aide américaine et la construction européenne constitue un ouvrage de référence pour tous ceux que soucie le devenir de l’Europe. Dans cette somme que forment la...
Les Avocats aux conseils du roi
Étude sur l'ancien régime judiciaire de la France ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: July 14, 2018
L’histoire de notre Ordre se lie intimement à celle des deux juridictions suprêmes auprès desquelles il est institué. Avant de faire connaître son origine et ses transformations successives jusqu’à la Révolution, nous ne croyons pas hors de propos de rechercher par suite de quelles vicissitudes...
Revolution Française
Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
He emerged from nowhere to seize the presidency, defeat populism and upend French party politics. Who is Emmanuel Macron? How far can he really change France?
In Revolution Française, Sophie Pedder examines the first year in office of France's youngest and most exciting president in modern...
by Stanley Karnow
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent...
France
A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Critically acclaimed historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyzes the extraordinary...
Remaking France
Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy. This book, examining as it does the Marshall Plan as the form of public diplomacy of the United States in France after World War Two, offers a timely historical case study. Current...
Home & Dry in France
A Year in Purgatory
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
In this hilarious collection of cautionary tales and anecdotes, George East discusses all the delights and drawbacks of finding, buying and restoring French property. HOME & DRY IN FRANCE follows the early adventures of George and Donella East as they make every mistake in the (not-then-written)...
Francis I
The Maker of Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch—Francis I—who turned France into a great nation.
Catherine de Medici’s father-in-law,...
by Shelley Row
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Many dream of living abroad but Shelley and her husband, Mike, did it. They left the security of their careers, the comfort of their home, and the familiarity of their neighborhood and moved to France. For ten months, they made their home in the village of Cotignac in southern France. From their yellow-stucco...
French Impression: The Loire Valley
Valley of the Kings
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
French Impressions: The Loire Valley "The title is very apt. Compared with other travel books, reading George's work is like coming across the brightness and brio of an Impressionist painting in a museum full of sombre art..."
West Town News
Product Description...