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  • Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by

    In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village ...

    3 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • Napoleon The Great by

    Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of just twenty years from 1795 ...

    2 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • A People's History of the French Revolution by

    The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events ...

    2 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
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    The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 by

    As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe--sites like Warsaw ...

    2 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • A Brief History of France by

    When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez ...

    due for release Sep 2017
  • Saint-Germain-Des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter by

    The award-winning chronicler of life in Paris reveals the secrets of his home quarter, Saint-Germain-des-Pres A unique blend of history, memoir, and sightseeing essentials, Saint-Germain-des-Pres ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by

    The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was ...

    due for release Jul 2017
  • No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by

    Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey Through a City's Poor and Bohemian Past by

    Paris, the City of Light, the city of fine dining, seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart by

    George Whitman opened his bookstore in a tumbledown 16th-century building just across the Seine from Notre-Dame in 1951, a decade after the original Shakespeare and ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • The Rival Queens: Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by

    'A gripping tale of royal feuds and divided kingdoms' - AMANDA FOREMAN Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the War with Terror by

    With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by

    A strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • The Sun King by

    This title comes with an introduction by Stella Tillyard. During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
  • The Devils of Loudun by

    In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been ...

    1 in stock - ships Tue 25th!
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