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  • Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire by

    In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse.By the IACP ...

    due for release Dec 2017
  • Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris by

    'During the German occupation of France, Suzanne Spaak displayed almost super-human courage . . . Anne Nelson has written an extraordinary book that finally does justice to Spaak ...

    due for release Oct 2017
  • 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 ...

    2 in stock - ships Thu 21st!
  • A Brief History of France, Revised and Updated 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 ...

    2 in stock - ships Thu 21st!
  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute by

    Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those with a romantic attachment to ideals ...

    due for release Sep 2017
  • Louis XIV by

    Louis XIV ruled France for more than half a century and is typically remembered for his absolutism, his patronage of the arts and his lavish ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Napoleon: On War by

    This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the ...

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  • City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by

    In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris after the brutal deaths of two ...

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