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France 1848 – 1945
Intellect and Pride
Theodore Zeldin
Analyzes the Frenchmans unique national identity, attitudes towards foreigners, education, and intellectual and
Troubled Sleep
Jean-Paul Sartre
Powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished response of the French people to the German oc
The Napoleonic Wars
1803 – 1815
David Gates
There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are but a handful of scholarly works that se
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his
Zadig / L’ingenu
Voltaire
One of Voltaire’s earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L
Paris in the Terror
June 1793 – July 1794
Stanley Loomis
Named one of the books of the century by the University of California, Berkeley, Paris in the Terror tells the
The Fatal Friendship
Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the flight to Varennes
Stanley Loomis
The hallmark of his writing, in this as in his previous book on Paris during the Terror, is fairness. He never
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
This classic study of art, life, and thought in France and the Netherlands during the fourteenth and fifteenth
The Civilisation of Charlemagne
Jacques Boussard
Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. He was born before their canonical marr
Pierre and Jean
Guy de Maupassant
The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy.
Chicot The Jester
The Last Valois #2
Alexandre Dumas
Intrigue and adventure in the dangerous days of the sixteenth century.
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutio
Chronicles
Jean Froissart
The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century Engl
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of
Balzac
V S Pritchett
With all his accustomed brilliance of perception and style, the novelist-critic V. S. Pritchett here gives us a
The French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle
The book that established Thomas Carlyles reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical