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Walking Tour Paris
Marshall Cavendish 2011; US$ 12.80Paris is a city renowned for its history, beauty and romance. Beloved of artists, writers and thinkers, not to mention lovers, "La Ville-Lumière" (The City of Light) is as famous for its fashion as its food and, of course, its art and architecture.Architect G. Byrne Bracken guides you through 15 walking tours in Paris most famous... more...
An Inland Voyage
The Floating Press 1904; US$ 3.99Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage , details his canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. Pioneering new ground in outdoor literature, this was Stevenson's first book. He had decided to become free from his parent's financial support so that he might freely pursue the woman he loved; to support himself he... more...
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
The Floating Press 1915; US$ 7.95"Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance. The fiery energy of his youthful career, and the magnificent progress of his irresistible ambition, have invested his character with the mysterious grandeur of some heavenly appearance; and when all the lesser tumults and lesser men of our age shall... more...
Napoleon the Little
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 4.99This pointedly satirical assessment of the governing skills of Napoleon set into motion a series of international scandals upon its initial publication in 1852. Author Victor Hugo had been living and working in Belgium when Napoleon the Little was published, but at the urging of King Leopold, the Belgian ruler, he left that country and took up residence... more...
WBG Deutsch-Französische Geschichte / Kaisertum und allerchristlichster König 1214-1500
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 59.30Hauptbeschreibung Über die Jahrhunderte hinweg haben Deutschland und Frankreich - beide können auf gemeinsame historische Wurzeln im fränkischen Reich zurückblicken - immer engste wechselseitige Beziehungen unterhalten, oft als Rivalen, oft als Feinde, manchmal auch als Freunde. Ihr Zusammenspiel war maßgeblich für die Entwicklung der europäischen... more...
The Furies
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 45.00The great romance and fear of bloody revolution--strange blend of idealism and terror--have been superseded by blind faith in the bloodless expansion of human rights and global capitalism. Flying in the face of history, violence is dismissed as rare, immoral, and counterproductive. Arguing against this pervasive wishful thinking, the distinguished... more...
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 6.99Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette is an inside look into the life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, written by her First Lady in Waiting Madame Campan. Born in 1755 and married to Louis XVI of France at the age of 14, Antoinette was renowned for her fabled excesses. She was condemned for treason in 1793 at the zenith of the French Revolution,... more...









