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The Ceremonial City
Princeton University Press 1996; US$ 26.50From public executions to religious processions to political festivities, Toulouse's ceremonial life was remarkably rich in the decades prior to the French Revolution. In an engaging portrait that conveys this provincial city in all its splendor and misery, Robert Schneider explores how Toulouse's civic and community life was represented in the stagings... more...
The Champagne Country, France
Wiley 2011; US$ 5.99Frommer's ShortCuts give you exactly what you need for your trip to the Champagne Country, France-and no more. In this ebook, you'll get the same expert advice that you'll find in all Frommer's guides, from candid reviews and detailed maps to insider tips from our local authors. Plus, we've added planning and background information as well as our... more...
Cosmopolitan Europe
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 119.95Based on in-depth, lively interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world (France, Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Portugal, Italy, ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Cameroon, and Afghanistan amongst other countries), the author draws out of these powerful testimonies all sorts of compelling insights... more...
Families, friends, and allies
BRILL 2004; US$ 204.00Tanner (history, Ohio State U.) offers a new model of the development of medieval government from the later ninth century in northern France, drawing on a cluster of insights developed by social historians and historians that she calls the anthropological school, because it draws on anthropological models in order to discuss political and social co more...
A Fool And His Money
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00Few books have captured the atmosphere of daily medieval life as well or as movingly as A Fool and His Money. Rodez, in southern France, was divided for centuries by a feud between two masters. This partitioned town thus acquired two distinct cultures. The story focuses on the strange case of Peyre Marques, a merchant who forgets where he has buried... more...
High Season In Nice
Little, Brown Book Group 2013; Not AvailableA fascinating portrait of Nice on the French Riviera, showing how the city became the birthplace of modern tourism more...
High Season In Nice
Little, Brown Book Group 2013; US$ 22.64A fascinating portrait of Nice on the French Riviera, showing how the city became the birthplace of modern tourism more...
Houseboat on the Seine
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 18.99The title brings to mind a luxury vessel on the most glamorous river in the world, but readers expecting to learn about the high life in France will be in for a surprise. In this charming memoir, painter and novelist Wharton (Birdy) instead gives us literally the nuts and bolts of building a houseboat, along with generous dollops of humor and local... more...
Ideologies and Institutions in Urban France
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 60.00Presents a detailed account of relations between the indigenous French population and immigrant workers and their families of non-French origin. more...









