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A remarkable historical account of the celebration and chaos that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with ...
Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign ...
On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had ...
Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon's ...
Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates including Jospehine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic ...
The French call them 'the Dark Years'...This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive ...
An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book ...
Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought
Burke's seminal work was written during the early ...
Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundations. With a mixture of ...
This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of the new version of his Correspondence compiled by the Foundation ...
Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth; it was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. During his formative years his ...
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face ...
No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic ...
The first book to uncover the true story of Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel in occupied Paris during the Second World War. Hal Vaughan reveals: her life ...