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The genius of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the son of an immigrant shoemaker, and of painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, three of the greatest American artists ever, would flourish in Paris, inspired by the examples of brilliant French masters, and by Paris itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNearly all of these Americans, whatever their troubles learning French, their spells of homesickness, and their suffering in the raw cold winters by the Seine, spent many of the happiest days and nights of their lives in Paris. 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Follett then tells the story of the cathedral, from its construction to the role it has played across time and history, and he reveals the influence that the Notre-Dame had upon cathedrals around the world and on the writing of one of Follett's most famous and beloved novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Pillars of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e Ken Follett will donate his proceeds from this book to the charity La Fondation du Patrimoine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArts \u0026amp; Photography\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArchitecture\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuildings\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLandmarks \u0026amp; Monuments\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":45262457110718,"sku":"198488025X-3","price":6.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/81bkWBQTruL.jpg?v=1754094351"},{"product_id":"0679736042","title":"Toujours Provence: 0000 (Vintage Departures)","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking up where his beloved \u003ci\u003eA Year in Provence\u003c\/i\u003e leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with characters introduced with great affection and wit—the gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even the most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog \"Boy\"—\u003ci\u003eToujours Provence\u003c\/i\u003e is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite \"get away from it all,\" you can surely have a very good time trying.\u003c\/p\u003e Publishers Weekly \u003cp\u003eBritish author Mayle shares his adventures in France's Midi in an enchanting book that stayed on PW 's hardcover bestseller list for 19 weeks. His new book, Acquired Tastes , will be published by Bantam in May. 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Cogently, provocatively, and precisely argued.\" ― Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"The best and most instructive story of the Cathars is the one that actually happened. O'Shea tells it well.\" ― Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003cbr\u003eProduct Description\u003cbr\u003eA shattering chronicle of the life and death of the Cathar movement -- one of Western civilization's great tragedies.\u003cbr\u003eAt the beginning of the 13th century, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians, thrived across what is now southern France, but was then a patchwork of city states and principalities beholden to neither king nor bishop. The Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened the authority of the Catholic Church as well as the legitimacy of feudal law: they thought the idea of Hell, indeed the entire metaphysic constructed by the Church, to be a sham; they rejected all sacraments, including marriage; they thought private property an absurd notion and that all things worldly were corrupt; they gave women religious status equal to men.\u003cbr\u003eThough they lived peacefully, the Cathars growing influence enraged a Catholic Church that was flexing its muscle after decades of weakness, and its powerful Pope, Innocent III. The Church recruited the forces of France, eager to expand her territory to the south, and systematically attacked the Cathars in crusades between 1209 and 1229. 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