France

Vintage bookCategories: History EuropeFrance Book details Author: MICHAEL BAIGENT~RICHARD LEIGH~HENRY LINCOLN Format: hardcover Edition: Book Club E...

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This innovative introduction to the Scientific Revolution features more than 80 foundational documents that chronicle the emergence of organized science. Fr...

This survey is a major reinterpretation of France's achievement as a nation and of the individual experience of the French, which has taken its place as one...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

The author of fourteen books, Charles Maier is one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history. Recasting Bourgeois Europe, his first b...

This clear and comprehensive history of French society—from the age of the Enlightenment to the present — offers balanced coverage of major political, s...

Review"The simple, unadorned narrative is gripping and makes its point all the more forcefully because of its lack of pretension." -- Karen Armstrong, autho...

‘A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book – told with tremendous pace and excitement’ William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account of th...

The fascinating new book by the author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling: a saga of artistic rivalry and cultural upheaval in t...

Established In 1898 In The Heart Of Paris On The Place Vendôme, The Hôtel Ritz Instantly Became An Icon Of The City Frequented By Film Stars And Celebrity...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris is your in-depth guide to the very best of Paris. The Eiffel Tower and The Louvre are among the many must-see sights in P...

A revised and updated edition of this established cultural history examines the interplay between eighteenth-century rationalism and nineteenth-century roma...

Tells of the causes, the history, and the legacy of the French Revolution from a two-hundred year perspective.Categories: History EuropeFrance World Bo...

In 1795 - the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed commander-in-chief in Italy - the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the Artillery Sch...

Walter McDougall offers an original analysis of Versailles diplomacy from the standpoint of the power that had the most direct interest and took the first i...

The Book Pieces Together How Coco Chanel Became A German Intelligence Operative; How And Why She Was Enlisted In A Number Of Spy Missions; How She Escaped A...