Avignon of the Popes: City of Exiles |
 Edwin Mullins
ISBN: 1904955339
At the beginning of the fourteenth century anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Rome for the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining "in...(read more) |
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Cézanne in Provence |
 Evmarie Schmitt
ISBN: 3791314513
Paul Cezanne's life and work were deeply rooted in his native Provence. Some 50 oil paintings and several watercolours and drawings are reproduced in this volume, which focuses on the artist's landscapes, but also discusses his "Bathers" and still lifes. |
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Dickens on France: Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing |
 Charles Dickens, John Edmondson (Editor)
ISBN: 1904955061
"Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris." This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of affinity with the...(read more) |
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France in the New Century |
 John Ardagh
ISBN: 0140259228
Presenting a portrait of changes in French society since 1945, with the accent on the France of the mid-1990s, this book's main focus is on society, culture and the economy, but space is also given to politics. |
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I'll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World's Most Popular Wine |
 Rudolph Chelminski
ISBN: 1592403204
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Living in France: A practical guide to your new life in France |
 Patricia Mansfield-Devine
ISBN: 1897597924
Do you dream of a new life in France? The food, the culture, the beautiful towns and villages, the wine...But how do you make that move, and how does it all work once you get there? This book shows you how. Patricia Mansfield-Devine has lived in France...(read more) |
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Provence Style: The Art of Home Decoration |
 Noelle Duck
ISBN: 2080108395
Provencal houses are true homes. Warm shades of ochre glow from the walls and roofs, weathered floors shine, and reflections dance off glazed ceramics hitting cotton tablecloths. The region of Provence has always produced the right materials for...(read more) |
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Provence: A Cultural History |
 Martin Garrett
ISBN: 1904955231
Celebrated by writers from Petrarch to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Historic cities like Arles, Avignon and Aix contain Roman amphitheatres, papal palaces and royal residences, while...(read more) |
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The Illustrated Olive Farm |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0297844040
Life on an olive farm vividly described in this newly written and illustrated companion to the bestselling trilogy. |
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The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0349114749
This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on...(read more) |
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Vegetarian France |
 Alex Bourke et al
ISBN: 1902259009
A comprehensive guide to vegetarian France. It includes 150 places to eat and sleep, over 20 veggie restaurants in Paris alone, vegetarian hotels and guesthouses, all-you-can-eat vegan buffets in Paris and Marseille, veggie vocabulary, the hitchhikers...(read more) |
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Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France |
 Kristin Espinasse
ISBN: 0743287282
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