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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Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country |
 Robert Camuto
ISBN: 0803276354
Robert V. Camuto's interest in wine turned into a passion when he moved to France and began digging into local soils and cellars. "Corkscrewed" recounts Camuto's journey through France's myriad regions - and how the journey brought about a...(read more) |
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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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Escape to Provence |
 Maureen Emerson
ISBN: 0955832101
Escape to Provence is the true story of two remarkable women who, with style and energy, carved out new lives for themselves in the South of France in the first part of the last century. An American, Elisabeth Parrish Starr, and an Englishwoman,...(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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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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Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France |
 Kristin Espinasse
ISBN: 0743287282
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