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The stories of the daredevils who attempted to fly over the English Channel, a history filled with triumphs, tragedies, and colorful characters.
On July 25, 1909, a dapper, mustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy, diaphanous airplane changed the status of a great nation. "England is no longer an island," declared the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe, the newspaper's proprietor, had put up the £1,000 prize for the first flight of the English Channel by...
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John L. Campbell is the Class of 1925 Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College and professor of political economy at the Copenhagen Business School. Ove K. Pedersen is professor of comparative political economy at the Copenhagen Business School. Their many books include The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis (Princeton).
In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is...
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In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy tales, such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots," most often attributed to Charles Perrault, one of the brothers. While the writing of fairy tales may seem a frivolous enterprise, it was, in fact, linked...
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Penguin Books
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[2018]
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English
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""Beguiling. Longworth evokes the pleasures of France in delicious detail--great wine, delicious meals, and fine company."--Publishers Weekly When a scandalous author moves to the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence, Verlaque and Bonnet are called in to investigate whether he's haunted by more than just his past, in this delightful new mystery from M. L. Longworth One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valere...
3485) Paris
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Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Lonely Planet's Experience Paris is your guide to unforgettable experiences and local surprises. Indulge your appetites at sensational bistros, immerse yourself in artistic masterworks and experience the heights of haute couture - all guided by local experts with fresh perspectives. Uncover Paris's best experiences and get away from the everyday!"--Publisher's description.
3486) Cécile: gates of gold
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Pleasant Co. Publications
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c2002
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English
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In 1711, twelve-year-old Cʹecile Revel unexpectedly gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's sister-in-law at the palace of Versailles, but instead of a dream come true, life at court proves to be complicated and precarious.
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During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician.
Drawing on their...
3488) Persepolis
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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Français
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In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
3490) Paris can wait
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Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
3491) Gigi
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Turner Entertainment/Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in love with a rich and handsome boulevardier.
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Español
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Argentina, 1952. The death of Eva Peron sparks a 25-year clash between opposing military coups over the burial of her embalmed corpse, now a beloved and hated political symbol. Evita's posthumous legacy is told through a series of isolated incidents featuring the expert doctor obsessively carrying out her embalming, an army colonel's secret mission to transport the body back to Argentina, and the kidnapping of a military dictator who is forced to...
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The nation's 'taster in chief' cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes. A green bike drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill in the late-morning sun, the gears grinding painfully, like a pepper mill running on empty. The rider crouched on top in a rictus of pain has slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, from somewhere nearby, the whine of a nasal engine breaks through her ragged breathing.
A...
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Extrait: "Cette conscience de lui-même, - de ce qu'il était, de ce qu'il valait, de ce qu'il représentait, - Louis XIV, est-il besoin de l'ajouter? n'y atteignit que petit à petit. Il commença par aimer comme tout le monde, c'est-à-dire à la mode du jour, car il est rare qu'un adolescent ou qu'un jeune homme aime naturellement. L'amour, - je ne dis pas sensualité, - n'est souvent, chez lui, qu'un cas de mimétisme."
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"Winner of the 2008 Prix François Guizot, Académie française" Lucien Jaume is a philosopher, political scientist, and historian of ideas. The author of a number of books, he is research director at France's Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po. He teaches in Paris, Rome, and Shanghai.
A major intellectual biography of Toqueville that restores democracy in America to its essential context
Many American readers like to regard Alexis...
3497) Flaubert
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Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work in France's century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie. Vulgar,...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Argel, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Examinar el contexto político y social en el que se enmarca la batalla de Argel, tras la debilitación del poder colonial de Francia al salir de la II Guerra Mundial y con la lucha de los argelinos por su independencia, haciendo especial hincapié...
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In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.
Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions, and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in...
3500) Verdict on Vichy
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This masterful book is the first comprehensive reappraisal of the Vichy France regime for over 20 years. France was occupied by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944, and the exact nature of France's role in the Vichy years is only now beginning to come to light. One of the main reasons that the Vichy history is difficult to tell is that some of France's most prominent politicians, including President Mitterand, have been implicated in the regime. This...
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