France

By Anna E. Brooke

ISBN-10: 0470384352

ISBN-13: 9780470384350

First-class hold round booklet with nice maps (city and local point) and concepts to construct itineraries with "best of" feedback, jogging excursions, and so on. there's a overall of twenty-two self guided excursions and forty (!) maps. The foldout entrance conceal with a urban map on one facet and an excellent Paris Metro map (that is less complicated to appreciate than the reliable subway map) have been useful for purchasing round successfully to the place you desired to cross. no longer nice for lodges and eating places - simply invaluable as a pass reference - use different resources focusing on these parts. it'd be five stars if it integrated a bus map that was once nearly as good because the Metro map, and, additionally, inexplicably, it doesn't comprise any details on Musee de l'Orangerie the place a few of Monet's extra striking works dwell. differently, when you are a "map individual" who likes getting round on their lonesome, this is often the advisor for you.

By Antonia Fraser

ISBN-10: 1400033748

ISBN-13: 9781400033744

Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was once popular for his political and cultural impression and for elevating France to a brand new point of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And but, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was once both mythical within the family sphere. certainly, a panoply of ladies — his spouse Anne; mistresses equivalent to Louise de l. a. Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon; and an array of courtesans — moved out and in of the court docket. The hugely noticeable presence of those girls increases many questions on their place in either Louis XIV’s existence and in France at huge. With cautious study and vibrant, enticing prose, Fraser makes the multifaceted lifetime of the most well-known ecu monarchs obtainable and vibrantly present.

By Mark Kurlansky

ISBN-10: 0802713491

ISBN-13: 9780802713490

The Basque historical past of the area is the illuminating tale of an historic and enigmatic humans. symptoms in their civilization existed good prior to the coming of the Romans in 218 B.C., and although theories abound, not anyone has ever been capable of ensure their origins. Their old tongue, Euskera, is both mysterious: it's the oldest residing eu language, and is expounded to no different language on Earth.

Yet regardless of their imprecise origins and small numbers (2.4 million humans today), the Basques have had a profound effect on Europe and the area for greater than 2,000 years. by no means looking extra land, they've got still fiercely defended their very own opposed to invaders starting from the Celts and Visigoths to Napoleon and Franco. they've got continuously been a paradoxical combination of inbred culture and worldly ambition, protecting their indigenous felony code, food, literature—even their very own hat and shoe—while whilst striving immodestly to be leaders on this planet. They have been pioneers of industrial whaling and cod fishing, have been one of the first Europeans within the Americas, Africa, and Asia through the age of exploration, and have been wealthy capitalists while capitalism used to be a brand new thought, later major the commercial Revolution in southern Europe. Their impression has been felt in each realm, from faith (the charismatic Ignatius Loyola based the Jesuits in 1534) to activities and trade. at the present time, even whereas clinging to their historic tribal id, they're prepared for a without borders global: the original Basque suggestion of nationhood hasn't ever been extra proper, at a time while Basques are having fun with what could be the most vital cultural renaissance of their lengthy existence.

Mark Kurlansky's ardour for the Basque people– their heroes and commoners alike-and his exuberant eye for element shine during the Basque background of the area. Like his celebrated booklet Cod, it blends human tales with monetary, political, literary, and culinary heritage right into a wealthy and heroic story.

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

ISBN-10: 0674013417

ISBN-13: 9780674013414

In 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15--Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday--would be celebrated as France's nationwide day. prime as much as the production of the second one Empire, this used to be the 1st in a chain of makes an attempt to "Bonapartize" his regime and develop its renowned legitimacy. throughout France, public associations sought to attract neighborhood electorate jointly to rejoice civic beliefs of harmony, order, and patriotism. however the new feel of French togetherness was once fraught with tensions. Drawing on a wealth of archival facts, Sudhir Hazareesingh vividly reconstructs the symbolic richness and political complexity of the Saint-Napoleon festivities in a piece that opens up broader questions on the character of the French nation, harmony and features of fracture in society, altering obstacles among private and non-private spheres, and the function of fable and reminiscence in developing nationhood. The state's Bonapartist id was once from time to time vigorously contested through neighborhood social, political, and non secular teams. In quite a few areas, humans used the nationwide day to rejoice their very own groups and to honor their homeland veterans; yet in other places, the revival of republican sentiment clashed sharply with imperial attitudes. refined and gracefully written, this e-book deals wealthy insights into smooth French background and tradition. (20040709)

By Colette Wilson

ISBN-10: 0719074762

ISBN-13: 9780719074769

Regardless of the scholarship and political activism dedicated to conserving the reminiscence of the Paris Commune alive, there nonetheless is still a lot lack of expertise either in France and in other places. among 20,000 and 35,000 humans have been killed at the streets of Paris in precisely the ultimate week of the nerve-racking civil struggle of 1871. Colette Wilson identifies a serious blind-spot in French stories and employs new serious ways to overlooked texts, marginalized features of the illustrated press, early images, and a range of novels by way of Emile Zola. This ebook can be of curiosity to scholars and lecturers learning France within the nineteenth century from a few varied views: conflict and revolution reviews, cultural stories, background and cultural reminiscence, literature, paintings background, images, the illustrated press, urban stories, and human geography.

By Laurence L. Bongie

ISBN-10: 0773527931

ISBN-13: 9780773527935

From Rogue to Everyman chronicles the vibrant occupation of archetypal rogue Charles de Julie, foundling, military deserter, pimp, police officer, underground journalist, poet, and prisoner within the dreaded Bastille. Laurence Bongie finds either the richly woven tapestry of Ancien Regime social historical past and a ground-level standpoint of daily fabric existence in eighteenth-century Paris, a urban of wit and studying the place wealth and comfort have been juxtaposed with the main squalid and degrading kinds of human poverty, sickness, and crime. Julie knew in detail the points of interest, sounds, and scents of the French capital, its Opera and playhouses, legislations courts, slender soiled streets, hackney coaches, nice homes, low taverns, and opulent public gardens. purely too good the actions of the capital's rakes, thieves, personal loan sharks, pickpockets, self assurance males, blackmailers, crooked gamblers, and rowdy bullying squaddies, let alone its twenty or thirty thousand prostitutes - all heavily watched by means of as many as 3 thousand executive spies and the eighteenth-century world's so much invasive police community. Julie tested shut contacts with a few of the capital's major maquerelles in addition to their exceptional consumers, and his underground information sheets, lifted customarily from mystery vice squad studies, supplied a constrained circle of rich subscribers with racy debts of the town's sexual dalliances. His tale results in the scary Bastille. huge quotations from Julie's writings hint the ethical itinerary of a smart, manipulating rogue, lively liar, thief, poetaster, and libertine.

By Geraldine Sheridan, Graham Gargett, G Gargett, G Sheridan

ISBN-10: 033364638X

ISBN-13: 9780333646380

By means of what channels did the French Enlightenment achieve the 18th-century Irish reader, and what impression did it have? What have been the pictures of eire present within the France of the philosophers like Voltaire? those are the questions which a staff of students try and resolution during this quantity. in addition to concentrating on the reception of particular writers in eire, the ebook considers broader parts just like the Irish theatre, literacy in French and the provision of French books.

By Rosamond McKitterick

ISBN-10: 0511397267

ISBN-13: 9780511397264

ISBN-10: 0521886724

ISBN-13: 9780521886727

Charlemagne is frequently claimed because the maximum ruler in Europe sooner than Napoleon. during this magisterial new learn, Rosamond McKitterick re-examines Charlemagne the ruler and his popularity. She analyses the narrative representations of Charlemagne produced after his demise, and thereafter makes a speciality of the proof from Charlemagne's lifetime in regards to the construction of the Carolingian dynasty and the expansion of the dominion, the court docket and the royal family, communications and identities within the Frankish realm within the context of presidency, and Charlemagne's non secular and cultural options. She bargains a very clean and important exam of the modern assets and in so doing transforms our figuring out of the advance of the Carolingian empire, the formation of Carolingian political identification, and the impressive adjustments effected all through Charlemagne's forty-six yr interval of rule. this can be a significant contribution to Carolingian background as a way to be crucial interpreting for somebody attracted to the medieval previous. Rosamond McKitterick has additionally acquired the 2010 Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for historical past for her examine into the Carolingians.

By Nicolas Sarkozy

ISBN-10: 0061758086

ISBN-13: 9780061758089

During this vital publication from the newly elected president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy units forth his own imaginative and prescient of France's function in global affairs and his plans for modernizing the rustic and equipping it for the twenty-first century.
With strange candor, President Sarkozy describes the problems France has confronted in contemporary years—high unemployment, social tensions, insufficient schooling, a central authority that has now not been responsive or accountable whilst confronting monetary and social difficulties. In diplomacy, he demands a brand new method of the best way France positions itself on the planet. he's a superb admirer of the U.S., an unorthodox place for a French chief, and his imaginative and prescient for Europe is formidable and far-reaching. His iconoclastic perspectives on Israel and the Arab international, Africa, globalization, immigration, and the surroundings promise a pointy holiday with the past.

The principles of France's new president are most likely extra bold, coherent, and compelling than these of any French chief in a long time. additionally, he is still confident approximately France, insisting that the rustic is keen to embody profound swap. daring, pragmatic, a risk-taker, President Sarkozy units forth a thrilling new course for France because it enters the area of the twenty-first century.

By Jean-Paul Jouary

ISBN-10: 2253163740

ISBN-13: 9782253163749

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