Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs |
 Jeremy Mercer
ISBN: 0753820587
'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops. The original store opened in 1921 and became known as the haunt of literary greats, such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, Gertrude...(read more) |
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Descartes: The Life of Rene Descartes and Its Place in His Times |
 A.C. Grayling
ISBN: 1416522638
Scientist, mathematician, traveller, soldier - and spy - Rene Descartes has been called the 'father of modern philosophy'. Born in 1596 into an era still dominated by the medieval mindset, he was one of the chief actors in the riveting drama that...(read more) |
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Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France |
 Evelyne Lever
ISBN: 0749950846
In Marie Antoinette leading French historian Evelyne Lever tells the compelling story of the last, and most infamous, Queen of France. She draws on little explored sources including Austrian and Swedish archives and the correspondence of foreign...(read more) |
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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant |
 Jean-Marie Deguignet, Linda Asher (Translator)
ISBN: 1583226168
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant is drawn from Deguignet's voluminous notebooks, written from 1897 to 1904, recently discovered in a grandniece's cupboard in Brittany. Deguignet is unique not only for being a literate peasant, but also for his scepticism...(read more) |
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Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand |
 David Lawday
ISBN: 0224073664
He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the...(read more) |
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Picasso: A Biography |
 Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 0007173571
A biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O'Brian, the author of the Aubrey-Maturin series. Enormously productive and hugely successful, Picasso continues to attract public interest. This text explores the life of this awe-inspiring artist. O'Brian was a...(read more) |
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The Naked Soldier: A True Story of the French Foreign Legion |
 Tony Sloane
ISBN: 190413291X
Driven to the French Foreign Legion by a need to escape and a sense of adventure, Tony Sloane was selected for one of the Legion's crack regiments. He spent five years in this most mysterious of all armies, becoming one of the few foreigners to be...(read more) |
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