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LA VIE : A YEAR IN RURAL FRANCE (RELIÉ)(LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)

LEWIS-STEMPEL
- Doubleday
- 22 May 2023
- 9780857526458
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THE MINI ROUGH GUIDE TO NICE, CANNES & MONTE CARLO - TRAVEL GUIDE WITH FREE EBOOK

Rough Guides
- Insight guides
- 1 April 2023
- 9781839058318
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France : a short history

Jeremy Black
- Thames & hudson
- 29 June 2022
- 9780500296813
A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today.

Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fascinates the world and attracts millions each year to visit its chateaux and cathedrals, boulevards and vineyards. Ancient roots allied to a social, political and military history that has witnessed revolution, conflict and occupation mean that France holds a unique position in the modern world. In this short, easy-to-digest history of a vast subject, Jeremy Black succinctly narrates how France's past has created its distinct character.

Country and destination, nation and idea, France has an incomparable cultural legacy, and exerts a powerful artistic, intellectual and political influence across the globe. Black's vivid take on history emphasizes the unexpected nature of events and unpredictable outcomes on a fragmented country, from the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux to the origins of Gothic architecture, from Monet and Degas to the Lumiere brothers, and from the cataclysm of the 1789 Revolution through the countercultural student protests of 1968 to today's gilets jaunes. Black's concise, insightful tour of the key historical moments and vibrant personalities that shaped France provides an indispensable guide to understanding the country today.
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ONE MORE CROISSANT FOR THE ROAD

Felicity Cloake
- Harper collins uk
- 9 July 2020
- 9780008377267
''Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it'' - DIANA HENRY ''Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing - this book will get you hooked'' - YOTAM OTTOLENGHI The nation''s ''taster in chief'' cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes. Agreen bike drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill inthe late-morning sun, the gears grinding painfully, like apepper mill running on empty. The rider crouched on top in arictus of pain has slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, fromsomewhere nearby, the whine of a nasal engine breaks through her ragged breathing. A battered van appears behind her, the customary cigarettedangling from its driver''s-side window... as he passes, she casually reaches down for some water,smiling broadly in the manner of someone having almost toomuch fun. ''No sweat,'' she says jauntily to his retreating exhaustpipe. ''Pas de probleme, monsieur.'' A land of glorious landscapes, and even more glorious food, France is a place built for cycling and for eating, too - a country large enough to give any journey an epic quality, but with a bakery on every corner. Here, you can go from beach to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean, polder to Pyrenees, and taste the difference every time you stop for lunch. If you make it to lunch, that is... Part travelogue, part food memoir, all love letter to France, One More Croissant for the Road follows ''the nation''s taster in chief'' Felicity Cloake''s very own Tour de France, cycling 2,300km across France in search of culinary perfection; from Tarte Tatin to Cassoulet via Poule au Pot, and Tartiflette. Each of the 21 ''stages'' concludes with Felicity putting this new found knowledge to good use in a fresh and definitive recipe for each dish - the culmination of her rigorous and thorough investigative work on behalf of all of our taste buds.
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Best day walks France (édition 2022)

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- Lonely planet france
- 31 March 2022
- 9781838692315
Lonely Planet's Best Day Hikes France is your passport to 60 easy escapes into nature. Stretch your legs away from the city by picking a hike that works for you, from just a couple of hours to a full day, from easy to hard. Explore the Pyrenees, hike the Alps, and marvel at beautiful Corsica. Get to the heart of France and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet's Best Day Hikes France Travel Guide:
Color maps and images throughout ;
Special features - on France's highlights for hikers, kid-friendly hikes, accessible trails and what to take ;
Best for... section helps you plan your trip and select hikes that appeal to your interests ;
Region profiles cover when to go, where to stay, what's on, cultural insights, and local food and drink recommendations to refuel and refresh. Featured regions include:
The Pyrenees; the French Alps & the Jura Mountains; Provence; Central France; Corsica; Lille, Flanders & the Somme; Brittany & Normandy; Languedoc-Roussillon ;
Essential infoat your fingertips - hiking itineraries accompanied by illustrative maps are combined with details about hike duration, distance, terrain, start/end locations and difficulty (classified as easy, easy-moderate, moderate, moderate-hard, or hard) ;
Over 60 maps ;

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Best Day Hikes France, our most comprehensive guide to hiking in France, is perfect for those planning to explore France on foot.
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WAR IN THE SHADOWS (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)

MARNHAM PATRICK
- Oneworld
- 1 September 2021
- 9780861540587
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ROUGH STUFF CYCLING IN THE ALPS (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)

WRIGHT, FRED
- Isola pannier
- 4 August 2021
- 9780995488670
32.90 €

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FRANCE EN VELO (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)

REYMONDS HANNAH

Coup de coeur
- Wild things pub
- 14 June 2016
- 9780957157347
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FRENCH REVOLUTIONS: CYCLING THE TOUR DE FRANCE

MOORE TIM
- Vintage uk
- 29 June 2019
- 9780224092111
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Take the Slow Road

Martin Dorey
- Bloomsbury
- 9781844865918
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THE VANISHING MUSEUM ON THE RUE MISTRAL

M L Longworth
- Penguin books usa
- 13 April 2021
- 9780143135296
Something strange has happened at the unassuming Musée de Quentin-Savary in Aix-en-Provence. When the director, Monsieur Achille Formentin, walks in one beautiful April morning, he is shocked to find the whole museum emptied of its contents--only a bench, the reception desk, and a lowly fern remain. Distressed, he calls the local police, and Aix''s examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets out to discover the thief''s identity. But it''s the most baffling case Verlaque has ever encountered. Why would someone want to steal porcelain dessert plates, some old documents, and a few small paintings? Could this have something to do with the mysterious robbery of Madame de Montbarbon''s apartment a few weeks earlier? And how can Verlaque possibly concentrate on the theft when he and his wife, Marine Bonnet, are going to have a baby? Breezy, charming, and perfectly escapist, The Disappearing Museum in the Rue Mistral brings us back to the heart of sun- and wine-soaked Aix-en-Provence, where murder investigations are always put on hold for lunch and the only thing more sweeping than the story is the Mediterranean coastline.
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PARIS POCKET PRECINCTS : A POCKET GUIDE TO THE CITY''S BEST CULTURAL - HANGOUTS, SHOPS, BARS AND EATERIES

Donna Wheeler
- Hardie grant books
- 1 July 2019
- 9781741176308
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FRANCE INSIGHT GUIDES 2020 (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)

COLLECTIF
- Insight
- 13 March 2020
- 9781786718266
25.90 €

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FRANCE

Collectif
- Rough guides
- 1 September 2019
- 9781789194548
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LOTHARINGIA - A PERSONAL HISTORY OF FRANCE, GERMANY AND THE COUNTRIES IN-BETWEEN

Simon Winder
- Picador uk
- 20 February 2020
- 9781509803262
B>SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD/b>b>'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' Sunday Times/b>In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited what became France, another Germany and the third Lotharingia: the chunk that initially divided the other two. The dynamic between these three great zones has dictated much of our subsequent fate.In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book we retrace how both from west and from east any number of ambitious characters have tried and failed to grapple with these Lotharingians, who ultimately became Dutch, German, Belgian, French, Luxembourgers and Swiss. Over many centuries, not only has Lotharingia brought forth many of Europe's greatest artists, inventors and thinkers, but it has also reduced many a would-be conqueror to helpless tears of rage and frustration. Joining Germania and Danubia in Simon Winder's endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, Lotharingia is a personal, wonderful and gripping story.
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THE LITTLE VINEYARD IN PROVENCE

Ruth Kelly
- Trapeze
- 1 July 2019
- 9781409185307
Ava's marriage has been a lie. For the past five years her husband Mark has been squandering their money on gambling and dodgy deals that have amounted to nothing. Mark has left Ava and their daughter, Sophia, to fend for themselves with a mountain of debt and not as much as an explanation as to where he's gone or when he'll be back. Just when Ava couldn't feel any lower, she receives the news that her grandfather has passed away. She is devastated as they were once very close. When Ava was a child, she used to spend her summers picking grapes on her grandfather's vineyard in Provence, before a rift between his daughters tore the family apart. They hadn't seen each other for years, which is why Ava is shocked to learn her grandfather has left money to her sister, Olivia, but his entire vineyard, Chateau Montrose, to her. What does Ava know about making wine?
Poche 12.90 €

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FRANCE : WELCOME TO MY WORLD(RELIE)(LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)

COLLECTIF
- Booklife
- 19 September 2019
- 9781786377869
18.90 €

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND WHAT WENT WRONG

Stephen Clarke
- Random house uk
- 28 June 2019
- 9781784754372
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde . The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it''s surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to oust the king, let alone guillotine him. But things quickly escalated until there was no turning back. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks at what went wrong and why France would be better off if they had kept their monarchy.
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NOTRE DAME - A SHORT STORY OF THE MEANING OF CATHEDRALS

Ken Follett
- Macmillan publishers
- 29 October 2019
- 9781529037647
Written in aid of the crucial restoration work to restore Paris''s great cathedral, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals is a moving, short piece of non-fiction celebrating the stunning history of this beloved building, from Ken Follett, author of the multi-million copy selling Kingsbridge series. ''Two days after Notre Dame burned, I flew to Paris to appear on the TV programme La Grande Librairie for a discussion about cathedrals. The following morning I had breakfast at the Hotel Bristol with my French publisher and she asked me to write a short book about Notre Dame and what it means to all of us. She said she would donate the publisher''s profits to the rebuilding fund and, if I wished, I could do the same with my royalties. Yes, I said; of course, I''d love to.'' - Ken Follett A minimum of 50p per copy on each sale of this book will go to the heritage and restoration charity La Fondation du Patrimoine.
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FRANCE UNPACKED (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)

GIFFORD CLIVE
- Wayland
- 3 August 2019
- 9780750284165
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LEFT BANK - ART, PASSION AND THE REBIRTH OF PARIS 1940-1950

Agnès Poirier
- Bloomsbury uk
- 13 December 2018
- 9781408857472
'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique ' The Times A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and whose intellectual and artistic output still influences us today.

After the horrors of the Second World War, Paris was the place where the world's most original voices of the time came - among them Norman Mailer, Miles Davis, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Juliette Greco, Alberto Giacometti, Saul Bellow and Arthur Koestler. Fuelled by the elation of the Liberation, these pioneers hoped to find an alternative to the Capitalist and Communist models for life, art and politics - a Third Way.

Agnes Poirier transports us to a time when Paris was at the heart of all that was new and brave and controversial, skilfully weaving together a collage of images and destinies.
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Revolution Française ; Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation

Sophie Pedder
- Bloomsbury
- 2 May 2019
- 9781472966308
Now updated with new material including interviews with Emmanuel Macron Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist 's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this updated edition, published with a new foreword, Pedder revisits her analysis of Macron's troubles and triumphs in the light of the gilets jaunes protests.

Eighteen months after he led his own audacious insurgency against France's established parties Macron would face another popular insurrection. This time, he was the target. In her vivid account, Pedder analyses the first real political crisis of Macron's tenure, how the movement emerged on roundabouts and in cyberspace, its impact on his plans to transform France, and the repercussions for representative democracy. On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can still hope to hold the centre ground, work with Germany to rebuild post-Brexit Europe, and defend the multilateral liberal order.

Meticulously researched, enriched by interviews with the French president, and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world.
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THE WANDERING VINE - WINE, THE ROMANS AND ME

Nina Caplan
- Bloomsbury uk
- 13 June 2019
- 9781472938459
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS DEBUT DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 WINNER OF THE LOUIS ROEDERER INTERNATIONAL WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 'Wine is alive, ageing and changing, but it's also a triumph over death. These grapes should rot. Instead they ferment. What better magic potion could there be, to convey us to the past?' Impelled by a dual thirst, for wine and for knowledge, Nina Caplan follows the vine into the past, wandering from Champagne's ancient chalk to the mountains of Campania, via the crumbling Roman ruins that flank the river Rhone and the remote slopes of Priorat in Catalonia. She meets people whose character, stubbornness and sometimes, borderline craziness makes their wine great: an intrepid Englishman planting on rabbit-infested Downs, a glamorous eagle-chasing Spaniard and an Italian lawyer obsessed with reviving Falernian, legendary wine of the Romans. In the course of her travels, she drinks a lot and learns a lot: about dead conquerors and living wines, forgotten zealots and - in vino veritas , as Pliny said - about herself.

In this lyrical and charming book, Nina Caplan drinks in order to remember and travels in order to understand the meaning of home. This is narrative travel writing at its best.
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Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

Anne De Courcy
- Orion
- 9781474608206
Bestselling social historian Anne de Courcy reveals the glamour and grit of the Second World War on the French Riviera.
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