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  • A Brief History of Paris

    by Cecil Jenkins ...
    Paris: city of love, food and fashion.Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas.Paris: a modern metropolis.Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time.There is a unique fusion of past and present in this purposefully grand and well-planned city. The Triumphal Way, which runs straight from the Louvre through the Tuileries Gardens, across the Place de la Con... ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Brief History of France, Revised and Updated

    by Cecil Jenkins ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, France is home to extraordinary diversity.The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged through 2,000 years of history and it is this riveting story, from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the present day, that Cecil Jenkins tells: of the forging of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Life on Planet Earth

    User's Guide

    by Cecil Jenkins ...
    Cecil Jenkins provides a coherent analysis of the interlocking challenges confronting humans, the younger generation most directly, on this small planet. While firmly backed by research, it is written with humour within a teasing framework and in an easy conversational style.After sketching the cosmic accidents that created the planet, killed off the dinosaurs and made way for the modern human to ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Brief History of Paris

    by Cecil Jenkins ...
    Narrated by Roger Davis ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 13 min

    Paris: city of love, food and fashion.Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas.Paris: a modern metropolis.Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time.There is a unique fusion of past and present in this purposefully grand and well-planned city. The Triumphal Way, which runs straight from the Louvre through the Tuileries Gardens, across the Place de la Con... ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Secret History

    by Andrew Hussey ...
    If Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone's imaginations: It's a backdrop for Proust's fictional pederast, Robert Doisneau's photographic kiss, and Edith Piaf's serenaded soldier-lovers; a home as much ... Read more

    $20.19 CAD

  • Paris

    The Biography of a City

    by Colin Jones ...
    From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested charnel house during the Middle Ages, the bloody epicenter of the French Revolution, the ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $15.99 CAD

  • The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon

    The New Penguin History of France

    by Colin Jones ...
    There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is equally astounding.Colin Jones' brilliant new book ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of France

    by Robert Cole ...
    Hundreds of thousands of travellers visit France each year. The glories of the French countryside, the essential harmony of much of French architecture, the wealth of historical remains, the enormous variety of experience that France offers, act as a perennial and irresistible attraction. For these visitors this lively and useful guide provides the essential clues to an understanding of France& ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Friend or Foe

    A History of France

    by Sir Alistair Horne CBE ...
    Britain's premier historian on France from Caesar to Mitterrand - to coincide with the centenary of the Entente CordialeA century after the Entente Cordiale ended centuries of war and enmity between France and Britain, and two hundred years after the coronation of Britain's deadly enemy, Napoleon Bonaparte, as Emperor, Alistair Horne contemplates two thousand years of France.The Entente Cordiale ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The French Revolution

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Peter Davies ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Handy introduction to one of the most significant and studied events in world historyBlending narrative with analysis, Peter Davies explores a time of obscene opulence, mass starvation, and ground-breaking ideals; where the streets of Paris ran red with blood, and the numbers requiring execution precipitated the invention of the guillotine. Davies brings the subject up to date by considering the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Children of the Revolution

    The French, 1799-1914

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors.From soldiers to priests, from peasants to Communards, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • France

    A Short History

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series A Short History
    A short and entertaining narrative of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities that helped create France’s cultural and political influence today.Country and destination, nation and idea, France has a rich and complex history that fascinates the world and attracts millions of visitors each year to its chateaux and cathedrals, boulevards and vineyards. In ... Read more

    $22.69 CAD