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  • That Sweet Enemy

    A Personal View of France and the French

    by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson ...
    The English have always regarded the French with a passionate mixture of love and hatred. Simultaneously divided and linked by the English Channel - or la Manche - both countries continue profoundly to affect the other for good or ill. In his delightfully impressionistic appreciation of Britain's closest neighbour, first published in 1987, 'unashamed Francophile' Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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  • Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

    An Adventure History of Paris

    by Graham Robb ...
    The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior

    The Autobiography of Christian Dior

    by Christian Dior ...
    Translated by Antonia Fraser ...
    Series series V&A Fashion Perspectives
    Christian Dior (1905-1957) rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the 'New Look' took the world by storm. Originally published in 1957, this charming and modest autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile establishment. This book is part of the V&A Fashion Perspectives ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Judgment of Paris

    The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

    by Ross King ...
    Another fascinating book by the author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling: a saga of artistic rivalry and cultural upheaval in the decade leading to the birth of Impressionism.If there were two men who were absolutely central to artistic life in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, they were Edouard Manet and Ernest Meissonier. While the former has been ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Madame Tussaud

    A Life in Wax

    by Kate Berridge ...
    Kate Berridge's Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax "celebrates a great pioneer of mass-market illusion, whose illusions eventually included herself."*Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France

    by Stephen Clarke ...
    The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France.He had affairs with the most famous Parisian actresses, courtesans and can-can dancers. He spoke French more elegantly than English ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli

    The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli

    by Elsa Schiaparelli ...
    Series series V&A Fashion Perspectives
    Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973), one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, was known for her flair for the unusual. The first designer to use shoulder pads and animal prints, and the inventor of shocking pink, Schiaparelli collaborated with artists including Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, and Salvador Dalí to create extraordinary garments such as the Dalí Lobster Dress. ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Private Lives of the Impressionists

    by Sue Roe ...
    The New York Times–bestselling biography of Manet, Cezanne, Degas, and others—a "revealing group portrait . . . lively, required reading" (People).Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, their paintings are now revered around the world. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers—but how well do we know the Impressionists as people? The first ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Flaneur

    A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

    by Edmund White ...
    Edmund White has just met you at a party and he's going to tell you about a friend. But his 'friend' is one of the greatest cities in the world, beloved by many and yet really known by only a few. And he is one of those few. -Alexander CheeEdmund White's New York Times bestselling guided sojourn through the streets of Paris, with a new foreword by Alexander Chee.Legendary paterfamilias of queer ... Read more

    $12.39 CAD

  • France

    An Adventure History

    by Graham Robb ...
    A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime’s knowledge and passion—by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians.Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb’s France ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Transforming Paris

    The Life and Labors of Baron Haussman

    by David P. Jordan ...
    The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and revolutionary Paris -- over-crowded, dangerous, and filthy -- were razed, and from the rubble a modern city of light and air emerged. This triumphant ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Allure of Chanel

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    With a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, “this enchanting, tiny book”—a series of transcriptions from interviews with the fashion icon—is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco [Chanel]” (The Spectator)Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St. Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD