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Paris to the Moon
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3.75 avg rating — 15,445 ratings
"A good look at France and Paris during the period that Gopnik was there writing for the New Yorker."
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 83,226 ratings
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De Gaulle 3: The Ruler, 1945-1970
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3.95 avg rating — 57 ratings
"Best biography of De Gaulle"
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De Gaulle 2: Le Politique
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3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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De Gaulle 1: The Rebel, 1890-1944
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4.07 avg rating — 74 ratings
"Best biography of De Gaulle"
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Seven Ages of Paris
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3.91 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
"Good readable history covering the whole history of France while focusing on Paris"
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 44,182 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 84,764 ratings
"Redable history of the French at the outset of WWI."
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 15,120 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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4.38 avg rating — 13,772 ratings
"Covers developments and history of France in the context of the larger European environment and history."
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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4.12 avg rating — 9,694 ratings
"Several chapters on French figures and issues, including, for example. Jean Jaures "
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Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
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4.27 avg rating — 399 ratings
"A classic"
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France, Fin de Siecle
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3.80 avg rating — 129 ratings
"A classic"
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The Hollow Years
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3.79 avg rating — 87 ratings
"A classic"
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My France: Politics, Culture, Myth
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3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Churchill and De Gaulle
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4.33 avg rating — 48 ratings
"Good, readable history of the ineteresting relationship between the two countries and the two leaders."
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The Complete War Memoirs of Charles De Gaulle
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3.93 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Mémoires de guerre: L'appel, 1940-1942
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3.94 avg rating — 164 ratings
"A classic"
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The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940
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4.26 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
"Readable and interesting report and study of the facts and history of the Fall of the Third Republic. "
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Women of Power: The Life and Times of Catherine De Medici
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3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The French
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3.44 avg rating — 98 ratings
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France, 1848-1945: Ambition and Love
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3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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A History of French Passions: Anxiety and Hypocrisy (Vol 5)
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4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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France, 1848-1945: Politics and Anger
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3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A History of French Passions 1848-1945
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3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Napoleon. La Novela - 2ª parte
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4.08 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
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4.03 avg rating — 6,358 ratings
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Village in the Vaucluse
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3.89 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Lafayette
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4.41 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
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Is Paris Burning?
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4.15 avg rating — 4,087 ratings
"Easy, entertaining read about the taking of Paris during WWII"
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My Life in France
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4.16 avg rating — 93,262 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
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4.34 avg rating — 26,207 ratings
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
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3.99 avg rating — 2,638 ratings
"Original and fascinating approach to the history of France"
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
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3.66 avg rating — 2,535 ratings
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Rimbaud: A Biography
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4.25 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Balzac: A Biography
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3.87 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
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3.99 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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Jasmin's Witch
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The identity of France, Vol. 2: People and production
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4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Identity of France: Vol. 1: History and Environment
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4.04 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet
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4.11 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 101,329 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,634 ratings
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Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune
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3.70 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Paris: City of Light 1919-1939
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3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
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3.78 avg rating — 3,346 ratings
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The Age of Reason Begins (The Story of Civilization, #7)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,033 ratings
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The Life of Charlemagne
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3.60 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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The Three Lives Of Charles De Gaulle
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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French Rural History: An Essay on its Basic Characteristics
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4.01 avg rating — 67 ratings
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At the Heart of a Tiger: Clemenceau and His World 1841-1929
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Léon Blum
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Pierre Mendès France
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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André Malraux, une vie dans le siècle
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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4.33 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944
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4.07 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Premier combat
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4.43 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943: The French Resistance and the Republic
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Saint Louis
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4.53 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The French Resistance: 1940-1944 (Pocket Archives Series)
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Maquis: The French Resistance at War
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3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War
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4.14 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Soldiers Of The Night: The Story Of The French Resistance
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4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
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3.69 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment
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3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Voltaire: Champion of the French Enlightenment
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Henri iv, le roi libre
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3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age
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3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour
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3.83 avg rating — 408 ratings
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