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The Lais of Marie De France: With Two Further Lais in the Original Old
The lais are a unique form depicting a moment of crisis in a love relationship Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and...
The Life Of Marie Amélie: Last Queen Of The French 1782-1866; With Some Account Of The Principal Personages At The Courts Of Naples And France In Her Time, And Of The Careers Of Her Sons And Daughters
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Author: C. C. DysonBinding: HardbackPublished: John Long, Limited, 1910Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Purple cloth with minor...
Matrix
Author: :auren Groff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 257 Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast...
Marie Antoinette
Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great...
Marie Antoinette Style (The Official V&A Exhibition Book)
A fashion icon in her own time, the dress and interiors adopted by Marie Antoinette in the final decades of the 18th century have had a lasting influence over 250...
The Liberation Of The Riviera: The Resistance To The Nazis In The South Of France And The Story Of Its Heroic Leader, Ange-Marie Miniconi
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched yet shadow-filled landscape of Nazi-occupied southern France, one man dared to stand against the full might of the Third Reich —...
The Riviera Set
THE RIVIERA SET is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years...
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love
NPR SciFri Book Club Pick Next Big Idea Club 's "Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022" Behavioral Scientist Notable Books of 2022 A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking...
Marie Antoinette
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The Burning Times
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A sweeping historical epic and powerful romantic drama set in medieval France: a time of the Great Plague, of witchcraft, and the Inquisition. During the height of superstition, in the...
The Cheffe: A Culinary Novel
"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement" - Madeleine Schwartz, New York Review of Books "Rich, meandering ....
Daughters Of The Grail
* A mediaeval historical saga set in 13th century France. Thirteenth century France. Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage...
Secrets of a Lazy French Cook
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The Empress Josephine
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly detailed biography, The Empress Josephine chronicles the...
The She-Wolf Of France
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe fifth installment in Maurice Druon's acclaimed historical fiction series The Accursed Kings, The She-Wolf of France chronicles the treacherous rise of...
Au Revoir
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My Contrary Mary
Long live the queen: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane kick off an all-new historical trilogy with the classy, courtly tale of Mary,...
The Second Empress
1810. Palais des Tuileries, France. As a princess of the Holy Roman Empire, Marie-Louise Habsburg knows the importance of family loyalty. So when her father asks her to save his...
Crimson Velvet Heart
There was a kind of grotesquerie to the dazzle and magnificence, a vicious underlay of thorns beneath the bed of roses, and a vast shadow floating, looming overhead. The kingdom...
Vengeance is Mine
*A GUARDIAN BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL OF 2023**A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2023 FINALIST**A WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2023*"A powerful story of mothers and daughters" Guardian"A haunting,...
A Princess in Exile
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Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
A Financial Times Book of the Year A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the...
La Grande Mademoiselle
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the glittering and treacherous heart of the...
The Tarot Reader of Versailles: The spellbinding new novel from the
Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early...
The Postmistress of Paris: A Novel
Author: Meg Waite Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK* A GMA BUZZ PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK* AN AMAZON...
My Contrary Mary
Long live the queen: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane kick off an all-new historical trilogy with the classy, courtly tale of Mary,...
Ma Folie Francaise / My French Folly
In her delightful memoir, Marisa Raoul takes us to the heart of her 'medieval' B&B, with incidents full of Gallic humour and eccentricity. A quiet 'tree-change' turns out to be...
The Tarot Reader of Versailles: The spellbinding new novel from the
Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early...
Catherine de Medici: Now the major TV series THE SERPENT QUEEN
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions Writing in an age when the call for the rights...
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices,...
Almost French: A New Life in Paris
Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with...
Lie With Me: 'Stunning and heart-gripping' Andre Aciman
A gorgeous coming-of-age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a...
When in French: Love in a Second Language
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A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier--a surprising...
The Propagandist: An Extraordinary WWII Autobiographical Novel. New
'In her debut novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family's real-life collaboration during the Second World War' - New Yorker Best Books of the Year In a grand...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...
The Life of Louis XVI
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI "The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch."-P. M....
The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breath new life back into a strange, old manor?...
Little
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO...
Moondrop To Gascony
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Author: Anne-Marie WaltersBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, London , 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Light foxing on book block. Clean text. This...