François Mignet's 'Histoire de la révolution française' is a study of the events that caused a huge shift of power in France around the turn of the 19th Century. This was primarily a study of the theories and ideologies behind the events, rather than a factual record.

A police raid! Unfaithful spouses! A baseball player running the wrong way around the bases! In France! Somewhere between travelogue and a 'Dummy's Guide to Running a Business in France' (if there were such a thing), I Lived in France and So Can You is a serious but light-hearted exploration of 12 years' worth of living, working, and loving in France. Using anecdotes from his experiences running an American restaurant in a small provincial city,...

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault, a multivolume novel, were translated into English and read widely. Today, this close friend of André Gide, Albert Camus, and André Malraux is almost unknown, largely because he left unfinished the long project he began in the 1940s, Lieutenant Colonel...

Antoine, a fanatic billiards player, is asked to watch over a Paris art gallery. When he scuffles with a thief a statue falls and severs his right hand. His maverick investigation leads to the discovery of a series of gruesome killings. Soon Antoine finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a gallery owner. A game of billiards decides the outcome of this satirical tale which brilliantly captures the world of modern art and the parasites that...

Dans un style journalistique factuel, presque télégraphique, Michel Paufique a voulu retracer en détails l'histoire des colonies françaises. Michel Paufique (1923-2015), passionné d'histoire et d'architecture, a parcouru le monde toute sa vie professionnelle. Au soir de sa vie, il a cherché à retracer « une brève histoire des colonies françaises ». Dans un style journalistique factuel, presque télégraphique, il a cherché à extraire...

During a cycle tour in France in 2012, Marie's legs started talking to her. A year later, pedaling up the first long hill in Corsica, The Legs piped up again. 'And how long is it for this time? Two months? And we're going where? Oh, just to the Atlantic. Fine. No problem. With the same sturdy old bikes, the same stoic Legs and the same measure of stubbornness and stamina, Marie and Adi chug around Corsica, pedal through Provence, skirt the Cévennes...

This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. The immortal words "Not tonight Josephine!" are probably apocryphal, but in 1796 Napoleon had more pressing concerns than his amorous wife: he had been handed command of the Republican forces in Italy. His men were clothed in rags, unpaid, and hungry. Napoleon set to work with a passion, bending...

History of North America concentrating on the vast array of characters who thought they could civilize it.

Legend of a Musical City, first published in 1945, is a story of Vienna, musical center of the world. The Nestor of Austrian music critics relates in a fascinating manner his own recollections of life with Bruckner, Brahms, Richard Strauss, and other immortals in the music world. Author, Max Graf, who enjoyed intimate friendships with many of the musical stars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, here gives a delightful as well as highly educational...

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.