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The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Mores ...

Sergio Luzzatto

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Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War

Jane Rogoyska

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A careful, detailed account of the trial of the surviving perpetrators of the 2015 Paris attacks, which left 130 dead and hundreds wounded.

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

Emmanuel Carr?re

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An embattled government, a resentful population and a metropolitican elite: it's not exactly 1789 but surely food for thought. Fine reportage on the present state of our good neighbour by th... read more

Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation ...

Andrew Hussey

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The fourth instalment in the epic tale of the Neilsons, a Scottish family in French service in the 1800s. For fans of Kidnapped or Patrick O'Brian.

The House of Widows

James Buchan

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With an introduction by Yiyun Li, this selection brings together Montaigne's profound and inquisitive essays on life, death, and how to live... Also cannibals.

What Do I Know? Essential Essays

Michel De Montaigne

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The author of acclaimed biographies of Holbein and Turner has had the inspired idea of looking at Angelika Kauffman and Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun together: both big stars in their time, they ... read more

Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Extraordinary Entwined Lives of T ...

Franny Moyle

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A gorgeous catalogue from the Barnes Foundation that brings together many of his most important works from many collections. Hypnotic, mysterious and voluptuous.

Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets

Christopher Green

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Ruhlmann's pavilion at the 1925 Paris Exposition was a sensation - and launched the Art Deco movement. This glossy, large-format book includes a facsimile of the original show catalogue.

The Birth of Art Deco: Ruhlmann and the Hotel du Collectionneur, 1925 ...

Jared Goss

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A very handsome book which illustrates in gorgeous detail the couturier's passion for design outside the workshop. Part architectural history, part Who's Who of the 1930s' Côte d'Azur.

La Pausa: The Ideal Mediterranean Villa of Gabrielle Chanel ...

Olivier Meslay

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A lavish presentation of the finest medieval manuscript in existence, which includes the findings from detailed analysis undertaken during its recent restoration.

The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry: The Masterpiece of Medi ...

Mathieu Deldicque

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Silks, jewels, fans, toile de Jouy, her private apartments and the Petit Trianon; also what came later - the myth, the cult, fashion and feminism. To accompany this autumn's blazing show at ... read more

Marie Antoinette Style

Sarah Grant

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A gorgeous two-vol set in a slipcase, by the prince of the Polaroid: mostly details of objects in his house in Arles - and flaahs...

Francois Halard: Art & Flowers

Francois Halard

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The great French couturier through the lens of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and its vast archive.

Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast

Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carriere

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Edited by the film director whose relationship with Chanel began as a fifteen-year-old intern in Paris.

Chanel Haute Couture

Sofia Coppola

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Steaming copper pots, slotted spoons and sieves: scenes from the film Le goût des choses come to mind!

Larousse French Cooking: The Definitive Collection of Classic Recipes ...

Editions Larousse

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A second delightful book of short recipes from the novelist. Its predecessor, French Cooking for One, already set the bar high for simple, delicious things... From a tiny and very independen... read more

French Cooking for Two

Michele Roberts

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A charming and practical book by the Anglo-French novelist, which includes many vignettes of her childhood in Northern France and later life in the Loire. Published by a tiny press, Les Fugi... read more

French Cooking for One

Michele Roberts

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The author of one of the best books on Marie Antoinette shows how an apparently functional regime descended - how quickly! - into chaos

The French Revolution: A Political History

John Hardman

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Classic French Recipes

Ginette Mathiot

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Exhausted by a corporate job, Hahn changed tack, moving to an ancient farm in the Loire Valley. Twenty years later he lives there still, growing and making small-batch organic wines. This is... read more

Angels in the Cellar

Peter Hahn

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Radicals, decadents, hacks, censors, printers, spies and patrons in the French Enlightenment and Revolution. The distinguished historian's previous book was The Revolutionary Temper: Paris,... read more

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century F ...

Robert Darnton

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The struggles of the Sword Beach landings on 6th June 1944.

Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle

Max Hastings

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The author of The Postcard and her sister have based this 'true novel' on the lives of their great-grandmother, Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp.

Gabriele

Anne Berest

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Interweaving threads of war, hope, truth and despair.

The Deserters

Mathias Enard

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Extracts from the memoir of the great portraitist in the delicious little David Zwirner paperback 'Ekphrasis' series.

Souvenirs: From a Memoir

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

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Illustrated catalogue, documenting the early years of Chanel's life through drawings and photographs: of the hat shop she opened in Paris in 1910, her boutiques in Deauville, Biarritz, Canne... read more

Coco Chanel’s Roaring Twenties

Bronwyn Cosgrave

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Mme du Châtelet proposed intellectual autonomy over the cult of philosophical disciples enjoyed by Voltaire and Kant. She also believed that women should "share in all the rights of humanit... read more

The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman: Emilie du Chatelet and ...

Andrew Janiak

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One of the earliest books Colette published under her own name: a young woman dreams of love and danger.

An Innocent Libertine

Sidonie-Gabriel Colette

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Four stories written in the author's 70s - a late flowering of her talent.

The Soldier’s Hat

Sidonie-Gabriel Colette

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A reprint of the first part of the English edition of Heuet's glorious endeavour: we hope they will do the rest!

In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way – A Graphic Novel ...

Marcel Proust

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An entertaining whodunnit set in Florence in 1557, with Vasari leading an investigation that involves Pontormo's (vanished) frescoes. Playful and clever, as you would expect from the author... read more

Perspectives

Laurent Binet

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A dozen stories - De Maupassant, Némirovsky, Daudet et al - in a sweet little hardback.

A French Christmas: Festive tales for a Joyeux Noël ...

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The first European leader to have himself portrayed with books, surrounded by books. Over his life - and in several libraries - Napoleon is thought to have owned 60,000. And he read them, r... read more

Napoleon’s Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence o ...

Louis Sarkozy

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A broad, almost cinematic sweep of the last days of the occupation and the coming liberation. Hemingway was there, Salinger too - 'six-feet-two of muscle and typewriter ribbon'.

Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory

Patrick Bishop

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The complete memoirs. A new edition of this substantial tome, last published here in 1988 and long out of print.

The War Memoirs

Charles de Gaulle

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