The Rough Guide to France is the most complete handbook to one of Europe's most absorbing countries. Features include: lively accounts of all the attractions; up-to-the-minute reviews of the best places to eat, drink & stay in all price ranges, etc.
Polytechnique professor Maurice Roy attempted to define the "true" technocrat in expressing his desire that his school would continue to "produce authentic technocrats and at the same time avoid, under the banner of progress, ...
Moving with cinematic swiftness from the battlefield to the Reichstag and the Palais de l'...lysée, To Lose a Battle overspills the confines of traditional military history to become a portrait of the French national soul in its darkest ...
Case Red tells the often overlooked story of the fall of Metropolitan France from the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk through to the eventual collapse and armistice in June 1940.
An original account of the ancient regime, this book highlights France's use of the exotic and analyzes French discourse about Islam and the 'Orient'.
"Ian Coller's fascinating book explores the making of modern France during the Napoleonic period and under the Restoration 'from the outside inward'.
The legendary food expert describes her years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman who could not cook or speak any French to the publication of her cookbooks and becoming "The French Chef."
Henri de Saint-Simon, 'La physiologie sociale appliquée à l'amélioration des institutions sociales', in Oeuvres de Saint-Simon et d'Enfantin, publiées par les membres du conseil institué par Enfantin pour l'exécution de ses dernières ...
16. Bidwell , Morocco , 258-61 ; René Cruchet , La conquête pacifique du Maroc ; Pierre Delatère , “ Dans l'Atlas marocain avec Jean Benoît - Lévy , Marie Epstein , et la troup de Itto , ” PV ( 1934 ) . 17. Benoît - Lévy , Art of Motion ...
Feeding France shows how chemists navigated the French Revolution to become the first public food experts in an industrialising world.
Baxter shows how the French have celebrated the relationship between art and food.