Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction » tourism | 1 October 2008
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The French have mastered the art of living well. With this guide, you’ll master the art of vacationing well—seeing what you want to see, doing what you want to do, and enjoying every mile and every minute. In France, there are so many sights to see and so much fabulous food and wine to savor that you may have to pick and choose. This friendly guide helps you plan ahead with info on: * Four great itineraries for exploring France and five daytrips from Paris * Provence, with the famous towns of Avignon, Arles, and Aix-en-Provence, and the quaint village of St-Rémy * The fabled French Riviera, including Cannes, Nice, and Monaco * The D-day beaches at Normandy * Biking in the countryside, climbing to the heights of Mont-St-Michel, visiting prestigious vineyards, and more * Hotels, ranging from one built as a convent in the early 18th century to an Italianate rose-pink villa from 1881 to a palatial hideaway in chic St. Tropez * Museums, ranging from Musée de Louvre and Musée d’Orsay in Paris to Musée Picasso in Antibes and Foundation Maeght in St-Paul-de-Vence, a modern art Mecca * Incredible castles, palaces, churches, and cathedrals, including Cathédrale de Notre-Dame in Paris, one of Western civilization’s greatest edifices * Shopping for the latest fashions in the chic boutiques of Paris, for hand-painted pottery in Quimper, for home decorating items and antiques in St-Rémy-de-Provence, for fruits, vegetables, and area specialties at the famous fruit and vegetable market in Aix-en-Provence, and more.
The story of American intervention in Vietnam begins with an alliance - the sometimes ambivalent, often contentious, and almost always misunderstood Franco-American alliance. Paris and Washington clashed repeatedly over how to respond to the dual threat of communism and nationalism in Vietnam when the forces of the Cold War and deconization collided there during the 1950s. When a colonial power leaves a former colony, the new state usually grapples with growing pains on its own. In this case, the South Vietnamese were never given the chance as the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration systematically replaced French control in South Vietnam with American influence. Why and how the United States did so are the core questions of this book.
Added by: jaybeere | Karma: 320.01 | Fiction literature | 1 October 2007
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Laboulaye's Fairy Book by Edouard Laboulaye
illustrated by Edward G. McCandlish (Rare Book Collection)
It is said that there is a great scarcity of fairy folk in modern France; and that, terrified by the thunders of the Revolution, they left their unhappy country in a body during its stormy years, first assembling in grateful concourse around the tomb of Perrault, upon whose memory they conferred the boon of immortality.
If this story is true and the last reported act of the fairies on leaving France makes it appear so then we may be sure that a few of the more hardy and adventurous fays skipped back again across the border and hid themselves in Laboulaye's box of jewels, where they give to each gem an even brighter sheen and a more magical luster.
Ten fairy tales include: Yvon and Finette -- The castle of life -- Destiny -- The twelve months -- Swanda, the piper -- The gold bread -- The story of the noses -- The three citrons -- The story of Coquerico -- King Bizarre and Prince Charming
Will Durant - The Story of Civilization 10 - Rousseau and Revolution
10th in the Civilization series - The Durants present a dramatic exploration of the events leading up to the French Revolution. Pulitzer Prize.
X. Rousseau and Revolution (1967)
1. Prelude
2. France Before the Deluge: 1757-74
3. The Catholic South: 1715-89
4. Islam and the Slavic East: 1715-96
5. The Protestant North: 1756-89
6. Johnson's England: 1756-89
7. The Collapse of Feudal France: 1774-89
8. Envoi
