In France Profound
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In France Profound
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Author : T.D. Allman
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2024-08-13
In France Profound written by T.D. Allman and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-13 with History categories.
From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in an ancient town in “Deep France,” from nearby prehistoric caves to medieval dynastic struggles to the colorful characters populating the area today When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's tumults. Instead, he found that humanity’s most telling melodramas, from the paleolithic to the post-modern, were graven in its stones and visible from its windows. Indeed, the history of France can be viewed from the perspective of Lauzerte and its surrounding area—just as Allman, from one window, can see Lauzerte unfold before him in the Place des Cornières, where he watches performances of the opera Tosca and each Saturday buys produce from “Fred, the Foie Gras Guy;” while from the other side facing the Pyrenees he surveys the fated landscape that generated many events giving birth to the modern world. The dynastic struggles of Eleanor of Aquitaine, he finds, led to Lauzerte’s remarkably progressive charter issued in 1241, which even then enshrined human rights in its 51 articles. From Eleanor’s marriage to English king Henry II in 1154 dates the never-ending melodrama pitting English arrogance against French resistance; in 2016 Brexit demonstrated that this perpetual contretemps is another of the vaster conditions life in Lauzerte illuminates. Allman chronicles the many conflicts that have swirled in the region, from the Catholic Church’s genocidal campaign to wipe out “heresy” there; to France’s own 16th-century Wars of Religion, which saw hundreds massacred in the town square, some inside his house; to World War II, during which Lauzerte was part of Nazi-occupied Vichy. In prose as crystalline as his view to the Pyrenees on a clear day, Allman animates Lauzerte and its surrounding communities—Cahors, Moissac, Montauban—all ever in thrall to the magnetic impulse of Paris. Witness to so many dramas over the centuries, his house comes alive as a historical protagonist in its own right, from its wine-cellar cave to the roof where he wages futile battle with pigeons, to the life lessons it conveys. “The onward march of history, my House keeps demonstrating, never takes a rest,” he observes, pulling us vividly into his world.
Deep France
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Author : Celia Brayfield
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2006-02-26
Deep France written by Celia Brayfield and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-26 with categories.
In this book, the author tells of her year in 'la France profonde', a tiny village in the Bearn region. She describes the culture, countryside and cuisine, the essence of which makes France so special."
Deep France
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Author : William Glove
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002
Deep France written by William Glove and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Cooking categories.
Following Cave Life in France, Deep France continues the charming and humorous account of an American couple's life in the French countryside. It is a delightful tale told with dry and subtle wit and a rare look into the heart of deep France. It is a story of wine, food and the characters who color this unique corner of the world.
Deep France
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Author : Celia Brayfield
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan
Release Date : 2012-07-05
Deep France written by Celia Brayfield and has been published by MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Béarn (France) categories.
Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most romantic, remote and rustic region of France. Deep France is the diary of a writer's year in a tiny French village, trying to meet her deadlines when a good thunderstorm could blow out the computer and there were always artichokes to pick. It's a walk in teh swashbuckling footsteps of The Three Musketeers and King Henri IV, full of funny and perceptive anecdotes about the year in which France had to face the euro, the World Cup and Le Pen's presidential campaign. 'An author who writes living, breathing novels capable of making us weep and marvel' The Times 'Her writing glitters: the humour is as sharp as a Sabatier knife' Image
Lagrasse And The Corbi Res
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Author : Stuart Benton
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-17
Lagrasse And The Corbi Res written by Stuart Benton and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-17 with categories.
In Lagrasse and the Corbi�res, the author gives a highly personal, often humorous account of his time spent in the charismatic and beguiling region of the Corbi�res in the deep south of France. He recounts his experiences of house hunting, wild river swimming and exploring the many castles, medieval villages, towns and cities of the area, whilst enjoying its gastronomic delights, beautiful Mediterranean beaches and breathtaking scenery.Ideal for visitors travelling to the area for the first time, and for those who may have already sampled its delights and wish to be reminded of its many attractions, Lagrasse and the Corbi�res is both entertaining and informative. It makes for the perfect holiday read and offers a light-hearted perspective of life in the Corbi�res and the region's many must-see destinations: some well-known and some not so well-known. For more information, please visit the author's website: www.stuartbenton.com
Anatole France
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Author : Walter Lionel George
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-16
Anatole France written by Walter Lionel George and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with Fiction categories.
As can be guessed from the title, the book is a biography of a man named Anatole France. He was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament."
The State Of Society In France Before The Revolution Of 1789
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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
The State Of Society In France Before The Revolution Of 1789 written by Alexis de Tocqueville and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with History categories.
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 analyzes French society before the French Revolution — the so-called "Ancien Régime" — and investigates the causes and forces that brought about the Revolution. It is one of the major early historical works on the French Revolution.
Fine Arts Education And Liberal Arts Furniture Textile Fabrics And Wearing Apparel Extractive Arts Raw And Manufactured Products Hygiene
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Author : United States. Commission to the Paris exposition, 1889
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Fine Arts Education And Liberal Arts Furniture Textile Fabrics And Wearing Apparel Extractive Arts Raw And Manufactured Products Hygiene written by United States. Commission to the Paris exposition, 1889 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Exposition universelle de 1889 categories.
France And Its Empire Since 1870
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Author : Alice L. Conklin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2011
France And Its Empire Since 1870 written by Alice L. Conklin and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Providing an up-to-date synthesis of the history of an extraordinary nation--one that has been shrouded in myths, many of its own making--France and Its Empire Since 1870 seeks both to understand these myths and to uncover the complicated and often contradictory realities that underpin them. It situates modern French history in transnational and global contexts and also integrates the themes of imperialism and immigration into the traditional narrative. Authors Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky begin with the premise that while France and the U.S. are sister republics, they also exhibit profound differences that are as compelling as their apparent similarities. The authors frame the book around the contested emergence of the French Republic--a form of government that finally appears to have a permanent status in France--but whose birth pangs were much more protracted than those of the American Republic. Presenting a lively and coherent narrative of the major developments in France's tumultuous history since 1870, the authors organize the chapters around the country's many turning points and confrontations. They also offer detailed analyses of politics, society, and culture, considering the diverse viewpoints of men and women from every background including the working class and the bourgeoisie, immigrants, Catholics, Jews and Muslims, Bretons and Algerians, rebellious youth, and gays and lesbians.
Switzerland
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Author : Lina Hug
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Switzerland written by Lina Hug and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Switzerland categories.