The Man From France
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The Man From France
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Author : James Amster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921
The Man From France written by James Amster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1921 with categories.
The Man Who Believed He Was King Of France
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Author : Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-05-15
The Man Who Believed He Was King Of France written by Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-15 with History categories.
Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, The Man Who Believed He Was King of France proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction—or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years’ War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant. Once convinced of his birthright, Giannino claims for himself the name Jean I, king of France, and sets out on a brave—if ultimately ruinous—quest that leads him across Europe to prove his identity. With the skill of a crime scene detective, Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri digs up evidence in the historical record to follow the story of a life so incredible that it was long considered a literary invention of the Italian Renaissance. From Italy to Hungry, then through Germany and France, the would-be king’s unique combination of guile and earnestness seems to command the aid of lords and soldiers, the indulgence of inn-keepers and merchants, and the collusion of priests and rogues along the way. The apparent absurdity of the tale allows Carpegna Falconieri to analyze late-medieval society, exploring questions of essence and appearance, being and belief, at a time when the divine right of kings confronted the rise of mercantile culture. Giannino’s life represents a moment in which truth, lies, history, and memory combine to make us wonder where reality leaves off and fiction begins.
A Man In France
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Author : Philip Ogley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-03-16
A Man In France written by Philip Ogley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-16 with categories.
Philip Ogley arrived in France in 2011 for a teaching job he didn't want. Five years later he's still here. A Man in France is a series of offbeat journal entries, short anecdotes, observational pieces and travel articles from the dark side of the wheel of camembert. A lively, philosophical insight into 21st century France through the eyes of a cheese loving, wine snorting Englishman. Informative, rich and at times quite bizarre, this is travel writing as you've never seen it before.
Our Man In Paris
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Author : John Lichfield
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2012-03-30
Our Man In Paris written by John Lichfield and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-30 with Travel categories.
Since 1997 John Lichfield, The Independent's correspondent in France, has been sending dispatches back to the newspaper in London. More than transient news stories, the popular ‘Our Man in Paris' series consists of essays on all things French. Sometimes serious, at other times light-hearted, they offer varied vignettes of life in the hexagone and trace the author’s evolving relationship with his adopted country. Many of Lichfield’s themes concern the mysteries of Paris and its people. Who is responsible for the city’s extraordinary plumbing? How can you drive around the Arc de Triomphe and survive? He also ponders the phenomena that intrigue many foreigners, such as the eloquence of the capital’s beggars and the identity of the intimidating but fast disappearing concierge. Visiting places as different as the Musée d’Orsay and Disneyland, he explores culture high and low as well as the everyday pleasures and problems of living in Paris.
The Most Arrogant Man In France
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Author : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-14
The Most Arrogant Man In France written by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-14 with Art categories.
A comprehensive reinterpretation of the pioneering and media-savvy artist The modern artist strives to be independent of the public's taste—and yet depends on the public for a living. Petra Chu argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him. In The Most Arrogant Man in France, Chu tells the fascinating story of how, in the initial age of mass media and popular high art, this important artist managed to achieve an unprecedented measure of artistic and financial independence by promoting his work and himself through the popular press. The Courbet who emerges in Chu's account is a sophisticated artist and entrepreneur who understood that the modern artist must sell—and not only make—his art. Responding to this reality, Courbet found new ways to "package," exhibit, and publicize his work and himself. Chu shows that Courbet was one of the first artists to recognize and take advantage of the publicity potential of newspapers, using them to create acceptance of his work and to spread an image of himself as a radical outsider. Courbet introduced the independent show by displaying his art in popular venues outside the Salon, and he courted new audiences, including women. And for a time Courbet succeeded, achieving a rare freedom for a nineteenth-century French artist. If his strategy eventually backfired and he was forced into exile, his pioneering vision of the artist's career in the modern world nevertheless makes him an intriguing forerunner to all later media-savvy artists.
Anatole France
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Author : J. Lewis May
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-29
Anatole France written by J. Lewis May and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-29 with categories.
The Man Who Is France
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Author : Stanley Frederick Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
The Man Who Is France written by Stanley Frederick Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Presidents categories.
The Man Of Feeling A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy By Mr Yorick With Lives Of The Authors And A Portrait Etc
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Author : Henry Mackenzie (Author of The Man of Feeling.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1824
The Man Of Feeling A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy By Mr Yorick With Lives Of The Authors And A Portrait Etc written by Henry Mackenzie (Author of The Man of Feeling.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1824 with categories.
A Hero Of France
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Author : Alan Furst
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-05-31
A Hero Of France written by Alan Furst and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as “the best in the business,” comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST 1941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu, a leader of the French Resistance, leads one such cell, helping downed British airmen escape back to England. Alan Furst’s suspenseful, fast-paced thriller captures this dangerous time as no one ever has before. He brings Paris and occupied France to life, along with courageous citizens who outmaneuver collaborators, informers, blackmailers, and spies, risking everything to fulfill perilous clandestine missions. Aiding Mathieu as part of his covert network are Lisette, a seventeen-year-old student and courier; Max de Lyon, an arms dealer turned nightclub owner; Chantal, a woman of class and confidence; Daniel, a Jewish teacher fueled by revenge; Joëlle, who falls in love with Mathieu; and Annemarie, a willful aristocrat with deep roots in France, and a desire to act. As the German military police heighten surveillance, Mathieu and his team face a new threat, dispatched by the Reich to destroy them all. Shot through with the author’s trademark fine writing, breathtaking suspense, and intense scenes of seduction and passion, Alan Furst’s A Hero of France is at once one of the finest novels written about the French Resistance and the most gripping novel yet by the living master of the spy thriller.
De Gaulle
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Author : Douglas Boyd
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-07-01
De Gaulle written by Douglas Boyd and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After watching a D-Day film, do you wonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country? General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000 Free French soldiers, but US President Roosevelt insisted they not be told the date of the invasion because he intended to occupy France and open the country up to American Big Business, while keeping in office traitors who had run the country for Hitler. This would have sparked a civil war, but De Gaulle outwitted Washington to head the first government of liberated France. Disgusted with the professional politicians, he resigned in 1946. but twelve years later, to save France from civil war a second time, he was elected President of the Republic. After Roosevelt's death, he defied presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Drawing on hitherto unpublished and revealing material from the archives in Paris and Washington, this thought-provoking account of a great European's rejection of foreign domination has significant resonance for modern Britain, whose governments are subservient both to Washington and Brussels.