The Man Who Is France

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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.

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.

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.

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.

French Masculinities

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Author : Christopher E. Forth
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 2007-07-11

French Masculinities written by Christopher E. Forth and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-11 with History categories.

French Masculinities makes a valuable contribution to gender studies by presenting, for the first time, a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilité has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century to the present. Incorporating insights of cultural and social historians as well as specialists in film and literature, this collection approaches masculinities in a complex and interdisciplinary manner that will appeal to a wide range of readers.

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.

Masculinity And Male Codes Of Honor In Modern France

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Author : Robert A. Nye
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-11-30

Masculinity And Male Codes Of Honor In Modern France written by Robert A. Nye and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-30 with History categories.

In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the ancien régime in 1789 to the end of World War I, Robert Nye argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a cultural construct, comprising a strict set of heroic ideals and codes of honor which few men have been able to realize in practice. In doing so, Nye destabilizes and historicizes the male body, and incorporates gender into the brand of cultural history inaugurated by Norbert Elias in the 1930s.

France

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Author : Laurence Jerrold
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2006-05-01

France written by Laurence Jerrold and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with Travel categories.

The pleasant land of France hides a deep ruthless realism beneath its amenities, and its philosophy, which tries to make life as agreeable as may be on the surface, is grave, sometimes bitter, beneath. The silent peasant of the North, the chattering southerner in his second-rate vineyards, the solemn, priest-like vintner of the great Mdoc, the bullet-headed Auvergnat; the little bourgeois, the big bourgeois, the striving little shopkeeper, the man of big undertakings: they are all realists, they all have a great faith in life, perhaps a rather dry, hard, too shrewd faith, but because of it they anyhow try to make life more, not less, worth living. -from "Chapter II: The Land and Its People" As the chief Paris correspondent for London's Daily Telegraph, British journalist Laurence Jerrold was intimately familiar with the people and places of the Gallic nation, and his love of the country shines through in this beautifully written book. In what is as much valentine to the French as it is a deconstruction of their cultural character, Jerrold explores everything from the rich importance of family in the Gallic society-a couple doesn't merely marry, he explains, but rather "the man and the woman 'found a family'"-to her diverse cities, which, he warns the reader who makes unfair assumptions, "are not only Paris and are not all smaller Parises." Published in 1916, on the cusp of the worst years of World War I, this is a lovely portrait of nation and a celebration of her indomitable spirit just as it was about to face one of its greatest, most tragic tests. OF INTEREST TO: students of French history and World War I, armchair travelers LAURENCE JERROLD (b. 1873) also wrote The Real France (1911) and The French and the English (1913).

The Ideas Of Man And Woman In Renaissance France

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Author : Lyndan Warner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03

The Ideas Of Man And Woman In Renaissance France written by Lyndan Warner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.

The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man. Analysing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases-and as Warner demonstrates, Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings.

French Fried One Man S Move To France With Too Many Animals And An Identity Thief

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Author : Chris Dolley
language : en
Publisher: Book View Cafe
Release Date : 2010-06-24

French Fried One Man S Move To France With Too Many Animals And An Identity Thief written by Chris Dolley and has been published by Book View Cafe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-24 with Travel categories.

** New York Times Bestseller ** Animals behaving badly, other people's misfortunes and the most bizarre true crime story ever. French Fried is the unfortunately true account of Chris Dolley's first eight months in France and has been described as 'A Year in Provence with Miss Marple and Gerald Durrell.' Just when Chris and Shelagh think nothing more could possibly go wrong, they discover that Chris's identity has been stolen and their life savings - all the money from their house sale in England that was going to finance their new life in France - had disappeared. A bank account had been opened in Chris's name in Spain to take the proceeds. Then they're abandoned by the police forces of four countries who all insist the crime belongs in someone else's jurisdiction. The French say it's an Irish crime as that's where the money was held. The Irish say it's French as that's where all the correspondence came from. The British say it's nothing to do with them even though forged British passports were used to open the bank account in Spain. And the Spanish are on holiday - and can't even think about investigating any bank account for at least four weeks. So Chris has to solve the crime himself. But unlike fictional detectives he has an 80 year-old mother-in-law and an excitable puppy who insist they come along if he's going anywhere interesting - like a stakeout. REVIEWS "This was a fantastic read. It had me laughing so much that I nearly got relegated to the sofa! Once I had started reading this book, I could not put it down, I was even quite happy to miss my favourite TV programmes!" - Bookmarked "When I downloaded this book this morning, I had every intention of putting it on my phone and reading it in dribs and drabs. And now I appear to have finished the book! The best thing about 'French Fried' is it's sense of humour; warm, self-deprecating, and very British. Literally laugh out loud in several places (I'm glad I'm the only one home!)." - Librarything "Chris Dolley's humour reminds me of James Herriot at times, with my husband shushing me in the middle of the night. I could not put this book down and enjoyed it immensely. The characters, especially Nan, were life-size." - Salammi