Category: France

By Margie Rynn, Alison Culliford, Joe Ray, Caroline Sieg, Amelia Smith, Tristan Rutherford

ISBN-10: 1118027426

ISBN-13: 9781118027424

* Full-color throughout.* Free full-color, foldout map.* Completely updated each year.* Our local authors mixture late-breaking advancements, together with the simplest new eating places in Paris and Lyon, with counsel for traveling France's so much enduring points of interest, akin to Notre-Dame, Mont-St-Michel, Loire Valley chateaux, and the vineyards of Bordeaux and Burgundy between different wine regions.* Frommer's France comprises custom itineraries for households and foodies; the easiest procuring, eating reports, lodging, and nightlife for each new release and price range; most sensible spots and advice for snowboarding within the Alps, crusing at the Cote d'Azur, and different outside adventures; precise using excursions of the coast, mountains, and geographical region; and dozens of urban, local, and institutional maps-including the grounds of Versailles and ground plans of the Louvre and Notre Dame in Paris.* Opinionated reviews. No bland descriptions and lukewarm concepts. Our professional writers are enthusiastic about their destinations--they inform it love it is in an attractive and invaluable way.* Exact prices indexed for each institution and activity--no different courses provide such exact, candid studies of motels and eating places. We contain some of the best, but in addition emphasize reasonably priced offerings for actual people.* User-friendly gains together with superstar scores and particular icons to indicate readers to nice reveals, first-class values, insider counsel, top bets for children, designated moments, and hyped up studies.

By Jean-Paul Kauffmann

ISBN-10: 1568581289

ISBN-13: 9781568581286

By Marie de France

ISBN-10: 080102031X

ISBN-13: 9780801020315

The lais of Marie de France are a sequence of twelve brief narrative Breton lais by way of the poet Marie de France. they're written within the Anglo-Norman and have been most likely composed within the overdue twelfth century. the fast, narrative poems in general concentrate on glorifying the concept that of courtly love during the adventures in their major characters. regardless of her stature in Anglo-Norman literature and medieval French literature as a rule, little is understood of Marie herself, although it really is inspiration that she was once born in France and wrote in England.

Marie de France's lais, informed in octosyllabic, or 8 syllable verse, are extraordinary for his or her get together of affection, individuality of personality, and vividness of description – hallmarks of the rising literature of the days. 5 various manuscripts comprise a number of of the lais, yet just one, Harley 978, a thirteenth-century manuscript housed within the British Library, preserves all twelve. it's been advised that if the writer had certainly prepared the Lais as offered in Harley 978, that she can have selected this total constitution to distinction the confident and detrimental activities that could consequence from love.[1] during this manuscript, the ordinary lais — "Guigemar", "Le Fresne", and so on. — compliment the characters who show love for different people.[1] through comparability, the even lais, similar to "Equitan", "Bisclavret" etc, warn how love that's restricted to oneself can result in misfortune.[1]

The Harley 978 manuscript additionally contains a 56-line prologue during which Marie describes the impetus for her composition of the lais. within the prologue, Marie writes that she was once encouraged through the instance of the traditional Greeks and Romans to create whatever that may be either pleasing and morally instructive. She additionally states her wish to guard for posterity the stories that she has heard. of Marie's lais – "Lanval," a really renowned paintings that was once tailored a number of instances through the years (including the center English Sir Launfal), and "Chevrefoil" ("The Honeysuckle"), a brief composition approximately Tristan and Iseult – point out King Arthur and his Knights of the around desk. Marie's lais have been precursors to later works at the topic, and Marie used to be most likely a latest of Chrétien de Troyes, one other author of Arthurian stories.

By Kirsty Carpenter, Philip Mansel

ISBN-10: 0230508774

ISBN-13: 9780230508774

ISBN-10: 1349410241

ISBN-13: 9781349410248

By Jac Weller

ISBN-10: 1853673390

ISBN-13: 9781853673399

This best-selling, authoritative, and available examine of the epic war of words at Waterloo is now on hand for the 1st time in paperback. The armies of the interval are delivered to lifestyles and the battles recreated from the point of view of either Wellington and Napoleon. each movement and counter-move during this sweeping crusade is charted, from Napoleon's dramatic offensive and the outlet battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras, to the not easy pounding at Waterloo itself. invaluable to either historian and normal reader, this guided travel of the conflict contains all of the key positive aspects of the terrain, and brings out the drama and tragedy of conflict.

By Laurent Binet

ISBN-10: 2246854946

ISBN-13: 9782246854944

« A Bologne, il couche avec Bianca dans un amphithéâtre du XVIIe et il échappe à un attentat à l. a. bombe. Ici, il manque de se faire poignarder dans une bibliothèque de nuit par un philosophe du langage et il assiste à une scène de levrette plus ou moins mythologique sur une photocopieuse. Il a rencontré Giscard à l’Elysée, a croisé Foucault dans un sauna homosexual, a participé à une poursuite en voiture à l’issue de laquelle il a échappé à une tentative d’assassinat, a vu un homme en tuer un autre avec un parapluie empoisonné, a découvert une société secrète où on coupe les doigts des perdants, a traversé l’Atlantique pour récupérer un mystérieux rfile. Il a vécu en quelques mois plus d’événements extraordinaires qu’il aurait pensé en vivre durant toute sa vie. Simon sait reconnaître du romanesque quand il en rencontre. Il repense aux surnuméraires d’Umberto Eco. Il tire sur le joint. »
Le element de départ de ce roman est l. a. mort de Roland Barthes, renversé par une camionnette de blanchisserie le 25 février 1980. L'hypothèse est qu'il s'agit d'un assassinat. Dans les milieux intellectuels et politiques de l'époque, tout le monde est suspect...

By R. Murray

ISBN-10: 0230242537

ISBN-13: 9780230242531

Gender quotas are a becoming around the world phenomenon, but their variable implementation continues to be under-researched. utilizing the popular case research of France this ebook techniques quotas from the viewpoint of the major actors answerable for them political events.

By Dhombres, Dahan-Dalmedico, Bkouche, Houzel, Guillemot

ISBN-10: 2040164480

ISBN-13: 9782040164485

By Karl Marx

ISBN-10: 0717806669

ISBN-13: 9780717806669

Ebook through Marx, Karl, Lenin, V. I.

By Philip H. Gordon

ISBN-10: 0691086478

ISBN-13: 9780691086477

ISBN-10: 1400811805

ISBN-13: 9781400811809