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Madame de Pompadour: Sex, Culture and Power

By Crosland, Margaret

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

Alienor d'Aquitaine (Ldp Litterature)

By Pernoud Régine, Pernoud, Regine

Descartes: The Life of Rene Descartes and Its Place in His Times

By Grayling, A. C.

Introduction a la litterature francaise du Moyen Age: Inédit (Ldp Ref.Inedits)

By Zink, Michel

Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent

By McDonald-Rothwell, Gabrielle

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

By Seaman, Mark

Georgiana’s World

By Foreman, Amanda

A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

By Helm, Sarah

PROSPER: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network (Espionage)

By Francis J. Suttill

Poetry of L.S. Senghor

By Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu

Memoirs of Baron De Marbot, Vol. 1 (Napoleonic Library)

By Marcelin, Jean Baptiste Antoine, Butler, A.J.

The Memoirs of Baron De Marbot: v. 2 (Napoleonic library)

By Marcelin, Jean Baptiste Antoine, Butler, A.J.

Les Confettis de l'Empire. Djibouti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, Tahiti, Nlle-Calédonie, Guyane: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane française, La Réunion...

By Guillebaud, Jean-Claude

The Racer: The Inside Story of Life on the Road

By Millar, David

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

By Jewell, Hannah

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India

By Dalrymple, WILLIAM

Who Was Who in the Napoleonic Wars

By Haythornthwaite, Philip

The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine

By Stuart, Andrea

School Blues

By Daniel Pennac

Samuel Beckett (Critical Lives)

By Gibson, Andrew

As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers

By Calder

Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason (Renaissance Lives)

By Mary Ann Caws

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

By Anne Sebba

Jacques Derrida: A Biography

By Powell, Jason

The Man Behind the Iron Mask

By Noone, John

Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

By Deguignet, Jean-Marie

Carve Her Name with Pride (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

By Minney, R. J.

Joan of Arc: A Military Leader

By Devries, Kelly

My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937 (Dover Chess)

By Alekhine, Alexander