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The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France

By Constant J. Mews

A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

By Ernst Junger (Klett-Cotta), Elliot Neaman, Thomas S. Hansen, Abby J. Hansen

Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family

By Shelley Emling

Witnesses, Neighbors, and Community in Late Medieval Marseille

By Susan Alice McDonough

Chanel's Riviera

By Anne de Courcy

Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story

By Michael Allin

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival

By Caroline Moorehead

The Maid of Orleans

By Sven Stolpe

The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

By Gwen Strauss

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

By Emmanuel Carrere

The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles

By Nancy Mitford

Curie

By Sarah Dry, Sabine Seifert

The Murder of Napoleon

By Ben Weider

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain

By Julian Jackson

Dear Departed

By Marguerite Yourcenar

In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris

By Livia Manera Sambuy, Todd Portnowitz

The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

By Maurice Cranston, Sanford Lakoff

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

By David Black

Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme - The First Celebrity Chef

By Ian Kelly

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and France's Greatest Treasure

By Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

Andree's War: How One Young Woman Outwitted the Nazis

By Francelle Bradford White

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne

The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay, Last Grand Master of the Temple

By Alain Demurger

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble (Making History (Paperback))

By Roberts, Andrew, Andrew Roberts

A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance

By Jonathan Ree

Maxims

By La Rochefoucauld, Tancock, Leonard, Leonard Tancock

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross

Les Confessions

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Memoirs of War, 1914-15

By Marc Bloch, Carole Fink, Carole Fink

Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General

By Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales, Sydney)