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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

By Deguignet, Jean-Marie

The Man Behind the Iron Mask

By Noone, John

Jacques Derrida: A Biography

By Powell, Jason

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

By Anne Sebba

Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason (Renaissance Lives)

By Mary Ann Caws

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

By Calder

Samuel Beckett (Critical Lives)

By Gibson, Andrew

School Blues

By Daniel Pennac

Montaigne (Past Masters Series)

By Burke, Peter

Helene Cixous: Writing the Feminine: Writing the Feminine (Expanded Edition)

By Conley, Verena Andermatt

Roule Britannia: A History of Britons in the Tour de France

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

A Distant Mirror

By Tuchman Barbara W.

The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo

By Reiss, Tom

Self and Society in Medieval France: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent (1064?-c.1125) (Medieval academy reprints for teaching): 15

By John F. Benton, C. C. Swinton Bland

Leaving Home: A Memoir

By Buchwald, Art

Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945

By Burns, Michael

French Letters: 3 (Mill of the Flea)

By East, George

French Cricket (Mill of the Flea) (Moulin de la Puce 5): Volume 5

By East, George

Serge Bastarde Ate My Baguette: On the Road in the Real Rural France

By Dummer, John

Napoleon: His Wives and Women

By Hibbert, Christopher

A Classical Education

By Cobb, Richard

LOUISE MICHEL (Rebel Lit)

By Maclellan, Nic

The Diary of Anais Nin 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944): 03

By Nin, Anais

A Foreign Field : A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War

By MacIntyre, Ben

Martin Nadaud

By Tindall, G

Celestine

By Tindall, Gillian

Paris & Elsewhere

By Cobb, Richard

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By Spencer, Charles

A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria

By Guenoun, Denis, Butler, Judith, Smock, Ann, WILLIAM

Reason in the Age of Science (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, 2)

By Hans-Georg Gadamer, Frederick G. Lawrence