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Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide

By PHILIP THODY, Howard Read

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking from the bestselling author of Heat

By Bill Buford

Memoirs of Montparnasse

By John Glassco, Michael Gnarowski

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

By Jonathan Bate

L'art de la victoire

By Phil Knight

Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943: The French Resistance and the Republic

By A. Clinton

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

A Mi-Parcours

By Andre Rousselet

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

By Ruth Cowen