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Les Confessions

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross

Maxims

By La Rochefoucauld, Tancock, Leonard, Leonard Tancock

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

By Jonathan Ree

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

By Roberts, Andrew, Andrew Roberts

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

By Alain Demurger

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

By Roger Osborne

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

By Francelle Bradford White

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

By Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

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

By Ian Kelly

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

By David Black

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

By Maurice Cranston, Sanford Lakoff

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

By Livia Manera Sambuy, Todd Portnowitz

Dear Departed

By Marguerite Yourcenar

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain

By Julian Jackson

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

Le Pari français: Le nouveau plein-emploi

By Albert, Michel

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

Somme Mud

By E.P.F. Lynch, William Davies

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

By Christine Toomey

Colombia Es Pasion!: The Generation of Racing Cyclists Who Changed Their Nation and the Tour de France

By Matt Rendell

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

The Last Tycoons

By William D. Cohan

The Jester and the Kings

By Marek Halter

The Somme (VCs of the First World War)

By Gliddon, Gerald

In the Footsteps of Private Lynch

By Will Davies

Wine and War

By Donald & Petie Kladstrup