Author: Dave Taylor-Jones
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788032772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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In 1966, Dave Taylor-Jones met a French girl in Paris who became one of the most influential people in his life. Christine and her family introduced him to the French lifestyle, food, and their unique way of looking at the world. Through them, he learnt to speak French (almost), bought a flat near Nice, found a job in Monaco and moved to live in France, all of which helped him to dispel the stereotypical image that some British people have of the French. Another Side of France records some of his experiences of French life in a humourous manner, and contains both essays and stories, presented like two sides of a coin, alternating slices of fiction with his life experiences. The fiction includes ghost stories, with the haunting of Nice’s Terra Amata Museum, the Parisian Metro, and a local medieval chateau. There are also stories are about working in Monaco, the joys of air travel, auctions of Impressionist masters and knowing your own limits of compassion. Dave’s essays capture how he has tried to get to grips with the French medical system, country life in the foothills of the Alpes-Maritimes, wine, beekeeping and his love of dogs and birds.
Author: Martin Lahiff
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483660605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Some forty scholarly works, written by historians on both sides of the Border, form the basis for this non-scholarly attempt to provide a short, simple story of events between the Spanish conquest of Mexico five centuries ago and Mexico's dominance of itself since its independence of two hundred years. Better analysis of events here described in a factually chronologic way can be found in the writer's historical sources. A reader knowing little of Mexico's history can get a good start with this writer's try to show what the large and beautiful land to the south has met and overcome on the way to what it has, and what it will become.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Author: Manuel Bragança
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319708600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France during the Second World War. Basedin five different countries, Margaret Atack, Marc Dambre, Laurent Douzou, Hilary Footitt, Robert Gildea, Richard J. Golsan, Bertram M. Gordon, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Nettelbeck, Denis Peschanski, Renée Poznanski, Henry Rousso, Peter Tame, and Susan Rubin Suleiman have playeda crucial role in shaping and reshaping what has become a thought-provoking field of research. This volume, which also includes an interview with historian Robert O. Paxton, clarifies the rationales and driving forces behind their work and thus behind our current understanding of one of the darkest and most vividly remembered pages of history in contemporary France.
Author: Jean Froissart
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Category : Burgundy
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Author: Michael Clark
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839757566
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Discovering France's spacious countryside, its villages, towns and cities – unfolding its history and creating lasting friendships. A personal commentary, journal, guide of journeys in France.
Author: Jehan Froissart
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Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Author: Hannah Lynch
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Author: George Bradshaw
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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