Author: Claude Frégnac
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Surveys of the architecturally extravagant great houses of Paris built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
The Great Houses of Paris
Author: Claude Frégnac
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Surveys of the architecturally extravagant great houses of Paris built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Surveys of the architecturally extravagant great houses of Paris built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
The Great Eastern
Author: Howard Rodman
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 161219785X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"My favorite read of the year..."—Keegan-Michael Key, Top Ten Picks, New York Times A dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by both characters are revealed in cliffhanger fashion. A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab. Caught between them: real-life British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the century's greatest ship, The Great Eastern. But when he's kidnapped by Nemo to help design a submarine with which to fight the laying of the Translatlantic cable - linking the two colonialist forces Nemo hates, England and the US - Brunel finds himself going up against his own ship, and the strange man hired to protect it, Captain Ahab, in a battle for the soul of the 19th century.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 161219785X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"My favorite read of the year..."—Keegan-Michael Key, Top Ten Picks, New York Times A dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by both characters are revealed in cliffhanger fashion. A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab. Caught between them: real-life British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the century's greatest ship, The Great Eastern. But when he's kidnapped by Nemo to help design a submarine with which to fight the laying of the Translatlantic cable - linking the two colonialist forces Nemo hates, England and the US - Brunel finds himself going up against his own ship, and the strange man hired to protect it, Captain Ahab, in a battle for the soul of the 19th century.
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs
Author: David S. Barnes
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801883490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Ultimately, the attitudes of physicians and the French public were shaped by political struggles between republicans and the clergy, by aggressive efforts to educate and civilizethe peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public's ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances.--Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "American Historical Review"
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801883490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Ultimately, the attitudes of physicians and the French public were shaped by political struggles between republicans and the clergy, by aggressive efforts to educate and civilizethe peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public's ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances.--Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "American Historical Review"
The peasantry. Society. Paris
Author: Lady Morgan (Sydney)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Historic Houses of Paris Compact Edition
Author: Alain Stella
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2080203878
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A unique glimpse inside a world of luxury, tradition, and splendor. Many historic homes in Paris serve as residences to foreign ambassadors; these historical sites are closed to the general public. From a seventeenth-century hôtel particulier, to a Belle Epoque palace, to a distinctively contemporary setting, each residence rivals the next in its beauty, art collection, and period furniture set against a backdrop of accomplished refinement. Alain Stella invites us over the threshold inside the most prestigious chancelleries and ambassador residences in Paris—from China and Peru to Egypt and Poland. Tapestries inspired by Goya’s drawings grace the lavish salons at the Spanish residence. Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand created a minimalist interior at the Japanese residence that evokes the refined style of a traditional Japanese home. The palace of Eugène de Beauharnais—home to the German ambassadors since 1818—retains its elaborate Empire style, intact since the time of Josephine. Superb photographs, specially commissioned for this book over the course of a year, divulge the secrets of these previously unpublished artistic and architectural treasures.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2080203878
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A unique glimpse inside a world of luxury, tradition, and splendor. Many historic homes in Paris serve as residences to foreign ambassadors; these historical sites are closed to the general public. From a seventeenth-century hôtel particulier, to a Belle Epoque palace, to a distinctively contemporary setting, each residence rivals the next in its beauty, art collection, and period furniture set against a backdrop of accomplished refinement. Alain Stella invites us over the threshold inside the most prestigious chancelleries and ambassador residences in Paris—from China and Peru to Egypt and Poland. Tapestries inspired by Goya’s drawings grace the lavish salons at the Spanish residence. Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand created a minimalist interior at the Japanese residence that evokes the refined style of a traditional Japanese home. The palace of Eugène de Beauharnais—home to the German ambassadors since 1818—retains its elaborate Empire style, intact since the time of Josephine. Superb photographs, specially commissioned for this book over the course of a year, divulge the secrets of these previously unpublished artistic and architectural treasures.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron De Pollnitz (Complete) Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England In Letters
Author: Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465518037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1805
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465518037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1805
Book Description
The Finest Houses Of Paris
Author: Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
Publisher: Vendome Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A true insider's view of the most elegant houses of Paris (Baron Rothschild's, Givenchy's Paoline Borghese's among them), generally seen here for the first time. Author Nicolai-Mazery writes for many French magazines & wrote The French Chateau: Lifestyle & Tradition. Naudin is a well-known photographer whose books include The Recipes of Claude Monet & Dining with Proust. This new book: 208 pages/240 illus/220 in color.
Publisher: Vendome Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A true insider's view of the most elegant houses of Paris (Baron Rothschild's, Givenchy's Paoline Borghese's among them), generally seen here for the first time. Author Nicolai-Mazery writes for many French magazines & wrote The French Chateau: Lifestyle & Tradition. Naudin is a well-known photographer whose books include The Recipes of Claude Monet & Dining with Proust. This new book: 208 pages/240 illus/220 in color.
Monteith's handbook to the sights of Paris, and guide to the great exhibition
Author: Alexander H. Monteith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Seventeen Years in Paris
Author: H. E. Noyes
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The following book is an autobiography pertaining the author's experiences while serving as a Christian missionary in Paris. He stayed there for seventeen years, originally serving as a chaplain for the British and American colonies there.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The following book is an autobiography pertaining the author's experiences while serving as a Christian missionary in Paris. He stayed there for seventeen years, originally serving as a chaplain for the British and American colonies there.
The People of Paris
Author: Daniel Roche
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520060318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In his collective portrait of the common people, Roche offers a rich and fascinating description of their lives—their housing, food, dress, financial dealings, literature, domestic life, and leisure time. Roche’s highly readable style and use of contemporary quotations enliven the reader’s view of eighteenth-century Paris and Parisians.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520060318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In his collective portrait of the common people, Roche offers a rich and fascinating description of their lives—their housing, food, dress, financial dealings, literature, domestic life, and leisure time. Roche’s highly readable style and use of contemporary quotations enliven the reader’s view of eighteenth-century Paris and Parisians.