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1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
by Adam Zamoyski

ISBN 0007123752 (0-00-712375-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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This is the story of how the most powerful man on earth met his doom, and how the greatest fighting force ever assembled was wiped out.; By 1810 Napoleon was master of Europe, defied only by Britain, which he could not defeat because he had no navy. His intention was to destroy Britain through a total blockade, the Continental System. But Tsar Alexander of Russia now refused to apply the blockade, and Napoleon decided to bring him to heel.; Napoleon quickly realised that nemesis awaited him, and the events of 1812 had a colossal impact on the fate of Europe: a great patriotic surge helped turn the Russians into a nation (hence Tchaikovsky's '1812' overture) and led them to reject Western values; the Germans began their fateful 'Prussification'; the French lost their cultural dominance. [via]
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20.000 Leguas De Viaje Submarino / 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne

ISBN 9583001384 (958-30-0138-4)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from the worlds greatest harpooner, the men discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine with a mysterious leader, Captain Nemo. [via]
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Asterix Et Le Chaudron
by Uderzo, Rene De Goscinny

ISBN 2205003364 (2-205-00336-4)
Hardcover, Dargaud

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Nous sommes en 1959, en plein mois d'août. Dans une cité HLM de Bobigny, aux portes de Paris, deux auteurs de bande dessinée s'épongent le front. Pas seulement à cause de la chaleur estivale : les deux compères suent sang et eau pour trouver une idée de personnage. Il leur faut être prêts pour le premier numéro de Pilote, un nouveau magazine pour les jeunes dont la parution doit intervenir trois mois plus tard. Le scénariste s'appelle René Goscinny. Son copain dessinateur, c'est Albert Uderzo. Ils avaient bien pensé à adapter Le Roman de Renart, mais un autre y a songé avant eux. Alors, ils cherchent. Mais ne trouvent rien& Jusqu'à ce que Goscinny ait l'idée d'un petit Gaulois teigneux et moustachu. Banco : Astérix est né. Et, avec lui, un formidable succès d'édition doublé d'un phénomène de société.
Il fait sa première apparition le 29 octobre 1959 dans les pages de Pilote. Puis l'album Astérix le Gaulois sort en librairie en 1961. Tirage modeste : 6 000 exemplaires. Mais la courbe des ventes ne va cesser de grimper. En 1966, 600 000 exemplaires d'Astérix chez les Bretons s'envolent en quinze jours. Le petit Gaulois est en couverture de l'hebdomadaire L'Express. Du jamais vu. L'année précédente, il a même donné son nom au premier satellite français. Les intellectuels mêlent leur grain de sel, certains trouvant à Astérix une ressemblance avec le Général de Gaulle& Goscinny et Uderzo n'en ont cure. Eux continuent à s'amuser, à faire vivre une galerie de personnages pittoresques, à réécrire l'Histoire et à régaler leurs lecteurs de gags subtils et de trouvailles visuelles. La disparition de Goscinny, en 1977, ne mettra pas fin à l'aventure. Uderzo continue seul et fonde les Éditions Albert-René. Désormais, c'est lui qui écrira les scénarios, sans toutefois faire preuve du même talent que son prédécesseur. Au total, les aventures d'Astérix et de son copain Obélix se sont vendues à plus de 280 millions d'exemplaires. Une réussite exceptionnelle dans la bande dessinée. --Gilbert Jacques [via]
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Asterix in Britain
by Goscinny

ISBN 2205069071 (2-205-06907-1)
Hardcover, Charles River Books

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Asterix Le Ciel Lui Tombe Sur La Tete
by Reni Goscinny, Albert Uderzo

ISBN 2864971704 (2-86497-170-4)
Hardcover, Albert Rene, Editions

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The Adventures of Asterix (French: Asterix or Asterix le Gaulois) is a series of French comic books written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977). The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959. As of 2008, 33 comic books in the series have been released.
The series follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation. They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength. The protagonist, the titular character, Asterix, along with his friend Obelix have various adventures. In many cases, this leads them to travel to various countries around the world, though other books are set in and around their village. For much of the history of the series (Volumes 4 through 29), settings in Gaul and abroad alternated, with even-numbered volumes set abroad and odd-numbered volumes set in Gaul, mostly in the village.
The Asterix series is one of the most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world, with the series being translated into over 100 languages, and it is popular in most European countries.
The success of the series has led to the adaptation of several books into 11 films; eight animated, and three with live actors. There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Asterix, is themed around the series. To date, 325 million copies of 33 Asterix books have been sold around the world making co-creators Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo France's bestselling authors abroad. [via]
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The Black Tulip
by Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss

ISBN 0140448926 (0-14-044892-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Cornelius von Baerle lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But when his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in a deadly political intrigue. Falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival, Cornelius is condemned to life in prison. His only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, who helps him concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret. As Robin Buss explains in his informative introduction, Dumas infuses his story with elements from the history of the Dutch Republic (including two brutal murders) and Holland's seventeenth-century "tulipmania" phenomenon.

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The Confusion
by Neal Stephenson

ISBN 0060733357 (0-06-073335-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.

Meanwhile, back in Europe ...

The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child.

While ...

Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
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The Confusion Ltd
by Neal Stephenson

ISBN 0060599340 (0-06-059934-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended. [via]
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Culinaria: France
by Andre Domine, Gunter Beer

ISBN 3829020198 (3-8290-2019-8)
Hardcover, Konemann

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The Debacle
by Emile Zola

ISBN 0140442804 (0-14-044280-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts

ISBN 0192827502 (0-19-282750-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press

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Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. Also included in this edition is Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy", a key transitional work between his Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. This new translation offers fresh insight into a cornerstone of political thought, which is further illuminated by a comprehensive introduction and notes. [via]
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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract: And, the Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts

ISBN 0192835971 (0-19-283597-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. Also included in this edition is Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy", a key transitional work between his Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. This new translation offers fresh insight into a cornerstone of political thought, which is further illuminated by a comprehensive introduction and notes. [via]
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Dreyfus: A Family Affair From the French Revolution to the Holocaust
by Michael Burns

ISBN 0060923458 (0-06-092345-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945
by Michael Burns

ISBN 0060163666 (0-06-016366-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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Early Modern France 1560-1715
by Robin Briggs

ISBN 0192890409 (0-19-289040-9)
Softcover, Oxford University Press

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El Exilio Y El Reino
by Albert Camus

ISBN 8420637424 (84-206-3742-4)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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El Primer Hombre
by Albert Camus, Aurora Bernardez

ISBN 8472238318 (84-7223-831-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Ese hombre del título sería el padre del niño Jacques Cormery, protagonista de esta historia. Pero de este padre emigrante, que murió en el frente durante la primera guerra mundial y que se había casado con una menorquina analfabeta y casi muda con la que apenas dispuso del tiempo necesario para tener dos hijos, poco se sabrá. Los pobres no tienen historia, o tan sólo aquella que les otorgan las guerras y las revoluciones. El verdadero primer hombre es el hijo : sin padre, educado en un miserable barrio periférico de Argel por una abuela autoritaria, que le inflige castigos corporales ante una madre impotente.

A fatherless child is raised in Algiers by a strict grandmother who hits him in front of the helpless mother. How did he end up winning the Nobel Prize for Literature? The story of how the kid slowly constructs himself in a completely different way to what was expected, would seem Albert Camus own. [via]
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Eugene Atget's Paris
by Andreas Krase, Hans Christian Adam

ISBN 3822855499 (3-8228-5549-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc

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Eugene Atget roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-the-century Old Paris down to the very smallest details. His skilled, wonderfully atmospheric photos of Paris's parks, buildings, streets, store windows, prostitutes, workers, and even door handles are a joy to behold. This abbreviated volume contains a selection of Atget's best photographs and is the perfect introduction to this master photographer's work. [via]
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The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era
by Owen Connelly

ISBN 0155078666 (0-15-507866-6)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co

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The Bastille, symbol of injustice and monarchial tyranny, surrendering to the Parisian throng; the hungry women of Paris, demanding bread from their king; the guillotine, revolutionary death machine, dispatching human lives amid the grotesquely gala atmosphere of the Place de la Revolution: Such dramatic images of a society in turmoil are vividly recreated in The French Revolution. Connelly and Hembree not only recapture the drama of the Revolution but provide a reasoned analysis of the causes, course, and legacy of this distinct turning point in history. [via]
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Gigi
by Colette, Roger Senhouse

ISBN 0146001133 (0-14-600113-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Gods Will Have Blood: (Les Dieux ont soif)
by Anatole France, Frederick H. Davies

ISBN 0140443525 (0-14-044352-5)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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Published in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty-eight, The Gods Will Have Blood is the story of Gamelin, an idealistic young artist appointed as a magistrate during the French Revolution. Gamelin's ideals lead him to the most monstrous mass murder of his countrymen, and the links between Gamelin and his family, his mistress and the humanist Brotteaux are catastrophically severed. The Gods Will Have Blood recreates the violence and devastation of the Terror with breathtaking power, and weaves into it a tale which grips, convinces and profoundly moves. The perfection of Anatole France's prose style, with its myriad subtle ironies, is here translated by Frederick Davies with admirable skill and sensitivity. That The Gods Will Have Blood is Anatole France's masterpiece is beyond doubt. It is also one of the most brilliantly polished novels in French literature.
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Guide to the Musee D'Orsay
by Musee D'Orsay, Caroline Mathieu, Reunion Des Musees Nationaux (France)

ISBN 2711821234 (2-7118-2123-4)
Hardcover, Ministere de la culture et de la communication, Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux

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History of Modern France: 1871-1962
by Alfred Cobban

ISBN 0140138277 (0-14-013827-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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Immortality
by Milan Kundera, Peter Kussi

ISBN 0060932384 (0-06-093238-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to thoroughly explore the great themes of existence. [via]
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King of the Wind
by Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis

ISBN 0027436292 (0-02-743629-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. [via]
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LA Condicion Humana
by Andre Malraux

ISBN 8432021849 (84-320-2184-9)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc

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LA Debacle
by Emile Zola, Robert Lethbridge, Elinor Dorday

ISBN 0192822896 (0-19-282289-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) concerns the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-71. During Zola's lifetime it was the best-selling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as its attention to historical detail. The novel seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control. Often War and Peace, La Debacle skilfully integrates the narrative of events and the fictional lives of characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in French history. [via]
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La Gloire De Mon Pere
by Pagnol

ISBN 2877060500 (2-87706-050-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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La Princesse De Cleves
by Madame De Lafayette, Walter J. Cobb

ISBN 0140445870 (0-14-044587-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Set towards the end of the reign of Henry II of France, The Princesse de Cleves (1678) tells of the unspoken, unrequited love between the fair, noble Mme de Cleves, who is married to a loyal and faithful man, and the Duc de Nemours, a handsome man most female courtiers find irresistible. Warned by her mother against admitting her passion, Mme de Cleves hides her feelings from her fellow courtiers, until she finally confesses to her husband an act that brings tragic consequences for all. Described as France's first modern novel, The Princesse de Cleves is an exquisite and profound analysis of the human heart, and a moving depiction of the inseparability of love and anguish. [via]
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La Princesse De Cleves
by Nancy Mitford, Madame De Lafayette

ISBN 0140443371 (0-14-044337-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Books

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Les Infortunes De LA Vertu
by Marquis De Sade

ISBN 2877141616 (2-87714-161-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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126pages. Broché. broché. [via]
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Letters Concerning the English Nation
by Voltaire, Nicholas Cronk

ISBN 0192837087 (0-19-283708-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophhy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires.
Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain. He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres Philosophiques, and current editions in English translate his French. This edition restores for the modern reader Voltaire's own English text, allowing us to appreciate him as a stylist at first hand. It is the only critical edition of the original text and, as well as providing an introduction and notes, it includes intriguing accounts of Voltaire by contemporary English observers. [via]
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Letters from My Windmill
by Alphonse Daudet

ISBN 0140443347 (0-14-044334-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Letters on England
by Fran-Cois Marie Arouet De Voltaire, Leonard Tancock

ISBN 014044386X (0-14-044386-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French government ordered the letters burned and Voltaire persecuted. [via]
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Madeline & the Bad Hat
by Ludwig Bemelmans

ISBN 0140566481 (0-14-056648-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Madeline's Christmas
by Ludwig Bemelmans

ISBN 0140566503 (0-14-056650-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring because of a nasty, contagious illness--even the mouse is in bed with a miserable cold. Only brave Madeline is up and about ... competently running the household until she hears a knock at the door--a visitor whom she suspects might be Santa Claus. Instead it is a magical-rug merchant, with 12 red carpets that Madeline thinks would be perfect for the 12 girls and "For our ice-cold in the morning feet." She procures a few francs from Miss Clavel and pays the merchant. Without his rugs, however, he is very chilly, and he feels quite silly for having sold them. He returns to the old house (still covered in vines), where Madeline helps him thaw out, and he works a little Christmas magic--sending the girls on cross-country carpet rides to surprise their parents. Of course, Miss Clavel's bell breaks the spell and they're all back in time to celebrate the New Year. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Memorias De Adriano
by Marguerite Yourcenar

ISBN 9871138695 (987-1138-69-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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La conjuncion de la mas importante novela historica de los ultimos tiempos y de la version castellana del gran narrador argentino hacen de este volumen un verdadero acontecimiento literario.
(GL): Disponemos de una guia de lectura gratuita para el profesorado acreditado. [via]
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Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
by Adam Zamoyski

ISBN 006108686X (0-06-108686-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The Nun
by Denis Diderot

ISBN 0140443002 (0-14-044300-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.

This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction. [via]
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Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet
by Otto Friedrich

ISBN 0060163186 (0-06-016318-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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An evocation of the people and events that made Paris during the Second Empire extraordinary discusses the furor over Manet's Olympia, Empress Eugenie's disastrous influence on Napoleon, Manet's portraits of Berthe Morisot, and more. National ad/promo. [via]
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Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949
by Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper

ISBN 0142437921 (0-14-243792-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Philosophical Letters: Voltaire
by Ernest Dilworth, Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0023306106 (0-02-330610-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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The Portable Voltaire
by Voltaire, Ben Ray Redman

ISBN 0140150412 (0-14-015041-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.
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Postcards from France
by Megan M. Libby

ISBN 0061011703 (0-06-101170-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Postcards from France
by Megan McNeill Libby

ISBN 006101169X (0-06-101169-X)
Hardcover, Harper Prism

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Prince of the Renaissance: The Life of Francois I.
by Desmond Seward

ISBN 0094579008 (0-09-457900-8)
Hardcover, Constable

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Princesse De Cleves:The Princesse De Montpensier; The Comtesse De Tende
by Terence Cave, LA Fayette

ISBN 0192837265 (0-19-283726-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 0140430261 (0-14-043026-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick
by Laurence Sterne, Paul Goring

ISBN 0140437797 (0-14-043779-7)
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"I have laid a plan for something new, quite out of the beaten track." The result, A Sentimental Journey is as far from the conventional travel book as Tristram Shandy is from other novels. This volume includes the journal Sterne wrote for Eliza Draper which is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of his comic and satiric genius. [via]
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Simple French Food
by Richard Olney

ISBN 0020100604 (0-02-010060-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff

ISBN 0141180587 (0-14-118058-7)
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Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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Therese Desqueyroux
by Francois Mauriac

ISBN 2253004219 (2-253-00421-9)
Softcover, Hachette

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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne

ISBN 389508462X (3-89508-462-X)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft

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Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole. [via]
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Zazie in the Metro
by Barbara Wright, Raymond Queneau

ISBN 0142180041 (0-14-218004-1)
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Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and phonetic games, Zazie in the Metro remains as stylish and witty as ever.
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