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L'amour Actually by Melanie Jones
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Melanie Jones

'Cor, I'd love to know what that frigid old bat's saying,' whispered Tracey into my ear. 'Actually, for once I'm glad I can't speak the language.' After giving the poor ...
( Category: General October 9,2014 )
Bonaparte by Castelot André
epub |eng | 2012-02-25 | Author:Castelot, André [Castelot, André]

Le lendemain matin, dès sept heures, par un temps beau, mais frais – l’Observatoire a noté la première gelée blanche de la saison – le jardin et la petite allée ...
( Category: France October 1,2014 )
A Great and Glorious Adventure by Gordon Corrigan
epub | | | Author:Gordon Corrigan [Corrigan, Gordon]

Sir John Hawkwood. Painting by artist Paolo Uccello created in 1436, currently displayed at the Duomo in Florence, Italy. A highly competent military commander made redundant by Edward III after ...
( Category: England September 22,2014 )
Black Count : Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (9780307952950) by Reiss Tom
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Reiss, Tom [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: France September 18,2014 )
The Black Count : Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Reiss Tom
mobi |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Reiss, Tom [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: France September 18,2014 )
Grace of Monaco by Robinson Jeffrey
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Robinson, Jeffrey [Robinson, Jeffrey]

Midday Every parking meter in Monte Carlo is taken. In the summer, the public beach along the Avenue Princess Grace is packed with people lying on inflatable mattresses, or on ...
( Category: Royalty September 4,2014 )
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Doyle William
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-22 | Author:Doyle, William [Doyle, William]

Napoleon He was more than willing to cooperate with Sieyès in dissolving the legislative councils in brumaire Year VIII (November 1799), but he, rather than his would-be patron had the ...
( Category: France August 21,2014 )
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Peter Mayle [Mayle, Peter]

At the beginning of 1990, we were sent the weather statistics for the previous year. Despite an unusually wet November, our annual rainfall was less than half the normal amount. ...
( Category: Travel August 21,2014 )
To Lose a Battle by Alistair Horne
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Alistair Horne

Chapter 14 The Break-Out 15 May If our tanks are distinctly superior to those of the enemy, our fighters dominate perhaps even more the enemy air force. Le Temps, 16 ...
( Category: France August 14,2014 )
The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-04 | Author:Alistair Horne

Bon canon, mais ayant un peu trop de recul…2 Washburne wrote, ‘Trochu is dethroned, having remained long enough to injure the cause’, and later added that he had ‘proved himself ...
( Category: France August 14,2014 )
How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Joan DeJean

This view of an elegant Parisian café promoted another advantage of street lighting: men and women from across the social spectrum spending an evening socializing in a public venue. French ...
( Category: France July 12,2014 )
The Bourbon Kings of France by Seward Desmond
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

‘The Suicide of France’ LOUIS XVI (1774–1793) _____________ ‘I should like to be known as “Louis the Serious” ’ No king has been more unfortunate than Louis XVI. Yet had ...
( Category: France July 7,2014 )
The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Desmond Seward

On Sunday 11 August 1415, a bright sunny day, Henry V and his armada set sail. There was only a slight breeze so the voyage across the Channel took three ...
( Category: European July 7,2014 )
Eugénie: The Empress and her Empire by Seward Desmond
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-07 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

SIX Clouds THE MEXICAN ADVENTURE Augustin Filon, the Prince Imperial’s tutor and a man who understood the empress better than most people, said in his memoirs that she took all ...
( Category: France July 7,2014 )
The Admiral and the Ambassador by Scott Martelle
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Scott Martelle

The search began in earnest in late June 1899, with a series of letters and inquiries to various French political figures and bureaucrats. Vignaud, a voracious reader of the Parisian ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 23,2014 )

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