5,300円 Childhood in the Promised Land is the first history of France's colonies de vacances, a vast network of summer camps created for working-class children. The colonies originated as a late-nineteenth-century charitable institution, providing rural retreats intended to restore the fragile health of ...

5,300円 Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were i...

5,300円 In Old Regime France credit was both a central part of economic exchange and a crucial concept for explaining dynamics of influence and power in all spheres of life. Contemporaries used the term credit to describe reputation and the currency it provided in court politics, literary production, rel...

4,637円 Once a marginal political coalition, the French National Front has become the most high-profile far-right organization in Europe. In Politics on the Fringe Edward G. DeClair provides the first extensive analysis of the Front’s history, from its creation in 1972 and outcast status in the early 198...

6,367円 The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burialーand the next day, the director of a Paris hospital for the insane ...

1,657円   Experience Yogananda’s Past Life in France  Are you inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda? Have you enjoyed his Autobiography of a Yogi and other writings? If so, you may have visited his sites in California and in India.  But ー did you know that there are shrines in Europe where Y...

267円 Par cette grise matinée d’octobre armoricain, l’océan avait ce gémissement profond qui suit les violentes tempêtes et, sur la grève, les déferlements « étalaient » avec une langueur accablée. Une grande affliction pesait sur le bourg. L’avant-veille, le syndic des Gens de mer, M. Béven, avait reç...

1,500円 Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la Terreur en moins d’une heure ! Trois ans après la prise de la Bastille, la France est à un tournant critique de son histoire. Alors que la Première République vient d’être proclamée, des dissensions se font jour entre l’Assemblée législative et la...

6,623円 René Blum and the Ballets Russes documents the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who resurrected the Ballets Russes after Diaghilev died. Based on a treasure trove of previously undiscovered letters and documents, the book not only tells the poignant story of Blum's life, bu...

7,610円 That Men Would Praise the Lord breaks apart the process of mass conversion in the sixteenth century to explain why the Reformation occurred, using Nîmes, the most Protestant town in France, as a case study. Protestantism was overwhelmingly successful in Nîmes (since most people converted), but th...

1,500円 Die Französische Revolution war ein Experimentierfeld für die Neugestaltung der modernen Gesellschaft. Auf allen gesellschaftspolitisch relevanten Ebenen wurden neue Praktiken ausprobiert und emanzipatorische Neuordnungsmodelle entworfen. Dieses "Musterbuch der Moderne" experimentierte mit der po...

530円 François Porché démêle dans ce livre l'écheveau des amours compliquées de Charles Baudelaire et de « La Présidente ». Celle-ci, la célèbre Madame Sabatier, Apollonie Sabatier, de son véritable nom Aglaé Savatier, tenait salon littéraire et, pendant quatre ans, Baudelaire lui adressa plusieurs poè...