Vive La France!

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Famous for football, food, and fleur-de-lis, la République française is riding high. Let’s look at some books that celebrate this proud, passionate nation.
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    One moment, Janine Marsh was on a booze cruise to northern France. The next, she was making an offer on a rundown old barn in the Pas-de-Calais. This is the story of how a corporate Brit from the city found more than she could have ever imagined living the good life in France.
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    Janine Marsh
    My Good Life in France
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    1946. In an abandoned suitcase at Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey discovers a dozen photographs of different women. Learning that they were sent to occupied Europe to aid the resistance, Grace makes it her mission to find out the truth behind the women who never came home. Inspired by true events.
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    Pam Jenoff
    The Lost Girls Of Paris
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    Woven into the fabric of a rural French community, the weird and wonderful lives of people on the periphery intertwine unexpectedly in this selection of stories from Emmanuelle Pagano.
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    Emmanuelle Pagano
    Faces on the Tip of My Tongue
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    Returning to Paris from the country after the Franco-Prussian war, the St Clair family discovers a city of barricades, its streets on fire, its houses ransacked. Caught up in the cruelty of the Commune, the St Clair’s daughter, little Helene, falls ill and is captured. Escape sees Helene lost, alone and fending for herself on the war-torn streets.
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    Diney Costeloe
    Children of the Siege
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    Tactics, technology and tenacity have shaped this tour of endurance into a globally revered sporting event. Without a homegrown winner in two decades, how does a cycle race through campagne, bourgade and ville remain so uniquely French? What goes on tour stays in this extraordinary history.
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    ... if you want, to that is. And why wouldn't you?
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    An exhaustive narrative history of L'Hexagone
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    John Julius Norwich
    A History of France
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    Apparently…
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    A (hilarious) portrait of the artist as a young woman.
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    Margery Sharp
    Martha in Paris
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    French food: in all its glory.
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    Jeni Mitchell,Stéphane Henaut
    A Bite-Sized History of France
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    A trip to Europe becomes a hotbed of desire. And guess where it all starts?
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    Sarah Mlynowski
    I See London, I See France
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    Dumas' tale of just retribution.
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    Proust: most prominent.
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    France's Western Front during World War 1: a great place to escape your dusty British aristocratic upbringing.
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    Jennifer Robson
    Somewhere in France
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    Zola tackles the magic of department stores; the only way he knows how.
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    How Julia Child fell in love with French cuisine.
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    Julia Child
    My Life in France
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    'The bells! The bells!' And all that.