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Eyewitness Guide France •   Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK • 2006 • PAPER • 720 PAGES
This superb guide to all of France features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (FRN01, $30.00)

The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France •  Ina Caro
HISTORY • 1996 • PAPER • 339 PAGES
Time travel through France by way of its finest castles, chateaux, cathedrals and monasteries. This unusual travelogue is an invaluable companion for traveling in Paris, southern France, the Dordogne and the Loire Valley, combining personal observation with large doses of well-presented history. (FRN03, $17.00)

Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1995 • PAPER • 175 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A slim encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. This volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and more information than you would imagine between its slim covers. Take it along to gain a better appreciation of the Middle Ages and its legacy in Europe. (MED07, $12.95)

French or Foe? Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France •  Polly Platt
CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2003 • PAPER • 292 PAGES
With humor, directness and great insight, this little book explains the French and how to get along with them. Whatever your thoughts about cultural stereotypes, her suggestion for how to get out of sticky situations is perfect: "Excusez-moi de vous deranger." It also works! An expanded third edition, which now includes the French romance with cell phones and a short chapter with recent vignettes. (FRN54, $16.95)

The Food of France •  Waverly Root
FOOD • 1992 • PAPER • 450 PAGES
An aromatic and and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970's, this book covers the important regions of French cuisine by dividing them into domains of Butter (northern France), Fat (Alsace), and Oil (the south). A great read for anyone interested in the foundation of French cuisine. (FRN17, $17.95)

France Map •   Michelin
2007 • MAP
A colorful, accurate and up-to-date map of France at a scale of 1:1,000,000, with scenic routes highlighted. We also carry a variety of more detailed regional and city maps. (FRN07, $11.95)

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Dordogne Map •   IGN • Centered on Perigueux, this French-made map covers the Dordogne at a scale of 1:140,000. (FRN60, $9.95)

Blue Guide Southwest France •  Delia Gray-Durant • GUIDEBOOK • A compact guide with a strong focus on history and architecture, including the region's prehistoric caves and grottos, splendid medieval towns, castles and cathedrals. (FRN53, $28.95)

Discovering Wine Country, Bordeaux •  Monty Waldin • GUIDEBOOK • This handy guide to Bordeaux and its wines, featuring 100 color photographs and 12 maps, includes an overview of the wines of the region from Medoc to Sauternes, suggested wine tours, traveler's tips and recommended producers. (FRN501, $19.95)

Fodor's Paris' 25 Best •   Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket map and practical guide to Paris, including essential information on the city's highlights, guidelines for sightseeing, and restaurant recommendations. (FRN41, $11.95)

Rough Guide France •   Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide to France, covering history, art, music and culture in detail. With a region-by-region overview of attractions and practical travel information. (FRN183, $23.99)

A Traveller's History of France •  Robert Cole • HISTORY • This fast-moving survey covers the conquests of ancient Gaul through the heady days of revolution to modern times. (FRN08, $14.95)

France from the Air •  Yann Arthus-Bertrand • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • This spectacular book of photographs, one in a series by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, showcases the rivers, fileds, landscapes, landscapes and cities of France in a series of dramatic low-altitude shot. With a introductory history and descriptive captions. (FRN598, $50.00)

The Age of Napoleon •  Alistair Horne • HISTORY • A trenchant observer of the French and popular historian, Horne offers the drama, ego, victory and times of Napoleon in this brief, lively biography in the excellent Modern Library Chronicles series. (FRN629, $13.95)

The Discovery of France •  Graham Robb • HISTORY • Graham Robb marvelously illuminates the rural byways, regional eccentricities and making of modern France in this engaging portrait of place. (FRN770, $17.95)

Impressionism, Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society •  Robert L. Herbert • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A magnificently illustrated social history, this book shows the cafes, opera houses, dance halls and other places of entertainment and leisure that inspired the great Impressionist paintings. (FRN117, $35.00)

The Age of Conversation •  Benedetta Craveri • ART & ARCHITECTURE • History, analysis and examples of the art of conversation as perfected by the French aristocracy of the 17th and 18th centuries. (FRN547, $30.00)

The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral •  Robert A. Scott • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $17.95)

The Impressionists at Home •  Pamela Todd • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated, authoritative social history of the French impressionists and their homes. With biographies, 175 photographs and information on homes and gardens open to the public. (FRN600, $35.00)

Vincent Van Gogh, The Passionate Eye •  Pascal Bonafoux • ART & ARCHITECTURE • FAVORITE • From Paris to Asnieres, Amsterdam and Provence, this jewel of a book traces the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh, the spirited, self-destructive painter who celebrated the south of France. Engaging, compact and illustrated with hundreds of photographs. (FRN29, $12.95)

A Moveable Feast •  Ernest Hemingway • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A treasure for anyone interested in Parisian cafe society and its luminaries circa 1925. Hemingway includes sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford and others who idled on their way to greatness. (FRN26, $15.00)

A Year in Provence •  Peter Mayle • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The original best-selling tale of settling down in Provence, told with warmth and a great deal of humor. It offers a wonderful inside look at the charms and quirks of the people and the countryside in the south of France. (FRN19, $13.00)

Adventures on the Wine Route, A Wine Buyer's Tour of France •  Kermit Lynch • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A delightful, warmly anecdotal book, highly recommended for anyone touring the wine regions of France. The book brings the domains and appellations of French wine into full-blown life, and Lynch's portraits of the grand personalities who make wine are priceless. (FRN72, $18.00)

Clementine in the Kitchen •  Samuel Chamberlain • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This sweet tale of a transplanted American family and their endearing French cook evokes the traditions, character and food of rural France in the years before WWII. Clementine eventually accompanies her new friends back to America, where, happily, she finds love. (FRN455, $13.95)

My Life in France •  Julia Child • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW • Child's characteristically ebullient record of Paris and Provence, her many friends, family and memorable meals, in the years after WWII. (FRN596, $14.95)

Talk to the Snail, Ten Commandments to Understanding the French •  Stephen Clarke • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Clarke's essays on France and the French, as witty as they are useful, combines a guide to cultural understanding with some perfectly rendered, and perfectly hysterical notes on how to speak French. (FRN643, $14.95)

Two Towns in Provence •  M. F. K. Fisher • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE • Celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher contrasts village life in Aix-en-Provence with bustling Marseilles, evoking both with anecdote and loving description. (FRN27, $16.95)

France in Mind •  Alice Powers • ANTHOLOGY • This wonderful selection of essays, excerpts and stories filters the experience of being in France through the lens of 33 British and American writers. (FRN384, $14.00)

France, A Traveler's Literary Companion •  William Rodarmor • ANTHOLOGY • This collection contains literary gems from all corners of France--not just Paris--by a select group of modern French writers. (FRN767, $14.95)

Travelers' Tales France •  James O'Reilly •  Larry Habegger • ANTHOLOGY • A wonderful collection of mostly contemporary tales, including such marvelous authors as Peter Mayle, M.F.K. Fisher, Mort Rosenblum, Ina Caro and Jan Morris. Organized thematically, it's a good introduction to the history, culture and character of France. (FRN05, $18.95)

In a Dark Wood Wandering, A Novel of the Middle Ages •  Hella Haasse • LITERATURE • With a cast of thousands including Joan of Arc and the Dukes of Burgundy, this 1949 historical novel renders the political intrigue, people and texture of 15th-century Europe. Haasse captures medieval court life during the Hundred Years War. (FRN86, $21.95)

Suite Francaise •  Irene Nemirovsky • LITERATURE • Rediscovered after 60 years, Nemirovsky's two lustrous novellas capture the rhythms and peculiarities of daily life in German-occupied France with warmth and wit. (FRN642, $14.95)

The Lost Upland, Stories of Southwest France •  W.S. Merwin • LITERATURE • Three richly evocative stories of life in a Dordogne village by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Merwin, one of our finest living poets. Originally published in 1992, the book is steeped in history, food and personality. (FRN11, $16.00)

The Railway Viaduct •  Edward Marston • MYSTERY • In the third installment of the popular Railway Detective series, Colbeck and Leeming are off to France when a mysterious man is stabbed on a train. Set in 1852, this mystery is full of historical detail and suspense. (FRN752, $15.95)

Three Crimes •  Georges Simenon • LITERATURE • Simenon mixes the story of murders committed by a pair of men, fellow editors from his youth, with long nights in this intense psychological thriller, published in French as Les trois crimes des mes amis. (FRN678, $15.95)

Timeline •  Michael Crichton • LITERATURE • Crichton's blockbuster fantasy combines time travel and adventures in Medieval France. A fast-paced, remarkably well-researched introduction to 14th-century Dordogne and Perigord. (FRN135, $7.99)

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	Eyewitness Guide France • Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2006 • PAPER • 720 PAGES This superb guide to all of France features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (FRN01, $30.00)
	The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France • Ina Caro HISTORY • 1996 • PAPER • 339 PAGES Time travel through France by way of its finest castles, chateaux, cathedrals and monasteries. This unusual travelogue is an invaluable companion for traveling in Paris, southern France, the Dordogne and the Loire Valley, combining personal observation with large doses of well-presented history. (FRN03, $17.00)
	Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages • Alain Erlande-Brandenburg ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1995 • PAPER • 175 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE A slim encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. This volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and more information than you would imagine between its slim covers. Take it along to gain a better appreciation of the Middle Ages and its legacy in Europe. (MED07, $12.95)
	French or Foe? Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France • Polly Platt CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2003 • PAPER • 292 PAGES With humor, directness and great insight, this little book explains the French and how to get along with them. Whatever your thoughts about cultural stereotypes, her suggestion for how to get out of sticky situations is perfect: "Excusez-moi de vous deranger." It also works! An expanded third edition, which now includes the French romance with cell phones and a short chapter with recent vignettes. (FRN54, $16.95)
	The Food of France • Waverly Root FOOD • 1992 • PAPER • 450 PAGES An aromatic and and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970's, this book covers the important regions of French cuisine by dividing them into domains of Butter (northern France), Fat (Alsace), and Oil (the south). A great read for anyone interested in the foundation of French cuisine. (FRN17, $17.95)
	France Map • Michelin 2007 • MAP A colorful, accurate and up-to-date map of France at a scale of 1:1,000,000, with scenic routes highlighted. We also carry a variety of more detailed regional and city maps. (FRN07, $11.95)

	Dordogne Map • IGN • Centered on Perigueux, this French-made map covers the Dordogne at a scale of 1:140,000. (FRN60, $9.95)
	Blue Guide Southwest France • Delia Gray-Durant • GUIDEBOOK • A compact guide with a strong focus on history and architecture, including the region's prehistoric caves and grottos, splendid medieval towns, castles and cathedrals. (FRN53, $28.95)
	Discovering Wine Country, Bordeaux • Monty Waldin • GUIDEBOOK • This handy guide to Bordeaux and its wines, featuring 100 color photographs and 12 maps, includes an overview of the wines of the region from Medoc to Sauternes, suggested wine tours, traveler's tips and recommended producers. (FRN501, $19.95)
	Fodor's Paris' 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket map and practical guide to Paris, including essential information on the city's highlights, guidelines for sightseeing, and restaurant recommendations. (FRN41, $11.95)
	Rough Guide France • Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide to France, covering history, art, music and culture in detail. With a region-by-region overview of attractions and practical travel information. (FRN183, $23.99)
	A Traveller's History of France • Robert Cole • HISTORY • This fast-moving survey covers the conquests of ancient Gaul through the heady days of revolution to modern times. (FRN08, $14.95)
	France from the Air • Yann Arthus-Bertrand • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • This spectacular book of photographs, one in a series by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, showcases the rivers, fileds, landscapes, landscapes and cities of France in a series of dramatic low-altitude shot. With a introductory history and descriptive captions. (FRN598, $50.00)
	The Age of Napoleon • Alistair Horne • HISTORY • A trenchant observer of the French and popular historian, Horne offers the drama, ego, victory and times of Napoleon in this brief, lively biography in the excellent Modern Library Chronicles series. (FRN629, $13.95)
	The Discovery of France • Graham Robb • HISTORY • Graham Robb marvelously illuminates the rural byways, regional eccentricities and making of modern France in this engaging portrait of place. (FRN770, $17.95)
	Impressionism, Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society • Robert L. Herbert • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A magnificently illustrated social history, this book shows the cafes, opera houses, dance halls and other places of entertainment and leisure that inspired the great Impressionist paintings. (FRN117, $35.00)
	The Age of Conversation • Benedetta Craveri • ART & ARCHITECTURE • History, analysis and examples of the art of conversation as perfected by the French aristocracy of the 17th and 18th centuries. (FRN547, $30.00)
	The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral • Robert A. Scott • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $17.95)
	The Impressionists at Home • Pamela Todd • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated, authoritative social history of the French impressionists and their homes. With biographies, 175 photographs and information on homes and gardens open to the public. (FRN600, $35.00)
	Vincent Van Gogh, The Passionate Eye • Pascal Bonafoux • ART & ARCHITECTURE • FAVORITE • From Paris to Asnieres, Amsterdam and Provence, this jewel of a book traces the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh, the spirited, self-destructive painter who celebrated the south of France. Engaging, compact and illustrated with hundreds of photographs. (FRN29, $12.95)
	A Moveable Feast • Ernest Hemingway • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A treasure for anyone interested in Parisian cafe society and its luminaries circa 1925. Hemingway includes sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford and others who idled on their way to greatness. (FRN26, $15.00)
	A Year in Provence • Peter Mayle • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The original best-selling tale of settling down in Provence, told with warmth and a great deal of humor. It offers a wonderful inside look at the charms and quirks of the people and the countryside in the south of France. (FRN19, $13.00)
	Adventures on the Wine Route, A Wine Buyer's Tour of France • Kermit Lynch • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A delightful, warmly anecdotal book, highly recommended for anyone touring the wine regions of France. The book brings the domains and appellations of French wine into full-blown life, and Lynch's portraits of the grand personalities who make wine are priceless. (FRN72, $18.00)
	Clementine in the Kitchen • Samuel Chamberlain • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This sweet tale of a transplanted American family and their endearing French cook evokes the traditions, character and food of rural France in the years before WWII. Clementine eventually accompanies her new friends back to America, where, happily, she finds love. (FRN455, $13.95)
	My Life in France • Julia Child • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW • Child's characteristically ebullient record of Paris and Provence, her many friends, family and memorable meals, in the years after WWII. (FRN596, $14.95)
	Talk to the Snail, Ten Commandments to Understanding the French • Stephen Clarke • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Clarke's essays on France and the French, as witty as they are useful, combines a guide to cultural understanding with some perfectly rendered, and perfectly hysterical notes on how to speak French. (FRN643, $14.95)
	Two Towns in Provence • M. F. K. Fisher • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE • Celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher contrasts village life in Aix-en-Provence with bustling Marseilles, evoking both with anecdote and loving description. (FRN27, $16.95)
	France in Mind • Alice Powers • ANTHOLOGY • This wonderful selection of essays, excerpts and stories filters the experience of being in France through the lens of 33 British and American writers. (FRN384, $14.00)
	France, A Traveler's Literary Companion • William Rodarmor • ANTHOLOGY • This collection contains literary gems from all corners of France--not just Paris--by a select group of modern French writers. (FRN767, $14.95)
	Travelers' Tales France • James O'Reilly • Larry Habegger • ANTHOLOGY • A wonderful collection of mostly contemporary tales, including such marvelous authors as Peter Mayle, M.F.K. Fisher, Mort Rosenblum, Ina Caro and Jan Morris. Organized thematically, it's a good introduction to the history, culture and character of France. (FRN05, $18.95)
	In a Dark Wood Wandering, A Novel of the Middle Ages • Hella Haasse • LITERATURE • With a cast of thousands including Joan of Arc and the Dukes of Burgundy, this 1949 historical novel renders the political intrigue, people and texture of 15th-century Europe. Haasse captures medieval court life during the Hundred Years War. (FRN86, $21.95)
	Suite Francaise • Irene Nemirovsky • LITERATURE • Rediscovered after 60 years, Nemirovsky's two lustrous novellas capture the rhythms and peculiarities of daily life in German-occupied France with warmth and wit. (FRN642, $14.95)
	The Lost Upland, Stories of Southwest France • W.S. Merwin • LITERATURE • Three richly evocative stories of life in a Dordogne village by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Merwin, one of our finest living poets. Originally published in 1992, the book is steeped in history, food and personality. (FRN11, $16.00)
	The Railway Viaduct • Edward Marston • MYSTERY • In the third installment of the popular Railway Detective series, Colbeck and Leeming are off to France when a mysterious man is stabbed on a train. Set in 1852, this mystery is full of historical detail and suspense. (FRN752, $15.95)
	Three Crimes • Georges Simenon • LITERATURE • Simenon mixes the story of murders committed by a pair of men, fellow editors from his youth, with long nights in this intense psychological thriller, published in French as Les trois crimes des mes amis. (FRN678, $15.95)
	Timeline • Michael Crichton • LITERATURE • Crichton's blockbuster fantasy combines time travel and adventures in Medieval France. A fast-paced, remarkably well-researched introduction to 14th-century Dordogne and Perigord. (FRN135, $7.99)