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Roger Crowley

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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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The Splendid Century, Life in the France of Louis XIV

The Splendid Century, Life in the France of Louis XIV

by W. H. Lewis

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 305 PAGES

A gloriously old-fashioned, rousing social history of 17th-century France, rich in anecdote. Lewis (brother of C.S. to whom the book is dedicated) evokes life in France under the reign of the Sun King. Much more than a history of Versailles. Originally published in 1957.  (FRN328, $13.50)

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