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French History

The History of France

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Everyday Lives in History: 1940s (nonfiction)

131 books — 23 voters

The Last Plantagenets by Thomas B. Costain

Non-fiction books about the Hundred Years' War

119 books — 29 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda

1968 - The year that rocked the world (fiction and nonfiction)

236 books — 77 voters

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Candide and Philosophical Letters by Voltaire

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter Gay

The Enlightenment and its Impact

272 books — 89 voters

Early Medieval Architecture by Roger Stalley

Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances Gies

Medieval Architecture by Nicola Coldstream

Medieval Architecture (nonfiction)

89 books — 19 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

All Things French

454 books — 47 voters

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Quotes Tagged “French History”

“ The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs. ”
― Charles de Gaulle

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“ [The eighteenth century] was the century, as we are frequently told, of women - the intellectual life of women in salons, women wielding unseen influence, women as members of academies, theatrical productions whose success depended on the power of actresses to charm; in the economic sphere, financiers amassing great fortunes in order to marry their daughters into the aristocracy, and women ruling over whole peoples and empires: Maria Theresa, Catherine the Great, Queen Elisabeth Farnese of Spain ...more ”
― Antal Szerb, The Queen's Necklace

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