by
Wellman, Kathleen Anne, 1951- author.
Call Number
944.0209252 23
Publication Date
2013
Summary
This title tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised royal mistress in 1444, including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, Marguerite de Valois among others, and concluding with Gabrielle d'Estrées, Henry IV's powerful mistress during the 1590s.
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Electronic Resources
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67229.4531
by
National Geographic Society (U.S.). National Geographic Maps.
Call Number
MAP 914.4 FRA
Publication Date
2000
Format:
Maps
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67224.2969
Call Number
641.5944 FRA
Publication Date
2006
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Books
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67175.4531
by
France, Christine.
Call Number
641.5784 COO
Publication Date
1999
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Books
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63493.8594
by
Reynolds, Sian.
Call Number
320.082 20
Publication Date
1996
Summary
Sian Reynolds challenges the prevailing assumption that women had little influence or power in France during the interwar period. She combines extensive empirical research with revealing insights into France's political history and women's history.
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63392.5977
by
Jefford, Andrew.
Call Number
641.220944 JEF
Publication Date
2006
Summary
This groundbreaking and authoritative book on French wine draws on painstaking research by leading wine writer Andrew Jefford, who has travelled extensively in each of France's fourteen wine regions, to investigate the personalities and producers who have masterminded the resurgence of the French wine industry.Produ cer listings are a significant and important feature of the book as Jefford covers the background of those producers he feels most worthy of mention for their contribution to the world of wine and their own individual wines. There is up-to-the-minute research on terroir and its effect on the wines of each region, and how accurately it is reflected by the controversial appellation controlee system.
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Books
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63391.6875
by
Blake, Anthony
Call Number
641.5944 BLA
Publication Date
1978
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Books
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63390.8477
by
Desan, Suzanne, 1957- author.
Call Number
306.85094409033 22
Publication Date
2004
Summary
In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution bound women within a domestic sphere, The Family on Trial maintains that the new civil laws and gender politics offered many women unexpected opportunities to gain power, property, or independence. The family became a political arena, a practical terrain for creating the Republic in day-to-day life. From 1789, citizens across France-sons and daughters, unhappily married spouses and illegitimate children, pamphleteers and moralists, deputies and judges-all disputed how the family should be reformed to remake the new France. They debated how revolutionary ideals and institutions should transform the emotional bonds, gender dynamics, legal customs, and economic arrangements that structured the family. They asked how to bring the principles of liberty, equality, and regeneration into the home. And as French citizens confronted each other in the home, in court, and in print, they gradually negotiated new domestic practices that balanced Old Regime customs with revolutionary innovations in law and culture. In a narrative that combines national-level analysis with a case study of family contestation in Normandy, Desan explores these struggles to bring politics into households and to envision and put into practice a new set of familial relationships.
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Electronic Resources
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63387.4727
by
Phillips, Henry (J. Henry)
Call Number
261.1 20
Publication Date
1997
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Electronic Resources
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63387.2734
by
Adler, K. H. (Karen H.)
Call Number
944.004924 22
Publication Date
2003
Summary
"This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race, specifically Jewishness, and gender--core components of Vichy ideology. Imagining liberation, and the potential post-Vichy state, lay at the heart of resistance strategy. The development of these ideas, and their transformation into policy at liberation, form the basis of an enquiry that reveals a society which, while split deeply at the political level, found considerable agreement over questions of race, the family and gender. This is explained through a new analysis of republican assimilation which insists that gender was as important a factor as nationality or ethnicity. A new concept of the 'long liberation' provides a framework for understanding the continuing influence of the liberation in post-war France, where scientific planning came to the fore, but whose exponents were profoundly imbued with reductive beliefs about Jews and women that were familiar during Vichy."--Publisher's description. This book takes a new look at France during and after the German occupation. It challenges traditional chronology that concentrates on the Vichy government and punctures standard interpretations that divide occupied France into resisters and collaborators. Throughout, race - specifically Jewishness - and gender are drawn together in original and illuminating ways.
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Electronic Resources
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63385.3086
Call Number
DVD 641.5946 SPA
Publication Date
1999
Summary
Visit Spain and France through your tastebuds. Explore Andalucia and Languedoc and learn to cook local dishes.
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Other
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63334.1992
by
McFadden, Christine.
Call Number
641.6374 MCF
Publication Date
1999 1997
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Books
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60675.7461
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