French History

1.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,233 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life 3.93 avg rating — 16,522 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Marie Antoinette: The Journey 3.94 avg rating — 38,046 ratings
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 6,179 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,593 ratings
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France 3.74 avg rating — 7,116 ratings
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The Old Regime and the French Revolution
The Old Regime and the French Revolution 4.05 avg rating — 2,523 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King 3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,480 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,502 ratings
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Days of The French Revolution
Days of The French Revolution 3.77 avg rating — 2,046 ratings
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France 3.96 avg rating — 8,375 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman 4.39 avg rating — 8,974 ratings
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution 3.91 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
Life in a Medieval City 3.84 avg rating — 3,835 ratings
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The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century 4.03 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War 3.93 avg rating — 7,697 ratings
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The Coming of the French Revolution
The Coming of the French Revolution 3.79 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe 3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War 3.99 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 4.27 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc 3.71 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Is Paris Burning?
Is Paris Burning? 4.15 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 4.13 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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The Age of Louis XIV (The Story of Civilization, #8)
The Age of Louis XIV (The Story of Civilization, #8) 4.31 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,773 ratings
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The French Revolution: A History
The French Revolution: A History 3.89 avg rating — 1,058 ratings
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Napoléon
Napoléon
by: Stendhal
3.44 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
by: Ross King
3.85 avg rating — 14,509 ratings
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The Dreyfus Affair: "J'Accuse" and Other Writings
The Dreyfus Affair: "J'Accuse" and Other Writings 4.10 avg rating — 305 ratings
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A History of Modern France, Volume 2: From the First Empire to the Second Empire, 1799-1871
A History of Modern France, Volume 2: From the First Empire to the Second Empire, 1799-1871 3.38 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Return of Martin Guerre
The Return of Martin Guerre 3.76 avg rating — 5,134 ratings
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution 4.17 avg rating — 3,562 ratings
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius 4.15 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History 3.88 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris 3.82 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon 3.84 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Napoleon
Napoleon 3.57 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Age of Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment
by: Peter Gay
3.88 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850
The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850
by: Karl Marx
4.12 avg rating — 608 ratings
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The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, #11)
The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, #11) 4.36 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris 3.94 avg rating — 20,408 ratings
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Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand 3.96 avg rating — 791 ratings
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War II
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War II 4.06 avg rating — 532 ratings
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The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV
The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV 3.85 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Maxims
Maxims 4.03 avg rating — 4,314 ratings
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Athénaïs
Athénaïs 3.78 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 4.06 avg rating — 518 ratings
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A History of Modern France, Volume 3: France of the Republics 1871-1962
A History of Modern France, Volume 3: France of the Republics 1871-1962 3.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Joan of Arc: Her Story
Joan of Arc: Her Story 4.03 avg rating — 665 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by: Tom Reiss
4.02 avg rating — 21,030 ratings
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Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848
Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Age of Voltaire (The Story of Civilization, #9)
The Age of Voltaire (The Story of Civilization, #9) 4.42 avg rating — 956 ratings
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A Brief History of the Hundred Years War
A Brief History of the Hundred Years War 3.77 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Seven Ages of Paris
Seven Ages of Paris 3.91 avg rating — 2,687 ratings
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France 3.97 avg rating — 6,849 ratings
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The Enlightenment, Volume 1: The Rise of Modern Paganism
The Enlightenment, Volume 1: The Rise of Modern Paganism
by: Peter Gay
4.13 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV 3.69 avg rating — 773 ratings
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How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne 3.70 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris 3.66 avg rating — 2,514 ratings
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael 4.02 avg rating — 121 ratings
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France, 1848-1945: Politics and Anger
France, 1848-1945: Politics and Anger 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Madame de Stäel
Madame de Stäel 4.24 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,784 ratings
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error 3.99 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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The Age of Reason Begins (The Story of Civilization, #7)
The Age of Reason Begins (The Story of Civilization, #7) 4.36 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris 3.72 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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The identity of France, Vol. 2: People and production
The identity of France, Vol. 2: People and production 4.26 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count 3.78 avg rating — 3,318 ratings
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Origins of the French Revolution
Origins of the French Revolution 3.65 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Saint Joan of Arc
Saint Joan of Arc 3.87 avg rating — 269 ratings
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The World of the French Revolution
The World of the French Revolution 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France 3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War
Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War 4.04 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Paris to the Moon
Paris to the Moon 3.75 avg rating — 15,348 ratings
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Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution
Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution 4.10 avg rating — 853 ratings
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The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom 3.94 avg rating — 3,218 ratings
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949
Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 3.84 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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Women in the Days of the Cathedrals
Women in the Days of the Cathedrals 3.93 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The Complete War Memoirs of Charles De Gaulle
The Complete War Memoirs of Charles De Gaulle 3.91 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau
The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.91 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France 3.90 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I
Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour 3.86 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc 3.47 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Selected Letters
Selected Letters 3.77 avg rating — 414 ratings
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The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment 3.58 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10)
Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10) 4.29 avg rating — 948 ratings
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The Road to Compiegne (French Revolution, #2)
The Road to Compiegne (French Revolution, #2) 3.87 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen: A New Approach, Exploring the Interrelationship Between the People of a Country and the Power of Its King
Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen: A New Approach, Exploring the Interrelationship Between the People of a Country and the Power of Its King 3.59 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Enlightenment, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom
The Enlightenment, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom
by: Peter Gay
4.07 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Lafayette
Lafayette 4.40 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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Descartes: A Biography
Descartes: A Biography 3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Pétain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History
Pétain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History 3.64 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Descartes
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes 3.90 avg rating — 61 ratings
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My Life in France
My Life in France 4.16 avg rating — 92,229 ratings
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Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet
Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet 4.10 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Valois: Kings of France 1328-1589
The Valois: Kings of France 1328-1589 3.64 avg rating — 59 ratings
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