F Is For France

Author : Piu Marie Eatwell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781250087744

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F Is for France by Piu Marie Eatwell Pdf

Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster They Eat Horses, Don't They is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage. From absinthe and catacombs to former French soccer player Zinedine Zidane, Eatwell leaves no stone unturned, taking readers off the beaten path to explore the kind of information that gets missed in guidebooks and 'official' information sources. Who could imagine, for example, that there is a village in France where UFOs are banned from landing? Or that there is a verifiable population of wild kangaroos in the forests surrounding Paris? These, and many other off-beat delights, are just some of the curiosities awaiting readers in this journey through byways and hidden treasures of this endlessly fascinating and paradoxical country. Full of the richness and variety of France beyond the platitudes, including recipes and charming illustrations, F is for France is an ideal gift book and a must-read for Francophiles and anyone with an interest in French travel and culture.

Author : Piu Eatwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 178608032X

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F Is for France by Piu Eatwell Pdf

Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster They Eat Horses, Don't They is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage.

Author : James F. Hollifield,George Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136637643

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Searching for the New France by James F. Hollifield,George Ross Pdf

The face of today's France does not resemble its forebear of a quarter century ago; it is more like its European neighbors. Searching for the New France provides an in-depth, historical account of the changes that have swept France over the past three decades and explores the political challenges that confront the country today. An array of distinguished international scholars examine changes in French politics, society, and the economy. The compilation is both comprehensive and topical in its coverage, and is unique in the broad-based, historical, and interpretive nature of its essays. The study will be invaluable to a wide range of scholars and students in the social sciences

Author : Kate Vigurs
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300258844

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Mission France by Kate Vigurs Pdf

The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known—Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan—others have had their stories largely overlooked. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents’ missions lasted for years, others’ less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.

Author : Richard F. Kuisel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691151816

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The French Way by Richard F. Kuisel Pdf

Preface -- Note on anti-Americanism -- America à la mode: the 1980s -- Anti-Americanism in retreat: Jack Lang, cultural imperialism, and the anti-anti-Americans -- Reverie and rivalry: Mitterrand and Reagan-Bush -- The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds in the land of the Gauls -- Taming the hyperpower: the 1990s -- The French way: society, economy and culture in the 1990s -- The paradox of the fin de siècle: anti-Americanism and Americanization.

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271022697

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Catholic and French Forever by Joseph F. Byrnes Pdf

It is often said that there are two Frances—Catholic and secular. This notion dates back to the 1790s, when the revolutionary government sought to divorce Catholic Christianity from national life. While Napoleon formally reconciled his regime to France’s millions of Catholics, church-state relations have remained a source of conflict and debate throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Catholic and French Forever Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress. He does so through stories of priests, legislators, intellectuals, and pilgrims whose experiences manifest the problem of being both Catholic and French in modern France. Byrnes finds that loyalties to the French nation and Catholicism became so incompatible in the revolutionary era that Catholic believers responded defensively across the nineteenth century, politicizing both religious pilgrimage and the languages of religious instruction. He shows that a détente emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century with the respect given to priests in arms during World War I and to the work of religious art historian Émile Mâle. This détente has lasted, precariously and with interruption, up to the present day.

Author : James McMillan,Professor James F Mcmillan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134589579

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France and Women, 1789-1914 by James McMillan,Professor James F Mcmillan Pdf

France and Women, 1789-1914 is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. James McMillan, author of the seminal work Housewife or Harlot, offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war. This book provides a challenging discussion of the factors which made French political culture so profoundly sexist and in particular, it shows that many of the myths about progress and emancipation associated with modernisation and the coming of mass politics do not stand up to close scrutiny. It also reveals the conservative nature of the republican left and of the ingrained belief throughout french society that women should remain within the domestic sphere. James McMillan considers the role played by French men and women in the politics, culture and society of their country throughout the 1800s.

Author : Benjamin F. Martin
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131954

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France in 1938 by Benjamin F. Martin Pdf

"When Benjamin Martin's latest report from the front of French fallibility does not read like a tragedy, whose end is foreordained, it reads like a melodrama: sensational doings punctuated by catchy melodies like 'L'Internationale' and 'La Marseillaise.' In both cases it reads well.... French life in the run-up to World War II was a gangrenous decomposition, to be followed by still worse. The country's leaders found nary a pratfall that they could avoid. They chose a semblance of peace above honor and ended up with neither.... In spite of a masterful prologue, successful synthesis, elegant concision and lucid presentation (or perhaps thanks to them), the reader can't help sharing the nation's shames. A tribute to the historian's talent." -- Eugen Weber, Phi Beta Kappa Key ReporterAt the beginning of 1938, containment of Nazi Germany by a coalition of eastern and western democracies without resorting to war was still a distinct possibility. By the end of 1938, however, Germany was much stronger, the western democracies stood alone, and war was all but certain. The primary cause for these developments, argues Benjamin F. Martin, was the foreign and domestic policies adopted by the French government and embraced by the French people. In a riveting account of the dark days leading up to France's defeat and occupation, Martin reveals a great and civilized nation committing a kind of suicide in 1938. Using movies, novels, newspapers, and sensational court cases, Martin weaves an absorbing tale of France's collective fear and melancholy during this troubled prewar period.

Author : Thomas Ap Dewi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : France
ISBN : 1499533594

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F Is For France by Thomas Ap Dewi Pdf

F is for France examines the culture, people, places and history of the land of liberty, equality, and brotherhood, answering questions you never knew that you wanted to ask. Do the French really have sex all the time? Why do they keep setting fire to things? Who first came up the idea of a tunnel linking England with the republic? Just what is the deal with hitchhiking across the country? F is for France holds the answers. Whether you're planning a summer vacation, or making preperations to relocate to Provence, F is For France is your indispensable guide to life in the republic.

Author : Paul F. State
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : France
ISBN : 0816081816

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A Brief History of France by Paul F. State Pdf

Offers a broad overview of the country's history, from the prehistoric Neanderthals to the present nation at the heart of the European Union, while also exploring the country's geography, culture, and society. --from publisher description

Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN : MINN:319510020034490

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Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliotecae Bodleianae by Bodleian Library Pdf

Author : Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462455

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The Heroines of SOE by Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott Pdf

Britain's war in the shadows of male spies and subterfuge in the heart of occupied France is a story well known, but what of the women who also risked their lives for Britain and the liberation of France? In 1942 a desperate need for new recruits, saw SOE turn to a previously overlooked group – women. These extraordinary women came from different backgrounds, but were joined in their idealistic love of France and a desire to play a part in its liberation. They formed SOE's F Section. From the famous White Mouse, Nancy Wake, to the courageous, Noor Inayat Khan, they all risked their lives for King, Country and the Resistance. Many of them died bravely and painfully, and often those who survived, like Eileen Nearne, never told their stories, yet their secret missions of intelligence-gathering and sabotage undoubtedly helped the Resistance to drive out their occupiers and free France. Here, for the first time is the extraordinary account of all forty SOE F women agents. It is a story that deserves to be read by everyone. 'They were the war's bravest women, devoted to defeating the Nazis yet reluctant ever to reveal their heroic pasts. Now a new book tells their intrepid tales.' Daily Express Squadron Leader BERYL E. ESCOTT served in the RAF and is one of the foremost experts on the women of SOE.

Author : Huddersfield College..
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Chess
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000429176

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Huddersfield College Magazine by Huddersfield College.. Pdf

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271064901

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Priests of the French Revolution by Joseph F. Byrnes Pdf

The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.

Author : Richard F. Kuisel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691161983

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The French Way by Richard F. Kuisel Pdf

How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identity There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably hegemonic." Are the French fascinated or threatened by America? They Americanize yet are notorious for expressions of anti-Americanism. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to free markets and foreign policy, this book looks closely at the conflicts and contradictions of France's relationship to American politics and culture. Richard Kuisel shows how the French have used America as both yardstick and foil to measure their own distinct national identity. They ask: how can we be modern like the Americans without becoming like them? France has charted its own path: it has welcomed America's products but rejected American policies; assailed America's "jungle capitalism" while liberalizing its own economy; attacked "Reaganomics'" while defending French social security; and protected French cinema, television, food, and language even while ingesting American pop culture. Kuisel examines France's role as an independent ally of the United States—in the reunification of Germany and in military involvement in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia—but he also considers the country's failures in influencing the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. Whether investigating France's successful information technology sector or its spurning of American expertise during the AIDS epidemic, Kuisel asks if this insistence on a French way represents a growing distance between Europe and the United States or a reaction to American globalization. Exploring cultural trends, values, public opinion, and political reality, The French Way delves into the complex relationship between two modern nations.