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The lives of French teenagers cant be summed up in a one-size-fits-all description. Some young people are immersed in a rich heritage of formal education, gourmet foods, and high fashion, while others face daily tensions, poor living conditions, and discrimination.Yet despite these differences, there are certain experiences that French teens share with each other and with teens in other countries. Teens in France is part of Global Connections, a series that uncovers the challenges, pastimes, and customs of teens around the world. ... Read more

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What's it like to live in France? Looking at Countries takes you on a tour so you can find out about the landscape, the weather, the people and the places. With maps and large photos, this colourful series provides lots of information about countries around the world. ... Read more

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· Where to stay and eat on a budget--hundreds of choices
· Great money-saving tips, including when to go and the best ways to save money when dining
· Historic towns, scenic rail routes, works of art, churches and abbeys, streets and squares, and more--what's worth the money and what's not
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A study of settlement patterns in southern France concentrating on the sites themselves and the faunal assemblages. Chapters on the middle Palaeolithic environment of southern France, faunal assemblage patterning, site location, and subsistence strategies. ... Read more

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Chapters: French Riviera, Geography of Corsica, Geography of French Guiana, Geography of French Polynesia, Geography of Guadeloupe, Geography of Lyon, Geography of Martinique, Geography of Oise, Geography of Paris, Geography of Réunion, Geography of Saint Barthélemy, Seine, Axe Historique, Demographics of Martinique, Demographics of French Guiana, Grasse, Brignoles, Mount Pelée, Du Battant Des Lames Au Sommet Des Montagnes, Menton, Fortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Mines of Paris, List of Boulevards Named After Marshals of France, Antibes, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Diamond Rock, Wall of Philip Ii Augustus, Paris, Villefranche-Sur-Mer, Grand-Hôtel Du Cap-Ferrat, Demographics of Paris, Bassin de La Villette, Hyères, Île de La Cité, Marie-Galante, Chapelle Du Rosaire de Vence, Guadeloupe National Park, Canal de L'ourcq, City Walls of Paris, Saint-Maximin-La-Sainte-Baume, Canal Saint-Denis, Saint-Tropez, Basse-Terre Island, Paris Meridian, Hell-Bourg, Fréjus, Thiers Wall, Grand Paris, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Canal Saint-Martin, Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Gardens of Provence-Alpes-Côte D'azur, Wall of Charles V, Paris, Sanary-Sur-Mer, Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Nice, Beaulieu-Sur-Mer, La Turbie, Cirque de Mafate, Grande-Terre, Bassin de L'arsenal, Juan-Les-Pins, Île Du Levant, Urban Community of Lyon, Hans-Georg Tersling, Villa Leopolda, Îles Tuamotu-Gambier, Sospel, Île Des Cygnes, Île Saint-Louis, La Grande Soufrière, Tumuk Humak Mountains, Îles Des Saintes, Bièvre, le Cannet, Draguignan, Compiègne Forest, Strait of Bonifacio, Roquebrune-Sur-Argens, Cantons of the Réunion Department, Paris Aire Urbaine, Monte Cinto, Arrondissement of Saint-Martin-Saint-Barthélemy, Carbet Falls, Plan de Turgot, Cavallo, Topography of Paris, Rue de Vaugirard, Rive Gauche, Moulin de Mougins, Petite Terre Islands, Réunion Hotspot, Plan de Mérian, Isle Louvier, Paris, Nellcôte, Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, La Savane, Cap Ferrat, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=266388 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (French: Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon) is a group of small French islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, the main islands being Saint Pierre and Miquelon, south of the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador. The islands are as close as 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Green Island, part of Newfoundland. The archipelago is the only remnant of the former colonial empire of New France that remains under French control. ... Read more

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Chapters: German Exonyms. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 204. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wikipedia articles may have only one unique title; the use of the current title does not imply an endorsement of that title. Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page.(August 2008) Below is a list of German language exonyms for towns and villages in the French département of Moselle. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5390782 ... Read more

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This volume takes the reader from the first conquests of ancient Gaul through the Renaissance, the turmoil and triumph of the French Revolution, and on through the 20th century of French history, right up to the present day. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Good Prep Work
A useful book that is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in France's history.A good introduction to an enormous topic - it serves the purpose.However, if you are looking for a detailed, in depth, insightful history of France or a guide book, this is not the book to buy... and it doesn't claim to be.

interesting topic, poorly handled
The text is poorly written - often it is unclear who the author is even referring to.For example, "he died a year later."Well. . . . who??Many such examples where if you don't already know the history, you may feel a bit lost.

Quick & Dirty
When I travel I like to read the historic markers and understand the significance of what I am seeing.If I don't have a clue about the context ("the what dynasty was when?") I tend to feel lost and frustrated. Typically, I don't have the time in the weeks before my trip to digest an eight volume history of a country but would like a high level view of the important people, periods and events in the country's history. "A Traveller's History France" perfectly fit that bill.

Some of the features I liked are a list of all the French kings and their linneage, a timeline with all the relevant events and an alphabetical list of major events and battles. The writing is lucid, succinct as well as funny and opinionated. In this kind of book its important to convey a sense and a feel of entire century in the space of a paragraph and to stay connected to the larger political and social themes imbedded in the historical minutae.Robert Cole does this quite well.

The biggest negative for me is that half the book focuses on the last two hundred years and that is the period of French History I know best.I would have enjoyed more of a discussion of the rise of the monarchy, the British influence in France because of the various invasions and a richer discussion of the religious wars in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Boring...
The subject is not definetely boring but this book is. Why? the relation of events are handled poorly, daily life is not written, the place of France in Europe in terms of political status or economical status is not written. It is like a reference book giving the dates and people names, who married to whom, who administered what part of country. This is definetely not history. I am still looking for a good book on France's history.

A Wonderful Subject Poorly Handled
This is a good example of how NOT to write history. In about 200 pages we have a brief over-view of the whole history of France. Unfortunately, Cole tries to say too much--too many names and dates. In order to get all his names in Cole has little room left to explain anything important about history: wars "break-out" and artists "come to" Paris. Why any of this happens is without explanation.
Even for the traveller with a passing interest in the history of France, this book in inadequate. There is no special attention paid to places of interest to travellers; there is little mention of the great artists and cultural figures of France, and the history included in often written in an uninspired manner that will bore most readers.
If you are going to France and what some history, look elsewhere. ... Read more

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Chapters: Saône, Lithographic Limestone, Thouet, A86 Autoroute, Francilienne, List of Canals in France, Cévennes National Park, Rue de Richelieu, Pletzl, Rue Saint-Honoré, Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Avenue de L'opéra, Gres de Saint-Chinian, Calais, Périphérique, Rue Saint-Séverin, Paris, Rue Mouffetard, Paris, Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, Astarac, Sables et Gres a Trigonia Gibbosa, Bidasoa-Txingudi, A54 Autoroute, Marnes Rouges Inferieures, Perche, Place Saint-Sulpice, Gres de Labarre Formation, Guard Stone, Rue Des Francs-Bourgeois, A85 Autoroute, Paris Aire Urbaine, Alpes Cottiae, Canal de L'est, Rue Des Rosiers, Overseas Region, Passage Des Panoramas, Boulevard Des Pyrénées, Alpes Poeninae, Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne, Rue de Montmorency, Rue de La Paix, Paris, A1 Autoroute, Franc-Lyonnais, Zone Rouge, Rue Zadkine, Rue Pierre Charron, Paris, Rue Du Chat-Qui-Pêche, Avenue Foch, Hiru Erregeen Mahaia, Ratonneau, Quai André-Citroën, Place Du Colonel Fabien, Calcaire à Spatangues, Argiles à Plicatules, Port Du Louvre, Boulevard de La Madeleine, Grès et Sables Piquetés, Rue Montorgueil, Truyère, Canton of Annot, Pic de Médécourbe, Argiles Ostréennes, Mont Agel, Promenade de La Croisette, Canal de L'aisne à La Marne, Quai D'orsay, Alpes Maritimae, Thérain, Tremblay Park, Rue Adolphe Mille, Paris, Chemin de La Mâture, Association of Vologne Valley Communes, Pic Sans Nom, Pyrénées - Mont Perdu World Heritage Site, Passage Du Havre, the Regordane Way, Boulevard de La Zone, Mont-Terrible, Rue Royale, Paris, Rue de Nesle, Gr 36, Chamechaude, Rhône-rhine Canal, Marnes de Bleville, Rue D'alésia, Haut-Armagnac, Rue Dauphine, Île de La Jatte, Gr 9, Gr 72, Gr 4, Gr 42, Gr 71, Gr 44, Gorges Du Tarn, Saint-Étienne - Gorges de La Loire Nature Reserve, Dive, Rue de Solférino, Ile Des Juifs, Reyssouze, Petite Champagne, Rocca Bernauda, Place Du Louvre, Neuilly-Sur-Seine Community Cemetery, Buron, Quai François Mitterrand, Square Montholon, Au...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20599049 ... Read more

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This essay reveals how a section of France's geographical movement sought to influence the Vichy governments that came to power after the Nazi invasion of France in the summer of 1940. The investigation focuses on the Societe de Geographie Commerciale de Paris (SGCP), an offshoot of the older Societe de Geographie de Paris (SGP). During the inter-war years, the SGCP become closely associated with the right-wing values of its president, the prominent anthropologist-geographer and politician Louis Marin. After 1940, the SGCP was relaunched as a geopolitical 'think-tank' and sought to persuade the authorities in Vichy that an extra-European dimension should be injected into the domestic programmes for national rejuvenation. The history of the SGCP demonstrates how commercial geography could be hijacked by a right-wing, and ultimately quasi-fascist economic imperialism, while the internecine struggles between the leading personalities in the society after 1945 exemplify the moral and intellectual complexities of collaboration and resistance in occupied Europe. ... Read more

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At the time of the French Revolution, France had expandedto nearly her modern territorial limits. The nineteenthcentury would complete the process by the annexation of theDuchy of Savoy and the city of Nice (first during the FirstEmpire, and then definitively in 1860) and some small papal(like Avignon) and foreign possessions. France'sterritorial limits were greatly extended during the Empirethrough Napoléon Bonaparte's military conquests and re- organization of Europe, but these were reversed by theVienna Congress. With the French defeat in the Franco- Prussian War of 1870, France lost her provinces of Alsaceand portions of Lorraine to Germany (see Alsace-Lorraine);these lost provinces would only be regained at the end ofWorld War I. In 1830 France invaded Algeria, and in 1848this north African country was fully integrated into Franceas a département. The late nineteenth century saw Franceembark on a massive program of overseas imperialism ?including French Indochina (modern day Cambodia, Vietnamand Laos) and Africa (the Scramble for Africa broughtFrance most of North-West and Central Africa) ? whichbrought it in direct competition with British interests. ... Read more

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Chapters: Place Du Tertre, Val-D'oise, Val-De-Marne, Île-De-France, Aubervilliers, Suresnes, Grand Paris, Canal Saint-Martin, Parc André Citroën, Asnières-Sur-Seine, Châtenay-Malabry, Maisons-Alfort, L'haÿ-Les-Roses, Fontenay-Sous-Bois, le Raincy, Bassin de L'arsenal, Bobigny, Arcueil, Promenade Plantée, Chennevières-Sur-Marne, Drancy, Cachan, Champigny-Sur-Marne, Champ de Mars, Paris, Alfortville, Villejuif, Épinay-Sur-Seine, Bois de Vincennes, Gennevilliers, le Plessis-Robinson, Pierrefitte-Sur-Seine, Rungis, Noisy-Le-Grand, Saint-Mandé, Mairie de Saint-Ouen, Quartier Pigalle, le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, Charenton-Le-Pont, Bondy, Clamart, Livry-Gargan, Gentilly, Val-De-Marne, Parc de La Villette, le Bourget, Ville-D'avray, Romainville, Chevilly-Larue, L'île-Saint-Denis, Villeneuve-La-Garenne, Bagnolet, Ménilmontant, Chaville, Choisy-Le-Roi, Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, Neuilly-Sur-Marne, Les Lilas, Villemomble, Malakoff, Vanves, Vaucresson, Les Pavillons-Sous-Bois, Villetaneuse, Fresnes, Val-De-Marne, le Plessis-Trévise, Stains, Saint-Denis - Porte de Paris, Maison de La Photographie Robert Doisneau, Neuilly-Plaisance, Saint-Maurice, Val-De-Marne, Châtillon, Hauts-De-Seine, Montfermeil, Bièvre, Chamarande, Villiers-Sur-Marne, Gournay-Sur-Marne, Sevran, Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, Rosny-Sous-Bois, Guy Môquet, Dugny, Guard Stone, Gagny, Thiais, Joinville-Le-Pont, La Queue-En-Brie, Bagneux, Hauts-De-Seine, Arboretum de L'école Du Breuil, Jardin Des Serres D'auteuil, Ormesson-Sur-Marne, Orly, Marolles-En-Brie, Val-De-Marne, Bourg-La-Reine, Bois-Colombes, Goutte D'or, le Perreux-Sur-Marne, Garches, Pont National, Noisy-Le-Sec, Parc Arboretum de Montfermeil, Villeneuve-Le-Roi, Topography of Paris, Valenton, Coubron, Jardin Botanique de L'école Nationale Vétérinaire D'alfort, Transilien Paris - Saint-Lazare, Limeil-Brévannes, Bonneuil-Sur-Marne, Sucy-En-Brie, Périgny, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6064339 ... Read more

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Chapters: Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy, Mata-Utu, Port-Aux-Français, Marigot, Saint Martin, L'espérance Airport, Îlots Des Apôtres, Gustaf Iii Airport, Saint-Pierre Airport, Alo, Miquelon, Miquelon-Langlade, Miquelon Airport, Arrondissement of Saint-Martin-Saint-Barthélemy, Langlade Island, Alofi Island, Golfe Du Morbihan, Mont Ross, Sigave, Pointe Vele Airport, L'île-Aux-Marins, Île Tintamarre, Courbet Peninsula, Alfred Faure, Pointe Aux Cannon Battery, Morne Du Vitet, Hoorn Islands, Hihifo Airport, Sss Islands, Boomerang Seamount, Miquelon Island, Morne de La Grande Montagne, Île Foch, Pic Paradis, Île Saint-Lanne Gramont, Saint Pierre Island, La Dune, Baie Norvégienne, Simpson Bay Lagoon, Mont Singavi, Saint-Barthélemy Channel, Martin-De-Viviès, Île Howe, Îles Boynes, Hahake District, Presqu'île Ronarc'h, List of Cities in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Kerguelen Hotspot, Cook Glacier, Péninsule Rallier Du Baty, Île de L'est, Anguilla Channel, List of Rivers of Saint Martin, Grand Colombier, Leava, Grand Barachois, Mala'e, Kolofau. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 127. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The SSS-islands consist of: Saba, Sint Maarten, and Sint Eustatius, are all parts of the Netherlands Antilles. The French overseas département of Saint-Martin, which occupies part of the island of Saint Martin, is sometimes, but not always, counted as part of the SSS-islands. The acronym is analogous to the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, all of which are also either currently or formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5385390 ... Read more

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Title: The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War.(Book review)
Author: Janet D. Stone
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2009
Publisher: Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc.
Volume: 71Issue: 3Page: 663(2)

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Title: Le Promeneur a Paris au XVIIIe siecle.(The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War)(Book review)
Author: Joseph A. Amato
Publication: Journal of Social History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: Journal of Social History
Volume: 43Issue: 2Page: 488(4)

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Saint Helena. History of Saint Helena, Napoleon I of France,Geography of Saint Helena, Politics of Saint Helena,Demographics of Saint Helena, Economy of Saint Helena,Transport on Saint Helena, Wildlife of Saint Helena and itsdependencies, Flora of St Helena, Anglican Diocese of SaintHelena, Governor of Saint Helena ... Read more