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DAE1219	Changing Paris: a Tour along the Seine ISBN: 9781892041210 ISBN10: 1892041219. Written by: P Trager. 117pp., hardcover. Take a stroll along the Seine with internationally-acclaimed photographer Philip Trager, who beautifully captures the juxtaposition of ancient statues and modern urban landscape in classical black-and-white. Visit the Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France François Mitterand, Opéra Bastille, and many others. Insightful essays explore the architectural and historical and...	$19.95 Add:
HA4631	Etes-vous Un Vrai Francais? ISBN: 9782246406914 ISBN10: 2246406919. Written by: M Mashino. Softcover, 250 pp. The author of this work has written many provocative essays concerning France and French people. This book answers many questions about the true identity of French people, using interviews with citizens from many of the cultures that make up France today	$44.95 Add:
AC1596	Histoire du Cinema Francais ISBN: 9782200271596 ISBN10: 220027159X. Written by: JP Jeancolas. Softcover, 128 pp.. This is a brief guide to important French film directors ranging from Méliès, Pialat to Garrel and from L'Herbier to Bresson and Goddard, and movements, starting with the silent film 1896 through 1994. You will also find a detailed bibliography of publications on the history of the film.	$24.95 Add:
STK9166	Mon Afrique: Photographs of Sub-Saharan Africa ISBN: 9780893819163 ISBN10: 0893819166. Written by: P Maitre. Hardcover, 159pp. Luxuriantly vibrant photographs transport you to an Africa of varying topographies, including: lush emerald forests, golden deserts, violet and quietly majestic mountain peaks. This moving visual landscape portrays the varities of life in Africa: a newborn baby's first breaths in the midst of war, the laughing young students running in the rain with banana leaves, the courage of a young man's escape through...	$29.95 Add:
SS4134	THE ESSENCE OF STYLE ISBN: 9780743264136 ISBN10: 0743264134. Louis XIV, became the supreme authority of France chic, a position from which France has never retired. His vanity, and opulent court led to growth in the manufacturing of fine clothing and shoes, and the invention of shops in which to buy them, and to celebrity cuisine, cafes and Champagne. "King Louis was enthralled by glitter, which increased the diamond trade; and the first night streetlights (hence the 'City of Lights'). Louis also abhorred mud (so...	$21.95 Add:
DAE3249	The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-garde 1 ISBN: 9780813523248 ISBN10: 0813523249. Written by: P Cate. 253 pp., Softcover. Explore the artistic and intellectual environment of Montmartre, which spawned the original avant-garde groups of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, as well as important writers and composers, including Mallarmé, Zola, Huysmans, Debussy, and Satie. Playful illustrations and theatre posters accompany this droll look at the artists' life in Montmartre	$19.95 Add: