Ooh La La! Celebrate France

Celebrate everything French with these books as well as recognizing Bastille day on July 14.

Updated June 9, 2025
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
Sebba, Anne
Paper Book
"Anne Sebba has the nearly miraculous gift of combining the vivid intimacy of the lives of women during The Occupation with the history of the time. This is a remarkable book." --Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes ...

305.4094 Se21 2016

Hero of two worlds : the Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Duncan, Mike
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the "immensely compelling" (The New York...

355.0092 Lafayette Duncan 2021

Coco Chanel : the legend and the life
Picardie, Justine.
Paper Book
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is one of the twentieth century's most captivating personalities and a defining figure in fashion history. Yet whoever attempts to understand Chanel's life is confronted by countless myths, half-truths and rumours. In this book Justine Picardie discovers the woman behind the...

746.92 C36yp 2010

Monet : the restless vision
Wullschla?ger, Jackie
Paper Book
A groundbreaking look at the life and art of one of the most influential, modern painters of the late nineteenth century and founder of the Impressionist movement "Wullschläger emerges with a strikingly different picture of the artist. Passionate, prickly, edgy and unstable, her...

759.4 Monet Wullschlager 2024

Rick Steves best of France
Steves, Rick
Paper Book
Hit France's can't-miss art, sights, and bites in two weeks or less with Rick Steves Best of France! Inside you'll find: Strategic advice from Rick Steves on what's worth your time and money Short itineraries covering the best of Paris, Normandy,...

914.4 Steves 2023

Eiffel's tower : and the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the artists quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a count
Jonnes, Jill
Audiobook
Eiffel's Tower

944.361 Jonnes 2009

My Paris dream : an education in style, slang, and seduction in the great city on the Seine
Betts, Kate
Ebook
A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper's Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style "You can always come back," my mother...

944.361 B466 2015

All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
Sizlo, Natasha
Paper Book
"This one brims with magic... An absolute page-turner and joy to read!-- Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author A surprising astrology reading sends Natasha Sizlo--divorced, broke, freshly heartbroken, and reeling from her father's death--on an unexpected but magical...

944.361 Sizlo Sizlo 2022


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