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

The last baron : the Paris kidnapping that brought down an empire
Sancton, Thomas
Paper Book
Beginning in 1896, the first Baron Empain built both the Paris Metro and an empire from France to Belgian to Egypt that his grandson, Edouard (aka Wado) would inherit, diversify, and expand in the 1960s and 70s. But by 1978, the world had turned against industry and wealth, with high-profile...

362.8297 Sancton 2022

L'appart : the delights and disasters of making my Paris home
Lebovitz, David
Paper Book
Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes...

641.5092 Lebovitz 2017

Bruno's cookbook : recipes and traditions from a French country kitchen
Walker, Martin
Paper Book
From the author of the internationally best-selling "Bruno, Chief of Police" series, comes a sumptuous French cookbook that immerses readers in the delectable countryside cuisine of Bruno's beloved Périgord region, featuring favorite meals from Roasted Tomato Tapenade and Tarragon Chicken to...

641.5944 Walker 2023

The art of French pastry
Pfeiffer, Jacquy.
Paper Book
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER * Experience the magic of French baking and elevate your pastry skills to new heights with this invaluable guide from the award-winning pastry chef and co-founder of the renowned French Pastry School. What does it take to perfect a...

641.865 P476 2013

Ageless beauty the french way: secrets from three generations of french beauty editors
Von mueffling, Clemence.
Paper Book
"A magical guide." --Aerin Lauder, Founder & Creative Director of AERIN and Style & Image Director of Estée Lauder From three generations of French beauty experts, Ageless Beauty the French Way is the ultimate book of tips, products, practices and French beauty secrets in...

646.726 Von Mueffling 2018

Notre-Dame : a short history of the meaning of cathedrals
Follett, Ken
Paper Book
"The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. The feeling was bewildering, as if the earth was...

726.64 Follett 2019

The Cartiers : the untold story of the family behind the jewelry empire
Brickell, Francesca Cartier
Paper Book
"A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark."--The Economist The captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their...

739.2709 Cartier Brickell 2019

Coco Chanel : the legend and the life
Picardie, Justine.
Paper Book
In Coco Chanel, Justine Picardie peels away the layers of romance and myth surrounding the legend of Coco Chanel, revealing the true history of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Picardie's unprecedented research illuminates Chanel's path from...

746.92 C36yp 2010

The novel of the century : the extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables
Bellos, David
Paper Book
Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information about the book's origins and later career on stage and screen,...

843.7 Hugo Bellos 2017

The art of resistance : my four years in the French underground : a memoir
Rosenberg, Justus
Paper Book
"Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground." --USA Today An American Library in Paris Book Award "Coups de Coeur" Selection The Art of Resistance is unlike any World War...

940.5318 Rosenberg, Justus Rosenberg 202

France : an adventure history
Robb, Graham
Paper Book
A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion--by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France...

944 Robb 2022

Napoleon : the decline and fall of an empire : 1811-1821
Broers, Michael
Paper Book
*A KIRKUS BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2022* An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life--from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile--as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble...

944.05 Napoleon Broers 2022

Saving Mona Lisa : the battle to protect the Louvre and its treasures from the Nazis
Chanel, Gerri
Paper Book
In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the...

944.0816 Chanel 2018

Eiffel's tower : and the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the artists quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a count
Jonnes, Jill
Paper Book
Since it opened in May 1889, the Eiffel Tower has become an iconic image of modern times - as much a beacon of technological progress as an enduring symbol of Paris and French culture. But as engineer Gustave Eiffel built the now-famous landmark to be the spectacular centrepiece of the 1889 World's...

944.361 Jonnes 2009

My Paris dream : an education in style, slang, and seduction in the great city on the Seine
Betts, Kate
Paper Book
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

When Paris sizzled : the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends
McAuliffe, Mary Sperling
Paper Book
When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Ann es folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them--one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of...

944.361 M119 2016

The other Paris
Sante, Luc.
Paper Book
A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the...

944.361 Sa59 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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