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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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

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

Voltaire : a biography
Mason, Haydn Trevor.
Paper Book

848.5 V88ym

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

Saving Mona Lisa : the battle to protect the Louvre and its treasures from the Nazis
Chanel, Gerri
Paper Book
A compelling true story of art and beauty, intrigue and ingenuity, and remarkable moral courage in the darkest of times.

944.0816 Chanel 2018


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