Ooh La La! Celebrate France

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

Updated July 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

Vino business : the cloudy world of French wine
Saporta, Isabelle
Paper Book
Already provoking debate and garnering significant attention in France and within the wine world, Vino Business is a surprising and eye-opening book about the dark side of French wine, by acclaimed investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta. While Bordeaux has been a bastion of winemaking...

338.7663 Sa68 2015

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

Modern bistro : home cooking inspired by French classics
Paper Book
Why eat out? Bring home the bistro and make your table the delicious place everyone wants to linger, with more than 150 classic and modern dishes to share. Bistro cooking is intimate and inviting, rustic yet casually elegant. America's Test Kitchen brings you recipes that will...

641.5 Modern 2022

L'appart : the delights and disasters of making my Paris home
Lebovitz, David
Ebook
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

The Louvre : all the paintings
Lessing, Erich.
Paper Book
Immerse yourself in the wonder and dazzling display of the 3,000 paintings in the permanent collection of the Louvre in this this elegant paperback edition of the New York Times bestselling book The Louvre: All the Paintings.   The Louvre is the most...

708.4361 Louvre 2011

Paris and her cathedrals
Bloch, R. Howard
Paper Book
"So infectious is R. Howard Bloch's passion for his subject that even those unable to do the traveling required will find in Paris and Her Cathedrals an inspiring guide to these time-hallowed masterpieces of medieval culture." -Colin Jones, author of Paris and The Great Nation Over the...

726.64 Bloch 2022

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...
Une femme française : the seductive style of French women
Malandrino, Catherine
Paper Book
All American women aspire to have the nonchalant style and grace of French women, thatje ne sais quoi that makes all of their habits seem natural and effortless. InUne Femme Française,fashion designer Catherine Malandrino, a Frenchwoman who has lived and worked in the US for twenty...

746.92 Malandrino 2017

Coco Chanel : the legend and the life
Picardie, Justine
Paper Book
Filled with fresh new research and never-before-seen photos, this updated edition of the definitive biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Coco Chanel was an...

746.92 C36yp 2010

The new French look
Li, Lauren
Paper Book
Discover what makes amodern French interior andhow to achieve it inyour own home. Trends comes and go, but French interiors, old or new, never go out of style. The new French look is spirited and fresh, layered but never fussy, effortless yet always chic. It confidently uses elements...

747.0944 Li 2024

French country cottage Christmas
Allison, Courtney (Blogger)
Paper Book
Christmas decorating maven Courtney Allison shows how to create a cosy and aspirational French country Christmas style wherever you are. Celebrate the season in cosy French Country Cottage style with luscious photography and a plethora of inspiration and ideas for trees in themes from...

747.93 Allison 2023

Monet : the restless vision
Wullschläger, Jackie
Paper Book
In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Yet behind this great and famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man, largely unknown. Jackie Wullschl ger's...

759.4 Monet Wullschlager 2024

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 rough guide to France
Cook, Samantha
Paper Book
This practical travel guide to France features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and expert author picks of things to see and do will make it a perfect...

914.4 Rouch 2023

The Napoleonic Wars : a global history
Mikaberidze, Alexander
Paper Book
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and...

940.27 Mikaberidze 2020


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

The lost paratroopers of Normandy : a story of resistance, courage, and solidarity in a French village
Rabe, Stephen G.
Paper Book
The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy tells the inspiring yet heartbreaking story...

940.5449 Rabe 2023

France : an adventure history
Robb, Graham
Paper Book
Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb's France combines the stylistic versatility of a...

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

Paris 1944 : occupation, resistance, liberation
Bishop, Patrick
Paper Book
A moving, dramatic social history of the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the most inspiring and momentous events of the twentieth century. The Sunday Times (London) bestseller The fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was one of the darkest...

944.361 Bishop 2024

The revolutionary temper : Paris, 1748-1789
Darnton, Robert
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim. When a Parisian crowd stormed the...

944.361 Darnton 2023

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 Années 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...

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

Mutinous women : how French convicts became founding mothers of the Gulf Coast
DeJean, Joan E.
Paper Book
The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with...

976.02 DeJean 2022


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