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

708.4361 Louvre 2011

Coco Chanel : the legend and the life /
Picardie, Justine, 1961-
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

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

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, 1921-
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 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


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