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The Cult of the Virgin
The Virgin Mary is a dazzling icon, frequently escaping from the Church's strict constraints. She is a symbol of faith and hope, as well as one of beauty and celebration. This book explores the many faces of the Virgin Mary around the world and the rites and ceremonies associated with her.
Village Voices
In modern France, village life revolves around the school, post office, shops, and railway stations--centers where people meet to exchange news and gossip. This visual distillation of village life in France features the viewpoints of the young adults who help keep the villages viable and thriving. 145 illustrations, 135 in color.
The French Café
Here is a wonderfully fresh and evocative look at one of France's great institutions--the cafe. Marie Francis Boyer showcases the legendary Parisian cafes--where some of the world's most celebrated philosophers, poets, and painters gathered--and also explores cafes whose architecture and decoration are part of the French heritage.
The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette
This text turns aside from the official portraits and great historical events to rediscover the private places and objects that reflect Marie Antoinettes personality and reveal her more directly to our modern gaze.
Really Rural
Text and images portray the interiors of French country homes, highlighting the functional, frugal decor of the old ways and traditional decorative arts
Cabin Fever
The search for solitude and the need to throw off the trappings of worldly life have produced some of the world's most romantic and beguiling buildings. Brought together here, they remind us of that wilder side of human nature which we all recognize and perhaps seek to nourish more.
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When the King Took Flight
On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style. The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic chapter spotlights a different segment of the population, from the king and queen as they plotted and executed their flight, to the people of Varenne...
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the often-tragic life of this often overlooked, yet profoundly impactful French actor. Baxter relates how Boyer (1899–1978) established himself in the theater and cinema of France, confidently transitioning from silent film to sound and making a name for himself as a romantic leading man in Hollywood through the early 1940s. During World War II, Boyer put his career on hold to become politically active on behalf of his occupied home country. Upon returning to the stage and screen, Boyer adapted effortlessly to postwar character roles in both Europe...
