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Cyrano

Geraldine McCaughrean

Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano love

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The Foreshadowing

Marcus Sedgwick

Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen

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The French Revolution

Nicola Barber

This book discusses the principal causes and events of the French Revolution (1789-99) and the legacy of the Revolution that was a turning point in world history.

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When in France, Do As the French Do

Ross Steele

Contains over 170 articles that provide information to travelers on the contemporary customs and cultural heritage of France, covering the arts, business, food and drink, health, language, leisure, Pa

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The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson

The author presents an historical fiction on the life and death of Marie Antoinette through a diary she leaves behind in her prison cell.

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The Oxford History of the French Revolution

William Doyle

A comprehensive history of the French Revolution that provides chronicles the events surrounding the Revolution, analyzes the impact it had on France and the rest of Europe, and profiles key figures.

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Catherine De' Medici and the Protestant Reformation

Nancy Whitelaw

This book describes the life of Catherine de Medici, whose husband assumes the throne of France as Henry II in 1547.

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Marie Antoinette and the Decline of French Monarchy

Nancy Lotz

This book describes the life of Marie Antoinette, daughter of Austria's Maria Theresa, and her marriage to Louis Auguste of France, who became Louis XVI of France in 1775.

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The Lady and the Unicorn

Tracy Chevalier

Fictional account of the lives the people from 15th-century France and Belgium who each played roles in the making of a famous tapestry.

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Eagle Strike

Anthony Horowitz

After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture

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