History, French

Across the Waves

How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio

Author: Derek W. Vaillant
Pub Date: November 2017

The static-filled history of a pioneering radio partnership between two nations learn more...

City of Noise

Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris

Author: Aimée Boutin
Pub Date: June 2015

Making sense and art of peddlers' cries on the streets of Paris learn more...

Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera

Italy's Occupation of France

Author: Emanuele Sica
Pub Date: December 2015

A vivid tableau of how occupiers and the occupied clashed and collaborated during World War Two learn more...

Mysterious Mozart

Author: Philippe Sollers
Pub Date: July 2010

An audacious portrait of Mozart's genius, available in English for the first time learn more...

Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood

Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France

Author: Christine Adams
Pub Date: August 2010

How notions of motherhood shaped the development of social welfare learn more...

Unruly Spirits

The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France

Author: M. Brady Brower
Pub Date: November 2010

A fascinating history of parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud learn more...