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For younger readers

Carroll, Bob. Napoleon Bonaparte. Lucent, 1994. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Corzine, Phyllis. The French Revolution. Lucent, 1995. For readers in grades 8 and up.

Gofen, Ethel C. France. Marshall Cavendish, 1992. In the Cultures of the World series, for readers in grades 5 to 7.

Ingham, Richard. France. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000. For readers in grade 7 and up.

Nardo, Don. France. Children's Press, 2000. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Ngcheong-Lum, Roseline. France. Gareth Stevens, 1999. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Otfinoski, Steven. Triumph and Terror: The French Revolution. Replica, 1999. For readers in grade 9 and up.

France: History

Agulhon, Maurice. The French Republic, 1879-1992. Blackwell, 1993.

Bell, David S.; Douglas Johnson; and Peter Morris, eds. Biographical Dictionary of French Political Leaders Since 1870. Simon & Schuster, 1990. From Napoleon III to Mitterrand; signed articles with suggestions for further reading.

Bell, P. M. H. France and Britain, 1940-1994: The Long Separation. Longman, 1997. A study of relations between France and Britain in the 20th century. Second volume of a two-volume set.

Caro, Ina. The Road from the Past: Traveling Through History in France. Doubleday, 1994. Guide to historical sites in France, including Roman ruins, cliffside monasteries, walled cities, chateaux, manors, and palaces.

Cobban, Alfred. A History of Modern France. Penguin, 1966. The standard work in English, covers 1715 to the early 1960s.

Connelly, Owen, ed. Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815. Greenwood, 1985. Articles on all aspects of the period, with references to related articles and a year-by-year chronology of events.

Duby, Georges. France in the Middle Ages. Blackwell, 1991.

Geary, Patrick. Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. Oxford University Press, 1988. Earliest history, up to 987 AD.

Jones, Colin. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Summary of French history from prehistory to the 20th century.

Kibler, William W., and others, eds. Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1995. Introduces political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, literary, and artistic history of France from the 5th to the 15th century.

Northcutt, Wayne, ed. Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991. Greenwood, 1992.

Northcutt, Wayne. The Regions of France: A Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood, 1996. Guide to the 22 regions of modern France.

Wagner, Monique. From Gaul to De Gaulle: An Outline of French Civilization. Lang, 1989. Chronological synopsis of French history from Roman times through the 1960s.

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France: Politics, Society, and Culture

Brosman, Catharine Savage, ed. Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture: French Culture 1900-1975. Gale, 1995. Primarily biographical entries present a picture of high and popular culture.

Corbett, James. Through French Windows: An Introduction to France in the Nineties. University of Michigan Press, 1994. Analysis of French civilization that examines individual and societal experiences.

Fisher, Teresa. France. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1997. General description of France, with a particular study of Beuvron-en-Auge and Aix-en-Provence. For middle school readers.

Lebovics, Herman. True France: The Wars Over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945. Cornell University Press, 1992. Study of French nationalism.

Morland, Miles. Miles Away: A Walk across France. Random House, 1993. An account of a 350-mile walk through the foothills of the Pyrenees by the author and his wife.

Northcutt, Wayne. The Regions of France: A Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood, 1996.

Rearick, Charles. The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars. Yale University Press, 1997. Study of myths and symbols of French popular culture.

French literature

Brée, Germaine. Trans. Louis Guiney. Twentieth-Century French Literature. University of Chicago Press, 1962, 1983. A general overview of modern French writing.

France, Peter, ed. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford University Press, 1995. Nearly 3,000 alphabetical entries about worldwide French language writing.

Hollier, Denis, ed. A New History of French Literature. Harvard University Press, 1989, 1994. Essays by specialists presenting an overview of French writing from 842 to the present.

Levi, Anthony. Guide to French Literature. St. James, 1992-1994. An in-depth study of major French writers and literary movements.Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1789.Vol. 2: 1789 to the present.

Unwin, Timothy, ed. Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Essays on aspects of the modern French novel.

French Revolution

Baczko, Bronislaw. Trans. Michel Petheram. Ending the Terror: The French Revolution After Robespierre. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bosher, J. F. The French Revolution. Norton, 1989. A thorough and well-illustrated study that places particular emphasis on the years prior to the outbreak of violence in 1789.

Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1989. A revisionist perspective on the French Revolution.

Dunn, Susan. Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light. Faber & Faber, 1999, 2000. Compares the causes and ideas behind the French Revolution and the American Revolution and the resulting systems of government.

Feher, Ferenc, ed. The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity. University of California Press, 1990. Collection of articles by major writers on the French Revolution.

Hibbert, Christopher. The Days of the French Revolution. Morrow, HarperCollins, 1981. 1999. Provides day-by-day coverage of the French Revolution; for general readers, with illustrations.

Lefebvre, Georges. Trans. R. R. Palmer. Coming of the French Revolution, 1789. Princeton University Press, 1947, 1989. The standard study of the French Revolution's origins, first published in 1939.

Schama, Simon. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. Random House, 1990. A revisionist perspective marking the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, complete with maps and illustrations.

Huguenots

Benedict, Philip. Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685: The Demographic Fate and Customs of a Religious Minority. American Philosophical Society, 1991.

Butler, Jon. The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in a New World Society. Harvard University Press, 1984. Follows the plight of French Protestants immigrating to America after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Cottret, B. J. Trans. Peregrine Stevenson and Adriana Stevenson. The Huguenots in England: Immigration and Settlement, 1550-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Study of the experiences of Huguenots seeking refuge from persecution in England.

Holt, Mack P. The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629. Cambridge University Press, 1995. A social history of the French and the religious factionalism that consumed this period.

Rothrock, George A. The Huguenots: A Biography of a Minority. Nelson-Hall, 1979. Introductory history of French Protestantism from 1520 to 1685.

Paris

Coles, Robert. A Traveller's History of Paris. 3rd ed. Interlink, 2003. An excellent resource for visitors to France's historic center.

Atget, Eugène. Atget: Paris. Hazan, Gingko, 1992, 1998. More than 800 of Atget's black-and-white photographs featuring Paris in the early morning.

Higonnet, Patrice. Paris: Capital of the World. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard University Press, 2002. A cultural and intellectual history of Paris from the mid-18th century to World War II.

Horne, Alistair. Seven Ages of Paris. Random House, 2002. Entertaining history of the city of lights.

Karnow, Stanley. Paris in the Fifties. Times, Crown, 1997. 1999. The author's story of his early years in Paris.

Poisson, Michel, and John Goodman. Paris: Buildings and Monuments: An Illustrated Guide with over 850 Drawings and Neighborhoods Maps. Abrams, 1999. A wonderfully illustrated tour of the City of Lights.

Trout, Andrew P. City on the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV. St. Martin's, 1996. Focuses on the river and its influence on Parisian society.

Weinreb, Matthew, and Fiona Biddulph. Paris: Portrait of a City. Phaidon, 1999. A visual essay on Parisian monuments and icons.

Willms, Johannes. Paris, Capital of Europe: From the Revolution to the Belle Epoque. Holmes & Meier, 1997, 2002. A history of Paris from 1789 to 1914.

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