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Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) France France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction France Paris German Occupation of France (1940-1945) War Underground movements World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Fiction XIV, King of France Louis 1638-1715 XIV, King of France Louis 1638-1715 DramaSummary: In 1667, the powerful king of France, Louis XIV, is but 28 years old when he decides to build Versailles, the greatest palace in the world. After draining the budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VERDumas, Alexandre
Summary: Set in the years following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, this literature classic tells the story Edmond Dantes and of personal honor and revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 LUPSummary: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRASummary: On the streets of seventeenth century Paris, law and order is an idea more than a reality. In addition to being King Louis XIII's personal bodyguards, Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and their new friend D'Artagnan, stand resolutely for social justice, honor, valor, love, and for the thrill of it all. They must fight to maintain order and protect their King and Queen against the worst intentions of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MUSSummary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUESummary: Cardinal Mazarin dies in 1661. The young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, who wants to be prime minister and is looting the treasury. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand. Louis' mistress reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAKSummary: Political turmoil and personal strife during France's most turbulent hour. Follow Charles Darney and Sydney Carton, two friends, in this epic tale of supreme sacrifice and unflinching courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty International Pub. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TALCogman, Genevieve
Summary: "The first book in a rollicking new historical-fantasy series that reinvents the French Revolution with vampires as the aristocrats, in a lively retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel from the author of the beloved Invisible Library series. It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires are a normal part of society across Europe--usually rich and aristocratic, they have slaked the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Coco Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, she wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWEFlaubert, Gustave
Summary: A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Heritage Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAFurst, Alan
Summary: "From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as "the best in the business," comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris. Paris, 1941. The City of Light, occupied by the Nazis, is dark and silent at night. Streetlamps are painted blue and apartment windows draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the Germans. But when the clouds part,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURHannah, Kristin
Summary: In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France ... but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When France is overrun, Vianne is forced to take an enemy into her house,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: "Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HEAHemmungs Wirtén, Eva
Summary: Making Marie Curie explores what went into the creation of this icon of science. It is not a traditional biography, or one that attempts to uncover the “real” Marie Curie. Rather, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, by tracing a career that spans two centuries and a world war, provides an innovative and historically grounded account of how modern science emerges in tandem with celebrity culture under the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURIE, MARIE WIRLangston-George, Rebecca
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about Virginia Hall, known as one of the most courageous spies of World War II. In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and other groups. Enter: Virginia Hall. Born on a small Maryland farm, this brilliant woman's worldly ambitions led her to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HALNorman, Diana.
Summary: Philippa risks her life to cross the Channel in France in order to save her old friend the Marquis de Condorcet from beheading during the Reign of Terror and finds love in the midst of danger and despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORRowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHSearle, Sarah Winifred
Summary: Follow Joan of Arc on her journey to convince the Dauphin to let her lead the French army in the Battle of Orleans and win the Hundred Years' War. A story of faith, courage, and determination, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the teenage French heroine -- brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SEASebba, Anne
Summary: "Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 SEBVowell, Sarah
Summary: On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 VOWSummary: The third film in the Animerama Trilogy. The setting is a village in medieval France. On the day of their wedding, Jean and Jeanne visit the lord of the village to pay a tribute. Instead of receiving the tribute, the lord and his vassals rape her, and the marriage is marked with misery and unhappiness. One day, a tiny creature visits Jeanne, an evil spirit. In time, the spirit seduces her body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tetra Media Fiction 2016