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Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne
by I M Stead, J-L Flouest and Valery Rigby
This volume reports on the excavation of a series of six Iron Age cemeteries
in Champagne, France: Ménil-Annelles, Ville-sur-Retourne, Juniville, Alincourt,
Saulces-Champenoises and Quilly. All the Champagne cemeteries were located by
their distinctive ditched enclosures which served as the focus of each burial
group. The excavations were conducted by a French-British team of archaeologists
between 1971 and 1982. In ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$100.00, Our Price US$29.98
Recipes from Corsica
by Rolli Lucarotti
Corsican specialties range from many different types of charcuterie to a light curd cheese called Bruccio that is used in many dishes or eaten fresh. The islanders have all the resources of the sea, and of wild mountains and forest at their doorstep, so fish and game are widely available. Traditional recipes have been sought out and are given here in cookable detail. There is much about pigs and goats and lamb, some wonderful soups and ...
Paperback. Price US$24.95
Mourjou: The Life and Food of an Auvergne Village
by Peter Graham
This classic account of life, food and cookery in a village in the Auvergne by a long-tome British resident is here published in paperback. It was first published in hardback by Viking in 1998. The remarkable fusion between life, the produce of the countryside and the food on the table that is Auvergne continues as it has done fore generations. The season dictate the rhythm of activity on the filed and the kitchen as well as the relationships ...
Paperback. Price US$27.00
Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Culture: Wealth, Knowledge and the Family
by Andrew J. Counter
The transmission of wealth between generations was not only a narrative commonplace in nineteenth-century France, but also a topic of considerable cultural anxiety and intense political debate. In this study, Andrew J. Counter draws on a wealth of previously unexplored material to show how the theme of inheritance in literature and beyond acquired ethical, historical and ideological connotations, and was vital to nineteenth-century French ...
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Les fouilles du Yaudet en Ploulec'h, Cotes-d'Armor, volume 3: Le site: du quatrième siècle apr. J.-C. à aujourd'hui
by Barry Cunliffe and Patrick Galliou
The third volume of the Le Yaudet excavation reports deals with the later history of the site from the fourth century AD to the present day. The site was reoccupied at the end of the Roman period, serving as a military enclave. It may well have received migrants from Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries when the settlement developed as an ecclesiastical centre, surrounded by fields. Occupation continued into the early medieval period. There ...
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Les fouilles du Yaudet en Ploulec'h, Cotes-d'Armor
edited by Barry Cunliffe and Patrick Galliou
Le Yaudet is a promontory of granite commanding the estuary of the river Léguer down-river from the modern town of Lannion (Côtes d'Armor). It has long been known as the 'Old Town' (Civitas vetus in Latin documents and Coz Yaudet in Breton) and Iron Age, Roman and medieval finds have been made from time to time over the last two centuries. A programme of research excavations began in 1991 and continued annually until 2002. The results ...
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Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror
by Richard J Hand and Michael Wilson
The Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897-1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the "Theatre of Horror", a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was employed to treat the numerous spectators who fainted each night. Indeed the phrase grand guignol has reentered the language to describe any display of heightened remorseless horror. This reconsiders the importance and influence of the ...
Between Totem and Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in francographic
Little, R
Hardback. Price US$85.00
Early French Cookery
by Eleanor and Terence Scully
Describes the food prepared for wealthy French households at the end of the Middle Ages, with over 100 recipes and instructions for preparing them. 330p (Michigan UP 1996)
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France in Ruins - Buildings in Decay
by Simon O'Corra
France in Ruins presents a spellbinding collection of evocative black-and-white pictures of ruined buildings in France: churches, town houses and castles. The magic of ruins is unmistakeable. They have the power to appall and transfix us. No two ruins are the same and this book shows but a small sample of those that exist in France. Ruins exist to captivate us and this book reveals their history, the causes
for their development and ...
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