F Is for France
F Is for France

Author: Piu Marie Eatwell

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1250087732

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Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster They Eat Horses, Don't They is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage. From absinthe and catacombs to former French soccer player Zinedine Zidane, Eatwell leaves no stone unturned, taking readers off the beaten path to explore the kind of information that gets missed in guidebooks and 'official' information sources. Who could imagine, for example, that there is a village in France where UFOs are banned from landing? Or that there is a verifiable population of wild kangaroos in the forests surrounding Paris? These, and many other off-beat delights, are just some of the curiosities awaiting readers in this journey through byways and hidden treasures of this endlessly fascinating and paradoxical country. Full of the richness and variety of France beyond the platitudes, including recipes and charming illustrations, F is for France is an ideal gift book and a must-read for Francophiles and anyone with an interest in French travel and culture.

The French Way
The French Way

Author: Richard F. Kuisel

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0691151814

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Preface -- Note on anti-Americanism -- America à la mode: the 1980s -- Anti-Americanism in retreat: Jack Lang, cultural imperialism, and the anti-anti-Americans -- Reverie and rivalry: Mitterrand and Reagan-Bush -- The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds in the land of the Gauls -- Taming the hyperpower: the 1990s -- The French way: society, economy and culture in the 1990s -- The paradox of the fin de siècle: anti-Americanism and Americanization.

F Is For France
F Is For France

Author: Thomas Ap Dewi

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-05-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781499533590

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F is for France examines the culture, people, places and history of the land of liberty, equality, and brotherhood, answering questions you never knew that you wanted to ask. Do the French really have sex all the time? Why do they keep setting fire to things? Who first came up the idea of a tunnel linking England with the republic? Just what is the deal with hitchhiking across the country? F is for France holds the answers. Whether you're planning a summer vacation, or making preperations to relocate to Provence, F is For France is your indispensable guide to life in the republic.

Mission France
Mission France

Author: Kate Vigurs

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0300258844

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The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known—Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan—others have had their stories largely overlooked. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents’ missions lasted for years, others’ less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.

France and Women, 1789-1914
France and Women, 1789-1914

Author: James F. McMillan

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780415226028

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McMillan (history, U. of Edinburgh) relates how even the republican left was surprisingly conservative in its sexist ideologies for women and their roles in his exploration of French politics, culture, and society in the 19th century. He demonstrates that the ideas of progress and emancipation so prevalent at this time, and which are generally associated with the modernization of the Industrial Revolution, do not hold up to close scrutiny, particularly in relation to women's lives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

French Wines
French Wines

Author: Robert Joseph

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780789446251

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Cultured connoisseurs and novices alike will find useful and detailed profiles of hundreds of wines from every region, major vineyard, and appellation of France. Special features include a Glossary of wine terminology, an introductory section about viticulture and wine selection and storage, and a tour itinerary and food specialty for each wine-producing region.

Catholic and French Forever
Catholic and French Forever

Author: Joseph F. Byrnes

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780271027043

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In Catholic and French Forever Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress.

The Heroines of SOE
The Heroines of SOE

Author: Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2010-12-26

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0752462458

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Britain's war in the shadows of male spies and subterfuge in the heart of occupied France is a story well known, but what of the women who also risked their lives for Britain and the liberation of France? In 1942 a desperate need for new recruits, saw SOE turn to a previously overlooked group – women. These extraordinary women came from different backgrounds, but were joined in their idealistic love of France and a desire to play a part in its liberation. They formed SOE's F Section. From the famous White Mouse, Nancy Wake, to the courageous, Noor Inayat Khan, they all risked their lives for King, Country and the Resistance. Many of them died bravely and painfully, and often those who survived, like Eileen Nearne, never told their stories, yet their secret missions of intelligence-gathering and sabotage undoubtedly helped the Resistance to drive out their occupiers and free France. Here, for the first time is the extraordinary account of all forty SOE F women agents. It is a story that deserves to be read by everyone. 'They were the war's bravest women, devoted to defeating the Nazis yet reluctant ever to reveal their heroic pasts. Now a new book tells their intrepid tales.' Daily Express Squadron Leader BERYL E. ESCOTT served in the RAF and is one of the foremost experts on the women of SOE.

A Brief History of France
A Brief History of France

Author: Paul F. State

Publisher: Checkmark Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780816081813

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Offers a broad overview of the country's history, from the prehistoric Neanderthals to the present nation at the heart of the European Union, while also exploring the country's geography, culture, and society. --from publisher description

French Philosophy of Technology
French Philosophy of Technology

Author: Sacha Loeve

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-28

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 3319895184

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Offering an overall insight into the French tradition of philosophy of technology, this volume is meant to make French-speaking contributions more accessible to the international philosophical community. The first section, “Negotiating a Cultural Heritage,” presents a number of leading 20th century philosophical figures (from Bergson and Canguilhem to Simondon, Dagognet or Ellul) and intellectual movements (from Personalism to French Cybernetics and political ecology) that help shape philosophy of technology in the Francophone area, and feed into contemporary debates (ecology of technology, politics of technology, game studies). The second section, “Coining and Reconfiguring Technoscience,” traces the genealogy of this controversial concept and discusses its meanings and relevance. A third section, “Revisiting Anthropological Categories,” focuses on the relationships of technology with the natural and the human worlds from various perspectives that include anthropotechnology, Anthropocene, technological and vital norms and temporalities. The final section, “Innovating in Ethics, Design and Aesthetics,” brings together contributions that draw on various French traditions to afford fresh insights on ethics of technology, philosophy of design, techno-aesthetics and digital studies. The contributions in this volume are vivid and rich in original approaches that can spur exchanges and debates with other philosophical traditions.