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  • Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train

    Traveling through French History by Train

    de Ina Caro ...
    “I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with ?Henry Adams or Henry James.”—NewsweekIn one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness ... Leer más

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  • The Road from the Past

    de Ina Caro ...
    The Road from the Past is a unique new way of looking at France, looking at history, and looking at travel. In it, Ina Caro takes us on an unforgettable tour of France, traveling north through its beautiful regions and chronologically through its colorful history.We start in Provence, where the Roman Empire held sway, and then go to Languedoc to visit the sites that marked the Age of Faith ... Leer más

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  • The Enlightenment

    The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

    A magisterial work of intellectual history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the ... Leer más

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  • The Seine

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  • The Regency Years

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  • Cosmos

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