Footloose in France
Author | : Horace Sutton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
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Guidebook to post-war France.
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Author | : Horace Sutton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Guidebook to post-war France.
Author | : John Adamson |
Publisher | : John Adamson Dist A/C |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781898565185 |
- A living picture of a France gone by - Affords glimpses of the worlds of film, art, banking, wine-making, dining, and language teaching - Tales set in Paris and the western Pyrenees The book begins by the North Sea. It is a late summer's afternoon, and a bright sun has dispersed the greyness of the day. Two Englishmen are enjoying a swim off the Essex coast when all at once both have the feeling that they are back at the French seaside. They find themselves starting to tell each other of their youthful experiences of living in France. The adventures they narrate follow one after another like waves rolling onto the shore. Clive, coming from London, had found himself spending a year deep in the French countryside within sight of the western Pyrenees; John, hailing from Devon, had ended up living for a while in the City of Light within sight of the Folies Bergère. Outsiders though they were, they momentarily became part of French society, their adventures fuelled by the culinary delights of their adopted land. They tell their tales with humor and relish as they recall their initiation into the French way of life of decades ago - and how it shaped their own.
Author | : Kosti Simons |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2021-12-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1669885054 |
Not many people would contemplate a 1500 km barefoot stroll along the highways and byways of France and Spain, but that is what the author did. Why? After a conversion to Christianity at age 50 he felt the Lord was calling him to do it. And he describes the experience along the centuries-old pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela as the foremost experience of his life. It took 111 footloose days. On the way he tape-recorded his journey for his wife in Australia, and he has used the 12 tapes so made as the basis of this account. Pilgrims in the days of his walk were rare creatures, and he felt the need with others to revive the spirit of pilgrimage. He founded the not-for-profit Pilgrims International, and led groups a biblical 40 days from the French Pyrenees to Santiago. Just one year before Covid-19 flattened the world, over 300,000 pilgrims arrived in Santiago. What may lift this book from the pedestrian, so to speak, into the heavenlies, are the dialogues Kosti has with Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Author | : Brian Angus McKenzie |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845451547 |
Offers a historical case study by examining the Marshall Plan as the form of public diplomacy of the United States in France after World War Two.
Author | : Kosti Simons |
Publisher | : Xlibris Au |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2021-12-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781669885061 |
Not many people would contemplate a 1500 km barefoot stroll along the highways and byways of France and Spain, but that is what the author did. Why? After a conversion to Christianity at age 50 he felt the Lord was calling him to do it. And he describes the experience along the centuries-old pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela as the foremost experience of his life. It took 111 footloose days. On the way he tape-recorded his journey for his wife in Australia, and he has used the 12 tapes so made as the basis of this account. Pilgrims in the days of his walk were rare creatures, and he felt the need with others to revive the spirit of pilgrimage. He founded the not-for-profit Pilgrims International, and led groups a biblical 40 days from the French Pyrenees to Santiago. Just one year before Covid-19 flattened the world, over 300,000 pilgrims arrived in Santiago. What may lift this book from the pedestrian, so to speak, into the heavenlies, are the dialogues Kosti has with Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Author | : Georges Santoni |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1981-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438418663 |
Author | : Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-06-10 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 022632284X |
In A Taste for Provence, historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz digs into this question and spins a wonderfully appealing tale of how Provence became Provence.
Author | : Harvey Levenstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226473805 |
For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people. Harvey Levenstein takes us back to the 1930s, when, despite the Great Depression, France continued to be the stomping ground of the social elite of the eastern seaboard. After World War II, wealthy and famous Americans returned to the country in droves, helping to revive its old image as a wellspring of sophisticated and sybaritic pleasures. At the same time, though, thanks in large part to Communist and Gaullist campaigns against U.S. power, a growing sensitivity to French anti-Americanism began to color tourists' experiences there, strengthening the negative images of the French that were already embedded in American culture. But as the century drew on, the traditional positive images were revived, as many Americans again developed an appreciation for France's cuisine, art, and urban and rustic charms. Levenstein, in his colorful, anecdotal style, digs into personal correspondence, journalism, and popular culture to shape a story of one nation's relationship to another, giving vivid play to Americans' changing response to such things as France's reputation for sexual freedom, haute cuisine, high fashion, and racial tolerance. He puts this tumultuous coupling of France and the United States in historical perspective, arguing that while some in Congress say we may no longer have french fries, others, like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, know they will always have Paris, and France, to enjoy and remember.
Author | : Vivian Swift |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1608195325 |
Traces an idyllic French honeymoon trip while sharing lighthearted tips and advice on how to thrive as a traveler, in a book with hundreds of watercolor and line illustrations.
Author | : Kelly Ricciardi Colvin |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2023-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 148753809X |
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation. They promoted the beauty, sexual appeal, and general allure of French women, all while shrinking the boundaries of what was considered beautiful. Charm Offensive explores how this elevation of French femininity created problems on both sides of the equation: the pressure on French women to conform to an exacting physical standard was immense, while the inability of anyone else to access that standard resulted in a sense of failure. Drawing on cultural figures like Air France hostesses, tourism workers, and celebrities such as Brigitte Bardot, Charm Offensive offers an innovative understanding of a tumultuous time of decolonization.