The Ile-de-France
Author | : Marc Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Marc Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Don Stanford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-01-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The Ile de France, first published in 1960, is a fascinating history of the memorable ship, the Ile de France. The Ile de France was a French luxury ocean liner that served the important transatlantic route between Europe and New York from 1927 to 1959. She was named after the region around Paris known as "L'Ile de France". Her maiden voyage, on June 22, 1927, made the ship the first major ocean liner built after World War I, and the first ship to be decorated almost entirely in a modern Art Deco style. Ile de France became a favored ship of the pre-World War II era among the young and also with wealthy and fashionable elites. Her passenger list would include notables of the day such as Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, John D. Rockefeller, Buster Keaton, Maurice Chevalier, Will Rogers, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Marie Curie. When World War II broke out, she briefly served as a troop ship before all her luxurious fittings were removed for conversion into a prison ship. After the war, Ile de France resumed transatlantic operations. In 1956 she played a key role in rescuing passengers from the SS Andrea Doria after that ship's collision with the MS Stockholm off Nantucket, Massachusetts. Her last public appearance was starring as a doomed ocean liner in the 1959 movie The Last Voyage, filmed while waiting to be scrapped in Japan. Included are eight pages of photographs.
Author | : Klaus Bussmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marc Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Janine Marsh |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2017-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1782437339 |
Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride.
Author | : Marc Bloch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317517628 |
First published in English in 1971, The Ile-de-France presents the reader with a study of the countryside around Paris through the eyes of Marc Bloch, a man with his own view of history. It looks at the area’s origins, extent, geographical features, archaeology, and past local histories. The book extends beyond the region of Paris itself and offers the reader a masterful demonstration of the methodology of such enquiries and their purpose within the wider context of historical research. The work is particularly valuable in that it covers a wide variety of subjects and makes extensive use of archives and original documents.
Author | : Elaine Sciolino |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0393609367 |
A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best-selling author Elaine Sciolino. Elaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea, and the cities, tributaries, islands, ports, and bridges in between. Sciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana—the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name—and follows the river through Paris, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art, literature, music, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. A “storyteller at heart” (June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune) with a “sumptuous eye for detail” (Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph), Sciolino braids memoir, travelogue, and history through the Seine’s winding route. The Seine offers a love letter to Paris and the most romantic river in the world, and invites readers to explore its magic for themselves.
Author | : William H. Miller |
Publisher | : Classic Liners |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780752474861 |
The latest in the Classic Liners series evokes the glamour and ambience of two of the most beloved liners of the 1950s Île de France, completed in 1927, was a hugely famous prewar liner, a ship with unique style and character. She was said to offer "the cheeriest way to cross the Atlantic." After wartime service as a valiant troopship, she was restored with what Paris fashion calls a "new look," relaunched in 1949. The Liberté was built in 1930, originally the German Europa, but ceded to France as reparations in 1946. She was de-Germanized and restyled in French Line luxury as the Liberté, recommissioned in 1950. The Île de France sailed until 1958; the Liberté until 1961, and this illustrated book concentrates on their heydays in the glorious, post-World War II years, when they were the largest and grandest liners under the French flag. Both ships were famed for their service and onboard ambience, but most especially for their cooking, and they were said to be the best-fed liners on the Atlantic.
Author | : Marc Bloch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2015-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317517636 |
First published in English in 1971, The Ile-de-France presents the reader with a study of the countryside around Paris through the eyes of Marc Bloch, a man with his own view of history. It looks at the area’s origins, extent, geographical features, archaeology, and past local histories. The book extends beyond the region of Paris itself and offers the reader a masterful demonstration of the methodology of such enquiries and their purpose within the wider context of historical research. The work is particularly valuable in that it covers a wide variety of subjects and makes extensive use of archives and original documents.
Author | : Linda Dannenberg |
Publisher | : Clarkson Potter |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Brittany (France) |
ISBN | : 9780517564363 |
This tour book of France's Brittany captures the charm and treasures of its rural lifestyle