Portrait of a French Village
Author | : Richard Cole |
Publisher | : Exhibit A |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine (France) |
ISBN | : 9780957426009 |
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Author | : Richard Cole |
Publisher | : Exhibit A |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine (France) |
ISBN | : 9780957426009 |
Author | : Hale Sturges |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2003-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781410732156 |
Interest in French village life was originally inspired by Laurence Wylie who was one of his mentors and teachers when a student at Harvard. Wylie's Village in the Vaucluse was the primary source for a course on French village life that Sturges taught at Andover for twenty years. The People of Pleure: Portrait of a French Village is the outgrowth of a winter sabbatical spent in a little-known part of the Jura. Pleure is France. It is a village like so many others, with real people of all ages who struggle to survive. The People of Pleure is the story of Sturges' life among these people.
Author | : Jan Gordon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Janac (France) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jan Gordon |
Publisher | : Bene Factum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Languedoc (France) |
ISBN | : 9781903071113 |
The Two Vagabonds in Languedoc is just one of a number of titles by Jan and Cora Gordon which sold immensely well in the USA when first published in the 1930s. They were very popular in the US and toured here. Two Vagabonds in Languedoc, written in 1925, is their charming and evocative sketch of the French village of Najac. Return today to the very same village on the border of the Departments of Tarn and Aveyron and many of the landmarks mentioned are still there; nowadays life goes on much the same.
Author | : Gillian Tindall |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Chassignolles (Indre, France) |
ISBN | : 0805045465 |
In an abandoned old house in rural France, novelist Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of letters written in the 1860s, addressed to Celestine Chaumette. Tindall searched dusty archives and farmhouse attics and probed the memories and lore of local villagers in her quest for learn about Celestine. The treasures Tindall unearthed ultimately reach far beyond the mystery of one woman to tell of a vanished way of life, of a century of revolutionary change, and of the strange persistence, intrusion almost of the past into today.
Author | : Barnett Singer |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780873956291 |
Examines the role of village notables in nineteenth-century France.
Author | : James S. Inglis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Pike |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750997605 |
'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pike's moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane and brings their experiences to our attention for the first time.' - Hanna Diamond, author of Fleeing Hitler On 10 June 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in Normandy, the picturesque village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the rural heart of France was destroyed by an armoured SS Panzer division. Six hundred and forty-three men, women and children were murdered in the nation's worst wartime atrocity. Today, Oradour is remembered as a 'martyred village' and its ruins are preserved, but the stories of its inhabitants lie buried under the rubble of the intervening decades. Silent Village gathers the powerful testimonies of survivors in the first account of Oradour as it was both before the tragedy and in its aftermath. A lost way of life is vividly recollected in this unique insight into the traditions, loves and rivalries of a typical village in occupied France. Why this peaceful community was chosen for extermination has remained a mystery. Putting aside contemporary hearsay, Nazi rhetoric and revisionist theories, in this updated third edition Robert Pike returns to the archival evidence to narrate the tragedy as it truly happened – and give voice to the anguish of those left behind.
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 | : Édouard Louis |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374716390 |
An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. “Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different—“girlish,” intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men. Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The result—a critical and popular triumph—has made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation.