Product Description: Winner of the 2015 American Library in Paris Book AwardThe Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and became the French hero of the American Revolution. In this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and fully reveals a man driven by dreams of glory only to be felled by tragic, human weaknesses...read more

Introduces the workings of the business world through the experiences of a twelve-year-old boy who becomes a millionaire by making and selling inexpensive toothpaste

His brief pamphlet Indignez-vous! (Cry Out!) is an international bestseller, calling for a return to the values of his native France’s “greatest generation,” the resistance fighters of World War II. It has inspired citizens participating in the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street uprisings. Now Stéphane Hessel, one of France’s preeminent thinkers and activists, is back.   With extraordinary insight, the ninety-four-year-old Hessel gives his intellectual autobiography. His thinking is nourished by the exchange he has maintained for years with his close friends, as well as prominent political and literary figures: Edgar Morin, Jean-Paul Dollé, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Régis Debray, Peter Sloterdijk, Laure Adler, Michel Rocard, and Jean-Claude Carrière.   This book is accessible and profound—it is for all those who seek, despite the contradictions and violence of our contemporary lives, to “regain our dignity as men and women while governed by a frenzy of selfish and irresponsible people.” This book is, for Stéphane Hessel, a way to encourage us to reflect on the past in order to take charge of our future destiny. At once a handbook for the revolutionary, a treatise on human rights, and an inside look at the relationships, thoughts, and recollections of one of the most important figures in France today, this is a not-to-be-missed book for 2012.

Product Description: Ce volume, intitulé Robert Schuman, apôtre de l’Europe, présente des textes écrits et prononcés par Robert Schuman entre 1953 et 1963. Commentés et mis en perspective par Marie-Thérèse Bitsch, professeur émérite d’histoire contemporaine à l’université de Strasbourg et membre du comité scientifique de la Maison de Robert Schuman, ces textes témoignent de la richesse, de l’originalité mais aussi de la profondeur de la réflexion et du message européen de Robert Schuman...read more

They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon; that same night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find. So began what have been called the 'sister revolutions' of France and America. In a single narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions and shows just how deeply intertwined they actuallywere. Their leaders, George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, were often seen as father and son, but their relationship, while close, was every bit as complex as the long, fraught history of the French-American alliance. Vain, tough, ambitious, they strove to shape their characters and records into the form they wanted history to remember.--From publisher description.A narrative account of the 'sister revolutions' of France and America reveals the lesser-known agendas that intertwined the conflicts, discussing the close but complex relationship between Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette.

A narrative account of the 'sister revolutions' of France and America reveals the lesser-known agendas that intertwined the conflicts, discussing the close but complex relationship between Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette.

A narrative account of the 'sister revolutions' of France and America reveals the lesser-known agendas that intertwined the conflicts, discussing the close but complex relationship between Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette.

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Young people are introduced to the workings of the business world through the experiences of a twelve-year-old boy who becomes a millionaire by making and selling inexpensive toothpaste. Simultaneous.

Product Description: Book by Whibley, Charles