Finding Marie

Finding Marie
Author: Susan Page Davis
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736920838

Boarding a plane in San Francisco, Marie Belanger is looking forward to flying home to Maine. But suddenly she's on the run when a computer drive mysteriously appears in her luggage, and a woman is murdered. Her husband, Peter, is scouring the country looking for her. Will he find her before the killer does?

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette
Author: Dena Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136704965

Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France. Looking at how Marie was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural contexts were enacted "on the body of the queen" and on the complex identity of Marie. Taken together, these essays suggest that it is precisely because she came to represent the contradictions in the social, political and gender systems of her era, that Marie remains such an important historical figure.

Finding Fontainebleau

Finding Fontainebleau
Author: Thad Carhart
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143109286

Winner of the French Heritage Literary Award A beguiling memoir of a childhood in 1950s France from the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank "Like the castle, [Carhart's] memoir imaginatively and smoothly integrates multiple influences, styles and whims."—The New York Times For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town and the time with his family as expats left such an impression on him that thirty years later Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children. Touring Fontainebleau again as an adult, he began to appreciate its influence on French style, taste, art, and architecture. Each trip to Fontainebleau introduces him to entirely new aspects of the château's history, enriching his memories and leading him to Patrick Ponsot, the head of the château’s restoration, who becomes Carhart’s guide to the hidden Fontainebleau. What emerges is an intimate chronicle of a time and place few have experienced. In warm, precise prose, Carhart reconstructs the wonders of his childhood as an American in postwar France, attending French schools with his brothers and sisters. His firsthand account brings to life nothing less than France in the 1950s, from the parks and museums of Paris to the rigors of French schooling to the vast château of Fontainebleau and its village, built, piece by piece, over many centuries. Finding Fontainebleau is for those captivated by the French way of life, for armchair travelers, and for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a place they want to visit over and over again.

California Appellate Decisions

California Appellate Decisions
Author: California. District Courts of Appeal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1608
Release: 1927
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN: