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This is a much-trumpeted study of national passions, peculiarities and perspectives.
A digressive and fanciful account of the author's 1765 coach tour through France and Italy.
A reminder of the connection between hoofing it through remote regions and the increasing prettiness of Eeyore.
This is a classic work of travel literature about France.
A highly entertaining novel that pays homage to the great French writer Flaubert.
Gertrude Stein memorably recounts her years in Paris.
A portrayal of bohemian life in Paris between the wars.
An exhaustive review of all aspects of modern-day French society.
A penetrating and poignant look at down-at-heel Paris in the late 1920s.
First published in 1958, this is a very tasty - indeed, the definitive - region-by-region introduction to French cuisine.
A pioneering work on women's position in society that helped inspire the modern feminist movement.
A reasonably contemporary exposition which charts the progress of feminism in France from 1968 to the mid-1980s.
For the dynamics of political history, check out this influential and truly monumental work that examines the first few years after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
This readable three-volume set covers the period from Louis XIV to 1962; the best of the general studies of French history.
Along with Tropic of Capricorn, this is one of Miller's 'sexy' novels set in Paris.
A best-selling account that takes a witty, patronising and very English look at the French.
An alternative and often giggle-worthy slant on France's greatest cycling race.
The story of the rise and fall of a poor young man from the provinces who models himself on Napoleon. A must read classic of 19th-century french literature.
Letters, testimonies and trial notes from the 15th century document the meteoric rise and fall of Joan of Arc.
Portrays France's most magnificent mountain in all its soaring splendour. 200-odd pages of stunning photographs.
Beautifully-written overview of Corsica's culture, history and people, penned by a British historian-writer who lived most of her life on the island.
