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UK: Allen Lane, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a richly enjoyable and surprising book. It reveals a strikingly unfamiliar France; a country with an often overwhelming gap between Paris and the provinces, in which feminism had its own tortured history, and which managed both to lie at the heart of modernity and yet to remain agonized by a sense of its fall from former greatness. A good clean and tight copy. .

UK: Fourth Estate, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Royalty, revolution and mystery - the dramatic true story of Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette, and an extraordinary detective story that spans more than two hundred years. The D/W shows light shelf wear to its panels and edges..

Ted Smart. Basicing his book on a wide variety of sources Christopher Hibbert had provided portraits of Napoleon,and the many women in his life as illuminating as they are compelling. This is a secondhand book in illustrated covers in good order as is the dustwrapper. . Good. Hardcover. 2002.

L: Viking, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In the thirteenth century, a group of heretics in south-west France, the Cathars became a serious threat to the Catholic church. Their fervently held dualistic beliefs were an anathema to the estabilished religious order. The boards and binding are square and tight, the text block as minor spotting to the head and the dust jacket has minor creasing to the head . Book price includes 2nd class post in UK only. Book is photographed as proof against in- transit damage. .