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Free Download Dan Piassick, "Villa Decor: Decidedly French and Italian Style"
English | 2002 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 1586851748 | EPUB | 9,7 mb
Design In her newest book, Villa Decor, Betty Lou Phillips discusses how to mix styles, furnishings, inspirations, and colors from different eras and locations to create the looks for which the French and Italian people are known-wisps of elegance, hints of regal color, textures that delight and inspire. Villa Decor illustrates the mastery of the fabled French way of melding the past with the present so each is seen in the best possible light, as well as the uncanny Italian knack of linking rooms effortlessly with patterns and palettes without detracting from the furnishings or objets d’art, capturing a trend in American decorating. Betty Lou Phillips demonstrates how to virtuously juxtapose various periods and styles in widely diverse, satisfying rooms that are never dull or predictable. Quiet French elegance, Italian romance, and the simplicity of sweet life-la dolce vita. Author of Provencal Interiors, French Influences, and French by Design, Betty Lou Phillips is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers. Her design work has appeared in such publications as Southern Accents, Bedroom & Bath, Window & Wall, and Decorating, and has also graced many magazine covers. Her design talents have been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and the Christopher Lowell Show. She lives in Dallas, Texas.

Free Download Don Wallace, "The French house: an American family, a ruined maison, and the village that restored them all"
English | 2014 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1402293313 | EPUB | 3,6 mb
"On a tiny French island, a couple of American dreamers redefine their lives by restoring a ruin…The French House moves to a soulful, very funny rhythm all its own."―Meryl Streep

Free Download MaryEllen Higgins, "The A to Z of French Cinema"
English | 2009 | pages: 504 | ISBN: 081086875X | EPUB | 1,7 mb
It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumière in 1895 with the invention of the cinématographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinématographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumière’s La Sortie de l’usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumière factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges Méliès, Alice Guy, and Charles Pathé. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world’s best directors―Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Louis Malle―and actors―Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou.

Free Download Dan Piassick, "Secrets of French Design"
English | 2004 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 1586855212 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
From the best-selling author of Villa Decor and Unmistakably French comes an insider’s guide to French design secrets for home interiors. Betty Lou Phillips, America’s foremost interior design expert on French style, shares some of her best-kept secrets-ones that the French seem to know instinctively. Secrets of French Design looks behind heavy lacquered doors at the design principles the French hold dear.

Free Download Alastair Phillips, "Rififi: French Film Guide"
English | 2009 | pages: 135 | ISBN: 1848850557 | PDF | 2,9 mb
Du rififi chez les hommes (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialogue free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin’s role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture.

Free Download Claudine Pepin, Jacques Pepin, "Let’s Cook French, A Family Cookbook: Cuisinons Francais, Un livre pour toute la famille"
English | 2015 | pages: 99 | ISBN: 0760371938, 1631591479 | PDF | 92,5 mb
2016 IACP Award Finalist!

Free Download Pamela M. Pilbeam, "French Socialists Before Marx: Workers, Women and the Social Question in France, 1796-1852"
English | 2000 | pages: 270 | ISBN: 190268317X, 0773521992, 0773521984 | PDF | 2,1 mb
French socialism traces its origins to the revolutionary communist Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797) and for a time during the Second Republic socialists such as Louis Blanc, Etienne Canet, Victor Considérant, Jeanne Deroin, Pauline Roland, Blanqui, and Raspail occupied a prominent place in the attempt to create a reforming social democracy. For Karl Marx, and the dominant academic historians of twentieth-century France who took up his thesis, the early French socialists were worthy only of faint praise or scorn, yet the French parliamentary socialist groups that emerged in the 1880s can be understood only through reference to their predecessors. French Socialists before Marx identifies the major issues for French socialists between 1796 and the 1850s – revolution, religion, education, the status of women, association, and work. Pilbeam demonstrates that the socialists’ answer to emerging capitalist competition and social conflict was association, while conservatives, in contrast, defended a liberal economy and united to persecute, prosecute, and deport socialists. French Socialists before Marx fills a significant void in socialist studies, enhancing our understanding of nineteenth-century social thought and strategies. It will be invaluable reading for students of history, politics, gender, French, and European studies.

Free Download Marie-Sol de La Tour d’Auvergne, "A French Aristocrat in the American West: The Shattered Dreams of De Lassus De Luzières"
English | 2010 | pages: 258 | ISBN: 0826218962 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
In 1790, Pierre-Charles de Lassus de Luzières gathered his wife and children and fled Revolutionary France. His trek to America was prompted by his "purchase" of two thousand acres situated on the bank of the Ohio River from the Scioto Land Company-the institution that infamously swindled French buyers and sold them worthless titles to property. When de Luzières arrived and realized he had been defrauded, he chose, in a momentous decision, not to return home to France. Instead, he committed to a life in North America and began planning a move to the Mississippi River valley.

Free Download The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCFQWJYF | 2023 | 12 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Walter R. Borneman
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would be fought across virgin territories, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, and it would ultimately decide the fate of the entire North American continent-not just for Great Britain and France but also for the Spanish and Native American populations. Noted historian Walter R. Borneman brings to life an epic struggle for a continent-what Samuel Eliot Morison called "truly the first world war"-and emphasizes how the seeds of discord sown in its aftermath would take root and blossom into the American Revolution.

Free Download Learn French With Me
Published 9/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 1.09 GB | Duration: 3h 5m
Learn the Fundamentals of the French Language