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Free Download The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny (Audiobook)
English | April 09, 2019 | ASIN: B07Q58VGM2 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 52m | 670 MB
Author: Ian Davidson | Narrator: Clive Chafer
A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson
The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality, and authority. Yet it remains an elusive, perplexing historical event. Its significance morphs according to the sympathies of the viewer, who may see it as a series of gory tableaux, a regrettable slide into uncontrolled anarchy – or a radical reshaping of the political landscape.

Free Download Dudley Andrew, Alex Mortensen (Narrator), "French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction"
English | ASIN: B0D9WR6RGD | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:09:00 | 169 MB
It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until WWI, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice.
This Very Short Introduction opens up French cinema through focusing on some of its most notable works, using the lens of the New Wave decade (1958-1968) that changed cinema worldwide. Exploring the entire French cinematic oeuvre, Dudley Andrew teases out distinguishing themes, tendencies, and lineages, to bring what is most crucial about French Cinema into alignment. He discusses how style has shaped the look of female stars and film form alike, analyzing the "made up" aesthetic of many films, and the paradoxical penchant for French cinema to cruelly unmask surface beauty in quests for authenticity. Discussing how French cinema as a whole pits strong-willed characters against auteurs with high-minded ideas of film art, funded by French cinema’s close rapport to literature, painting, and music, Dudley considers how the New Wave emerged from these struggles, becoming an emblem of ambition for cinema that persists today. He goes on to show how the values promulgated by the New Wave directors brought the three decades that preceded it into focus, and explores the deep resonance of those values today.
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Free Download David Allen Harvey, "Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean"
English | ISBN: 1501776673 | 2024 | 306 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Tropical Despotisms reveals the alarm that spread among France’s Caribbean possessions during the period between the Seven Years’ War and the Revolution and the determination to cultivate a new patriotic community rooted in the Enlightenment principles of honor and civic virtue.

Free Download The Oxford Handbook of the French Language
by Wendy Ayres-Bennett
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198865139 | 1056 pages | True PDF | 98.85 MB

Free Download Robert Lee Watt, "The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt"
English | 2016 | pages: 300 | ISBN: 1442268719, 1442239387 | EPUB | 10,9 mb
The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt tells the story of the first African American French Hornist hired by a major symphony in the United States. Today, few African Americans hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras, and Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely exhilarating-and at times painful-experience.

Free Download Research on Old French: The State of the Art By Deborah Arteaga (auth.), Deborah L. Arteaga (eds.)
2013 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 9400747675 | PDF | 4 MB
The present volume presents scholarly study into Old French as it is practiced today, in all of its forms, within a variety of theoretical frameworks, from Optimality Theory to Minimalism to Discourse Analysis. Many of the chapters are corpus-based, reflecting a new trend in the field, as more electronic corpora become available. The chapters contribute to our understanding of both the synchronic state and diachronic evolution, not only of Old French, but of language in general. Its breadth is extensive in that contributors pursue research on a wide variety of topics in Old French focusing on the various subsystems of language. All examples are carefully glossed and the relevant characteristics of Old French are clearly explained, which makes it uniquely accessible to non-specialists and linguists at all levels of training. ​

Free Download Mark Twain, "Pudd’nhead Wilson (Webster’s French Thesaurus Edition)"
English | 2006 | pages: 204 | ISBN: 0497256533 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This edition is written in English. However, there is a running French thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of Pudd’nhead Wilson.

Free Download Paul A. Jackson – French Military Aviation
Midland Counties Publications | 1975 | ISBN: 0904597016 | English | 124 pages | PDF | 82.32 MB

Free Download Dien Bien Phu 1954: The French Defeat that Lured America into Vietnam (Campaign, 366) by Martin Windrow, Peter Dennis
English | August 17, 2021 | ISBN: 1472844009 | 96 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
A highly illustrated study of the battle at Dien Bien Phu, the 56-day siege that eventually led to the surrender of the remaining French-led forces, this iconic battle provided the climax of the First Indochina War.

Free Download Janet Hulstrand, "Demystifying the French: How to Love Them, And Make Them Love You"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1543953514 | EPUB | pages: 120 | 0.7 mb
Demystifying the French: How to Love Them, and Make Them Love You is aimed at first-time visitors to France as well as long-term expatriates. Designed to help readers "crack the code," avoid common mistakes, and get off on the right foot with the French, the book begins with five easy-to-follow essential tips "for even brief encounters" by introducing a few French phrases―and how to say them―that will pave the way for a positive experience in France. The tips are followed by 10 chapters that go into a deeper explanation of French habits, manners, and ways of viewing the world. Hulstrand shares the perspective she has gained in nearly 40 years of time spent living, working, teaching, and traveling in France, and illustrates the principles she is discussing with sometimes touching, and often amusing, personal anecdotes. Her deep admiration and affection for the French people is clear, but she also knows that they can "require special handling" and provides helpful, practical tips on how to do so, inviting readers to learn from her mistakes. Reflections contributed by David Downie, Adrian Leeds, Harriet Welty Rochefort, and other well-known commentators on Franco-American cultural differences provide additional perspective and depth. A glossary of French terms that is both substantive and whimsical provides surprising insights into historical as well as cultural reasons for the French being "the way they are." Aimed mainly at an American audience, this book will be helpful for anyone who wants to better understand the French, and have fun while doing so.