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Free Download Paul N. Balchin, "Paris: The Shaping of the French Capital A Political Perspective"
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032432543 | PDF | pages: 405 | 182.8 mb
This book offers a new perspective on French architecture, describing the impact of political history on the architectural development of Paris. Through various stages in history from the Roman to the Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern and Modern, Paris: The Shaping of the French Capital shows how the immense political power of monarchs, the aristocracy and church determined the pace and volume of building in Paris and the extent of town planning. Whereas many other great cities owe their historic importance to trade, and to local government (the City of London being a supreme example), these attributes were largely absent in Paris (throughout most of its history it didn’t even have a mayor). Arguably, because of this, gradually over the centuries the French capital emerged as one of the world’s most beautiful cities, and now is a metropolis with a population in excess of 2 million.

Free Download DK Top 10 Paris (Pocket Travel Guide) by DK Travel
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 0241676584 | 192 pages | MOBI | 144 Mb
Paris, one of Europe’s most magical destinations, is the capital of romance and revolution, a foodie paradise, a culture-lover’s dream, and much more. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you’ll find your way around Paris with absolute ease.

Free Download The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture: Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary (Routledge Research in Art History) by Marilyn R. Brown
English | May 12, 2017 | ISBN: 1138231134, 1032339659 | True PDF | 190 pages | 13 MB
The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables (1862). Over the course of the nineteenth century, images of the Paris urchin entered the collective social imaginary as cultural and psychic sites of memory, whether in avant-garde or more conventional visual culture.

Free Download Fodor’s Paris 2025 (Full-color Travel Guide) by Fodor’s Travel Guides
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1640977074 | 400 pages | MOBI | 41 Mb
Whether you want to walk to the top of the Eiffel Tower, explore the Louvre, or stroll down the Champs-Élysées, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Paris are here to help! Fodor’s Paris guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Free Download The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero by Francelle Bradford White
English | December 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 0806544295 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 1.29 MB
Movingly written by her own daughter, this captivating and intimate biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier. For readers of Three Ordinary Girls, A Woman of No Importance, Lis Parisiennes, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line, and the many other untold stories of WWII’s "hidden figures."

Free Download Allan Mitchell, "Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944"
English | ISBN: 1845454510 | 2008 | 264 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht’s triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Although mindful of the French experience and the fundamental issue of collaboration, the author concentrates on the complex problems of occupying a foreign territory after a surprisingly swift conquest. By exploring in detail such topics as the regulation of public comportment, economic policy, forced labor, culture and propaganda, police activity, persecution and deportation of Jews, assassinations, executions, and torture, this study supersedes earlier attempts to investigate the German domination and exploitation of wartime France. In doing so, these findings provide an invaluable complement to the work of scholars who have viewed those dark years exclusively or mainly from the French perspective.

Free Download DK Paris (Travel Guide) by DK Travel
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 024167509X | 328 pages | MOBI | 146 Mb
Discover Paris – a city synonymous with art, fashion, gastronomy, and culture.

Free Download Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next by Todd Stern
English | October 8, 2024 | ISBN: 0262049147 | True EPUB | 280 pages | 0.4 MB
From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015-and where the international climate effort needs to go from here.

Free Download Janice MacLeod, "A Paris Year: My Day-to-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World"
English | 2017 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1250130123 | EPUB | 21,4 mb
Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman’s French sojourn in the world’s most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris Letters, began a journal recording in illustrations and words, nearly every sight, smell, taste, and thought she experienced in the City of Light. The end result is more than a diary: it’s a detailed and colorful love letter to one of the most romantic and historically rich cities on earth. Combining personal observations and anecdotes with stories and facts about famous figures in Parisian history, this visual tale of discovery, through the eyes of an artist, is sure to delight, inspire, and charm.

Free Download Paris and the River Seine: A History by Hunt Janin, Nicole Sheehan
English | April 22, 2024 | ISBN: 1476690375 | 233 pages | PDF | 8.98 Mb
The intertwined histories of Paris and of the River Seine are interesting but complicated. It is the Seine, however with all its ports, bridges, boats, commerce, monuments, and vistas, that has always been the keystone in the arch of Paris life, both in the past and now in the present. The great French medievalist Jean Favier (1932-2014) summed up its story in just six words: "Paris is born of the Seine."