A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best-selling author Elain
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Leila Sebbar's novel recounts an event in French history that has been hidden for many years. Toward the end of the
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Paris: The Powers That Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces – royal, monastic and secular – that shaped
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Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew
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In 1810 the French bade good-bye to torture, including whipping and the rack. Beginning in 1832 those convicted of parri
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Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly
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