19th-century France – all Bücher, CDs und LPs

La Belle Vielleuse - The Virtuoso Hurdy Gurdy in 18th Century France

Monika Mauch, Ensemble Danguy

Arde el Furor - 18th Century Andalusian Music

Maria Espada, Jose Hernandez Pastor, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Diego Fasolis

Alain Corbin,

Fragility

The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time - the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms o…

Gentilly

Between 1818 and 1851, Auvignac Dorville, a Louisiana Creole, managed the day-to-day operations of the Gentilly plantation, located a few miles from New Orleans along Bayou St. John. The plantation belong…

The French Romantic Experience - Bru Zane Discoveries in the 19th-Century Music

Veronique Gens, Karine Deshayes, Yann Beuron, Elsa Dreisig, Jean-Francois Lapointe, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Judith van Wanroij, Jean-Francois Heisser, Bertrand Chamayou, Francois-Rene Duchable, Sandrine Pia…

Venita Datta

Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

Venita Datta

Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

Georges Darien,

The Thief

"We are on the eve of 1900, when decadentism and anarchy join hands to bring the century to an end. Georges Randal, a young man from a good family, an orphan ruined by an indelicate uncle, when the t…

Petra Zeller Dotlacilová

Performance Costume in 18th-Century France

Examines the development of theatrical costumes in France during the long 18th century.

Emma Donoghue

The Paris Express

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling and "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily ) author of Room , a sweeping historical "nail-biter" (People) of a novel about the infamous 1895 disaster at t…

Jeremy D Popkin

The First Emancipation

A new history of slavery and the French RevolutionThe First Emancipation is a dramatic account of how slavery and race profoundly influenced the course of the French Revolution and had a central impact on…

Heidi Brevik-Zender

Beyond Building

Beyond Building offers a groundbreaking exploration of nineteenth-century French architecture through the lens of gender, focusing on the years 1852 to 1902.Highlighting the creative work of four women an…

Honoré de Balzac,

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

"Henri de Marsay believes neither in man nor woman, God nor devil. He believes in Paris, a city that readily accommodates his pursuit of sensual pleasure. It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Caf…

Paul Valéry,

Monsieur Teste

"Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valâery's novel is profoundly personal. Monsieur Teste reflects Valâery's preoccupation with the phenomenon of a mind detached from sensibility, yet…

Sergio Luzzatto

The First Fascist

The First Fascist tells the story of Marquis de Morès, an architect of the Dreyfus Affair and a pioneer of blending populism, white supremacy, and open antisemitism. Through violent stunts and media savvy…

Marcel Proust

Swann in Love

A stand-alone novella from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time highlighting love's transformative force and the trap lying beneath: the insidious reach of jealousy.Charles Swann is a man about town wit…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

Victor Hugo,

Les Misérables

Les Misérables is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

Maureen Emerson

Riviera Dreaming

The stories behind the most glamorous houses on the French Riviera.In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France. With his partner, an ex-officer in the B…