Useful French Print Resources

La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une
conversation avec les honnêtes gens des siècles
passés.
René Descartes
(1596(1596-1650)
Father of modern philosophy
(To read a good book is like conversing with the noblest
minds of
bygone ages.)
Useful French Print Resources
Cooking
The Medieval Cookbook, Maggie Black, The British Museum Press, 2006.
Culture and Etiquette
French or Foe, Polly Platt, Culture Crossings, 1995.
French Toast, Harriet Welty Rochefort, St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
The French Way, Ross Steele, Passport Books, 1995.
Gestures: The Do’s and Taboo’s of Body Language Around the World, Roger E.
Axtell, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.
Savoir Flair, Polly Plat, Culture Crossings, Ltd., 2000.
Le Savoir-Vivre, Sabine Denuelle, Larousse, 1998.
When in France, Do As the French Do, Ross Steele, McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Grammar and Usage
Bescherelle Complete Guide to Conjugating 12,000 French Verbs, English Edition,
Hatier, 1995.
Bescherelle La Conjugaison: 12000 Verbes, Hatier, 1990.
Bescherelle La Grammaire pour Tous, Hatier, 1990.
Bescherelle L’Orthographe pour Tous, Hatier, 1990.
A Dictionary of French Usage, Donald Christie, Images Publishing, 1995.
English Grammar for Students of French, Jacqueline Morton, The Olivia and Hill
Press, 1997.
French for Fluency: Grammaire Active, Jean-Paul Valette & Rebecca M. Valette,
D.C. Heath and Company, 1985.
A Guide to French Grammar and Usage, Andre O. Hurtgen, Scott-ForesmanAddison Wesley, 1991.
Harper’s Grammar of French, Samuel Rosenberg, et al., Heinle & Heinle
Publishers, 1983.
Harrap’s Pardon My French, McGraw-Hill, 2004
Insiders’ French: Beyond the Dictionary, Eleanor & Michael Levieux, The
University of Chicago Press, 1999.
NTC’s Dictionary of Faux Amis, C.W.E. Kirk-Greene, NTC Publishing Group, 1996.
Painless French, Carol Chaitkin & Lynn Gove, Barron’s Educational Series, 2008.
Practice Makes Perfect Series, various authors, Glencoe McGraw-Hill
Upgrade Your French, Margaret Jubb, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002.
Vive les Verbes français, Dennis Long, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
History of Art and Architecture
L’Histoire de l’art pour les Nuls, Jean-Jacques Breton, et al., First Editions, 2006.
History of Europe
Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics & Society, Vol. 2: From the 1600s, Marvin
Perry, et al., Houghton Mifflin Co. 1992.
History of the France
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus, Jean-Denis Bredin, translated by Jeffery
Mehlman, Georges Braziller, 1986.
France in Modern Times, Gordon Wright, W.W. Norton & Co., 1981.
France, Fin de Siècle, Eugen Weber, Harvard University Press, 1986.
L’Affaire Dreyfus : La République en péril, Pierre Birnbaum, Gallimard, 1994.
La France Contemporaine, William F. Edmiston and Annie Duménil, Holt Rinehart
and Winston, 1993.
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How
Goodness Happened There, Philip Hallie, Harper Perennial, 1994.
Les 100 plus belles images de l’Affaire Dreyfus, Raymond Bachollet, Éditions
Dabecom, 2006.
Les années noires : Vivre sous l’Occupation, Henry Rousso, Gallimard, 1992.
Les Grandes Étapes de la Civilisation Française, Ghislaine Cotentin-Rey, Bordas,
1991.
L’Histoire de la France De 1789 à nos jours pour les Nuls, Jean-Joseph Julaud,
First Editions, 2006.
Les Rois de France, Petit Encyclo, Hachette, 2007.
The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794, Graeme Fife, St.
Martin’s Press, 2004.
History of the French Language (and Related
Languages)
French Inside Out: The Worldwide Development of the French Language in the
Past, Present and the Future, Henriette Walter, Routledge, 1994.
A Natural History of Latin, Tore Janson, Oxford University Press, 2004.
The Story of French, Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow, St. Martin’s Press,
2006.
Literature/Literary Reference
Discovering the Royal Child Within: A Spiritual Psychology of “The Little Prince”,
Eugen Drewermann, Crossroad, 1993.
The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind “The Little Prince”, Consuelo de
Saint-Exupéry, Random House, 2001.
Other
Paris
Paris By Metro, Arnold Delaney, Interlink Books, 2006.
Science
The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science, Denis Brian,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
Lavoisier in the Year One, Madison Smartt Bell, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
2005.
Madame Curie, Eve Curie, Doubleday, Doran and Co. Inc., 1937.
Pasteur, des microbes au vaccine, Annick Perrot et Maxime Schwartz, Casterman,
1999.