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UNINA9910459449203321 |
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Autore |
Thorold Peter |
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Titolo |
The British in France : visitors and residents since the Revolution / / Peter Thorold |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-87621-X |
9786612876219 |
1-4411-8088-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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944.0042 |
944.00421 |
944/.0042 |
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British - France - History - 19th century |
British - France - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Note on French Names and Translations; Introduction; Chronology of Events; 1 The False Start; 2 Travelling Before the Railways; 3 A Tumultuous Entente; 4 Pau and the Spas; 5 The Transport Revolution; 6 Rosbif and Frog; 7 The Riviera; 8 Babylon; 9 The Atlantic Coast; 10 Displacement; 11 The Rural Idyll; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Countless British visit France each year and over 100,000 live there permanently, successors to generations of their countrymen. This book, starting with the brief and poignant Peace of Amiens, 1801-1803, studies who they were - ranging from businessmen and artisans to rentiers, invalids and tourists - where they went and the reasons why. While some went for fun, to Paris 'where the social arts are carried to perfection' or to Monte Carlo, Biarritz or Deauville, the invalids favoured the Pyrenees or Savoy, making Pau the 'ville anglaise'. Bordeaux was an example of another town where the Briti |
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UNISA996484463103316 |
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Titolo |
Can Law Save the Forest?: Lessons from Finland and Brazil |
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Center for International Forestry Research |
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UNIORUON00130981 |
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CHAKRAVARTI, Subodhakumara |
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Titolo |
Megha / Subodhakumara Chakravarti |
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Calcutta, : [s. n.], 1962 |
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