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FURTHER READING
HISTORY
France. Documentation Française. Free from The Ministry
of Foreign Affairs.
A comprehensive look at France—its history, politics,
culture, economy, etc. Available in English from the
Documentation bookshop on Quai Voltaire.
A Traveller's History of Paris . Robert Cole. Brooklyn, New
York: Interlink Publishing Group, 1994.
Excellent, compact history of Paris.
And God Created the French . Louis-Bernard Robitaille.
Westmount, Canada: Robert Davies Publishing, 1996.
A Frenchman's look at Parisians.
The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present .
Esther Benbassa. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1999.
The turbulent history of the Jews in France, including
during World War II.
Paris After the Liberation: 1944-1949 . Antony Beevor and
Artemis Cooper. London: Penguin Books, 2004.
How Paris was shaped by the war and how it recovered.
Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light . Tyler Stovall.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
Interesting and detailed history of blacks in Paris.
FAMOUS ACCOUNTS OF PARIS
Walks in Hemingway's Paris . Noel Riley Fitch. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1990.
Quotes and anecdotes about the writers and artists who
lived in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, and suggested
walks to show their haunts.
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