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1969., Hachette Call No: FR 973 B7443a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: On en parle
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2016., St. Martin's Press Call No: QWF 944 B257b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoit and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain, in a book as fizzy as a bottle of the finest French champagne, the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they converse. To understand and speak French well, one must understand that French conversation runs on a set of rules that go to the heart of French culture. Why do the French like talking about "the decline of France"? Why does broaching a subject like money end all discussion? Why do the French become so aroused debating the merits and qualities of their own language? Through encounters with school principals, city hall civil servants, gas company employees, old friends and business acquaintances, Julie and Jean-Benoit explain why, culturally and historically, conversation with the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting. After reading The Bonjour Effect, even readers with a modicum of French language ability will be able to hold their own the next time they step into a bistro on the Left Bank"--
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2023., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: NEW QWF 355.009 G373d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas Volume: 87.Summary Note: For centuries, the idea of dying honorably for France was extraordinarily potent, reaching its peak during the First World War when 1.4 million French soldiers died in uniform. By the end of the twentieth century, however, public opinion had come to view the soldier's death as an unacceptable tragedy, and also as an essentially private affair. Dying for France seeks to understand that profound shift by considering the soldier's death from the Renaissance to the present. It alights on important episodes in French military history-during the Renaissance and Old Regime, the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, the Franco-Prussia War and Paris Commune, the First World War, the Second World War, and the Algerian War-to consider the realities and the representations of military death.
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2018., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: 306.4819 N355f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Studies on the history of Quebec Volume: 34.Summary Note: "Tourism promoters strive to brand their destinations in anticipation of what they think travellers hope to experience. In turn, travel writers react in part to destinations in line with their expectations. While several scholars have documented such patterns elsewhere, these have remained understudied in the case of Quebec despite the frequency with which the province was branded and rebranded and its status as a major North American travel destination in the decades leading up to Expo 67. The first comprehensive history of Quebec tourism promotion and travel writing, From Old Quebec to La Belle Province details changing marketing strategies and shows how these efforts consistently mirrored and strengthened French Quebec's evolving national identity. Nicole Neatby also takes into account the contentious role of English-speaking promoters in Montreal, belying the view that Quebec was unvaryingly represented and appreciated for being "old." Taking a comparative approach, Neatby draws on books and a wide array of newspapers, popular and specialized magazines, as well as written and visual sources from outside the tourist genre to reveal how the distinct national and cultural identities of English Canadians, Americans, and French Quebecers profoundly shaped their expectations and reactions to the province. From Old Quebec to La Belle Province traces and explains shifting tourism promotional priorities and varying travel writers' reactions over the course of four decades and how in tune they were with evolving national identities."--
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-- Paris in the 50'sc1997., Times Books Call No: 944.3608 K18p Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
