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"A . . . picture book based on the true story of Rosa Bonheur, the nineteenth-century French artist who defied gender expectations and changed the art world with her realistic animal paintings"--Provided by publisher.

Describes what life was like in the first French colonies in the Americas.

Recounts the life story of French rose breeder Francis Meilland and his greatest accomplishment, the Peace rose--a beautiful flower that took six years to create.

Presents the story of two female physicists whose discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

Contains the writings by the La Rochefoucauld brothers during their travels through England in 1785.

A brief biography of French explorer Jacques Cartier.

First-person accounts, archival illustrations, and historic maps reveal the history of New France from 1534 to 1763, including early settlements and confrontations with Native Americans, wars with the British, and the fall of New France.

Young Englishman Sidney Carton gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves, in a novel set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century France.