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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.

When Fabienne Bissette attends the annual Met Gala for an exhibit honoring her grandmother Estella, a famed designer, she begins to learn more about her grandmother's past, uncovering a story of tragedy, heartbreak, and secrets.

"Back in 1782, in Annonay, France, lived Joseph Montgolfier, a dreamer and an inventor who was curious about how everything worked. When one day a gust of wind blew his papers into the fireplace, he noticed that something lifted the pages into the air--and he realized that heat could make things rise. With the help of his brother Etienne, he began to experiment . . . and created the world's first flying machine, sparking the birth of flight. This . . . illustrated picture book tells the story of how his hot-air balloon came to be, King Louis XVI's visit to see it fly, and the three animals--a rooster, a duck, and a sheep--who became its very first passengers"--Provided by publisher.

Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, the author, a graphic designer, was drawn to beautiful handwriting in some old letters. They were in French and had been signed by a man named Marcel and posted from Berlin to France during World War II. Her curiosity aroused, she began to trace Marcel's life and to try and find out the answer to his fate. In the meantime she immortalized Marcel's handwriting as the acclaimed P22 Marcel Script font.