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Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Focusses attention on community politics in pre-revolutionary France,showing how during a period of political and economic crisis,rioters formulated and satisfied their demand for food at fair prices.Known as the Flour War,or the guerre des farines,building upon George Rude's pioneering work,Bouton identifies communities of participants and victims in the Flour War ,analyzing them according to class,occupation,gender and location,and speculates why women of the menu people were heavily represented in the riots.307pp.. ISBN: 027101055X. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CROWDS COMMUNITY POLITICS FRANCE ANCIEN REGIME HISTORY. more information

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Dorset: Millbrook Press, 2007. The author describes his book as 'Miscellaneous Punch-ups and Reflections'. It completes a forty year study of the history of Mr Punch and consolidates Byrom's international vision of the four outstanding manifestations of the archetypal figure as represented in England, France, Italy and Russia. In particular it includes a new examination of Polichinelle, the French punch, both as a glove-puppet and as a marionette in the Parisian Fairs of the 18th century. This has been made possible with the recent publication by a French scholar of a study of the 'corpus theatral de Polichinelle' revealed in the "Soleinne Collection" of manuscripts that have lain buried in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris for over two hundred years. About one third of the present book consists of the best of the author's magazine articles and reviews - usually contentious but never dull. A complete English translation of two genuine 19th century Polichinelle glove-puppet texts with illustrations of the puppets are included as an Appendix.144pp.. ISBN: 9780955485206. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. PUNCH AND JUDY SOCIAL HISTORY PUPPET THEATRE. more information

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London: The Chiswick Press, 1876. One of a 150 copies published c.1876.106pp.,some spotting,slight rubbing to spine and corners,slight ink mark top of front board.. Limited Edition. Cloth/Gilt. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. EUROPE HISTORY. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. 158pp.. ISBN: 0297779443. Signed First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good/Price Clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GIAN LORENZO BERNINI ART ARTIST SCULPTURE 17TH CENTURY. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Phoenix, 2003. The city of Romans, in what was once the province of Dauphine in southern France, was the scene each year of a colourful and animated Mardi gras carnival. In 1580, the winter festivities were especially lively; they degenerated into a bloody ambush. While costumed craftsmen and peasants mimed and danced their uprising in the streets, and notables and bourgeoisie hurried from banquets to balls in their ostentatious finery, Jean Serve-Paumier, master craftsman, draper, and leader of the popular party was assassinated and his friends and supporters beaten and pursued by the hired mob of Judge Antoine Guerin, leader of the most reactionary and inflexible part of the ruling party. More than a cruel incident, this particular Carnival night marked the intersection of an urban movement and even larger rural stirrings. Perhaps it even presaged the Revolution of 1789. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie marshals a wealth of evidence and reveals the town of Romans as a microcosm of the political and religious antagonisms that were tearing through 16th-century France. First published in 1979. 434pp. . ISBN: 184212627X. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HISTORY FRANCE ROMANS DAUPHINE 1580 16TH CENTURY RELIGIOUS WARS HUGUENOTS. more information

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London: HMSO, 1990. Henrietta Maria was only 15 when she left France to marry Chales I. For many of his subjects she was his evil genius, a self-willed, interfering Roman Catholic, capable of ruining them all. For Charles himself she was a delightful consort, as lively as she was unpredictable. Neither of them saw the growing troubles around them but when civil war erupted, Henrietta threw herself wholeheartedly into fighting for the royal cause. She travelled Holland in an attempt to pawn the Crown jewels and even marched at the head of her own army. Her heroic efforts and hair-raising voyages read like an adventure story in their own right. Following her success with "Queen of Scots" and "Bonnie Prince Charlie", Dr Marshall once again brings history to life for the general reader. She has vividly recreated the key personalities at the English and French courts, conveying the trauma of lives torn apart by the civil war. 147pp.. ISBN: 0112904793. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ROYALTY FRANCE HISTORY CHARLES I. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1969. Basing her narrative on a mass of contemporary documents,Miss Richardson describes the men of genius and distinction like Gautier,Baudelaire,and Verlaine,for whom Bohemia was a golden but transient experience;she also describes the crowd of misfits who spent their lives outside society,choosing penury,squalor and freedom rather than prosperity and convention.201pp.Centre of front d/j slightly marked,small residue of tape to front and rear endpapers.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. THE BOHEMIANS19TH CENTURY PARIS FRANCE SOCIAL HISTORY. more information

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Paris: Editions Xavier Richer, 1978. 115pp.Head of d/j spine scuffed.. Cloth. Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ANTIBES FRANCE. more information

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