Can a family of five from deep in the heart of Dixie find happiness smack dab in the middle of France?
French By Heart is the story of an all-American family pulling up stakes and finding a new home in Clermont-Ferrand, a city four hours south of Paris known more for its smoke-spitting factories and car dealerships than for its location in the Auvergne, the lush heartland of France dotted with crumbling castles and sunflower fields. The...

"A Parisian stylist's guide to the best shopping in the City of Light" along with "recommendations for hotels, cafés, bars, patisseries, festivals, salons and markets"--Page 4 of cover.

"A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion-by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb's France combines the stylistic versatility of a novelist with...

Explore the beautiful Loire Valley, once the playground of kings and noblemen, and discover its medieval cities, majestic religious history, and remarkable cuisine.

This culinary travel memoir reveals French families at their best: at their own dinner tables. It is an intimate peek inside their homes and lives; it is a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre, or "peasant foods"); and it is a compendium of culinary cultural traditions, sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories. This book is the first half of a culinary adventure in the Île de France,...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is the month-by month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the first mistral,...