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Excerpt: A Little Tour in France by Henry James.

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...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are to... ...s WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is Paris, just as we are accused of being too apt to think that Pari... ...r of these light pages that there are many good things in the doux pays de France of which you get no hint in a walk between those ornaments of the ca... ...ave), but which enabled him to feel that his proposition was demonstrated. France may be Paris, but Paris is not France; that was perfectly evident on... .... That is perhaps one reason why it was so successful. 4 A Little Tour in France I. I AM ASHAMED to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of ... ... Burgundy is Bur- gundy, Provence is Provence; but Touraine is essentially France. It is the land of Rabelais, of Descartes, of Balzac, of good books ... ...he mildness, the convenient quality, of the physical conditions of central France,— “son climat souple et chaud, ses pluies abondantes et courtes.” In...

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...In celebration of Bastille Day, 2007, volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Name of France by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for the week of July 8th, 2007....

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...Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...

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What are the reasons behind the sudden outbreak of mushroom poisonings in Burgundy, France? Read at your own risk to unravel this peculiar mystery.

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...France is fighting Al-Qaeda in Africa and ISIS in France. Al-Qaeda was supported by Iran and Sudan while ISIS was supported by Turkey. This essay explains the economic underpinnings of these wars. ...

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...World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France records her travels along the front in 1914 and 1915, and celebrates the indomitable spirit of the French people. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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...in defense, science, and industry. At any rate, one effect of this document has been to renew interest in the official government research on UFOs in France....

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Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells THE P THE P THE P THE P THE PASSIN... ...ack letters on the garden wall— which shelters the General Headquarters of France, and here I was able to see and talk to Generals Pelle and Castelnau... ...many, seizing upon mod- ern science and modern appliances, has created for France and the spirit of mankind. He talked chiefly of the strangeness of t... ...declares, spend his first free summer in making a tour of the waterways of France in a barge. So I hope it may be. One imagines him as sitting quietly... ...e of this series, a memory of certain trenches I visited on my last day in France. They were trenches on an offensive front; they were not those archi... ...hat one can call the thunder of guns. The heaviest bombardments I heard in France sounded merely like Brock’s benefit on a much large scale, and disap... ...expansion, Italy was a happy hunting ground for her busi- ness enterprise, France had come near resignation on the score of Alsace-Lorraine. And then ...

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...spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) in his book O Canada (1965), described Parkman’s France and England in North America in these terms: The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman’s narrative are among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art. Parkman's ...

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...plain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage that he founded New France in the spirit of unselfishness, of loyalty, and of faith. Read by Kevin McAsh...

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...High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unpolished feel because it was published in June of 1918 while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When he was captured behin...

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...citizen king Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His Popular History of France is an attractive and engrossing narrative, here presented in an easily readable English translation by Robert Black, first published in 1898. ...

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...citizen king Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His Popular History of France is an attractive and engrossing narravative, here presented in an easily readable English translation by Robert Black, first published in 1898...

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...citizen king Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His Popular History of France is an attractive and engrossing narravative, here presented in an easily readable English translation by Robert Black. (Summary from Wikipedia...

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...citizen king Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His Popular History of France is an attractive and engrossing narravative, here presented in an easily readable English translation by Robert Black, first published in 1898...

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...citizen king Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His Popular History of France is an attractive and engrossing narravative, here presented in an easily readable English translation. (Summary from Wikipedia with additions ...

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...Gen George S. Patton Jr. remains one of the most storied commanders of World War II. Patton’s spectacularly successful drive across France in August–September 1944 as commander of the US Third Army was perhaps his greatest campaign....