Though women enter France's culinary professions at higher rates than ever, men still receive the lion's share of the major awards and Michelin stars. Rachel Black looks at the experiences of women in Lyon to examine issues of gender inequality in France's culinary industry. Known for its female-led kitchens, Lyon provides a unique setting for ......
This trenchant diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during WWII. Lucien Dreyfus offers readers a unique philosophical and moral reflection on the Holocaust as it was unfolding in France up until he and his wife were deported and murdered in Auschwitz in late 1943.
Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France reveals how the use of slang in French literature and culture led to the emergence of a sociolinguistic phenomenon that prioritized criminal life and culture in a way that expanded class boundaries and increased visibility for minorities within the public sphere.
This study examines the connections between Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan, as well as the nature and origins of Joan's mission. The author analyzes how Christine's Ditie suggests that Joan was trained to fulfill prophecies that Christine had promoted earlier.
When an English family renovate a 17th Century château in France as their new home, they are welcomed into a pleasant rural lifestyle. Everything is très bon – until a politician with a Machiavellian agenda sets out to ruin them. Against a backdrop of intrigue and skeletons of Nazi collaboration from World War II, the evils of corruption envelop ......
The contributions of this volume explore the political, social, and cultural legacies of May '68 revolt in France and similar protest movements in other nations around the globe. These events share a global utopian imaginary which found expression in a variety of artistic productions.
In this book, Jeffrey Merrick brings together a rich array of primary-source documents-many of which are published or translated here for the first time-that depict in detail the policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or pederasty and tribadism. Taken together, ......
This book examines the ways in which the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Quai d'Orsay) responded to the large number of German citizens who sought refuge in France between 1933 and 1938.
