French Memoir

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    • Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time: A Memoir
    • By: Jane Bertch
    • Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • When Jane Bertch was seventeen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every waiter and shopkeeper she encountered....

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    • The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
    • By: Jacques Lusseyran
    • Narrated by: Andre Gregory
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • Jacques Lusseyran's gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published....

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    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • In this gripping biography, acclaimed author Harlow Giles Unger paints an intimate portrait of the heroic young French soldier who, at 19, renounced a life of luxury in Paris and Versailles to fight and bleed for liberty - at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown....

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    • A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
    • By: Erin French
    • Narrated by: Erin French
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,346 ratings
    • Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad’s diner....

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    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 702 ratings
    • Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval....

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    • The Last Queen of France
    • By: Evelyne Lever
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Married for political reasons at the age of fourteen, Marie Antoinette was naive, impetuous, and ill-equipped for the role in which history cast her....

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    • By: George R. Elford
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 560 ratings
    • The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers....

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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

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    • One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
    • By: Pamela Druckerman
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,463 ratings
    • The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children is here....

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    • Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
    • By: Ann Mah
    • Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • The memoir of a young diplomat's wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris - one dish at a time....

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    • By: Nancy Wake
    • Narrated by: Christine Jeffery
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling....

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    • By: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,273 ratings
    • In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling"....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Marilyn French
    • Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The memoir of an indomitable woman who brought the fighting power she has always brought to the war between the sexes, to the war that for a while raged from within her....

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    • By: Alex French
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
    • In the summer of 1975, the sprawling valley town of Grand Junction, Colorado, is stunned by the grisly double murders of 24-year-old Linda Benson and her baby daughter Kelley....

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    • By: Dawn French
    • Narrated by: Liza Tarbuck
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • With a sharp eye for comic detail and a wicked ear for the absurdities of life, Dawn French shows just how an RAF girl from the west country with dreams of becoming a ballerina/bridesmaid/thief rose to become one of the best-loved comedy actresses of our time....

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    • China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
    • By: Paul French
    • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor—her one year in China....

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    • Eating and Drinking from Champagne to Provence
    • By: Edward Behr
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Edward Behr investigates French cuisine and what it means, in encounters from Champagne to Provence. He tells of French artisans and chefs who continue to work at the highest level....

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    • The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an 18th-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project....

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    • In Combat with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and with the French in Indochina 1951-54
    • By: Paul Martelli, Vittorino dal Cengio - with
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a 15-year-old German-Italian who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and later as a soldier with French forces during three years in Vietnam....

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    • A Midwesterner in Paris
    • By: Scott Dominic Carpenter
    • Narrated by: Scott Dominic Carpenter
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: Scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps - not to mention all those lectures about cheese....

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