Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France
10 best books like Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France (Kristin Espinasse): C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French, All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light, French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France, Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris, A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns, French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France, From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany
C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French
| Author | Suzy Gershman |
| ISBN | 0143035509 |
Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed “Super Shopper Suzy” by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had always fantasized about moving to Paris with her husband, but when he dies unexpectedly, she decides to fulfill their...
All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women
| Author | Helena Frith Powell |
| ISBN | 0452287782 |
The allure of the Frenchwoman—sexy, sophisticated, flirtatious, and glamorous—is legendary. More than an eye for fashion or a taste for elegance, the French je ne sais quoi embodies the essential ingredients for looking and feeling beautiful.With wit, whimsy, and wonder, British expatriate...
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
| Author | David Downie |
| ISBN | 0307886085 |
“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of...
French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France
| Author | Polly Platt |
| ISBN | 0964668424 |
Polly Platt's title French or Foe? is more timely than ever, as the Franco. American alliance frays a little more with each day, the exchanges more vitriolic than ever before. Her book has long been the reference for what it is about the French that rubs Americans the wrong way, why the Franco-American...
Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl
| Author | Debra Ollivier |
| ISBN | 0312308779 |
Provocative and practical, lively and intelligent, Entre Nous unlocks the mystery of the French girl and the secrets of her self-possession. Why do French women always look inimitably stylish? How do they manage to sit in a café for a three-course lunch and a glass of wine...by themselves? What gives...
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
| Author | John Baxter |
| ISBN | 0061998540 |
From the author of Immoveable Feast and We’ll Always Have Paris comes a guided tour of the most beautiful walks through the City of Light, including the favorite walking routes of the many of the acclaimed artists and writers who have called Paris their home. Baxter highlights hidden treasures along...
A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns
| Author | Denis Lipman |
| ISBN | 1934848247 |
Denis Lipman left London’s East End for Washington, DC more than 20 years ago, but made an annual pilgrimage year after year to visit aging parents, a pair of cantankerous, real-life Cockneys. He endured the visits as best he could. Enter an American wife. Not content with a grin-and-bear-it attitude,...
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...
| Author | Michael S. Sanders |
| ISBN | 0060959207 |
From Here,You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of chef Jacques...
| Author | Mark Greenside |
| ISBN | 1416586873 |
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside reluctantly travels, eats of the crêpes, and finds a second...
| Author | Susan Herrmann Loomis |
| ISBN | 0767904559 |
Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with little more than a student loan and the contents of a suitcase to sustain her. But what
began then as an apprenticeship at La Varenne École de Cuisine evolved into a lifelong immersion in French cuisine and culture, culminating in permanent residency...
| Author | Phil Doran |
| ISBN | 1592401899 |
After years of working on a string of sitcoms, Phil Doran found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older guys when he was coming up the ranks, it was now happening to him. And it was freaking him out. He came home every night angry, burned- out, and exhausted. After...
A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new lifethis time in the South of France. Thirty years ago, James Beard Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence. She and her...
| Author | Vicki Archer |
| ISBN | 1920989455 |
A beautifully photographed romantic book about French style and culture?and making a new home in Provence
In 1999, Vicki Archer, with her husband and three children, made a lifelong dream a reality when she bought a seventeenth-century property in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. She spent three...
Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris
| Author | Clotilde Dusoulier |
| ISBN | 0767926137 |
Clotilde Dusoulier, a native Parisian and passionate explorer of the city’s food scene, has won a tremendous following online with her insider reports and wonderful recipes on her blog, www.chocolateandzucchini.com. Her book, Chocolate and Zucchini, introduced her to a wider, equally enthusiastic...
Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul
| Author | Charles Timoney |
| ISBN | 1592403735 |
The French you learned in school won’t get you far! Pardon My French is an entertaining and useful guide to the words and phrases every Francophile, traveler, student, and word maven should know, with fascinating lore and tidbits that make sense of the Gallic mind-set.
Englishman Charles...
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
| Author | Jean-Benoît Nadeau |
| ISBN | 1402200455 |
The French...
-Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans
-Work 35-hour weeks, and take seven weeks of paid holidays per year, but are still the world's fourth-biggest economic power
So what makes the...
French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
| Author | Harriet Welty Rochefort |
| ISBN | 0312199783 |
Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many of dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France....
A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light
| Author | Bryce Corbett |
| ISBN | 0767928172 |
At the age of twenty-eight, stuck in a dead-end job in London, and on the run from a broken heart, Bryce Corbett takes a job in Paris, home of l’amour and la vie boheme; he is determined to make the city his own—no matter how many bottles of Bordeaux it takes. He rents an apartment in Le Marais, the heart...
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
| Author | Elaine Sciolino |
| ISBN | 0805091157 |
The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets
France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New...
Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train
| Author | Ina Caro |
| ISBN | 0393078949 |
In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the miraculous visions of Joan of Arc, to Versailles to experience...
Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi
| Author | Olivier Magny |
| ISBN | 0425241181 |
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Parisians.
To be mistaken for a Parisian, readers must buy the newspaper Le Monde, fold it, and walk. Then sit at a café and make phone calls. Be sure to order San Pellegrino, not any other kind...
| Author | Catherine Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0718153049 |
Living in Paris with her partner, the workaholic Mr Frog, and their adorable toddler, Tadpole, Catherine decides to alleviate the boredom of her metro-boulot-dodo routine by starting a blog under the name of Petite Anglaise. Writing with disarming honesty about Paris life, about the confines of...
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
| Author | Alice Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0226424383 |
A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.
All...
Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels For A New Life In Rural France
| Author | Karen Wheeler |
| ISBN | 1840247614 |
Ugh what a dud to start the new year off with. I thought I'd settle in with a charming little book about moving to France & all that jazz, a bit like Under the Tuscan Sun, a book that I absolutely love, but this was just missing something for me. I couldn't really invest in the author's life choices, the...
