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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective…	OL1063588W
Manon Lescaut	Abbé Prévost	Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits …	OL1132652W
No strings attached	Carolyn Keene	While vacationing in Paris with her friends Beth and George, seventeen-year-old Nancy pursues a mystery involving a puppet theater and a long-lost treasure.	OL15046295W
Little Bo in Italy	Julie Edwards,Henry Cole	The little cat called Bonnie Boadicea and her new owner find great adventure while traveling along the coast of Italy, where Bo continues to seek her missing sister and joins the circus--at least for…	OL15251109W
The Jester	James Patterson,Andrew Gross	Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to discover that his terrifying nightmare has just begun. Merciless killers have slain his young son, kidnapped his wife, Sophie, and destroyed his town in their…	OL167161W
The Enormous Room	E. E. Cummings	The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an …	OL1847491W
Lovers and tyrants	Francine du Plessix Gray	Lovers and Tyrants is an erotic, urgent and enormously funny novel in the historical tradition of those writers whose art has radically expanded women's consciousness - Virginia Woolf, Colette, Simon…	OL1939671W
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard	Arthur Conan Doyle	"Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar in the French Army, in Napoleon's service. He's a vain man, believing in his own superiority in many things: being the bravest soldier, the greatest swordsman, a…	OL262581W
Children of summer	Margaret Jean Anderson	Ten-year-old Paul describes how he and his sisters learned about insects from the observations and writings of their father, the nineteenth-century French entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre.	OL3239953W
Le Comte de Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm	OL36287W
Les trois mousquetaires	Alexandre Dumas,Auguste Maquet	During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.	OL36861W
Pastry school in Paris	Cindy Neuschwander	Twins Bibi and Matt learn about different liquid measurements when they go to Les Jumelles Coccinelle International Pastry Academy while on a trip to Paris with their parents and dog.	OL443638W
The three musketeers [adaptation]	Vincent Buranelli	A simple retelling of the adventures of a young peasant involved with three musketeers in the service of King Louis XIII of France.	OL4480781W
The King of Slippery Falls	Sid Hite	While on a single-minded quest to catch an elusive giant trout, sixteen-year-old Lewis Hinton's life in a small Idaho town is turned upside-down when he learns that he is adopted and might be a desce…	OL496830W
You only have nine lives	Holm & Hamel.	As the new spokescat for Le Chat Gourmet cat food, former British feline spy Mr. Stink and his humans travel to France, where he revisits his childhood home and uncovers secrets about his past.	OL5716060W
The burnished blade	Lawrence L. Schoonover	A panorama of the internal turmoil of mid-fifteenth century France and the Orient, which had been opened to Europe by the Crusades. In the first part, this tells of Pierre's childhood, the usual …	OL7138124W
Grk takes revenge	Joshua Doder	187 p. ; 20 cm	OL8053362W
Les contes drôlatiques	Honoré de Balzac	A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from…	OL85056W
L'Éducation sentimentale	Gustave Flaubert	Le 15 septembre 1840, vers six heures du matin, la Ville-de-Montereau , pres de partir, fumait a gros tourbillons devant le quai Saint-Bernard. Des gens arrivaient hors d'haleine ; des barriques, des…	OL893802W
The Reef	Edith Wharton	The Reef, a semi-autobiographical novel that attacks the hypocrisies of New York society of which author Edith Wharton had long been a member, was praised by contemporaries as her best work since Eth…	OL98515W