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| Preface | |
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| How to use this book | |
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| Embrasse-moi | |
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| Les petits mots d'amour A game of love, Valentine's Day cards, and proverbs about love | |
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| L'horoscope Horoscopes-Western and Chinese | |
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| Les petites annonces class�es Looking for love in the classifieds | |
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| L'amour �ternel A letter from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo | |
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| La vie romantique A letter from George Sand to Alfred de Musset | |
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| L'amour au th��tre Moli�re's pursuit of the perfect expression of love | |
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| L'amour et les chats Chateaubriand's love of cats | |
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| L'amour et le chocolat For the love of chocolate | |
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| L'adieu A farewell poem by Apollinaire | |
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| �cris-moi | |
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| Les notes Sticky notes, to-do lists, e-mail, a love letter, a "Dear John" letter, postcards, and a wedding invitation | |
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| �changes entre voisins Correspondence-neighborly and not so neighborly | |
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| Correspondance administrative A letter to city hall | |
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| Lettre de cachet An official request | |
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| Lettres historiques Letters from the battlefield | |
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| Runes The magic of writing | |
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| Ha�kus Poetry in three lines | |
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| Nourris-moi | |
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| La panoplie du chef A chef's stock-in-trade | |
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| Recettes Three recipes, beginning with dessert | |
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| Les critiques culinaires A guide to Parisian restaurants | |
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| Cuisine et litt�rature D�jeuner with Proust | |
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| Les mani�res de table Eating do's and don'ts in the 1800s | |
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| Le lunch au Local Let's have lunch with the Qu�b�cois! | |
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| Des livres beaux � croquer Flaubert au chocolat, Balzac � la Chantilly | |
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| Enivrez-vous An invitation from Baudelaire | |
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| Chante, chante | |
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| � la claire fontaine A seventeenth-century soldier's lament | |
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| Le temps des cerises Politics and love in a nineteenth-century song | |
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| Les roses blanches Lyrical white roses for maman | |
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| Carmen Romance in Bizet's opera | |
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| Le chant gr�gorien Centuries-old plainsong | |
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| L'Olympia Resurrecting a musical theater in Paris | |
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| Le Mus�e de la Musique A museum of musical instruments | |
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| Nous n'irons plus au bois A song based on a nineteenth-century poem | |
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| Prom�ne-moi | |
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| La France des mus�es Museums-old and new | |
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| Le mus�e du quai Branly African, Asian, Oceanic, and American art by the Seine | |
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| Les mus�es ruraux Bread, bees, and ostriches in the countryside | |
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| Les mus�es urbains Fabric and fashion in the city | |
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| Les maisons d'artistes The artist's spirit lives on | |
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| Le Paris des jardins The green space of Paris | |
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| Emm�ne-moi au bout du monde | |
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| Un voyage d'affaires Doing business in Venice | |
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| L'Orient-Express A history of the train of myth and mystique | |
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| Un tour en montgolfi�re Up, up, and away | |
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| Paris boh�me A stroll through 1920s Montparnasse | |
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| Th�odore Monod A scientist and humanitarian whose passion was the desert | |
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| Alexandra David-N�el Pages from an explorer's journal | |
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| Femmes au-del� des mers Women, heritage, and networking | |
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| Fais-moi explorer | |
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| Lecture num�rique Young, avid digital readers | |
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| Les inventions Hot-air balloons, garbage cans, and Braille | |
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| L'euro Technology in your pocket | |
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| Les vitraux Craftsmanship in the restoration of stained glass | |
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| Marie Curie, une pionni�re du prix Nobel au Panth�on The first woman to join the nation's "great men" | |
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| M�decins Sans Fronti�res Relieving the world's suffering | |
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| Adolphe Sax The highs and lows of an inventor's life | |
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| Explique-moi tous les symboles | |
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| Les symboles fran�ais Maxims, the rooster, Marianne, and "La Marseillaise" | |
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| Les drapeaux The flags of France and the European Union | |
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| L'Acad�mie fran�aise Protecting the mother tongue | |
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| Les discours Speech, speech! Victor Hugo delivers | |
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| Fais-moi d�couvrir la litt�rature contemporaine | |
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| Hommage au monde francophone A tribute to the mother tongue | |
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| La th�orie des nuages Cloud obsession, love, and survival | |
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| Pondich�ry, � l'aurore From Stockholm to Pondich�ry | |
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| Aim� C�saire par sa fille C�saire, fundamental man | |
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| Ha�ti Kenbe La! Dreams of my Haitian grandmother | |
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| Dany Laferri�re We are human beings, all over the world | |
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| Boulevard des Mots-dits A carnival of words | |
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| La tourmente de la langue fran�aise Taming the French language | |
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| Chant � l'Indien A poem by Khireddine Mourad | |
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| Continuing to read | |
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| Answer key | |