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An account of upper class French society through the centuries showing how its setting - the "chateaux" and "manoirs" of the French countryside evolved in concert with their inhabitants.
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"Splendid . . . Those buying this almost-too-attractive book in order to luxuriate in the range and beauty of its illustrations should be warned that the text is both challenging and seriously instructive."
-- Gillian Tindall, Times Literary Supplement (London)
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-- Gillian Tindall, Times Literary Supplement (London)
"Well written and beautifully illustrated...a social history that embraces many themes and raises many important questions."
-- Douglas Johnson, The Spectator (London)
"Mark Girouard has the architectural expertise, the descriptive skill and the social connections to make a lucid and exemplary guide to this world."
-- Julian Barnes, The Literary Review (London)
Mark Girouard is one of Britain's leading architectural historians and the acclaimed author of the best-selling Life in the English Country House, winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W. H. Smith Annual Literary Award, as well as Of Spirit of the Age, The Victorian Country House, The English Town and a biography of James Stirling. Mark Girouard currently lives in London, W11.
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- PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0304354007
- ISBN 13 9780304354009
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. 352 pp. A perceptive and witty account of the French upper classes at home showing how their way of life and its setting - the chateaux and manoirs of the French countryside, evolved through the centuries in concert with their inhabitants. Lavishly illustrated throughout with black & white and colour illustrations. Seller Inventory # 5655
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