All Things French Week- " Le Temps De Lire" French Culture and Lifestyle Books.

These our French culture and lifestyle book choices. They help provide some insight into the French culture.



Debra Olliver
Entre Nous: A Womans' Guide to Finding her Inner French Girl.
What French Women Know: About Love,Sex and other Matters of the Heart and Mind.

Lavender

Carol Drinkwater
The Olive Farm
The Olive Tree
The Olive Harvest
The Olive Route- Audio
Memoir and travelogue, these stories tell journey of English writer Carol Drinkwater and her husband from thier purchase of a Olive farm in the south of France. At times poignant,Carol reveals her struggles to have a baby while juggling her new roles on the farm.

Olives at a Provencal Market

Helena Frith Powell

All You Need To Be Impossibly French- A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts and Secret of French Women.

Mireille Guiliano

French Women Don't Get Fat

French Women for All Seasons- A Year of Secrets, Recipes and Pleasure.

Women,Work and the Art of Savoir Faire

French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook

Ann Barry

At Home in France.

Betsy Draine

A Castle In The BackYard: The Dream Of A House in France.

Peter Mayle

A Year In Provence

Encore Provence-New Adventures In The South of France

Toujours Provence

French Lessons- Adventures in a Knife,Fork and Corkscrew

Provence A-Z, A Francophiles Essential Handbook

Aquired Tastes

Michael Sanders

From Here You Can't See Paris, Seasons of a French Village and its Restaurant

Pont de Alexandre Bridge

 

Michael Sadler

An Englishman In Paris: L" Education Continenale.

An Englishman A la Champagne

Mary Roblee Henry
A Farmhouse in Provence, An American finds old stones,new wine and love among the French.  

Yvone Lenard

The Magic of Provence- Pleasures of Southern France.

Love in Provence- Romantic Adventures In The South of France.

Patricia Wells

At Home in Provence- By Patricia Wells and Robert Freston

We've Always Had Paris..... and Provence:  A Scrapbook of Our Life in France.

Catherine Millet

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

Marguerite Duras

The Lover

Simone De Beauvoir

The Second Sex

Au Revoir!

These books are available at online book retailers and book stores.

Thank you for joining us for day 3 of All Things French Week!


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