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One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France (101 Towns) | 
 enlarge | Author: Simonetta Greggio
Publisher: Rizzoli
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
Buy New: $28.06
You Save: $16.94 (38%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 27887
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 10.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0847828417
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780847828418
ASIN: 0847828417
Publication Date: September 5, 2006
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Product Description
A sequel to the highly successful One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy, this book expands the series to include the most enchanting hamlets of France. Gorgeously illustrated as well as informative, One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns of France is a journey through the French countryside, a place where the pace slows, locals engage strangers in conversation, and every town has a unique story to tell. Travel between the hilltop towns of the Central Massif and the Pyrenees to rockbound coastal fishing villages in Normandy and Brittany. Breathtaking full-color photographs create the perfect atmosphere as you discover these unexplored places, and descriptive sidebars offer invaluable information on local curiosities to indulge, unique artisanal products to buy, and age-old culinary specialties to sample. A detailed appendix is the perfect source on where to shop, sightsee, and dineâavec plaisir! Whether you are an armchair traveler or a Francophile planning another trip, this volume is the guide to the hidden treasures of France that proves once and for all that the heart of this popular travel destination lies in the countryside far from the grandeur and pomp of Paris.
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 Beautiful book August 26, 2008
Great price for this book--and it's very beautiful. My wife loves it, and I saved approximately 40%. Fantastic buy!
 ok as an introduction April 20, 2008
I shall be basing a few tours on this finely produced book but it gives only a tantalising introduction: the illustrations seem to emhasise the cathedrals - take Laon, for instance, it is an extraordinary fortress on a rock with fascinating labyrinths. I expect to find far more delights in the places we visit than the few that are hinted at. Great coffee table conversation piece.
Essential reading/ reference if you area Francophile ! March 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This amazing book leads you through beautiful France with a gentle hand. It opens doors not otherwise available unless you have unlimited time to research across a wide range of texts. Each step into each Department ensures another ( and different ) breath catching sight into ancient and contemporary France. Even though it is a heavy ( weightwise) text it is essential
to take it with you. The index in back of the book it a treasure trove of information that otherwise would not be available to you. I rate this book as one of my special treasures and will be taking it with me for the 2 months I intend spending in the south of France in September and October. Don't buy another book until you have put this treasure in your library even if just for pure pleasure of meandering through beautiful France.
 france February 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's nice if you want a VERY short overview of towns in France. If I had leafed through it in a bookstore, I probably would not have purchased it.
1001 French Towns December 3, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This item was exactly what I needed: birthday present coffee table book for discerning New Orleans doctor. It arrived promptly & was well packaged, too.
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