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Something to declare: essays on France and French culture

✍ Scribed by Barnes, Julian

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage International
Year: 2002;2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 414 KB
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A collection of essays on France from Julian Barnes. Written over a 20
year period, the topics Barnes covers range from landscape to
literature, food to Flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France.

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