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Books in the France genre:

The Girls of St. Gabriel's (1905)

Girls of St. Gabriel's Baldwin Tarrant 1905 book cover

Ursula and her brother are sent to France to stay with their aunt when their mother goes out to be with their father in Mauritius. 

Author(s): May Theodora Baldwin
Illustrator(s): Percy Tarrant

Roland the Warrior (1934)

Roland the Warrior Collier Eaton Schoonover 1934 book cover

A retelling of La Chanson de Roland.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Virginia M. Collier
Jeanette Eaton
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

The King’s Cavalier (1950)

The King's Cavalier Samuel Shellabarger book cover

A young Frenchman and a young Englishwoman are caught in the wild plots and counterplots surrounding the Bourbon conspiracy against Francis I in 16th century France.

Author(s): Samuel Shellabarger
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Lafayette (1953)

Lafayette Carol Ryrie Brink book cover

A historical book about Lafayette, a key figure in the French Revolution.

Author(s): Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley Morse

The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy (1954)

The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy John Macgregor book cover
Riveting tale of a 1,500-mile voyage on a 21-foot sailboat in 1867, undertaken in response to a "Boat Exhibition" and regatta staged by Napoleon III to encourage the youth of France to explore the rivers and streams of their native land. This rapturo... View More

Author(s): John Macgregor
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Headland (1955)

The Headland Carol Ryrie Brink book cover
The small village on the coast of France was home to five children each summer. Their lives were bound together, though, on the nearby headland--a wild, romantic place with its ruined castle and strange well shaft leading down through dark rock to th... View More

Author(s): Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s): None

French Leave (1957)

Frenchl Leave Wodehouse Sax 1957 book cover

The adventures of three American women vacationing in France

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Rudolf Michael Sachs

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Adventurers All (1963)

Adventurers All Untermeyer 1963 book cover

Excerpts from eleven works of adventure.

 

Author(s): J. M. Barrie
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Alexandre Dumas
Edgar Allen Poe
Howard Pyle
Et al
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier
Et al

Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers (1968)

Best Loved Books for Young Readers Vol 10 Various Authors 1968 book cover
Condensed versions of four books, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Rabbit Hill and Beau Geste. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Robert Lawson
Betty Smith
Jules Verne
P. C. Wren
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson
Et al

The Rebel (1972)

Rebel Burton Ambrus book cover

Stephen Parkin decides to see what is going on in France during the Revolution, and wishes he hadn't.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Hester Burton
Illustrator(s): Victor Ambrus

Travels with Lionel (1988)

Travels With Lionel Hart Massey book cover

All about experiences aboard a small barge in France.

Author(s): Hart Massey
Illustrator(s): John Verney

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