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History - French Genre
Books in the History - French genre:
The Story of Roland (1930)
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
Behind the Battlements (1931)
Three stories set in fortified cities of France, along with short historical essays on life in the old days.
Author(s):
Gertrude Linnell
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The Gun (1933)
Follows the fates of the men who use a cannon in their battle to oust the French from Spain.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Stanley Rogers
The Gun (1933)
Follows the fates of the men who use a cannon in their battle to oust the French from Spain.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Nurse Cavell (1933)
A play based on the life of Edith Cavell, a British nurse working in Belgium during World War I who was shot by a German military tribunal for assisting allied soldiers to escape to neutral Holland.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Roland the Warrior (1934)
A retelling of La Chanson de Roland.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia M. Collier
Jeanette Eaton
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Les Misérables (1938)
A man who cannot escape his past is pursued by an obsessed detective. Published in one, two, and five volume editions.
Author(s):
Victor Hugo
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Battle of France (1940)
An account of the BEF in France, ending with the Thirty Days War in June 1940.
Author(s):
André Maurois
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Road to Bordeaux (1940)
An account of the evacuation of casualties of the fighting in northern France through Bordeaux.
Author(s):
Douglas Cooper
Denis Freeman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Story of Peace and War (1952)
A history of war and peace for young readers.
Author(s):
Thomas Franklin Galt
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Golden History of the World: A Child’s Introduction to Ancient and Modern Times (1955)
A brief illustrated world history.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Mystery of Mont Saint-Michel (1955)
A group of French schoolmates explore the history of the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel.
Author(s):
Michel Rouzé
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Short Reign of Pipin IV: A Fabrication (1957)
The French decide to re-institute a monarchy and select Pippin Arnulf Heristal, a retired astronomer and hereditary heir to the throne, to fill the role.
Author(s):
John Steinbeck
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Avignon in Flower: 1309-1403 (1965)
A history of a golden age.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Marzieh Gail
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Ellen Raskin
A Dictionary of Chivalry (1968)
Author(s):
Grant Uden
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Hurrah, We’re Outward Bound! (1968)
A collection of sea chanteys and salt-water rhymes accompanies the story of the first voyage of La Jeune Francaise from Honfleur, France to New York, Dartmouth and home again.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Joan of Arc (1980)
Author(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel