Edited by Dore Ogrizek. 240 pages, 271 illustrations in full color, maps in color, boards, dj, 8-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches. From the publisher: Here, as in no other book, the real essence of France comes vibrantly alive through a combination of delightful text and striking full-color illustrations. With such guides as Andre Maurois, Jean Cocteau, Jules Romains, Marcel Brion, and many other distinguished authors who know and love France, the reader is taken on a spellbinding tour, both of the little-known and the well-known corners of a land in which twenty centuries of human history have created civilization's most resplendent and majestic masterpieces.

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