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  • Bread, Pastry and Sweets in Old Regime France

    by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy, Jim Chevallier ...
    Le Grand d'Aussy traces French bread history from the first Tameliers and Fourniers to the Boulangers whose bread evolved from a simple boule to the pains mollet of the seventeenth century and the long breads which already began to replace round breads in the eighteenth century. Along the way he looks at the different types of bread, typically made from wheat, and also the other grains and even ... Read more

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  • Feasts and All Their Finery

    Elegant Dining in Old Regime France

    by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy, Jim Chevallier ...
    A mechanical horse... A mountain flowing with rose-water... A lake with a boat in full sail.. These were a few of the details of the complex entertainments presented with elegant Medieval meals. Meanwhile, table decoration, which began with abundant flowers and piles of fruit, evolved into complex constructions of glass, artificial frost and drawings in sand. Even as kings struggled to limit ... Read more

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  • Beer, Cider and Spirits in Old Regime France

    by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy, Jim Chevallier ...
    This excerpt from Le Grand d'Aussy's classic work on the history of French private life explores the history of beer, cider and spirits in France from the Gauls to Le Grand's own time (the late eighteenth century). The history of beer since the Egyptians to its slow growth to popularity in France to what Le Grand describes as its decline in his own time; the surprisingly late appearance of cider ... Read more

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  • A History of Wine in France from the Gauls to the Eighteenth Century

    by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy, Jim Chevallier ...
    One of the most complete histories of wine in France was written in the eighteenth century, a long chapter within Le Grand d'Aussy's masterwork on French food and wine (hopefully but misleadingly titled “History of the private life of the French from the origin of the nation until our days”). Le Grand starts with the Gauls, Greeks and Romans and the introduction of wine into France before ... Read more

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  • Catholic Fasting in France

    From the Franks to the Eighteenth Century

    by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy, Jim Chevallier ...
    Is bacon fat meat? Chicken? Cheese? Eggs? All of these have been considered, at different times, meat or meatless foods by the Catholic Church. The eighteenth century historian Le Grand d'Aussy included several long passages on the complex history of Catholic fasting in France in his master work on the history of French food. Taken together, they explore the often surprising twists and turns this ... Read more

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  • Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France

    by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy, Jim Chevallier ...
    Green eggs were popular once, and long before Dr. Seuss, in France. Poached eggs were served with orange juice and spices. Easter eggs inspired not egg hunts, but loud, raucous processions.Cheese might be eaten with sugar and even cinnamon. Brie and Parmesan cheese were popular long before modern times. Butter could be preserved with salt, but also by being melted and put in earthenware jars.On ... Read more

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  • A History of Coffee and Other Refreshments in Early Modern France

    by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy, Jim Chevallier ...
    Coffee, tea and chocolate were all still newcomers to France when the eighteenth century historian Le Grand d'Aussy wrote his history of French food and drink. He includes his look at what was then still their recent history in a section on non-alcoholic drinks. But first he looks at the cold ones, notably lemonade, also a relative newcomer, yet already popular enough that those who sold coffee, ... Read more

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    by James Thompson ...
    The last day of June, 1559, was a gala day in Paris. The marriages of Philip II of Spain with Elizabeth of France, daughter of King Henry II and Catherine de Medici, and that of the French King’s sister, Marguerite with Emanuel Philibert, duke of Savoy, were to be celebrated. But “the torches of joy became funeral tapers” before nightfall, for Henry II was mortally wounded in the tournament given ... Read more

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  • Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion

    by André Thevet ...
    Translated by Edward Benson ...
    Series series Early Modern Studies
    Available for the first time in English, these thirteen selections from André Thevet’s Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres offer a glimpse of France during a time of great upheaval. Originally published in 1584, Thevet’s collection contains over two hundred biographical sketches, detailing the lives of important persons from antiquity to the sixteenth century. Edward Benson and Roger ... Read more

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  • Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1

    by William Walton ...
    If the capital of the French nation, situated on the river Seine, were simply the most beautiful, the wittiest, wickedest, and most artistic of towns, if – as has been so often asserted (and not exclusively by the citizens thereof) – the most commonplace and the most brilliant of human manifestations alike take on new qualities, texture, and interest the moment they become Parisien, then, indeed, ... Read more

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  • Stories from French History

    by Lena Dalkeith ...
    Once upon a time (and all this that you are about to read is true) there was a large wild country in Europe called the country of Gaul.It lay between sea and sea, between mountain and mountain; and if you would know the names of the seas, they are the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and that part of the Atlantic Ocean which is called to-day the English Channel. And if you would know the ... Read more

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    by Lena Dalkeith ...
    Once upon a time (and all this that you are about to read is true) there was a large wild country in Europe called the country of Gaul. It lay between sea and sea, between mountain and mountain; and if you would know the names of the seas, they are the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and that part of the Atlantic Ocean which is called to-day the English Channel. And if you would know the ... Read more

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