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The man in the iron mask

In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

Anna and the French kiss

When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

Zazoo

Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.

France

Introduces young readers to the geography and culture of France.

A tale of two cities

Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

The pale assassin

In Paris in the early 1790s, as the revolution gains momentum, young and sheltered Eug?nie de Boncoeur finds it difficult to tell friend from foe as she and the royalist brother she relies on become the focus of "le Fantome," the sinister spymaster with a long-held grudge against their family.

Odette's secrets

"When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive"--Provided by publisher.

Scaramouche

a romance of the French Revolution
Lawyer Andre-Louis Moreau, appalled by the death of his best friend at the hands of a member of the aristocracy, assumes the role of the clown Scaramouche with an acting troupe in pre-Revolutionary France and proceeds to speak out against the unjust French government.

The hunchback of Notre Dame

Set in the year 1482, this novel relates the tragic life of the deformed Quasimodo and his hopeless love for the gypsy dancer Esmerelda.

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