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• Arts -- Political aspects
• Arts -- France

• Broken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jonathan P. Ribner (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Consensus and Debate in Salazar's Portugal: Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text, 1933-1948 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), by Ellen W. Sapega (PDF at PSU)

• Deep Lab (Pittsburgh: Deep Lab and the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2014), by Addie Wagenknecht, Allison Burtch, Claire L. Evans, Denise Caruso, Harlo Holmes, Ingrid Burrington, Jillian C. York, Kate Crawford, Lindsay Howard, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Maddy Varner, Maral Pourkazemi, and Runa A. Sandvik (PDF with commentary at studioforcreativeinqury.org)

• About 2 Squares, by El Lissitzky (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)

• Theatre and War: Notes From the Field (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Nandita Dinesh (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)

• Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Jerry White (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Jerry White (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil (Melbourne: Re.press, 2016), by Hélène Cixous, ed. by Lara Stevens (PDF with commenrary at re-press.org)
• Theatre and War: Notes From the Field (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Nandita Dinesh (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)

• Comoedia (partial serial archives)

• Archives Alsaciennes d'Histoire de l'Art (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Archives de l'Art Français (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1987), by David Van Zanten (PDF files at MIT)

• French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by Mary L. Myers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2006), by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, contrib. by Mimi Hellman (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1979), by James Parker and Clare Le Corbeiller (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1889), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Le Goût Chinois en France au Temps de Louis XIV (in French; Paris: Jouve, 1910), by Hélène Belevitch-Stankevitch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The History of Fashion in France: or, The Dress of Women From the Gallo-Roman Period to the Present Time (New York, Scribner and Welford, 1882), by Augustin Challamel, trans. by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• French Pottery (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1884), by Paul Gasnault and Edouard Garnier (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature: Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup (New York: W. L. Andrews, 1899), by William Loring Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• L'Oeuvre de Limoges (in French; Paris: A. Picard, 1890), by Ernest Rupin
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• A Loiterer in Paris (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1921), by Helen W. Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Kandinsky in Paris, 1934-1944 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1985), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Christian Derouet, and Wassily Kandinsky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Kandinsky in Paris, 1934-1944 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1985), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Christian Derouet, and Wassily Kandinsky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Renaissance Paris: Architecture and Growth, 1475-1600 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by David Thomson (HTML at UC Press)

• Renaissance Paris: Architecture and Growth, 1475-1600 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by David Thomson (HTML at UC Press)

• Nicholas Flammel, His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures Which he Caused to Bee Painted Upon an Arch in St. Innocents Church-yard, in Paris; Together with the Secret Booke of Artephius, and the Epistle of Iohn Pontanus, Concerning Both the Theoricke and the Practicke of the Philosophers Stone (London: Printed by T. Snodham for T. Walkley, 1624), by Nicolas Flamel, Artephius, and Joannes Pontanus, trans. by Eirenaeus Orandus
  • PDF at E-Rara
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Beautiful Buildings in France and Belgium, Including Many Which Have Been Destroyed During the War (New York: Hubbell Pub. Co., c1916), by Charles Harrison Townsend (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Professional Observations on the Architecture of the Principal Ancient and Modern Buildings in France and Italy: With Remarks on the Painting and Sculpture, and a Concise Local Description of Those Countries, Written From Sketches and Memoranda Made During a Visit in the Years 1802 and 1803 (London: Printed for the author by W. Ballintine, 1806), by George Tappan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Recueil d'Architecture Civile (architectural drawings from the vicinity of Paris, with some French text; Paris: Crapelet, 1812), by J. Ch. Krafft (page images at Wisconsin)
• Royal Palaces and Parks of France (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1910), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Les Fana: ou, Petits Temples Gallo-Romains de la Région Normande (in French; Rouen: J. Lecerf fils, 1909), by Léon de Vesly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discours Historial de l'Antique et Illustre Cité de Nismes en la Gaule Narbonoise (in French; Lyon: G. Roville, 1559), by Jean Poldo d'Albenas (page images with commentary at Architectura)

• Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1986), ed. by Paula Lieber Gerson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture: Chiefly Selected From Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France and Italy (London: Day and Son, 1862), by W. Eden Nesfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), contrib. by Sumner McK. Crosby, Jane Hayward, Charles T. Little, and William D. Wixom (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), contrib. by Sumner McK. Crosby, Jane Hayward, Charles T. Little, and William D. Wixom (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), by Pierre Rosenberg (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Arts Under Napoleon (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1978), by James David Draper (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Radiance and Reflection: Medieval Art from the Raymond Pitcairn Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jane Hayward and Walter Cahn (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• La Peinture Médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, c1987-1990), by Charles Sterling (page images at wpi.art)

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2008), by Timothy Husband, contrib. by Margaret Lawson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• La Peinture Médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, c1987-1990), by Charles Sterling (page images at wpi.art)

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

• Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from North American Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), ed. by John Philip O'Neill, contrib. by Lee Johnson, illust. by Eugène Delacroix (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

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