Parlez-vous français ? More practical than a dictionary, this is the ideal travel companion for your next trip à la française. Designed specifically for travellers, both business and pleasure, it will help you get your message across and understand the locals. You'll quickly find the bon mot for any situation, and pronouncing it will be a snap thanks to a simple phonetic system. This phrasebook includes: An introduction to French grammar to help you better understand the mechanics of the language; A phonetic transcription of every word; A complete index in English and French ; French for Better Travel - because if you can speak the langage, you're halfway there.

This book provides a pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers in the first half of the nineteenth century. Their journeys ranged from Peru to Russia and from North America to North Africa and the Near East. A number of these books are acknowledged masterpieces of Romantic prose, and this study shows how their literary qualities enabled these writers (in spite of some self-indulgence) to explore fruitful approaches to theportrayal of other cultures. The book is especially concerned to show how writing such works became something of a rite of passage for French Romantics and why they published more of them than their English and German counterparts. This proves to have much to do with the demands of French culturalpolicy as it competed with British expansion after the defeat of Napoleon.

This guide reveals more than 300 sights in the Qubec metropolis along 20 walking, biking and driving tours. With detailed maps for each tour, plans of the Museum of Fine Art galleries, and maps of the underground city. This comprehensive revision by real Montrealers ensures that the best of the best are included. Illustrations. Maps.