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Faber Book of French Cinema by Charles Drazin
Category: Performing Arts
In The Faber Book of French Cinema, Charles Drazin explores the rich film culture and history of the country that first established the cinema as the most important mass medium of the twentieth century. Offering portraits of such key figures as the Lumière brothers, Georges Méliès, Charles Pathé and Lé ...Show more
Mapping the Past by Drazin Charles
Category: History
'Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up? Well?' 'A Royal Engineer, Daddy. A Royal Engineer!' Charles Drazin knew little about his mother's father - only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it pro ...Show more
The Man Who Outshone the Sun King : Ambition, triumph and treachery in the reign of Louis XIV by Charles Drazin
Category: Biography
In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol. There he would be incarcerated in a cell next door to the Man with the Iro ...Show more
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