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“olivier lebleu”

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  • The Best of Enemies

    Meyer and Schirlitz: Saving La Rochelle. September 1944–May 1945

    by Olivier Lebleu, Robert Kalbach ...
    After the Allied D-Day landings in June 1944, Paris was liberated in late August, and the rest of France was freed in the following weeks. However, two pockets of German occupation in Royan and La Rochelle, both cities along the Atlantic coast, remained occupied for several months more.Blocking access to Bordeaux, the city of Royan would end in martyrdom under a carpet of Allied bombs on January 5 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France

    A Chronicle of Giraffomania, 1826–1845

    by Olivier Lebleu ...
    Translated by Cynthia T. Hahn ...
    This engaging account traces the remarkable history of France's first giraffe, a diplomatic gift from Egyptian Pasha Muhammed-Ali to King Charles X in 1826. “Zarafa,” taken by boat from Egypt to Marseilles and walked all the way to Paris, was accompanied by her Arab handlers and a famous French naturalist. She drew vast crowds along her route, sparking a giraffomania that was widely documented in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD