France Backpacker Guides

Lonely Planet France

Destinations: France

Categories: Backpacker, Low Budget, Mid Range, Sightseeing

English, Feb 2011, Ed 9th,  

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“France seduces travelers with its unfalteringly familiar culture woven around its café terraces, village-square markets and lace-curtained bistros with their plat du jour chalked on the board.” – Nicola Williams, Lonely Planet writerOur PromiseYou can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet...  Show details

Lonely Planet Discover France

Destinations: France

Categories: Backpacker, Low Budget, Mid Range, Sightseeing

English, 400 pages, Mar 2010,  

Includes Paris & Daytrips - Paris, Versailles, Chartres, Champagne the Northeast, Brittany & Normandy, The Loire & Central France. This guide also includes: Burgundy, Lyon & French Alps; French Alps/Jura, Lyon & Rhone Valley, The South of France; Provence & Cote d'Azur, Western France & Pyrenees; and, Basque ...  Show details

A Journey into Matisse's South of France

Destinations: France

Categories: 1 month or more trips, 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Beach, Business Traveler, Children & Travel with Children, City, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 75 pages, Aug 2009,  

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This beautiful and fascinating book follows Henri Matisse on his journeys into the South of France, where he discovered the light and color that saturate his work. Part biography, part travel guide, it explores the painter's private life, artistic evolution, and relationships with the places that inspired him...  Show details

A Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

Destinations: France

Categories: 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Business Traveler, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Student, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 80 pages, Aug 2009,  

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Steeped in history and beguilingly beautiful, but also stiflingly closed-minded, 19th-century Normandy both inspired and appalled the French novelist Gustave Flaubert. This fascinating, richly illustrated book explored the writer's love-hate relationship with the region that featured so prominently in his con...  Show details