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  Back Roads France by Eyewitness

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  A colourful guide with 25 scenic driving tours around France. All the drives are between 2 and 5 days long and there's selective information on sights, hotels and restaurants for each.

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  Family Guide to France by Eyewitness

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  A useful guide to all the options available for exploring the country with children. It includes suggested destinations across the nation, plenty of photographs, good maps, and appropriate hotels and restaurants.

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  France: Best Drives by AA

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  Includes 25 car tours, with well-planned itineraries that make time for walks and other diversions. Distances, directions and driving times are included to aid planning, and at the back of the book one finds a first-rate road atlas.

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  France by Rough Guide

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  An exhaustive guide with full listings of accommodation, restaurants and sights, supported by detailed regional and town maps. It includes a thorough section on history, culture, art and architecture.

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  French Hotel & Chateaux Special Places by Alastair Sawday

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  Diligently researched, this is surely the finest selection of exclusive lodgings across France.

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  Cycle Touring in France by Stephen Fox

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  This compact volume offers 8 tours covering all corners of France, from beginners' routes to classic Alpine climbs. Descriptions are detailed and maps decent enough.

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  France: Working & Living by Monica Larner

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  Contains everything you need to know about moving across the Channel, with information on visas, housing, education, employment and much more, all presented in a highly readable style.

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  Guide France 2010 by Gault Millau

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  The 5000 finest restaurants and hotels in France, as chosen by the formidable Gault Millau inspectors. All text is in French.

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  Brittany and Normandy by Lonely Planet

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  This guide to Brittany and Normandy is one of Lonely Planet's new style of regional guides. The focus is very much on tourism rather than 'travelling' and contains plenty of itineraries and ideas for trips.

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  Karen Brown's France by Karen Brown

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  A personal guide to the hotels, bed and breakfasts of France, with a few recommendations for local sites. Charming drawings and paintings of the areas make these guides stand out.

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  French Self-Catering Special Places to Stay by Alastair Sawday

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  Sawday's guides are irresistible - they promise reliably good recommendations on any budget and there's always something a bit different about the place. This guide is no exception.

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  France by Frommer's

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  Up-to-date and comprehensive, this is a very useful all-round guide, with highlights, maps, and restaurant and hotel recommendations for the whole country.

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  France by Eyewitness Guides

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  A popular guide covering the finest sights, reknowned for its numerous photographs throughout. These are supported by succinct descriptions of historical context and explanation. The guide concludes with a selection of accommodation, restaurants, and shopping.

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  Pudlo France 2008-2009 by Gilles Pudlowski

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  Pudlowski's frank and monumental guide, available now in English for the first time, describes and rates 2,000 hotels and 3,000 restaurants in all price ranges. Once France's best kept secret, this tome now rivals the Michelin Red.

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  France: Buying a Property by Mark Igoe and John Howell

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  An indispensable companion covering all legal, financial and social aspects and containing valuable advice from other buyers.

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  Boutique and Chic Hotels by Lionel Pailles

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  A lush hotel guide for the discerning traveller.

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  Paris Mini Guide by Rough Guide

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  A pocket sized guide containing a selection of the detailed information of a Rough Guide. It includes useful maps of the city.

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  Paris Restaurants by Zagat

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  The most recent of those utterly reliable Zagat guides to restaurants in Paris.

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  Secret Paris by Jacques Garance & Maud Ratton

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  One of an excellent series of guides from Jonglez which uncover hidden secrets of a city.

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  Paris Family Guide by Eyewitness

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  A thorough guide to all the options available for exploring the city with children. It includes sights in specific boroughs, plenty of photographs, good maps, and appropriate hotels and restaurants.

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  Paris by Eyewitness

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  Sightseeing companion of exceptional design, packed with enticing photographs and illustrations accompanying excellent material on cultural and architectural highlights. Less useful for the practical nitty-gritty however, though reasonable hotel and restaurant listings are provided.

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  Paris Top 10 by Eyewitness

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  This handy pocket volume, which includes a fine pull-out map and guide, whittles the city down to its ten best museums, galleries, restaurants, cafes, walks, parks and so on.

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  Paris City Notebook by Moleskine

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  Offering little more than a few maps and pointers amidst a multitude of blank pages, these best suit the traveller looking to create a personal guide book and aide-memoire filled with their unique impressions and discoveries.

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  Northern France & the Paris Region Green Guide by Michelin

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  Each region, arranged alphabetically, is introduced and covered, with major sights highlighted and local hotels and restaurants suggested and rated according to cost. Best for a tour by car. Includes good sections on Versailles and Chartres.

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  Paris by Blue Guides

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  The definitive guide to the culture, art and architecture of Paris.