ALL THINGS FRENCH

On this day way back in  1893 the Eiffel Tower was opened, serving as an entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair. After 124 years the tower's still "going strong" and is one of the most recognized structures in the world.

There are no books on the Eiffel Tower in the Bullis Room, but there are  several books  with French connections, such as:

Love = "L'amour": from the French,

by Jules Michelet, published by Carleton in New York, 1868

History of Louis XIV,

by John S. C. Abbott, published by Harper in New York 1899

Patchwork,

by Basil Hall, published by E. Moxon in London, 1841

Ninety-three,

by Victor Hugo, published by Harper & Brothers, 1874

(For you Hugo fans, he wrote Ninety-three (his last novel) after the bloody upheaval of the Paris Commune in 1793 during the French Revolution.  And for those of you interested in travel books, Patchwork contains travel descriptions of France as well as Italy and Switzerland.)

If any of these books strike your fancy, please stop by and ask to spend some time with them.