Life in the French Country House

by Mark Girouard

Book Overview

Mark Girouard, author of Life in the English Country House and other superb books, extends his realm to France in this perceptive and witty portrait of the upper classes at home in their châteaux,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679427112
• ISBN13: 9780679427117
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.1" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Extraordinary photography; fascinating reading

If you are interested in architecture, this book gives you a fascinating perspective on the use of houses, buildings and property as well as how people lived in French country houses. The book traces French country houses back to the Middle Ages and brings one up to current times, with an explication of how houses changed to meet standards of the times.

expectations gratified

What a delightful surprise to learn that Mark Girouard has written about France. I have enjoyed his books about English houses and towns for years -- returned to them again and again. His new book on the French country house has delighted me with the same mix of historical knowledge with social insight and architectural connoisseurship. All his books are full of the most interesting insights and details, and he writes like and angel. Nice pictures too. (My only wish is for more pictures, plans and diagrams.) This books is a lovely equal to his "Life in the English Country House."