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H-France Reviews: Volume 11 (2011)

January Reviews

Maurice Samuels, Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010. ix + 323 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $60.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8047-6384-4.

Review by Alan Astro, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 1

Julie Candler Hayes, ed., Translation, Subjectivity & Culture in France and England, 1600-1800. , Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2009. 321 pp. $ 60 U.S. (cl) . ISBN 978-0-8947-5944-1

Review by Michel Ballard, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 2

Jacques Berchtold, ed. , Espaces, objets du roman au XVIIIe siècle : Homme à Henri Lafon, Paris : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2009. 206 pp. Notes. 23€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87854-456-5

Review by Philippe Barr, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No

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Château

French term for a manor house

For other uses, see Château (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Chalet.

A château (French pronunciation:[ʃɑto]; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.

Nowadays, a château may be any stately residence built in a French style; the begrepp is additionally often used for a winegrower's estate, especially in the Bordeaux region of France.^[1]

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