Guide Books in French?
Jan 13, 2013, 9:29 am
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Guide Books in French?
I could benefit from reading more French. For my upcoming trip to France I am thinking of buying a guide book about France in French. Is there a French equivalent to the Lonely Planet or Fodor’s series? Many thanks…
Jan 13, 2013, 11:15 am
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http://www.routard.com/
Jan 13, 2013, 12:12 pm
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Lonely Planet guides are translated into French, as well as other languages. You can buy them online (paper or PDF) from LP, http://www.lonelyplanet.fr/, and I'd assume from French booksellers, as well.
BTW, I once realized while in Italy that I'd left my guidebooks for Slovenia at home. Since I'm a paper guidebook kind of person, I went to a Feltrinelli shop and ended up travelling around Slovenia with an LP in italiano and a Touring Club Italiano guide. A bit disorienting, but good for practicing my Italian!
Edited to add: Though for France, I'd probably prefer a French-published guide such as Routard, as recommended above, rather than LP.
BTW, I once realized while in Italy that I'd left my guidebooks for Slovenia at home. Since I'm a paper guidebook kind of person, I went to a Feltrinelli shop and ended up travelling around Slovenia with an LP in italiano and a Touring Club Italiano guide. A bit disorienting, but good for practicing my Italian!
Edited to add: Though for France, I'd probably prefer a French-published guide such as Routard, as recommended above, rather than LP.
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Michelin. There are also some that are specific to particular regions of France and have more details. They coordinate well with the Michelin red guide (hotels and restaurants, plus some local maps) and their road maps. It's easy to buy them in France, but hard to find the regional for French green guides in the USA, although the red and some green in English are pretty easy to find or order through a travel bookstore.
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Jan 15, 2013, 1:13 pm
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The excellent Paris design guide (both in French and English):
http://www.intramuros.fr/design_guid...s_magazine.php
http://www.intramuros.fr/design_guid...s_magazine.php
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You can purchase french language michelin guide books mail order from the former operator of the rockefeller center bookstore Librairie de France here: http://www.frencheuropean.com/
You also might try Idlewild Books.
You also might try Idlewild Books.
Jan 16, 2013, 9:55 am
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http://recherche.livre.fnac.com/n139...des-FranceBLO1