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Stories Set in Bordeaux
Wine built this honey-stoned port, and wine money built its 18th-century waterfront. Behind the tasting rooms run stories of bourgeois rot and wartime compromise. Assayas' The Flower of Evil prunes the family tree. Open Bordeaux on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Bordeaux on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Bordeaux
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Browse 5 books and 7 movies set in Bordeaux.
The Sucker
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels…
The Flower of Evil
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Red Obsession
France’s Bordeaux region has long commanded respect for its coveted wine but shifts in the global marketplace mean that a new voracious consumer base in China is buying up this finite product. Bordeaux both struggles…
The Cockleshell Heroes
During WW2 German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
More Than Ever
Hélène a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux France lives happily as a couple with Mathieu her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog she discovers…
Goya in Bordeaux
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) deaf and ill lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and…
Sharpe's Siege
Sharpe's mission has seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon's supply lines, and retreat across the sea. But behind the lines, Sharpe's old enemy, Pierre Ducos, awaits Sharpe's…
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important…
Blind Obsession
Obsession, defined as the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image or desire....Chantel Rosenberg's passion for music and life had never shone brighter than the time she spent in Bordeaux…
Vipers' Tangle
The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s greatest Catholic writers, Vipers’ Tangle tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family. Louis…
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