Archive for Items Categorized 'French', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Bugatti (Hawley)
by Hawley, des Cordes, Mishne
From stone masonry to automobiles this catalog of a museum show looks at the artistic output of the entire Bugatti clan across three generations.
Delage, France’s Finest Car
by Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise
“The Beautiful French Car” is not a slogan cooked up by a clever press person but an accolade given by the public. The serious literature on this marque is quite thin and this book goes a long way toward painting a definitive picture of the entire lifespan of the company, not just the glamour decade from the late 1920s onwards.
Delage, Styling and Design
by Richard S. Adatto and Diana E. Meredith
The most challenging aspect of this book is keeping one’s attention focused on the words that are printed on the pages. That’s simply because the images keep pulling you back to look some more. Few can resist the visual feast of those lush, lovely sculpted lines created by the fabled French coachbuilders.
Gotha de l’Automobile Française
by Claude Rouxel and Laurent Friry
To cut a long story short, this is THE book to have on French car manufacturers if you have an interest in the upper crust cars of the Twentieth century.
The Fate of the Sleeping Beauties
by Ard & Arnoud op de Weegh, Kay Hottendorff
This is one book that could have used a subtitle! Not only are there several others with the words “sleeping beauties” in their tile, one of them covers the exact same subject—except . . . it tells a vastly different story and its sins of omission and commission are the raison d’être for this new one.
Salmson, la belle mécanique française
by Laurent Chevalier, Claude Chevalier
This book is the enhanced re-edition of Chevalier’s 1997 volume by the same publisher and which has sold out. His son Laurent has found about 200 new photographs that have never been published before. It proves that the “definitive work on …” only exists in authors’ and editors’ dreams or, at least, until the next one!
Bagheera: l’irrésistible panthère de Matra Simca
by André Dewael
Dewael founded the Belgian Matra Club in 1987 and so it is only natural that he embarked on the huge task of writing the definitive book on the futuristic Bagheera coupé—the “irresistible panther.” No stone was left unturned.
The Art of Bugatti: Mullin Automotive Museum
by Adatto, Kruta, Japp; photos by Furman
The book title notwithstanding, this museum is not just about Bugattis or, for that matter, cars. They do feature prominently but the purpose of the museum is an overall celebration of Art Deco in its totality, from artwork to furniture and cars to lighting—all exemplified by the extended Bugatti clan.
Ces belles voitures dont a rêvé mon père
by Xavier de Nombel & Patrice Vergès
The authors of this book are fixtures in the French automotive world. Both grew up in postwar France, when cars when cars were difficult to obtain and sometimes extravagantly expensive. Here they describe “their father’s dream cars.”
French Etceterini Miscellanea
A review of three slim specialty French books:
La 4CV Bosvin-Michel-Spéciale by Robert Bosvin
La Saga sportive de la Renault 4CV by François Rivage
Sportives tricolores, 1950–70 by Jean Paul Decker
The Classic Citroëns, 1935–1975
by John Reynolds
First things first, this book really goes beyond 1975, devoting the penultimate chapter to the 1974–1989 GSX and a brief final chapter to the 1976–2000 cars built by the PSA Group in the post-Michelin era.
Alpine and Renault: The Development of the Revolutionary Turbo F1 Car 1968 to 1979
by Roy Smith
Neither Alpine nor Renault seem likely candidates for developoing the first turbocharged Grand Prix car. Finally there is proper book to tell the story of the people and ides behind it.
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