This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library.Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the gilet jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, readers will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history – Louis XIV, the French Revolution, the French Résistance, the Tour de France – but all presented in a shining new light.Graham Robb’s France: An Adventure History does not offer a standard dry list of facts and dates, but a panorama of France, teeming with characters, full of stories, journeys and coincidences, giving readers a thrilling sense of discovery and enlightenment. It is a vivid, living history of one of the world’s most fascinating nations by a ceaselessly entertaining writer in complete command of subject and style.
CONTRIBUTORS: Graham Robb
EAN: 9781529007640
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 706 g
HEIGHT: 233 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Social History, TRAVEL / Europe / France
WIDTH: 154 cm
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France, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, European history, Social and cultural history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Travel writing
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English–Scottish border.
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