Why travel with a guide book on dry history, architecture, or politics when you can sink your teeth into such a delicious feast? Now in paperback, a major history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.

The book opens with the author's memory of meeting de Gaulle and closes with his reflections on French culture. The tone is very much conversational, dotted with anecdotes, a device which most historians use to remember facts and details around an event. Rather than seeing a political history of rupture and fragmentation, Hazareesingh emphasizes continuity, and shows how opposing parties and movements throughout French history have been brought together by ideas.Notwithstanding, it is worth reading Fenby and Hazareensingh for insights into how the French became who they are. Offers a complete survey of the French May Events of 1968 through narrative, analysis, and documents.

As an introduction to her detailed study Professor Lublinskaya presents a summary and critique of the whole 'general crisis' interpretation of seventeenth-century European history which is regularly a subject for heated debate among Western historians. Norwich also remains to the last a thoroughly genial and humane guide, but one not afraid to judge where judgements are deserved – and though one might not always agree with him, nor does he ever seem unfair or precipitous, or engaged in special pleading. In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Some French book recommendation lists are city specific such as the best books on Paris, some based on the country of France and some on topics such as French cooking.

In this important contribution both to the study of social protest and to French social history, Roger Gould breaks with previous accounts that portray the Paris Commune of 1871 as a continuation of the class struggles of the 1848 Revolution. After reading the preface, one almost wishes Norwich had written his own memoir and left the history book to French scholars. Another details the prodigious number of byblows managed by Augustus the Strong – though I was surprised there wasn't room for one on the peculiar delusions of Marshal Blucher (which reminds me, how had I never registered the name of Napoleon's subordinate Marshal Grouchy before?

This innovative social history also explores the impact of war and imperialism, the age-old tension between tradition and innovation, and the enduring use of food to prop up social and political identities. From the introduction of wine to Gaul by the Romans to Napoleon’s pancake predictions before entering Russia, the strange dialectics of war and peas offer a fascinating means of exploring the origins of French culinary traditions. This thoroughly revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text surveys the cultural, social and political history of France from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune through to Emmanuel Macron's presidency.In The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914, Lenard Berlanstein examines how technological advances, expanding industrialization, bureaucratization, and urban growth affected the lives of the working poor and near poor of one of the world's most influential cities during an era of intense social and . One of the most dynamic phases of French history, it covers the reigns of the first three Bourbon kings, Henri IV, Louis XIII, and Louis XIV. France's New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture.

After graduation, he joined the Foreign Service and served in Belgrade, Beirut, and as a member of British delegation to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. Gwynne Lewis' history opens with a full analysis of all the components of traditional France, including political and religious structures, the seigneurial system, the bourgeoisie and the poor. A renowned historian and Resistance fighter - later executed by the Nazis - analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940.Granted, Duff Cooper, while undoubtedly a significant figure, tends not to rate quite so many mentions in histories not written by his son. When Philip VI came to the throne, in 1328, France was a weak country, with much of its modern area under English rule. At the end of World War II, France's greatest challenge was to repair a civil society torn asunder by Nazi occupation and total war. It was my only conversation with the great man; but unlike most of those he had with my father or Winston Churchill it could hardly have been more friendly. This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics.