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France - A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle (Paperback)
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France - A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle (Paperback)
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'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast
subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness
and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their
own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the
excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in
September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of
garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around
me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy strangely
devoid of hedges; then the Gare du Nord at twilight, the policemen
with their kepis and their little snow-white batons; and my first
sight of the Eiffel Tower . . . This book is written in the belief
that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably
little knowledge of French history. We may know a bit about
Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that's
about it. In my own three schools we were taught only about the
battles we won: Crecy and Poitiers, Agincourt and Waterloo. The
rest was silence. So here is my attempt to fill in the blanks . . .
John Julius Norwich's last book is the book he always wanted to
write: the extremely colourful story of the country he loves best.
From frowning Roman generals and belligerent Gallic chieftains, to
Charlemagne (hated by generations of French children taught that he
invented schools) through Marie Antoinette and the storming of the
Bastille to Vichy, the Resistance and beyond, FRANCE is packed with
heroes and villains, adventures and battles, romance and
revolution. Full of memorable stories and racy anecdotes, this is
the perfect introduction to the country that has inspired the rest
of the world to live, dress, eat -- and love better.
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