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The French century : an illustrated history of modern France

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eng

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The French century : an illustrated history of modern France

Though Moynahan )The British Century( covers only the last century, he persuasively argues that, for the French, history never dies. Left and Right still continue, for instance, to hurl accusations at each other over the late 19th-century Dreyfus affair. Moynahan traces this sense of radicalism and reactionism to the undying influence of the Revolution: Nothing... has weaned the French from it. Unfortunately, for all the talk of liberty, equality, fraternity, as Moynahan points out, there is no mention of justice and legality. Hence France's reliance on extraparliamentary and extrajudicial protest to decide policy. Still, he says, the once-infectious brilliance of Gallic style and culture more than compensated for the occasional riot. Today, mourns Moynahan, a former foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Times, the once passionate French are tending to the sclerotic, hidebound, dull a result of their country trying to fit in with the rest of Europe. It's uncommon to see an author encouraging the French to stand out more, rather than less. This volume, with its well-chosen and rarely seen photographs, and its brisk, efficient historical narrative covering the country's social, political, intellectual and economic life, serves admirably as a primer for tourists, students and those seeking to understand France and the French. 200 b&w illus. )Oct. 16(

Shows how the French imagination, in entertainment, sports, arts, science, and technology, continues today to influence the world.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Paris

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Flammarion

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Distributed in North America by Rizzoli

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

479 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm

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Prelude 1789-1899 -- Belle epoque 1900-14 -- Before the deluge 1900-14 -- Adieu la vie, adieu l'amour 1914-18 -- Entr'acte 1920-29 -- Adrift in the thirties 1930-36 -- Phoney peace, phoney war 1936-40 -- The fall 1940 -- Zones O and Nono 1940-44 -- Liberation and beyond 1944-46 -- The reupholstered republic 1946-58 -- Adieu to empire 1946-62 -- The general 1962-68 -- Interregnum 1968-81 -- The inheritance man 1981-95 -- Fin de siecle 1995-2005

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ISBN: 9782080300157

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Brian Moynahan

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، France -- History -- 02th century -- Pictorial works

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، France -- History -- 02th century

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1491-

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Moynahan, Brian

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AU

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