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Titel: France
Auteur: Graham Robb
ISBN: 9781324002567
Conditie: Als nieuw

A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime’s knowledge and passion—by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians.

Praise for Graham Robb

The Discovery of Middle Earth
“The historical value of Robb’s vivid portrait of Celtic culture is unquestionable.”
— Wendy Smith, Los Angeles Times

Parisians
“Robb… has proved himself to be one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet. In a better world his books would be bestsellers everywhere.”
— Dwight Garner, New York Times

The Discovery of France
“Brilliant.… Robb, who writes beautifully… has accomplished quite a feat. He has reintroduced France to itself.”
— William Grimes, New York Times

Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb’s France combines the stylistic versatility of a novelist with the deep understanding of a scholar. Robb’s own adventures and discoveries while living, working, and traveling in France connect this tour through space and time with on-the-ground experience. There are scenes of wars and revolutions from the plains of Provence to the slums and boulevards of Paris. Robb conveys with wit and precision what it felt like to look over the shoulder of a young Louis XIV as he planned the vast garden of Versailles, and the dangerous thrill of having a ringside seat at the French revolution. Some of the protagonists may be familiar, but appear here in a very different light—Caesar, Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte, General Charles de Gaulle. This extraordinary narrative is the fruit of decades of research and thirty thousand miles on a self-propelled, two-wheeled time machine (a bicycle). Even seasoned Francophiles will wonder if they really know that terra incognita on the edge of Europe that is currently referred to as “France.”

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