A Brief History of France by Cecil Jenkins
The story of France through its people, great events and culture.
In this broad and ambitious drama of two millennia, the characterization of the major players brings pungency and colour to every eventFrom Capetian kings to Republican presidents, from anonymous cave artists to celebrated writers and intellectuals of recent times it is the personality of politics and the politics of personality which make this book a particular pleasure to recommend for any voyage of discovery of the French past and present. -- Rod Kedward, author of La Vie en Bleu: France and the French since 1900.
Cecil Jenkins was educated at Trinity College Dublin before becoming a French Government research scholar at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. He has taught modern French literature and society at the universities of Exeter, British Columbia and Sussex, where he also served as Dean of the School of European Studies. While he has published in other fields, his writings on France include books on the Nobel Prizewinning novelist François Mauriac and the novelist, art historian and De Gaulle's Minister for Culture André Malraux.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845298685 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845298683 |
| Title | A Brief History of France |
| Author | Cecil Jenkins |
| Series | Brief Histories |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2011-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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