Review
A highly readable dissection of French life and thought from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, driven by inexhaustible curiosity about human nature and spiced with extraordinary details of the quirks of French people's lives and attitudes. (
Richard Jones, Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University, Best Books: The Week )
One of the major historical works of our collective lifetime ... brilliantly stimulating. (
Listener )
The most enjoyable book of its kind in nearly forty years. (
New Statesman )
Brilliant, original, entertaining and inexhaustible. (
The Times )
The world's foremost authority on Frenchness. (
Time Magazine )
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Paperback
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New Statesman
`The most enjoyable book of its kind in nearly forty years.'
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.