France + French history

Book Reviews

• Nina Berberova: Billancourt Tales
  - stories of Paris' White Russian community around 1930
• Patrick Boucheron, Stephane Gerson: France in the World: A New Global History
  - 130 short specialist essays
• Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery: Indochina
  An Ambiguous Colonization 1858-1954
• Georges Duby: The Legend of Bouvines
  - the ideology of peace, war, and battle in the 12th century
• Carole Fink: Marc Bloch
  A Life in History
• Patrick Galliou, Michael Jones: The Bretons
  - the history and archaeology of Brittany down to 1491
• Bernard Guenée: Between Church and State*
  The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
• Catherine Jinks: The Inquisitor
  - a murder mystery set in medieval France
• Christian Jost: The French-Speaking Pacific
  Population, Environment and Development Issues
• Maryon McDonald: We are not French!
  Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany
• Jean-Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow: The Story of French
  From Charlemagne to The Cirque du Soleil
• Irène Némirovsky: Suite Française
  - a novel of France in 1940-1941
• François Neveux: A Brief History of the Normans
  The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
• Zoé Oldenbourg: Massacre at Montségur
  - the Albigensian crusade; Simon de Montfort; the destruction of Catharism
• George Rudé: The French Revolution*
  - a modern marxist interpretation
• J.H.M. Salmon: Society in Crisis
  France in the Sixteenth Century
• Joseph R. Strayer, Carol Lansing: The Albigensian Crusades
  - a political history of southern France in the early 13th century
• Stein Tønnesson: Vietnam 1946
  How the War Began
• Dale Van Kley: The French Idea of Freedom*
  The Old Regime and The Declaration of Rights of 1789
• Peter Weiss: Marat/Sade*
  The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade
• Owen White: Children of the French Empire
  Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960

See also: French literature

You might also enjoy my sister Jenny's stories about her seven years living in France and my account of a week in Paris as a tourist.