France + French history

Book Reviews

Nina Berberova: Billancourt Tales
- stories of Paris' White Russian community around 1930
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

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.