The demise of the French Communist Party (PCF) has been a recurrent feature of overviews of the Left in France for the past two decades, and yet the Communists survive. This study examines the factors that undermined the position of the PCF as the premier party of France, but also highlights the challenges that the party faces in a society disillusioned with politics, and the new strategies that it is developing in order to revive its fortunes.

When Gino Mastrianno took the job as a manager of a set of office buildings in a downtown complex he didn't know he would have to fight with something that couldn't possibly exist. People were missing and the company was covering it up. When he took notice and wanted to find out the truth things turned into a struggle of life and death. The truth turned into a creature hundreds of year's old kept secret from the outside world living amongst us in a busy metropolitan area. In a race against time they must find a way to defeat it before it hunts them down. Everything is against them, the...

From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to Napol on Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of these events in the second edition of The A to Z of France. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians, authors,...