Sketches France's political and intellectual development and comments on social divisions and customs from the late 1840's through the Second World War.
Sketches France's political and intellectual development and comments on social divisions and customs from the late 1840's through the Second World Wa...
Analyzes the Frenchman's unique national identity, attitudes towards foreigners, education, and intellectual and cultural development from the late 1840's through the 1900's.
Analyzes the Frenchman's unique national identity, attitudes towards foreigners, education, and intellectual and cultural development from the late 18...
Paris Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores, and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eyewitness account of the horrors and glories of the French Revolution. Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the growing metropolis's teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle its glittering...
Paris Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European c...
