France an adventure history
"A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion-by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an e...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York
W.W. Norton & Company
2022
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| Ausgabe: | First American edition |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Ancient Gaul to the Renaissance
- The hedge
- A home in Gaul
- The invisible land of the woods and the sea
- Time machines
- Cathar treasure
- The tree at the centre of France
- Louis XIV to the Second Empire
- A walk in the garden
- Stained glass
- Bloody Provence
- How he did it
- The murder of Madame Bovary
- Miss Howard's gift to France
- The Third, Fourth and Fifth Republics
- Savage coast
- Keeping track of the dead
- Mount inaccessible
- Martyrs of the Tour de France
- La République en marche!
- Demolition
- Notes for travellers
- Maps