Who Are ‘The French’?
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
by Graham Robb
December 6, 2007 issue
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P. N. Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.M. Forster.
Who Are ‘The French’?
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
by Graham Robb
December 6, 2007 issue
Cultivating Voltaire’s Garden
Voltaire in Exile: The Last Years, 1753–78
by Ian Davidson
Candide, or, Optimism
by Voltaire,translated by Peter Constantine, with an introduction by Diane Johnson
Candide, or Optimism
by Voltaire,translated by Burton Raffel
December 15, 2005 issue
The Scientific Takeover
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years
by Charles Coulston Gillispie
May 26, 2005 issue
Body and Soul
Flesh in the Age of Reason
by Roy Porter, with a foreword by Simon Schama
April 29, 2004 issue
What Adèle Knew
Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne
edited and with an introduction by Anka Muhlstein, and an afterword by Olivier Bernier
October 9, 2003 issue
‘Their Noon, Their Midnight…’
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715–99
by Colin Jones
June 12, 2003 issue
Men in the Moon
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
by Jenny Uglow
December 19, 2002 issue
The Art of Malice
Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, with Jean-François Fitou, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
November 15, 2001 issue
A Royal Mystery
The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
by Chantal Thomas, translated from the French by Julie Rose
Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
by Evelyne Lever, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson
February 8, 2001 issue
Epic-Making
Barbarism and Religion Volume 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764Volume 2: Narratives of Civil Government
by J.G.A. Pocock
November 30, 2000 issue
Dreams of the Body
Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror
by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
May 25, 2000 issue
Brave New World
France in the Enlightenment
by Daniel Roche, Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
February 24, 2000 issue
Tocqueville’s Lament
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume 1
by Alexis de Tocqueville, edited by François Furet and Françoise Mélonio, translated by Alan S Kahan
Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution
by Patrice Higonnet
April 8, 1999 issue
The Hack of Genius
Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures
by Richard West
December 3, 1998 issue
Portraits of a Lady
Women's Words: Essay on French Singularity
by Mona Ozouf, translated by Jane Marie Todd
March 5, 1998 issue
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