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France: an adventure history / Graham Robb.
By: Robb, Graham [author.]
.Publisher: London : Picador, 2022Description: 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529007626.Subject(s): France -- HistoryDDC classification: 944 Summary: "France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, readers will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history – Louis XIV, the French Revolution, the French Résistance, the Tour de France – but all presented in a shining new light" -- Taken from publisher's website.
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| 944 PER The Hundred Years War / | 944 PLE The rise and fall of the Second Empire, 1852-1871 / | 944 PRI A concise history of France / | 944 ROB France: an adventure history / | 944 ROG Louis XV and the Parlement of Paris : | 944 SCH Citizens : | 944 SHE The Parlement of Paris. |
"France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, readers will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history – Louis XIV, the French Revolution, the French Résistance, the Tour de France – but all presented in a shining new light" -- Taken from publisher's website.