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Graham Robb France: An Adventure History Book
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Graham Robb is a British writer, literary critic, historian, recipient of the Order of Arts and Letters, and author of New York Times bestsellers. His books have won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Prize, and the Grand Medal of the City of Paris. Robb’s regional studies are unique: whilst working on his books, he not only meticulously studies the works of scholars and journalists, but also conducts his own research over decades, travelling by bicycle through the most diverse corners of France.
Graham Robb’s vivid essays on the social, political and geographical history of France completely shatter the canonical view of the country and offer a fresh perspective on seemingly textbook figures such as Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle. The author has plenty to surprise even the most ardent Francophiles, and in this book he openly declares it!
From the pages where adventure stories are closely interwoven with historical accounts, you will learn, in particular:
• how a Gallic hedge stopped and frightened the Roman army;
• what a steam engine was doing in a Gothic cathedral six hundred years before the harnessing of steam power;
• whether the Tree of Knowledge really grew in the very centre of France;
• why Napoleon considered himself a direct descendant of the Man in the Iron Mask;
• why the 1914 field regulations for the army’s ‘large units’ were written as if for medieval knights;
• where is the Chapel of Our Lady of the Cyclists located?
Number of pages: 512.
Graham Robb’s vivid essays on the social, political and geographical history of France completely shatter the canonical view of the country and offer a fresh perspective on seemingly textbook figures such as Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle. The author has plenty to surprise even the most ardent Francophiles, and in this book he openly declares it!
From the pages where adventure stories are closely interwoven with historical accounts, you will learn, in particular:
• how a Gallic hedge stopped and frightened the Roman army;
• what a steam engine was doing in a Gothic cathedral six hundred years before the harnessing of steam power;
• whether the Tree of Knowledge really grew in the very centre of France;
• why Napoleon considered himself a direct descendant of the Man in the Iron Mask;
• why the 1914 field regulations for the army’s ‘large units’ were written as if for medieval knights;
• where is the Chapel of Our Lady of the Cyclists located?
Number of pages: 512.
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