An ';engaging, enthusiastic, sympathetic, funny' journey through French history from the New York Timesbestselling author of Absolute Monarchs (The Wall Street Journal). Beginning with Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul in the first century BC, this study of French history comprises a cast of legendary charactersCharlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Marie Antoinette, to name a fewas John Julius Norwich chronicles France's often violent, always fascinating history. From the French Revolutionafter which neither France nor the world would be the same againto the storming of the Bastille, from the Vichy regime and the Resistance to the end of the Second World War,A History of Franceis packed with heroes and villains, battles and rebellionwritten with both an expert command of detail and a lively appreciation for the subject matter by this ';true master of narrative history' (Simon Sebag Montefiore).
| ISBN: | 9780802146700 |
| Publication date: | 2nd October 2018 |
| Author: | John Julius Norwich |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |