The Discovery of France
Robb, Graham

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We may think we know its history, its culture and its people from long-ago lessons at school.

However, the notion of "the French" as one nation is relatively recent and actually rather misleading; in order to discover the "real" past of France, it's not only necessary to go back in time, but also to go at a slower pace than modern life generally allows.

The result of 14,000 miles covered by bicycle (and four years spent in the library), here, at last, is a book that tells the whole story.

Author Information

Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely in 19th-century French literature, including biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo (winner of the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Award and the Whitbread Biography Award) and Rimbaud (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize). He lives in Oxford.