Discovery of France charts the transition of the region covered by modern France into the unified cultural/political/geographic entity of today. This is incredibly interesting because from our perspective, we have forgotten (if we ever knew) what went into the process of taking the thousands of v...
He pictured Berlin in the transparent light of a summer morning shrinking to the size of a balsa-wood model, and the pines of the Grunewald dropping into a bottomless gorge. The plane surged and sank, and he thought how fortunate it was that there had been no time for breakfast. A sudden modulati...
Perhaps, after all, things were not as bad as they seemed? As French historians have been pointing out ever since the English farmer Arthur Young made his agricultural tours of France in 1787, 1788 and 1789, not everyone was drowning in poverty. Not all French towns were full of ‘crooked, dirty, ...