A History of French Passions: Volume 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics
Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe;
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Product details:
- Edition number and title :Volume 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 7 October 1993
- ISBN 9780198221777
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages830 pages
- Size 216x139x41 mm
- Weight 879 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures, maps 0
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This is a history of the French which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. It goes beyond the recital of events to investigate their attitudes and behaviour over an unusually wide range of activities.
Volume I scrutinizes the peculiar way of thinking and of talking adopted by the French, their powerful sense of national identity, their ambivalent feelings about foreigners. It shows what it meant to be a Breton or a Provencal, an Alsation or an Auvergnat. Volume II analyses French taste and the role of the artist. It enquires into the quality of life, the French view of happiness, friendship and comfort, humour, reactions to scientific progress, compromises with corruption and superstition.
This major reinterpretation of France's achievement as a nation and of the individual experience of the French has taken its place as one of the great works of scholarship on modern France, and now re-appears in two paperback volumes.
A highly readable dissection of French life and thought from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, driven by inexhaustible curiosity about human nature and spiced with extraordinary details of the quirks of French people's lives and attitudes.
