A History of French Passions: Volume 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics: Ambition, Love and Politics vol 1 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) (in English) - Theodore Zeldin
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A History of French Passions: Volume 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics: Ambition, Love and Politics vol 1 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) (in English)
Theodore Zeldin
Synopsis "A History of French Passions: Volume 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics: Ambition, Love and Politics vol 1 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) (in English)"
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.