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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong is divided into three parts.. Part 1, Spirit, has eight chapters that explain the main features of the French mindset, including history and geography, their ideas about privacy, their culture of grandeur and eloquence and extremism and the impact of major events like World War II and French decolonization.
Les Hommes de bonne volonté (transl. Men of Good Will) is an epic roman-fleuve by French writer Jules Romains, published in 27 volumes between 1932 and 1946. It has been classified both as a novel cycle and a novel and, at two million words and 7,892 pages, has been cited as one of the longest novels ever written.
Page de titre "Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695, 1696 et 1697." A Relation of a Voyage made in the Years 1695, 1696, 1697 on the Coasts of Africa, Streights of Magellan, Brasil, Cayenna, and the Antilles, by a Squadron of French Men of War, under the Command of M. de Gennes, written by François Froger [], published in French and in English in 1698, relates the three years of travel of this ...
This category is for historical novels either written by French authors or primarily published in France. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
A Modern History of Europe: Men, Cultures, and Societies from the Renaissance to the Present (1971). Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 (1976). "The Second Republic, Politics, and the Peasant," French Historical Studies Vol. 11, No. 4 (Autumn, 1980), pp. 521–550 in JSTOR
Holt, R. "Women, men and sport in France, c. 1870–1914: An introductory survey," Journal of Sport History (1991) Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah. The Making of "Les Bleus": Sport in France, 1958-2010 (Lexington Books; 2012) 214 pages; examines the politics of the French state's efforts to create elite athletes in football and basketball at the youth ...
Georges Lefebvre (French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləfɛvʁ]; 6 August 1874 – 28 August 1959) was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He is considered one of the pioneers of "history from below". [1] He coined the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789.
However Tocqueville hoped for an eventual mixing of the French and Arab populations into a single body: Every day the French are developing clearer and more accurate notions about the inhabitants of Algeria. They learn their languages, become familiar with their customs, and one even sees some who show a kind of unthinking enthusiasm for them.