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On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?

As nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric surge in France (and elsewhere), The Shortest History of France presents a portrait of a nation whose politics and society have always been shaped by global forces. Grounded in up-to-date historical scholarship that avoids the traps of national exceptionalism, Jones reminds us that it was only after the first millennium of French history that a nation-state began to emerge.

Qu’est-ce que la nation française ? La question s’est posée à de multiples reprises au fil de l’histoire, parfois de manière très vive comme lors de la Révolution, de la perte de l’Alsace-Lorraine, du régime de Vichy et jusqu’à nos fractures contemporaines. S’agit-il d’une communauté ethnique, linguistique, territoriale, d’une organisation politique de citoyens désireux de vivre ensemble ou bien encore d’une construction historique d’un autre type ? Doit-on la faire remonter à 1789, à la bataille de Bouvines, au baptême de Clovis, voire à " nos ancêtres les Gaulois " ?

I didn’t set out to write a dry history textbook. This book isn’t filled with endless dates and obscure events that leave you flipping back and forth, wondering what happened when. No, this is a collection of stories of people who lived extraordinary lives. They loved, fought, ruled, and struggled in ways that are both dramatically different and eerily similar to how we live today. My aim is to make history feel alive, to turn dusty old chronicles into vibrant tales of ambition, courage, conflict, and intrigue. For those of you already well-versed in medieval history, this book will ...

In April 1929, the body of British artist Olive Branson was found submerged in a water tank outside her farmhouse in a picturesque Provence village. Dressed only in a pink shirt and stockings, she had a bullet hole between her eyes and a revolver by her side. Was it suicide – or murder? The initial investigation concluded suicide, but under pressure from Olive’s family to conduct a murder enquiry, city detective Alexandre Guibbal was brought in to reopen the case.

SYNOPSIS: In 1884, a French immigrant writer publishes a book in England. After reading it, a young girl loses all hope of living and attempts suicide. Her parents rescue her, but she becomes catatonic. Now only the writer can undo what he had caused unintentionally, but would her family allow him?

Derruba mal-entendidos arraigados, sem eliminar a pluralidade de interpretações possíveis a um dos capítulos fundamentais da história da humanidade. Neste livro, pensamento e ação não são vistos de forma estanque. O autor rejeita, por exemplo, a idéia de que o Iluminismo se limitou a uma elaboração teórica, ao passo que a Revolução teria sido apenas a sua consequência prática.

Em maio de 1968, Paris foi uma festa. Um tipo de especial de festa: barricadas, carros incendiados, universidades ocupadas pelos estudantes, que enfrentavam as tropas de choque de De Gaulle nas ruas da cidade. Os muros foram tomados por pichações de palavras de ordem e os mais belos cartazes que uma revolução já produziu. Desde então, milhões de livros foram publicados com as plácidas reflexões de acadêmicos a respeito daquele levante que os surpreendeu tanto.

Frankreich in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts – es ist die Zeit von großen Veränderungen, die nach der Revolution von 1789 zu einer stürmischen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und einer tiefgreifenden sozialen Umschichtung führten. Gabriel Lambert ist ein Mann mit einer besonderen Fähigkeit und einem großen Wunsch: er kann die Feder grandios führen, er will unbedingt nach Paris. Henri de Faverne ist ein Mann mit zwei dunklen Geheimnissen – eines über seine Herkunft, das andere über seinen Reichtum. Welches ist die Beziehung zwischen diesen beiden Männern?

« Je dédie ce livre à toutes celles et ceux qui ont aimé EDF, qui n’acceptent plus le montant de leurs factures d’électricité et souhaitent une transition énergétique sans la punition que l’on veut leur faire subir. Comme dans la fable, l’Allemagne a souvent l’image de la fourmi industrieuse et la France, celle de la cigale insouciante. Force est de constater que dans le domaine de l’énergie, les polarités sont inversées.