A history of France
By: John Julius Norwich
Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780802128904
Subjects: History
Description: Chronicles the history of France, from Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul in the mid-first century BC to the end of World War II.
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : John Murray, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Very dark indeed, 58 BC-843; title: Their own destruction sure, 843-1151; title: The gift of Excalibur, 1151-1223; title: The fatal tower, 1223-1326; title: A captured king, 1326-80; title: A foregone conclusion, 1380-1453; title: The universal spider, 1453-83; title: A warm, sunlit land, 1483-1515; title: With his usual flourish, 1515-47; title: 'Well worth a mass', 1547-1643; title: 'L'État c'est moi', 1643-1715; title: The writing on the wall, 1715-89; title: 'I am indeed your king', 1789-93; title: 'Pas de faiblesse!', 1793-5; title: A blessing or a curse?, 1795-1815; title: The perfect compromise, 1815-48; title: 'A symbol of national glory', 1848-52; title: A sphinx without a riddle, 1852-70; title: The last manifestation, 1870-3; title: 'J'accuse!', 1873-1935; title: The Cross of Lorraine, 1935-45.