{"product_id":"the-discovery-of-france-2","title":"Graham Robb: The Discovery of France [2007] hardback","description":"It's easy to reduce France to the sum of its parts: weekend breaks amid the culture of Paris or summer holidays basking in the sunshine of the south; accounts of the Revolution - Madame Defarge knitting beside the guillotine - and Napoleon's battle at Waterloo (mis)remembered from school history lessons; a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. Despite this, however, the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively recent and - historically speaking - quite misleading; in order to discover the 'real' past of France, it's not only necessary to go back in time, but also to go at a slower pace than modern life generally allows: this book is the result of 14,000 miles covered by bicycle (and four years spent in the library). It is at last a book which tells the whole story. 'Funny, enterprisingly researched, and undertaken with few apparent preconceptions ...This is an excellent, amusing, decent book, which covers an enormous amount of ground in a little space' - Philp Hensher, \"Spectator\".\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating study of a complex subject, written with humanity, sceptical intelligence and an impressive command of the sources' - \"Daily Telegraph\". 'A fascinating mix of personal testimony and judiciously filleted history' - \"The Times\".","brand":"Robb, Graham","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47584035275091,"sku":"XV80330427609","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47660438323539,"sku":"XG80330427609","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/robb-graham-graham-robb-the-discovery-of-france-2007-hardback-59157618164051.jpg?v=1727415840","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-discovery-of-france-2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}