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.
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