History of French Passions: Volume 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics
Author
Theodore Zeldin (Fellow, Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford)
This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. This first part scrutinizes the way of thinking and of talking adopted by the French, their sense of national identity, and their ambivalent feelings about foreigners.