France in the New Century.(Review)(Brief Review)

Contemporary Review | November 1, 1999| | Copyright

John Ardagh. Viking. [pounds]20.00.757 pages. ISBN 0-67088360-3.

This is not a book of predictions, but a survey of France in the latter half of the twentieth century. John Ardagh's ability to know and understand France is matched by his powers of acute perception and narrative command. He has an eye for telling detail, and a sense of perspective so that a complex way of life is revealed as it is, living and changing before a watchful observer's vantage.

It's tempting to see France casually as sophisticated Paris with charming rural hinterlands. Give or take ...

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