Philip Womack

A love letter to France

An adolescence spent in the British embassy in Paris instilled in John Julius Norwich a lifelong passion for French history

  • France: A History from Gaul to De Gaulle

    John Julius Norwich

    John Murray, pp. 382

  • Notes from the Cévennes

    Adam Thorpe

    Bloomsbury, pp. 263

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