Graham Robb

One événement after another

The more inconvenient, bloodstained événements of French history are dismissed as ‘aberrations’, organised by ‘enemies of the fatherland’, according to Jonathan Fenby’s latest History of Modern France

  • The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day

    Jonathan Fenby

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 536

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