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He Paid For His Own Electricity

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

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Jonathan Foreman

At the End of the Day, Bourgeois is Best

Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France

By Sunil Khilnani

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March 2018 Issue

Allan Massie

He Took the Path of Most Resistance

The Saboteur: True Adventures of the Gentleman Commando Who Took on the Nazis

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Kevin Jackson

Plenty of Sex & Nowhere to Sit

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940–50

By Agnès Poirier

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Better When Young

The Secrets of The Flesh: A Life of Colette

By Judith Thurman

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August 1992 Issue

Bryan Appleyard

At last we learn what Foucault was All About

Michel Foucault

By Didier Eribon

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Wendy Holden

Managed to Keep her Feet on the Ground

Marie Curie: A Life

By Susan Quinn

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Andrew Gallix

Read All About It

Barthes: A Biography

By Tiphaine Samoyault (Translated by Andrew Brown)

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Geoffrey Wheatcroft

A Severe Antidote for Francophilia

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By Patrick Marnham

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Peter Dews

The Latest Revolution

Critique Janvier 1980, no. 392.

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Andrew Gallix

The Making of Meursault

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Laura Cumming

Too Soft on this Monster of Egotism

Simone De Beauvoir: A Life

By Deirdre Bair

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A Resistible Force

The French Resistance

By Olivier Wieviorka (Translated by Jane Marie Todd)

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April 2016 Issue

Paul Johnson

Career Spikes

Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist

By Nick Foulkes

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April 2016 Issue

Benjamin Ivry

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Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and His World

By Caroline Potter

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March 2016 Issue

John Gray

Being Human

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By Sarah Bakewell

October 2015 Issue

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Acting Heroically

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By Siân Rees

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September 2015 Issue

Robert Tombs

Occupation Hazards

Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance

By Robert Gildea

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