How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait Of An Intellectual People

Hazareesingh, Sudhir

ISBN 10: 0241961068 / ISBN 13: 9780241961063

Published by Penguin Press, 2016

About this Item

This item is worn. Signs of wear may include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents and worn corners. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy number of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait Of An Intellectual People
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241961068
• ISBN 13: 9780241961063
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDÉES The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so ... French.

About the Author

Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. Among his books are The Legend of Napoleon (Granta, 2004) and Le Mythe Gaullien (Gallimard, 2010). He won the Prix du Mémorial d'Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, and a Prix d'Histoire du Sénat for the second.