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An Intimate History of Humanity

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This is a guide to France intended for the traveller who wants to get to know French people as individuals, for the negotiating businessman and for students who wishes to discover in-depth aspects of their lives. It looks at what makes up the national character of France.

An eye-opening, amusing, and immensely readable guide to a nation themselves – sure to please anyone who has ever been inspired, exasperated, amused or entranced by the French.

THEODORE ZELDIN is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. 
His two-volume history, France 1848-1945 (1973,1977) received 
international acclaim: The Times called it "brilliant, original, enter- 
taining and inexhaustible"; Paris Match said that is was "the most 
perspicacious, the most deeply researched, the liveliest and the 
most enthralling panorama of French passions." His other books 
include the novel Happiness (1988). Theodore Zeldin has been 
awarded the Wolfson Prize and figures on Magazine Litteraire's list 
of the hundreds most important thinkers in the world today.

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