Anka Muhlstein

Balzac at Table

A luminous essay of “literary gastronomy” for food lovers as well as for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century novel

Nicolas Mariot, Claire Zalc

Faced with persecution The Destruction of the Jews of Lens, 1940-1945

The history of the Holocaust in France, seen from an entirely new angle. This book does not simply describe the numerous possible attitudes: it aims to explain them.

Dominique Rousseau

The Fifth French Republic Is Dying! Long Live Democracy!

The First French Republic was consular, the Second was presidential, the Third and Fourth were parliamentary, but the Fifth seems to have no distinguishing qualities.

Antoine Garapon

Redeeming History

Arlette Farge

Effusiveness and Torment, The Body as Narrator A History of the People in Eighteenth-Century France

Stéphane Pierré-Caps

The Plural Nation The Future of Central and Eastern European Minorities

Guillaume Piketty

Pierre Brossolette A Hero of the French Resistance

Justin Vaïsse

Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy (2008-2012)

In the run-up to the U.S. Presidential elections, an eminent specialist assesses the present administration