Jean-Pierre Rioux

They Taught Me the History of France

After his defence of French history, Jean-Pierre Rioux identifies his influences and his “masters”, thereby shedding light on his intellectual commitments, and painting the portrait of a generation. An ode to the greater and lesser figures of French history.

Antoine Compagnon

The First World War, 1914-18: New Thinkers and Artists Upheavals in Science and in the Arts and Letters

The Great War: ruptures and reconfigurations in society

Guiliana Gemelli

Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel is considered as one of the major historians of the XXth century. Making his stand against factual history, he was one of the founders of the triumph of new history: the history of human societies rooted in their geographical space and obstinately determined to produce their material civilization there. This biography takes its strength from friendly conversations between Braudel and Giuliana Gemelli, who because she is Italian, had the necessary distance to make a demanding quest.

Catherine Bertho Lavenir

The Wheel and the Pen: How We Became Tourists

Maurice Vaïsse

The Algiers Putsch

Using archives and unpublished accounts, the spellbinding tale of a little-known turning point in contemporary history

Claude Nicolet

History, The Nation, The Republic

James B. Collins

The Republican Monarchy State and Society in France Under Louis XIV

A new approach to France under Louis XIV and to Ancien Régime society

Sabine Melchior-Bonnet

Great Men and Their Mothers Napoleon, Louis XIV, Francis I, Kennedy and others

Another way to write the biography of a number of great men. An unusual historical perspective, intertwining serious research and a talent for writing. A history of representations of the maternal figure and a study of the evolution of the filial bond. A historical standpoint that offers readers a fresh look at the lives of men they thought they knew well, from Louis XIV to Stalin, via Napoleon and Kennedy