Fenby, France: A Modern History . . . (2016)

Jonathan Fenby.
France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror.
New York: St. Martin's Press (Macmillan Publishers), 2016.

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Originally published as:
The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the War on Terror.
London: Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd., 2015.
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I read this book once before. My post for that is:

• Fenby, France: A Modern History . . . (2016), 19 February 2019.

At that time I had recently read some books on the U.S. war in Vietnam and I wanted to understand more about French colonialism during the Nineteenth Century. Unfortunately, Fenby's book has almost nothing to say on that topic and the most attention French Indochina gets is a sketchy one page on the siege at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Logevall's Embers of War (2012) is pretty good on French Indochina during the Twentieth Century. I started reading Brocheux & Hémery, Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 (2011) but haven't finished it. It's definitely the kind of book I was looking for, but Brocheux & Hémery requires a greater familiarity with French history than what's provided by Fenby's very introductory book.

More recently I read a couple novels by Zola and thought I should know more about Nineteenth Century France (The Fortune of the Rougons is a very political novel). So I read Fenby's book again. He covers all the basic topics: Bourbon Restoration (Louis XVIII and Charles X), July Monarchy (Louis Philippe), Second Republic, Second Empire (Louis-Napoléon), Third Republic; but it's all very introductory. Now I'm looking forward to reading some books that focus on Nineteenth Century France:

• Gildea, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (2010); and
• Tombs, France 1814-1914 (1996).

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Norwich, A History of France (2018)

John Julius Norwich.
A History of France.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.

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Published in the UK as:
France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle.
London: John Murray, 2018.
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Author Information:

• John Julius Norwich (1929–2018), Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of France.

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Zola, The Fortune of the Rougons (2012)

Émile Zola.
The Fortune of the Rougons.
Translated by Brian Nelson.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Volume 1 of 20 in the Rougon-Macquart series.

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Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Author Information:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902), Wikipedia.
• Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin. Translated by Andrew Rothwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Thérèse Raquin is here.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902).
• Les Rougon-Macquart, 1871–1893.
• La Fortune des Rougon, 1871.
• 19th-century French literature: Naturalism.
• Naturalism (literature).
• Brian Nelson (b. 1946).
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• France in the long nineteenth century.
  • French First Republic, 1792–1804.
  • First French Empire, 1804–1814/1815.
  • Bourbon Restoration in France, 1814/1815–1830.
  • July Monarchy, 1830–1848.
  • French Second Republic, 1848–1852.
  • Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
  • French Third Republic, 1870–1940.
• 1851 French coup d'état, background political event in La Fortune des Rougon.
• Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1808–1873), President of France 1848–1852; Emperor of the French as Napoleon III 1852–1870.
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• Aix-en-Provence, the town portrayed as Plassans in Zola's novels.
• Provence, historical province.
• Var (department), location of violence during December 1851 in response to the coup d'état.
• Occitania, historical region.
• Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, current Administrative Region.
• Southern France, South of France, le Midi.
• Departments of France.
• Regions of France.

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Other Books:

• Noel Blache. Histoire de l'insurrection du Var en decembre 1851. 1869.
• Eugène Ténot. Paris en décembre 1851: étude historique sur le Coup d'État. Paris: Armand Le Chevalier, 1868.
  [Archive.org.]
  Eugène Ténot. Paris in December, 1851; or, The coup d'tat of Napoleon III. Translated by S. W. Adams and A. H. Brandon. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1870.
  [Archive.org.]
• Eugène Ténot. La province en décembre 1851: étude historique. Paris: Chez les principaux libraires, 1865.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
  Eugène Ténot. La province en décembre 1851: étude historique sur le coup d'État. Paris: Armand Le Chevalier, 1868.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Ted W. Margadant. French Peasants in Revolt: The Insurrection of 1851. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karl Marx. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. 1852. New York: International Publishers Company, 1994.
  [Wikipedia; Publisher; Amazon.com.]
• Victor Hugo. Napoléon le Petit [Napoleon the Little]. London: Vizetelly and Company, 1852. New York: Seldon & Company, 1870.
  [Archive.org, 1852; Archive.org, 1870; Wikipedia.]
• John B. Halsted, editor. December 2, 1851: Contemporary Writings on the Coup d'Etat of Louis Napoleon. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1972.
  [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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