Mérimée, Carmen and Other Stories (2008)

Prosper Mérimée.
Carmen and Other Stories.
Translated by Nicholas Jotcham.
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, 1998, 2008.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Prosper Mérimée (1803 – 1870).
• French literature.
• 19th-century French literature.
• Contents of Carmen and Other Stories :
  1. Carmen, 1845.
  2. Mateo Falcone, 1829.
  3. The Storming of the Redoubt, 1829.
  4. Tamango, 1829.
  5. The Etruscan Vase, 1830.
  6. The Game of Backgammon, 1830.
  7. The Venus of Ille, 1837.
  8. Colomba, 1840.
  9. Lokis, 1868.

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Negri, ed., Great French Short Stories (2004)

Great French Short Stories.
Edited by Paul Negri.
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2004.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Dover Thrift Editions.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• 18th-century French literature.
• 19th-century French literature.
• 20th-century French literature.

Contents of Great French Short Stories :

• Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller", 1877.
• Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893),
  • "The Necklace", 1884;
  • "The Horla", 1887.
• Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), "Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu" ["The Unknown Masterpiece"], 1831.
• Émile Zola (1840–1902), "L'Attaque du moulin" ["The Attack on the Mill"], 1880.
• Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870), "Mateo Falcone", 1829.
• André Gide (1869–1951), "Le retour de l'enfant prodigue" ["The Return of the Prodigal Son"], 1907.
• Jules Renard (1864–1910), "The Dark Lantern" ["La Lanterne sourde"], 1893.
• Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), "Emilie", 1854.
  [Gérard de Nerval. Selected Writings. Translated by Richard Sieburth. London: Penguin Classics, 1999. {Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.}]
• Voltaire (1694–1778), "Micromégas", 1752.
• Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), "The Pope's Mule", 1869.
  [Alphonse Daudet. Letters from My Mill. Boston: Little, Brown, 1900. Archive.org.]
• Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), "Salomé", 1886.
  [Oeuvres complètes de Jules Laforgue, vol 2 of 3. Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1902. Archive.org.
  Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue. New York: Grove Press, 1956. Archive.org]

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Molière, The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (2001)

Molière.
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays.
Translated by Maya Slater.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition first published in 2001.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

This book contains the following plays:

1. The School for Wives, 1662.
2. The School for Wives Criticized, 1663.
3. The Impromptu at Versailles, 1663.
4. Tartuffe, 1664.
5. The Misanthrope, 1666.
6. Les Femmes savantes [The Clever Women], 1672.

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Author Information:

• Molière (1622–1673), Wikipedia.
• Maya Slater, MayaSlater.com.
• Dr Maya Slater, Senior Research Fellow, Modern Languages and Cultures, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• 17th-century French literature.
• History of France: Early Modern France (1453–1789).
• Early modern France.
• Louis XIV (1638–1715), King of France 1643–1715.

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Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1955)

Albert Camus.
The Myth of Sisyphus.
Translated by Justin O'Brien.
New York: Vintage International (Vintage Books / Penguin Random House), 2018.
First published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
Originally published: Le Mythe de Sisyphe, Librairie Gallimard, France, 1942.

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Albert Camus (1913 – 1960), Wikipedia.
• Ronald Aronson, "Albert Camus," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, last revised 13 December 2021.
• David Simpson, "Albert Camus (1913—1960)," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Justin O'Brien (1917 – 1996), Wikipedia.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Peter Dunwoodie, David Walker, Christina Howells, "Camus," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 03 January 2008.
  • Professor Peter Dunwoodie, Emeritus Professor of French Literature, Department of English and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London.
  • David H. Walker is/was Emeritus Professor of French, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sheffield.
  • Christina Howells, Emeritus Professor of French, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.

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Camus, The Stranger (1993)

Albert Camus.
The Stranger.
Translated by Matthew Ward.
Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Everyman's Library volume 139.

This translation first published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
Originally published in French as L'Étranger by Librairie Gallimard, France in 1942.

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series.

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Author Information:

• Albert Camus (1913 – 1960), Wikipedia.
• David Simpson, "Albert Camus (1913—1960)," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Ronald Aronson, "Albert Camus," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2017.
• Matthew Ward (writer) (1950/1951 – 1990), Wikipedia.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Peter Dunwoodie, David Walker, Christina Howells, "Camus," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 03 January 2008.
  • Professor Peter Dunwoodie, Emeritus Professor of French Literature, Department of English and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London.
  • David H. Walker is/was Emeritus Professor of French, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sheffield.
  • Christina Howells, Emeritus Professor of French, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.

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Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (2014)

Barbara W. Tuchman.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.
(First published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.)

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Barbara W. Tuchman (1912 – 1989), Wikipedia.

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Video: Barbara Tuchman

• Barbara Tuchman and Richard Heffner, "'A Distant Mirror' The 14th Century and Today," The Open Mind, Episode 1405, 1979, Archive.org.
• Barbara Tuchman, "Landon Lecture," Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 08 September 1988.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Enguerrand VII de Coucy (1340 – 1397), French nobleman whose life frames Tuchman's narrative.
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• Late Middle Ages.
• France in the Middle Ages.
• England in the Late Middle Ages.
• Italy in the Middle Ages.
• Holy Roman Empire: Hohenstaufen dynasty.
  Holy Roman Empire: Late Middle Ages.
• History of Germany: Middle Ages.
• Spain in the Middle Ages.
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• Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.
• Great Famine of 1315–1317, due to extreme weather events and subsequent poor harvests, possibly related to the transition from the Medieval Warm Period (c. 950 to c. 1250) to the Little Ice Age (16th–19th centuries).
• Black Death, 1346–1353.
• Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
  Major Phases of the Hundred Years' War:
  
  • the Edwardian War, 1337–1360.
  • the Caroline War, 1369–1389.
  • the Lancastrian War, 1415–1453.
• Revolts:
  
  • Popular revolts in late-medieval Europe.
  • 1323–1328 Flemish revolt.
  • Jacquerie, French peasant revolt of 1358.
  • Ciompi Revolt, Florence, 1378–1382.
  • Languedoc, 1379.
  • Revolt of Ghent (1379–1385).
  • Peasants' Revolt, England, 1381.
  • Harelle, Rouen, and spread to Paris and other areas of France, 1382.
    Maillotins uprising, Paris, 1382.
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Tuchman tells this history from the perspective of the French. Most of my reading on this period has been from the English point of view, so Tuchman's work is an interesting contrast.

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Aldrich, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (1996)

Robert Aldrich.
Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion.
New York: St. Martin's Press (Palgrave Macmillan), 1996.

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Robert Aldrich (b. 1954), Wikipedia.
• Professor Robert Aldrich, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, The University of Sydney, Australia.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• French colonial empire, 1534–1980.
  (After reading Aldrich's Greater France I feel obliged to warn the reader that this Wikipedia article treats many topics in a very abbreviated manner.)
• Overseas France, France d'outre-mer, l'Outre-mer, les DOM-TOM.

Miscellaneous Items:

• Copra, "dried coconut kernels from which coconut oil is expelled", noted by Aldrich as an export commodity from some French colonies.
• groundnut, Bambara groundnut, a legume from West Africa.

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Aldrich's Greater France is a very good introduction to the French overseas empire since 1830; however, it appears that it is currently out-of-print. Aldrich's Notes and Bibliography contain extensive references to the French literature so I am sure his book remains a useful guide for more serious students and readers of French. Some more recently published books (in English) on this topic include:

• Frederick Quinn. The French Overseas Empire. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers (Greenwood Publishing Group), 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Todd Shepard. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery. Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954. Translated by Ly Lan Dill-Klein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Todd. A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Tombs, France 1814-1914 (1996)

Robert Tombs.
France 1814-1914.
Harlow, England: Longman (Pearson Education Limited), 1996.
London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2014.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Robert Tombs, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
• Robert Tombs (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
• Robert Tombs. The War Against Paris 1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• J.P.T. Bury and R.P. Tombs. Thiers 1797-1877: A Political Life. London: Allen & Unwin, 1986.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Tombs. The Paris Commune 1871. 1999. London: Routledge, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs. That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship. 2006. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Tombs. The English and Their History. 2014. New York: Vintage Books, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Tombs. This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2021.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• 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.
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• Economic history of France: 1789–1914.
• History of rail transport in France.
• History of education in France: Growth 1815 to 1907.

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In Our Time Episodes on Nineteenth Century France:

• See my post for Gildea, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (2008).
  I found these episodes very insightful and complimentary to reading books, a little like attending university seminars. Also, Robert Tombs appears in the episode on the Dreyfus affair.

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Tombs' book France 1814-1914 is the best book on French history that I have read so far. Gildea's Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (2008) is a good descriptive, chronological, introductory, survey of Nineteenth Century France, perhaps necessary to prepare one for Tombs' book. But don't stop with Gildea's book. Your preparation with Gildea's book will be rewarded by Tombs' book.

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Gildea, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (2008)

Robert Gildea.
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914.
London: Penguin Books, 2008.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

The UK edition was published as a volume in the series "The New Penguin History of France".
UK edition: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.

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Author Information:

• Professor Robert Gildea, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
• Professor Robert Gildea, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
• Robert Gildea (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
• Robert Gildea. France since 1945, Updated Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for France since 1945 is here.
  See that post for other books by Gildea and videos.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• 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.
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• Economic history of France: 1789–1914.
• History of rail transport in France.
• History of education in France: Growth 1815 to 1907.
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• 19th-century French literature.
• 19th-century French art.
  • List of French artists: Eighteenth century and early Nineteenth century.
  • Salon (Paris), Salon de Paris.
  • Academic art.
  • Academic art: France.
  • List of French artists: Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism).
  • List of French artists: Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism).
• Music of France.

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In Our Time Episodes Related to Nineteenth Century France:

• Note: Robert Gildea appears in several of these episodes.
• Melvyn Bragg, Stefan Collini, Anne Janowitz, Andrew Roberts, "The French Revolution's Legacy," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 June 2001.
  Wikipedia Articles, etc:
  
  • French Revolution: Long-term impact.
  • Influence of the French Revolution.
  • Edmund Burke: French Revolution: 1688 versus 1789.
  • French Revolution and the English Gothic Novel.
  • Romanticism and the French Revolution.
  • Stefan Collini, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
  • Stefan Collini, Wikipedia.
  • Anne F Janowitz, academia.edu.
  • Andrew Roberts, www.andrew-roberts.net.
  • Andrew Roberts, Wikipedia.
  • Andrew Roberts. Napoleon and Wellington. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. London: Phoenix Press / The Orion Publishing Group, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Colva Roney-Dougal, Timothy Gowers, Marcus du Sautoy, "Pierre-Simon Laplace," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 8 April 2021. (Includes a reading list.)
  
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), Wikipedia.
• Melvyn Bragg, Andrew Roberts, Mike Broers, Belinda Beaton, "Napoleon and Wellington," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 October 2001.
  Wikipedia Articles, etc:
  
  • Napoleon (1769–1821).
  • Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815.
  • Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815.
  • Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852).
  • Andrew Roberts, www.andrew-roberts.net.
  • Andrew Roberts, Wikipedia.
  • Andrew Roberts. Napoleon and Wellington. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. London: Phoenix Press / The Orion Publishing Group, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Professor Michael Broers, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
  • Michael Broers, Wikipedia.
  • Belinda Beaton, academia.edu.
• Melvyn Bragg, Catriona Seth, Alison Finch, Katherine Astbury, "Germaine de Stael," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
  
  • Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), Wikipedia.
  • Germaine de Staël. Delphine. 1802. Translated by Avriel H. Goldberger. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Germaine de Staël. Corinne, or Italy. 1807. Translated by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • On Germany, 1813, Wikipedia.
    An edition in English: Germany. With Notes and Appendices by O.M. Wright. In two volumes. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1864.
    [Archive.org: vol 1 of 2; vol 2 of 2.]
  • Germaine de Staël. Considérations sur les principaux événements de la révolution française. 1818.
    Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution. Translated by Aurelian Crăiuțu. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Germaine de Staël. Dix Années d'Exil. 1818. Ten Years of Exile. Translated by Avriel H. Goldberger. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Germaine de Staël. An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Staël. Translated by Vivian Folkenflik. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
    Reprint title: Major Writings of Germaine de Staël, 1992.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Timothy Blanning, Tamar Garb, Simon Lee, "Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 October 2011.
  Wikipedia Articles, etc:
  
  • Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863).
  • Liberty Leading the People, 1830.
  • July Revolution, 1830.
  • T.C.W. Blanning.
  • Tamar Garb.
  • Simon Lee, University of Reading.
• Melvyn Bragg, Belinda Jack, Angela Ryan, Nigel Harkness, "George Sand," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 6 February 2020. (Includes a reading list.)
  
  • George Sand (1804–1876), Wikipedia.
  • George Sand. Indiana. 1832. Translated by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Susan-Mary Grant, Jeremy Jennings, "Tocqueville: Democracy in America," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 22 March 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
  
  • Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), Wikipedia.
• Melvyn Bragg, Tim Blanning, Lucy Riall, Mike Rapport, "1848: Year of Revolution," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 19 January 2012.
  Wikipedia Articles, etc:
  
  • July Monarchy, 1830–1848.
  • French Revolution of 1848.
  • Revolutions of 1848, Europe.
  • French Second Republic, 1848–1852.
  • T.C.W. Blanning.
  • Lucy Riall.
  • Michael Rapport, University of Glasgow.
  • Mike Rapport. 1848: Year of Revolution. London: Abacus (Little, Brown Book Group / Hachette Book Group), 2009. New York: Basic Books (Hachette Book Group), 2009.
    [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Andy Martin, Mary Orr, "Madame Bovary," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 July 2007.
  
  • Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880), Wikipedia.
  • Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, 1856, Wikipedia.
  • 19th-century French literature, Wikipedia.
  • Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners. Translated by Margaret Mauldon. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Andy Martin, Wikipedia.
  • Mary Orr, encyclopedia.com.
• Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Karine Varley, Julia Nicholls, "The Siege of Paris 1870-71," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 January 2020. (Includes a reading list.)
  Wikipedia Articles:
  
  • Napoleon III: Later years.
  • Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871.
  • Causes of the Franco-Prussian War.
  • Siege of Paris (1870–1871), September 1870 – January 1871.
  • Paris Commune, March–May 1871.
  • French Third Republic, 1870–1940.
  • Unification of Germany.
• Misha Glenny, "Le Petit Napoleon and the Franco-Prussian War," The Invention of France, Episode 3 of 3, BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2015.
• Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Kathleen Burk, John Keane, "The Statue of Liberty," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 February 2008.
  Wikipedia Articles:
  
  • Statue of Liberty.
  • Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811–1883), jurist who proposed that France should give a monument to Liberty to the USA.
  • Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor who designed the statue.
  • Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), engineer who designed the metal framework of the statue.
  • Kathleen Burk.
  • John Keane.
  • John Keane, www.johnkeane.net.
• Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris, Robert Tombs, "The Dreyfus Affair," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 8 October 2009.
  Wikipedia Articles:
  
  • Panama scandals, 1892, controversialists used this to promote antisemitism.
  • French Third Republic: Dreyfus affair.
  • Dreyfus affair, 1894 – 1906.
  • Émile Zola (1840–1902), J'Accuse…!, 13 January 1898.
  • Dreyfus affair: Consequences of the Dreyfus Affair.
  • 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.
  • Ruth Harris.
  • Ruth Harris. Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France. London: Allen Lane, 2010. London: Penguin Books, 2011.
    USA edition: Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century. New York: Picador / Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan, 2010.
    [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books, UK title; Google Books, USA title; Amazon.com, UK title; Amazon.com, USA title.]
  • Robert Tombs.

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Zola, The Kill (2008)

Émile Zola.
The Kill (La Curée).
Translated by Brian Nelson.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
(First published in 2004.)

Volume 3 of 20 in the Rougon-Macquart series.
(Volume 3 in recommended reading order; volume 2 in publication order.)

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.


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Author Information:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902), Wikipedia.
• Brian Nelson (b. 1946), 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.
• Émile Zola. The Fortune of the Rougons. Translated by Brian Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for The Fortune of the Rougons is here.
• Émile Zola. His Excellency Eugène Rougon. Translated by Brian Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for His Excellency Eugène Rougon is here.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902).
• Les Rougon-Macquart, 1871–1893.
• La Curée, 1871–72 [The Kill].
• Jean Racine (1639–1699), Phèdre, 1677.
• 19th-century French literature: Naturalism.
• Naturalism (literature).
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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.
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• Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
• Paris during the Second Empire.
• Haussmann's renovation of Paris, 1853–1870.
• Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809–1891).
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• Economic history of France: 1789–1914.

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Zola, His Excellency Eugène Rougon (2018)

Émile Zola.
His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
Translated by Brian Nelson.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Volume 2 of 20 in the Rougon-Macquart series.
(Volume 2 in recommended reading order; volume 6 in publication order.)

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Author Information:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902), Wikipedia.
• Brian Nelson (b. 1946).
• 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.
• Émile Zola. The Fortune of the Rougons. Translated by Brian Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for The Fortune of the Rougons is here.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902).
• Les Rougon-Macquart, 1871–1893.
• Son Excellence Eugène Rougon, 1876.
• 19th-century French literature: Naturalism.
• Naturalism (literature).
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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.
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• Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1808–1873), President of France 1848–1852; Emperor of the French as Napoleon III 1852–1870.
• 1851 French coup d'état.
• Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
• Paris during the Second Empire.
• Haussmann's renovation of Paris, 1853–1870.
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• Economic history of France: 1789–1914.
• History of rail transport in France.
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• Third cabinet of Napoleon III, 2 December 1852 – 17 July 1869.
• Eugène Rouher (1814–1884), French statesman, basis for the character Eugène Rougon in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny (1808–1872), French statesman; some actions of the Duc de Persigny are attributed to the character Eugène Rougon in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Charles de Morny, Duke of Morny (1808–1872), French industrialist and statesman, basis for the character the Count de Marsy in His Excellency Eugène Rougon. (French Wikipedia article is more detailed. That's true for most of the articles listed here.)
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• Napoléon, Prince Imperial, born 16 March 1856; the government / public celebration of his baptism on 14 June 1856 provides the backdrop for Chapter 4 in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837–1899), basis for the character Clorinde Balbi in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Italian unification, "Risorgimento".
• Palais Bourbon, meeting place of the French National Assembly; setting for Chapters 1 and 14 in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Château de Compiègne, setting for Chapter 7 in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Château de Saint-Cloud, setting for Chapter 11 in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.

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"Rougon is a composite character, modeled on General Espinasse (Minister of the Interior in the aftermath of the Orsini Affair), the Duc de Persigny, Jules Baroche, Adolphe Billault, and, especially, Eugène Rouher, the 'strong man' of the Empire, sometimes referred to as the 'vice-Emperor'." - Introduction, page xvii.

"The novel is one of the least popular of Zola's novels. However, it is valuable to the historian as a detailed evocation of politics during Napoleon III's Second Empire; and it is especially noteworthy as a surprisingly modern satire of all forms of authoritarian government and of the malevolence, duplicity, and language games of which those in power are capable." - Translator's Note, page xxvi.