Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (2008)

William Shakespeare.
The Comedy of Errors.
Edited by Charles Whitworth.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
(This edition first published in 2002.)

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

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• The Comedy of Errors, written sometime between 1589 and 1595, according to Wikipedia.
  In the Introduction Charles Whitworth argues that the play was written in 1594 and first performed in late December of that year.
  It "was not published until it appeared in the First Folio in 1623" (Wikipedia).
• Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), Menaechmi.
  Note: This Oxford World's Classics edition of The Comedy of Errors includes the text of Plautus' Menaechmi translated into English by William Warner (1558–1609) and first published in 1595.
• Plautus, Amphitryon.
• Apollonius of Tyre.
• Shakespearean comedy.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625), King of England as James I, 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2008)

William Shakespeare.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Edited by Roger Warren.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona, written between 1589 and 1593.
• Shakespearean comedy.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625), King of England as James I, 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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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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Shakespeare, Richard II (2011)

William Shakespeare.
Richard II.
Edited by Anthony B. Dawson and Paul Yachnin.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare and Richard II:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Richard II, probably written 1595, first printed 1597.
• Henriad, the four plays Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, Henry IV, Part II, Henry V;
  also called "second tetralogy" or "second Henriad".
• Shakespearean history.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625), King of England as James I, 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, Sixteenth Century.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

Historical Events, 14th Century, Reign of Richard II:

• England in the Late Middle Ages, from the Thirteenth Century, the end of the Angevins and the accession of Henry III in 1216, until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485.
• Peasants' Revolt, 1381.
• Wonderful Parliament, November 1386; imposed restrictions on the rule of Richard II.
• Lords Appellant, 1388.
• Merciless Parliament, February to June 1388; members of Richard II's court convicted of treason; many executed.
• The Tyranny of Richard II, 1397–1399.
• Parliament of Shrewsbury, 1398; declared acts of the Merciless Parliament null and void; made Richard II an absolute ruler.
• Downfall of Richard II, August 1399.

Historical People, 14th Century:

• Edward III of England (1312–1377), King of England 1327–1377.
• Philippa of Hainault (c.1310/1315–1369), wife of Edward III; Queen consort of England 1328–1369.
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• Edward the Black Prince (1330–1376), Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; eldest son of Edward III; father of Richard of Bordeaux (Richard II).
• Joan of Kent (1326/7–1385); wife of Edward the Black Prince; mother of Richard of Bordeaux (Richard II).
• Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338–1368), second son of Edward III;
  the House of York descended from Lionel and his brother Edmund.
• John of Gaunt (1340–1399), Duke of Lancaster; third son of Edward III;
  the House of Lancaster descended from John of Gaunt.
  • Blanche of Lancaster (1342–1368), daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster; first wife of John of Gaunt;
    mother of Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV of England).
  • Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster (1354–1394), daughter of Peter of Castile (also known by the lurid name Peter the Cruel); second wife of John of Gaunt.
  • Katherine Swynford (c.1350–1403), third wife of John of Gaunt;
    the House of Beaufort descended from John of Gaunt's children with Katherine Swynford.
• Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), fourth son of Edward III;
  the House of York descended from Edmund and his brother Lionel.
• Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397), fifth son of Edward III.
  As the leader of the Lords Appellant (1388) he gained the enmity of Richard II.
  Arrested in 1397 and murdered, probably on Richard II's orders.
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• Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), father of Henry Percy (Hotspur) (1364–1403).
• Henry Percy (Hotspur) (1364–1403).
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• Richard II of England (1367–1400), Richard of Bordeaux, son of Edward the Black Prince and Joan of Kent; King of England 1377–1399; deposed in 1399.
  • Anne of Bohemia (1366–1394), first wife of Richard II.
  • Isabella of Valois (1389–1409), second wife of Richard II.
• Henry Bolingbroke (1367–1413), son of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster. One of the Lords Appellant (1388). Exiled by Richard II in 1398. King of England as Henry IV 1399–1413.
• Mary de Bohun (c.1369/70–1394), first wife of Henry Bolingbroke;
  mother of Henry of Monmouth (Prince Hal, Henry V) and five other children.
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• Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (1366–1399); one of the Lords Appellant; banished for life by Richard II in 1398 following Thomas's quarrel with Henry Bolingbroke.

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Some Historical Background Reading:

• John Julius Norwich. Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337–1485. New York: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2001.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• George Holmes. The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Holmes, The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 is here.
• M.H. Keen. England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History, Second Edition. London: Routledge, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Nigel Saul. Richard II. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Saul, Richard II is here.

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Other: Audio

• Melvyn Bragg, Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis, "Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 Oct 2018.
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland, Grace Ioppolo, "Shakespeare's Life," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 March 2001.
  
  • Katherine Duncan-Jones, Wikipedia.
  • Katherine Duncan-Jones. Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • John Sutherland, Wikipedia.
  • Grace Ioppolo, University of Reading.
• Melvyn Bragg, Frank Kermode, Michael Bogdanov, Germaine Greer, "Shakespeare's Work," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 May 2000.
  • Frank Kermode, Wikipedia.
  • Frank Kermode. Shakespeare's Language. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Michael Bogdanov, Wikipedia.
  • Germaine Greer, Wikipedia.

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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.

Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (2009)

Victor Hugo.
Notre-Dame de Paris.
Translated by Alban Krailsheimer.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
(This translation was first published in 1993.)

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

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.


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Author Information:

• Victor Hugo (1802–1885), Wikipedia.
• Krailsheimer, Alban John (1921–2001), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Victor Hugo (1802–1885), The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831.
• 19th-century French literature: Romanticism.
• Gothic fiction.
• Romanticism.
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• Notre-Dame de Paris (the cathedral).

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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.

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

Originally published as:
The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the War on Terror.
London: Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd., 2015.
[Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]

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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.

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

Published in the UK as:
France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle.
London: John Murray, 2018.
[Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]

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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.

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.
• 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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