Massacre by John Merriman – A Scholar’s Perspective
One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power…
France
Patrick Modiano’s Paris
Patrick Modiano’s Paris – Article by Mark Polizzotti, translator of Suspended Sentences & After the Circus Patrick Modiano’s Paris – the Paris of his…
Bastille Day: Philip Nord reflects on France’s past
‘What happened to France in 1940 was what happened to every power that went up against Germany in the first years of the war.’…
Fashion Victims: Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
The court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France was, and still is, one of the most controversial in the country’s history. The…
Patrick Modiano: Nobel Prize winner
On 9th October 2014 Patrick Modiano became the 107th winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Peter Englund, the Nobel Academy’s permanent secretary, announced from…
The Mechanical Smile: Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America
In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and…
Author Article: Against War and Empire. Geneva, Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century by Richard Whatmore
Richard Whatmore presents an intellectual history of the republicans who strove to safeguard Geneva’s survival as an independent state. The author of Against War…