The notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively recent and - historically speaking - quite misleading; in order to discover the 'real' past of France,...
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A biography of Victor Hugo, discussing the man and his work. Hugo is the author of "Les Miserables" and the creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. He...
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From phenomenally precocious schoolboy Rimbaud became Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet, author of poems that range from the exquisite to the...
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This history of homosexuality in the 19th century takes in both Europe and America. It is divided into themes: the treatment of homosexuals, both male...
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Graham Robb's literary biography of Honore de Balzac interweaves his life with his work to present a portrait of a tragi-comic hero of 19th-century France.
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Based on the observation that the French poet Mallarme repeatedly used the 100 or so words in the French language that have no rhyme, this work argues...
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