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David A. Bell

David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.

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subscriber-only content Un Dret Egal · 15 November 2007

subscriber-only content One Does It Like This · 16 November 2006

  • Napoleon’s Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand by David Lawday  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Twilight Approaches · 11 May 2006

  • The Age of Conversation by Benedetta Craveri, translated by Teresa Waugh

subscriber-only content Violets in Their Lapels · 23 June 2005

  • The Legend of Napoleon by Sudhir Hazareesingh  Buy this book
  • The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud, translated by William Hobson  Buy this book
  • Napoleon: The Eternal Man of St Helena by Max Gallo, translated by William Hobson  Buy this book
  • The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in 19th-Century France by Sudhir Hazareesingh  Buy this book
  • Napoleon and the British by Stuart Semmel  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Ruling the Roast · 25 September 2003

  • Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation by Ben Rogers

subscriber-only content Enlightenment’s Errand Boy · 22 May 2003

  • Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in 18th-Century France by L.W.B. Brockliss
  • The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon by Colin Jones

subscriber-only content He wouldn’t dare · 9 May 2002

  • Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris 1789-1945 by Richard D.E. Burton

subscriber-only content When the barracks were bursting with poets · 6 September 2001

  • Napoleon the Novelist by Andy Martin

subscriber-only content A Long Silence · 14 December 2000

  • Englishness Identified: Manners and Character, 1650-1850 by Paul Langford

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Who Mended Pierre’s Leg? · 11 November 1999

  • Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris

 not available in archive Six French Frizeurs · 10 December 1998

  • The Perfidy of Albion: French Perceptions of England during the French Revolution by Norman Hampson
  • Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders by Don Herzog

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