David A. Bell

David A. Bell teaches history at Princeton.

In the LRB Archive:

• Simple Facts and Plain Truths: Common Sense · 20 October 2011

  • Common Sense: A Political History by Sophia Rosenfeld

• Handsome, Charming …: Beaumarchais · 22 October 2009

  • Beaumarchais: A Biography by Maurice Lever, translated by Susan Emanuel

• The Potter, the Priest and the Stick in the Mud: Spain v. Napoleon · 6 November 2008

  • Napoleon’s Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War by Ronald Fraser

• Un Dret Egal: Political Sentiment · 15 November 2007

  • Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt

• One Does It Like This: Talleyrand · 16 November 2006

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

• Twilight Approaches: Salon Life in France · 11 May 2006

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

• Violets in Their Lapels: Bonapartism · 23 June 2005

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

• Ruling the Roast: A Nation of Beefeaters · 25 September 2003

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

• Enlightenment’s Errand Boy: The Philosophes and the Republic of Letters · 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

• He wouldn’t dare: Bloodletting in Paris · 9 May 2002

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

• When the barracks were bursting with poets: Napoleon · 6 September 2001

  • Napoleon the Novelist by Andy Martin

• A Long Silence: ‘Englishness’ · 14 December 2000

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

• Who mended Pierre’s leg?: Lourdes · 11 November 1999

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

• 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

• Mother’s Boys · 10 June 1993

  • The Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt

• Fallen Idols · 23 July 1992

  • The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke

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