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Colin Jones

Colin Jones is a professor of history at Warwick University. He is the author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002). His latest book, Paris: Biography of a City, has just appeared in paperback.

Selected bibliography

  • Paris: The Biography of a City (2005)
  • Madame De Pompadour: Images of a Mistress (2002)
  • The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002)
  • The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Regime and Revolutionary France (1989)
  • The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (1989)
  • Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740-1815 (1982)

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