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Six French Frizeurs

David A. Bell

  • 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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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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