Douglas Johnson, who died in 2005, was a professor of French history at UCL and the author of books on Guizot and France and the Dreyfus Affair. He did much to further Franco-British relations and was an officier of the Légion d’honneur.
From the general reader’s point of view, this tome – a scrupulous, detailed inventory of Beethoven’s pocket and desk sketchbooks, locating every extant leaf – is about as...
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