Regeneration
David Garrioch: Making peasants into Frenchmen, 3 November 2005
The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism
by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall.
California, 341 pp., £35.95, April 2005,0 520 24180 0 Show More
by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall.
California, 341 pp., £35.95, April 2005,
“... a people that produces 246 different cheeses? General De Gaulle’s remark may be apocryphal – France has far more than 246 cheeses – but it captures a central dilemma in French history. How could such a diverse collection of peoples be forged into a single nation? The question remains pertinent. Despite an apparent unity, regional differences and ... ”