Haughty Dirigistes
Sudhir Hazareesingh: France, 23 May 2019
France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic
by Herrick Chapman.
Harvard, 405 pp., £37.95, January 2018,978 0 674 97641 2 Show More
by Herrick Chapman.
Harvard, 405 pp., £37.95, January 2018,
“... to the conspiracy that brought down the Fourth Republic in 1958. De Gaulle features prominently in Herrick Chapman’s absorbing study of France’s state-led economic and social regeneration in the decades following the Second World War. Reconstruction was of course taking place in different forms across Europe, but the French version was exceptional in ... ”
