This volume provides a lively and authoritative synthesis of recent work on the social history of France and is now thoroughly updated to cover the 'long ninete

From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to NapolZon Bonapa

Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.