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THE FRENCH MIND - PETER WATSON KARTONIERT (TB)

‘Majestic  ambitious’ Literary Review   ____________________________________    We are
endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life  their creativity
and sophistication  and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France
become the country it is today  and what really sets it apart?   Historian Peter Watson sets
out to answer these questions in this dazzling history of France  taking us from the
seventeenth century to the present day through the nation’s most influential thinkers . He
opens the doors to the Renaissance salons that brought together poets  philosophers and
scientists  and tells the forgotten stories of the extraordinary women who ran these
institutions  fostering a culture of stylish intellectualism unmatched anywhere else in the
world. It’s a story that takes us into Bohemian cafés and cabarets  into chic Parisian high
culture via French philosophies of food  fashion and sex  and through two explosive
revolutions.   T he French Mind  is a history propelled by the writers  revolutionaries and
painters who loved  inspired and rivalled one another over four hundred years . It documents
the shaping of a nation whose global influence  in art  culture and politics  cannot be
overstated.  __________________________________________   ‘An encyclopaedic celebration of
French intellectuals refusing to give up on universal principles  while remaining slim 
bringing up well-behaved children and falling in love at every opportunity’ The Times    '
An engaging movement through time towards France' s recent reckonings with extremism 
exceptionalism and empire'   TLS     

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