L'histoire de France vue d'ailleurs

L'histoire de France vue d'ailleurs, Books magazine, no 34, juillet-août 2012
Une histoire des grands hommes : Charlemagne, Louis IX, Jeanne d'Arc, Robespierre, les deux Napoléon, la légion. Avec qq exceptions : les sorcières, le village des cannibales... La tonalité est à dominante conservatrice. Les tiroirs sont parfois surprenants : garçonne pour Jeanne d'Arc, folie pour la Révolution, sainte famille pour le couple Thorez...
Les articles anglais qui servent de source sont généralement en ligne, mais l'accès en est payant.

- Charlemagne, le faux père de l'Europe
Ein dunkler Leuchtturm
Von Fried, Johannes
Karl, der grosse europäer ? Der Speigel, 14.01.2002
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-21197891.html

- La charité bien ordonnée de Saint Louis
Alexander Murray, Into Your Enemy’s Stomach - London Review of Books, 08.04.2010
à propos de la traduction en anglais du Saint Louis by Jacques Le Goff
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n07/alexander-murray/into-your-enemys-stomach
http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/alexander-murray

L'énigme Jeanne d'Arc
Keith Thomas, New York Review of books
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, by Marina Warner                         
Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality, by Frances Gies
http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/keith-thomas/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1981/jun/25/a-working-girl/?pagination=false

Mes sorciers bien-aimés
Stuart Clark London Review of Books  19.09.2008
à propos de Robin Briggs The witches of Lorraine
http://www.lrb.co.uk
autre article http://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n11/robin-briggs/witchcraft-and-the-inquisition

Peut-on excuser Robespierre ?
At the Heart of the Terror
Colin Jones, NYRB, 20.12.2007
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution, by Ruth Scurr
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/dec/20/at-the-heart-of-the-terror/

La Révolution, Phénix du monde
Ruth Scurr, à propos de le réédition de
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution. A History. 1837-2002
The Times Literary Supplement - 14 avril 2010
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/


La Révolution et ses pauvres
Revolutionary Economics
Norman Hampson, LRB  08.1981
The French Revolution and the Poor by Alan Forrest
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n15/norman-hampson/revolutionary-economics


Les cent jours qui ont fait la légende
David A Bell, LRB, juin 2005
Violets in Their Lapels
The Legend of Napoleon by Sudhir Hazareesingh
The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud, translated by William Hobson
Napoleon: The Eternal Man of St Helena by Max Gallo, translated by William Hobson
The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in 19th-Century France by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Napoleon and the British by Stuart Semmel
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n12/david-a-bell/violets-in-their-lapels


Napoléon III, empereur de roman
Slippery Prince
Graham Robb, LRB, 19 juin 2003
Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza by David Baguley - 2000
The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power by Roger Price - 2002
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n12/graham-robb/slippery-prince


Un épouvantable forfait
Michael Burns, LRB, 19.11.1992
The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 by Alain Corbin
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n22/michael-burns/kill-a-pig-roast-a-prussian


How to Understand the Dreyfus Affair
Robert Gildea, NYRB, JUNE 10, 2010
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, by Louis Begley                                    
For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus, by Frederick Brown                                            
Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century, by Ruth Harris
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/how-understand-dreyfus-affair/


L'étrange empire de la légion
The Hard Truth About the Foreign Legion
Max Hastings, NYRB 14.10.2010
Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France’s Colonial Conquests, 1870–1935
by Martin Windrow                                
Voices of the Foreign Legion: The History of the World’s Most Famous Fighting Corps
by Adrian D. Gilbert
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/hard-truth-about-foreign-legion/


D'un exode l'autre
Inside the Panic
Robert O. Paxton, NYRB, 22.11.2007
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940, by Hanna Diamond
http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/robert-o-paxton/


L'URSS rêvée de M et Mme Thorez
Julian Jackson, The Times Literary supplement, 09.09.2011
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/ ?


La dernière guerre franco-anglaise
Melancholy Actions
Charles Glass, LRB 17.12.2009
England’s Last War against France : Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith Weidenfeld
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n24/charles-glass/melancholy-actions


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