How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

Hazareesingh, Sudhir

ISBN 10: 0241961068 / ISBN 13: 9780241961063

Published by Penguin, 2016

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448 pages. 7.72x5.12x1.34 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241961068
• ISBN 13: 9780241961063
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDÉES

The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so ... French.

About the Author

Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history; among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Mémorial d'Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, a Prix d'Histoire du Sénat for the second, the Grand Prix du Livre d'Idées for the third and the Wolfson History Prize and American Library in Paris Award for the fourth. In 2020, he became a Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (G.C.S.K.), the highest honour of the Republic of Mauritius.