Robert Zaretsky teaches at the University of Houston. His latest book is “Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.” In the month between French President Emmanuel Macron’s ...
Graham Robb writes history on two wheels and in four dimensions. Almost 30,000 miles of “gentle cycling for weeks on end” have fed his delightfully off-center books about the French past and the ...
On August 25th, 1944—the day Paris was liberated—General de Gaulle delivered one of the most important speeches in the history of modern France. Its conclusion: “We, who have lived the greatest hours ...