A traveller's history of France

Description:

Hundreds of thousands of travellers visit France each year. The glories of the French countryside, the essential harmony of much of French architecture, the wealth of historical remains, the enormous variety of experience that France offers, act as a perennial and irresistible attraction. For these visitors this lively and useful guide provides the essential clues to an understanding of France's past, and present, in entertaining and sometimes surprising detail.

subjects: History,  Historic sites,  Nonfiction,  Travel,  France, history,  France, historiography,  France, description and travel,  France, guidebooks,  Histoire,  Lieux historiques

Places: France

Times: 18th century,  1789-