FRENCH HISTORY THROUGH ITS MONUMENTS

A prestigious collective work edited by Olivier Wieviorka and Michel Winock. It presents France – its history, its
symbols and its values – through its most important monuments, from antiquity to the present day.

Olivier Wieviorka and Michel Winock present the contributions of 30 renowned historians who trace the history of France through the significant sites that illustrate it. Before they became national icons, these places, from Chambord to Versailles, first of all served a purpose, whether it was political, military, religious or industrial ... By examining them from a different perspective, one by one, we can understand an era.

These places of interest are: Lascaux - Carnac - Alesia - the Pont du Gard - Notre Dame - Reims - Cluny - Avignon - the Mont Saint Michel - the Louvre - Chambord - Versailles - the Vieux Port in Marseille - the Place de la Bastille - the Sorbonne - the Opera - the Palais Bourbon - Sacré Coeur - La Santé prison - the Saint Lazare train station - the Tour Eiffel- Lourdes - Courrières - the Promenade des Anglais in Nice - Renault Colombes - Douaumont - the Maginot Line - Drancythe Cannes Palais des Congrès - the Maison de la Radio and Sarcelles.

A historian and professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Cachan, Olivier Wievi orka is a renowned specialist of the Resistance and the Second World War, to which he has devoted several books.

Michel Winock is Professor Emeritus at the Institut d'études politiques in Paris. He has written numerous books including Le Siècle des Intellectuels (The Century of Intellectuals), Seuil, 1997, which won the Médicis essay prize in 1997, as well as major biographies of Clemenceau, Madame de Staël, Flaubert and François Mitterrand.