Over the last few months I have become very big on the French. I have been doing a lot of reading about the Revolution and the Nepoleon era but have no information on the history of France post WWII. Anybody got any recomindation.
Have you tried Wikipedia? Lots of external links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
Repeat after me: “Google is my friend. Google is my friend. Google is my friend”
HTH
Brett
Yeah but I was looking for books that people have read and found informative. As far as google goes I can read a screen long enough too post much less pages and pages of information.
I like books. They are cuddly.
Well, again Google can be your friend. Try Google Print and you can check out the text of the book and then find links to purchase. I don’t know if this book is any good, but the cover features a chick with her boobies hanging out, so it might be worth a look:
Tibbs 2 things.1.If you are going to ask about Napoleon you’re going to have to start spelling it correctly.
2.He lost.Nelson won.Why don’t you concentrate your worthy efforts on the tactics of a winner especially in this ,the 200th anniversary year of said loss at Trafalgar.
No wonder he hates the pledge
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He did loose in the end, like we all do, but those years he was winning where some pretty damn good years.
I have decided to stop trying to spell because like being a good dancer you either have it or you don’t.
** have decided to stop trying to spell**
At what point were you trying?
1.If you are going to ask about Napoleon you’re going to have to start spelling it correctly
ROTFLMAO!
This is Tibbsy we’re talking about, oldbrit! For crying out loud, he’s lucky to put together a coherent sentence, complete with nouns and verbs and everything, and you’re up in arms about his spelling? 
Priceless!
I say to hell with all rules of writing. All my writing will be guerrilla art from now on and I will be the Dadaist to your English teacher.
I say to hell with all rules of writing.
which PhD program are you going into?
Im all over Tibbs and his lack of spelling prowess but proper names?And Tibbs as for the good years in what was the last famous(I can spell it that way I’m a brit)event anywhere where people remember the losers who ‘had a good run in the middle’.Oh and he was short and Josephine was a bit of a grimmer apparently so give it up and concentrate on Nelson there’s a good chap.
Hey man I am all for Nelson. Waterloo was brilliant. I just think Mr. N had that free spirit French vibe that was sooo cool. I mean the dude turned his cannons against his own people to defend the revoluinary council and still won the heart of his countrymen. He’s got it baby.
I have a lot of school to get through till I get there so all will be good in the end.
Ok cutie pants how do you spell Dadaist?
you’ll get there … but along the way buy a microphone and some voice recognition software so you can just sing out your thesis w/o the typing part getting in your way!
** it just didn’t look right but my guess is there is no such word.**
You stand corrected. In a stunning display of irony, Tibbs spelled Dadaist correctly.
- Dada was a protest by a group of European artists against World War I, bourgeois society, and the conservativism of traditional thought. Its followers used absurdities and non sequiturs to create artworks and performances which defied any intellectual analysis. They also included random “found” objects in sculptures and installations.*
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Thank you, thank you. My knowledge of worthless things is unbeatable and my love for those who do stupid shit knows no bounds.
In your face honky!
No I think history is better suited to a man like me. The history of smart ass art movements might be in my future. A book on the Mary Pranksters might be in order.
This will be a little less traditional and less didactic certainly, but if you want to get a certain view of French cultural stagnation, you might want to look at the novels of Michel Houellebecq - he’s very brutal and describes everything in graphic sexual metaphor, while arguing in fairly conservative terms. Two books - one blames sixties radicalism for French moral failures, while the other blames Islam for other French problems. Interesting writing, whether or not you agree with their theses. Obviously he’s considered both famous and infamous in France.