French history

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• 10/11/2020
  

  Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann and the Creation of Paris

  by Jeff Roquen

  Nothing can compare to a visit to Paris, but until international travel resumes, readers can learn how the modern city was built through Mary McAulliffe's book. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/25/2020
  

  Rimbaud and Verlaine: France Agonises over Digging up Gay Poets

  While advocates see reinterrment at the National Mausoleum as a recognition of gay contributors to French literary history, some opponents suggest the iconoclastic poets would have rejected any such honor. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  Nepotism Is Bad For Government. Trump’s Convention Reminds Us Why

  by Christine Adams

  The pervasive influence of Trump's family members on government compares to the courts of the Bourbon kings of France. Republicans might consider how that worked out. 

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
  6/11/2020
  

  Robert Forster, a Social Historian of France, Who Taught at Johns Hopkins for 31 Years

  Robert Forster, who passed away May 13, is remembered as a rigorous scholar and an organized, supportive teacher. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/18/2020
  

  When Did People Start Eating in Restaurants?

  Historian Rebecca Spang's book "The Invention of the Restaurant" examines the French roots of dining out.

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• SOURCE: Johns Hopkins HUB
  5/15/2020
  

  History Professor Robert Forster dies at 93

  Forster, who taught at Hopkins from 1966 to 1996, was renowned for his work on the history of early modern France and is remembered as a generous, supportive mentor.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/16/20
  

  The battle for Notre Dame

  by Philip Kennicott and Aaron Steckelberg

  As the cathedral rises from the ashes, a tug of war over its transformation and history. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/10/20
  

  We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned

  by Susanna Lee

  Many might feel bewildered and demoralized. But fans of the 19th-century French novel have seen this before.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/22/19
  

  Georgette Elgey, 90, Dies; Wrote Epic History of Postwar France

  A former journalist, she spent nearly 50 years producing an acclaimed six-volume work on the Fourth Republic. Her own life held plenty of drama of its own.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Why you don’t need to be French or Catholic to mourn the Notre Dame fire

  by Kisha G. Tracy

  The cathedral is an important part of our shared cultural heritage.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/16/19
  

  The story behind the towering Notre Dame spire and the 30-year-old architect commissioned to rebuild it

  Less than a week before fire tore through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a repair crew brought down religious statues for the first time in more than a century. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/15/19
  

  A history of great cathedrals that have been lost to fire and war

  Notre Dame is one in a long line of cathedrals that have been ravaged by fire or war.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/16/19
  

  Notre Dame was in ruins. Victor Hugo’s novel about a hunchback saved it.

  France has rebuilt its iconic cathedral before.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/15/19
  

  Art Historian Caroline Bruzelius Discusses The History Of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral

  NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with art historian Caroline Bruzelius about the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which caught on fire Monday.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  4/15/19
  

  The Notre-Dame Cathedral Was Nearly Destroyed By French Revolutionary Mobs

  In the 1790s, anti-Christian forces all but tore down one of France’s most powerful symbols.

• SOURCE: NYT
  2-12-13
  

  France takes step back in history

  ...And, much as President François Hollande of France denies that his country is still the gendarme of francophone Africa, the columns of French soldiers and planeloads of paratroops embroiled in the newest fighting recall much earlier campaigns.“There was a time when General Faidherbe pursued armed bands attacking the forts of the Sahel, and even then they professed radical Islam,” Bertrand Badie, a political science scholar in Paris, wrote in Le Monde, referring to Gen. Louis Faidherbe, who played a central role in solidifying French interests in the broad swath of desert known as the Sahel in the 19th century. “What have we done since then?”