The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal Audiobook, by Peter Watson Play Audiobook Sample

The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal Audiobook

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Read By: Richard Attlee Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 19.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 14.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781398513945

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Total Audiobook Chapters:

56

Longest Chapter Length:

74:51 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:30 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

31:22 minutes

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4

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Majestic, ambitious . . . [Peter Watson] deserves admiration for the grace and agility with which he interlinks the development of a vigorous cultural identity and the seismic shifts of French national history, continually lurching between triumph and disaster. Impressive enough in its scope, authority and sprightliness to leave us wondering whether a French writer could have managed the task quite as deftly’ 

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  • An encyclopaedic celebration of French intellectuals refusing to give up on universal principles . . . while remaining slim, bringing up well-behaved children and falling in love at every opportunity’ 

  • 'A love for France radiates from this book'

  • He unfurls his intellectual history in the form of vivid biographies . . . [an] engaging movement through time towards France’s recent reckonings with extremism, exceptionalism and empire . . . perceptive’ 

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About Peter Watson

Peter Watson has been a senior editor at the London Sunday Times, a New York correspondent of the London Times, a columnist for the London Observer, and a contributor to the New York Times. He has published three exposes on the world of art and antiquities, and is the author of several books of cultural and intellectual history. From 1997 to 2007 he was a research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He lives in London.