To answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged an innovative combination of technology studies and cultural and political history in a book that, as Michel Callon writes in the new foreword to this edition, “not only sheds new light ...

France for Dummies covers the highlights of France, from the fairy-tale castles of the Loire valley to the non-stop nightlife of the French Riviera.

Designed to assist with Key Stage 1 geography, this series examines life in other countries through simple information and the letters of a young child addressed to a pen-friend.

But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars.

In short, here is France for the chef, the traveler, and the connoisseur of fine prose, with maps and line drawings throughout.