Combining superb illustration with authoritative text, this is a major political and social history of France from earliest times to the eve of the new millenni

The author examines book illustration of the Romantic period. He focuses on the decorative wood - and steel-engravings, which were used as embellishments with t

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature, Anatole France was a French poet, journalist and novelist, whose works were celebrated for their nobility of styl