Volume 50, Number 10 · June 12, 2003
'Their Noon, Their Midnight...'
By P.N. Furbank
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715–99
by Colin Jones
Columbia University Press, 651 pp., $34.95
The reviewer of Colin Jones's new history of eighteenth-century France is faced with a problem. Readers of a review might have hoped that it would deal with history, and the reviewer too might have liked this; but, instead, it has to be in large part about historiography. There is no avoiding this. In his introduction, Colin Jones is insistent about his aims and the novelty of his approach, and throughout his long and learned book we are never allowed to forget them.
Review, 3531 words
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