Richard Cobb
Richard Cobb (1917-1996) fell in love with France when he first visited in 1935. He went on to write many works of history—some in French, some in English—about the French Revolution and occupied France.
From the Review
November 24, 1983: Gloom Over Gaul
The French by Theodore Zeldin
December 17, 1981: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century by Bonnie G. Smith
November 19, 1981: Reaching for the Gun (letter)
July 16, 1981: The Great Bourgeois Bargain
The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920 by Michael B. Miller
February 7, 1980: The Assassination of Paris
Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978 by Norma Evenson
June 19, 1969: Not a Marxist (letter)
From New York Review Books
 | Paris and Elsewhere Collecting memoirs, portraits of favorite haunts, appreciations of Simenon and Queneau, René Clair and Brassaï, and including the famous polemic "The Assassination of Paris," Paris and Elsewhere shows us a France unglimpsed by tourists. |