Richard Cobb

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.