History of France. From ancient times to the Versailles agreement

William Styrnes Davis, a professor of history of the University of Minnesota, tells in his book about the most important events of the two thousandth history of France, starting with ancient Gauls and ending with the signing of the Versailles Treaty in 1919. Due to its compression and saturation of information, this review of many centuries of the country"s life becomes an exciting tour In the days of Antika and the Middle Ages, the reign of Henry IV and Louis XIII, the reign of Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV with the ideas of enlightenment and the greatest writers and scientists of the then France. The revolution of the late XVIII century, the proclamation of the republic, the Empire of Napoleon, the restoration of the Bourbon, the monarchy of Luifilippus, the second empire of Napoleon III, again the republic and the First World War ... The author does not always manage to maintain the impartiality that is usually required from the historian, but this only adds to the book of interest , attracting readers studying or fond of the history of France and Western Europe as a whole